Social Development Training

A Community Economic Development (CED) Training Manual for Peace Corps Volunteers — by Center for Field Assistance and Applied Research — last modified Dec 24, 2008 09:01 AM

By Center for Field Assistance and Applied Research, 2002, U.S. Peace Corps This guide was developed to demonstrate why and how community economic development is used to improve individuals' and communities' economic well-being. The manual promotes community economic development by contrasting it to more traditional economic development approaches and stressing the participation of citizens in the process. Practical methods for planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating strategic community economic development agendas are also discussed.

A Framework for Action on Water and Sanitation — by Portal Web Editor — last modified Apr 30, 2010 12:32 AM

Water and Sanitation: Key Issues and Challenges

A History of the Social Development Network in The World Bank — by Gloria Davis — last modified Dec 23, 2008 11:05 PM

The Social Development Strategy will provide definitions and directions for the World Bank’s future work in Social Development. But to develop the Strategy it is necessary to understand both the history of the Social Development network within the Bank and the work it currently supports. This report provides such a history. It describes the origins of the network and the issues it has tackled in the past; and it does so on the assumption that knowing where we have come from and what we have done will help us decide what we should do in the future. Published in March 2004 by the World Bank Social Development Department.

A landscape approach for reviewing USAID Uganda activities in the southwest — by Author Clausen, R. M — last modified Mar 31, 2010 05:04 AM

KEYWORD: Community-based Natural Forest Management, Africa. Africa, Uganda, ecotourism, joint ventures, landscape ecology, wildlife, co-management, decentralization, governance, community based natural resource management, conflict, planning document. SUMMARY: This program-planning document for USAID/Uganda reviews USAID supported activities in southwest Uganda (1986-2001) and proposes a landscape approach for future Uganda program development. USAID funded protected area conservation, institutional strengthening, and community co-management programs in southwest Uganda during this period. The author finds that USAID investments in developing institutional relationships between communities and government bodies have created conditions for stronger local governance, improved livelihoods, and decreased environmental degradation. The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) and the Forestry Department are devolving management authorities, responsibilities and benefits to communities surrounding protected areas. Community economic benefits are generated from tourism and protected area fees in co-management programs. USAID support of protected area management has led to decreased agricultural conversion, hunting, and illegal logging in target parks and reserves. The author recommends a landscape approach to future program design for rural development and NRM to properly respond to biophysical and socioeconomic dynamics. Other program recommendations include: Promote community co-management of natural resources; Support joint-ventures between communities and the private sector; Strengthen agreements and accountability between local groups and government; Increase the capacity of government NRM institutions; Provide training for community natural resource and enterprise management; Develop and extend technologies and systems that increase productivity, diversify household economies, and reduce natural resource degradation.

A landscape approach for reviewing USAID Uganda activities in the southwest — by Author Clausen, R. M — last modified Mar 31, 2010 05:04 AM

KEYWORD: Community-based Natural Forest Management, Africa. Africa, Uganda, ecotourism, joint ventures, landscape ecology, wildlife, co-management, decentralization, governance, community based natural resource management, conflict, planning document. SUMMARY: This program-planning document for USAID/Uganda reviews USAID supported activities in southwest Uganda (1986-2001) and proposes a landscape approach for future Uganda program development. USAID funded protected area conservation, institutional strengthening, and community co-management programs in southwest Uganda during this period. The author finds that USAID investments in developing institutional relationships between communities and government bodies have created conditions for stronger local governance, improved livelihoods, and decreased environmental degradation. The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) and the Forestry Department are devolving management authorities, responsibilities and benefits to communities surrounding protected areas. Community economic benefits are generated from tourism and protected area fees in co-management programs. USAID support of protected area management has led to decreased agricultural conversion, hunting, and illegal logging in target parks and reserves. The author recommends a landscape approach to future program design for rural development and NRM to properly respond to biophysical and socioeconomic dynamics. Other program recommendations include: Promote community co-management of natural resources; Support joint-ventures between communities and the private sector; Strengthen agreements and accountability between local groups and government; Increase the capacity of government NRM institutions; Provide training for community natural resource and enterprise management; Develop and extend technologies and systems that increase productivity, diversify household economies, and reduce natural resource degradation.

A Landscape Approach For Reviewing USAID Uganda Activities In The Southwest — by Rob Clausen — last modified Dec 23, 2008 12:17 PM

 

A Landscape Approach For Reviewing USAID Uganda Activities in the Southwest — by Portal Web Editor — last modified May 17, 2009 12:46 AM

Results from the Mission's investments in biodiversity conservation, natural resource management and sustainable agriculture in southwest Uganda (SW) over the last 12 years are impressive. They have helped to conserve populations of endangered species and their habitats, improve and diversify the livelihoods of thousands of producers, mainain and enhance critical ecological services, reduce soil degradation, strengthen governance through decentralization, and foster people's abiliities to plan, organize, and control activities that address their needs.

A List of Training Categories — by Portal Web Editor — last modified Feb 23, 2010 07:38 PM

List of Training Categories

Access, Management and Rational Use of Water (AGUA) - El Salvador — by Access, Management and Rational Use of Water (AGUA) - El Salvador — last modified Dec 23, 2008 10:12 AM

Final Report of the Evaluation. The ARD-Water IQC Consortium, Burlington, VT 05402 USA. October 2002. The USAID/El Salvador Water Strategy, expressed in its Strategic Objective 4, Increased Access by Rural Households to Clean Water, was approved by Washington in October 1997. The purpose of AGUA is to increase access to clean water for rural Salvadorans in an environmentally sustainable way. Implementation of the AGUA Activity began in earnest in mid-1999 with the initiation of a cooperative agreement with the CARE-El Salvador Consortium of three local NGOs: SalvaNatura, FUNDAMUNI, and SACDEL to carry out project activities in 18 municipalities located within El Salvador’s three major watersheds in the departments of Ahuachapán, Usulután and Morazán. Within the following year, five smaller cooperative agreements with other organizations and a buy-in to a USAID global project were signed to implement additional activities in these same regions in order to expand into complementary technical areas of solid waste and wastewater management and increase outputs toward meeting the USAID/El Salvador’s SO4 under the responsibility of Mission’s Water and Environment Office (WE).

ACHIEVING A VIBRANT SOUTH AFRICAN MUNICIPAL SECURITIES MARKET — by Thomas H. Cochran — last modified Dec 23, 2008 12:23 PM

Task Order No. 809 Contract No. PCE-I-00-96-00002-00 By Thomas H. Cochran Michael Schaeffer Kenneth R. Von Der Heiden George E. Peterson December 1997 For THE INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE CORPORATION (INCA) & THE U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, SOUTH AFRICA Region: Africa Task order: South Africa Secondary Municipal Bond Market Development Technical area: Environmental Financing, Urban Environmental Services and Infrastructure

Adapting Environmental Education Materials — by Center for Field Assistance and Applied Research — last modified Dec 23, 2008 04:38 PM

By Center for Field Assistance and Applied Research, 1999, U.S. Peace Corps This is a companion volume to Environmental Education in the Schools: Creating a Program that Works. It focuses on how to adapt materials to local contexts and includes six examples of the adaptation process. Additional readings are provided for those interested in learning more about the adaptation process. 4.8.pdf

Adapting to Global Climate Change: A Guidebook for Development Planners 2009 — by Portal Web Editor — last modified Mar 31, 2010 12:02 AM

The Guidebook will assist USAID Missions and development partners to understand the diversity of climate change impacts expected to affect the coastal zone throughout the developing world, and the options that exist for coastal planners and managers to assist coastal communities to begin to adapt to these impacts. 19.2 MB

Adjusting Priorities A STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT OF USAID/MALAWI’S NATURAL RESOURCES PROGRAM — by Glyvyns Chinkhuntha — last modified Feb 04, 2010 12:00 PM

Task Order No. 14 Contract No. PCE-I-00-96-00002-00 By Glyvyns Chinkhuntha, Michael Furst, John Griffin, Christopher LaFranchi, Laurel Abrams Neme, Barry Rands Asif Shaikh, and Robert Winterbottom In collaboration with: Anthony Pryor and Paul Bartel June 5, 1998 For USAID/Malawi and AFR/SD/PSGE Region: Africa, Task Order: AFR Bureau NRM Activities (Nexus, ENCAP II, Information Systems, Web-OPS-Lite & Urbanization Study), Technical area: Environmental and Economic Growth Linkages; Policy Assessment, Analysis and Evaluation & Strategic Planning, Policy Performance Monitoring, Environmental Institutional Strengthening - Government

Adjusting priorities: A strategic assessment of USAID/Malawi’s natural resources program — by Authors Chinkhuntha, G., M. Furst, J. Griffin, C. Lafranchi, L. A. Neme, B. Rands, A. Shaikh, and R. Winterbottom — last modified Mar 31, 2010 05:09 AM

KEYWORD: Community-based Natural Forest Management, Africa. Africa, Malawi, conservation, decentralization, institutional collaboration, institutional strengthening, policy, training, community based natural resource management, evaluation. SUMMARY: This report summarizes the findings of the strategic assessment of USAID/Malawi's natural resources program, strategic objective (SO) 2. SO2 aimed to increasing the sustainable use, conservation and management of Malawi's renewable natural resources. The major funding vehicle SO2 was the five-year, $40 million Natural Resource Management and Environmental Support Program (NATURE). The purpose of this assessment was to reexamine USAID's SO2 activities, with an eye toward determining if it is appropriately positioned to achieve its intended results, particularly given underlying demographic, economic, market, environmental and political trends in the country. The findings and recommendations of this assessment provided guidance for USAID and the Government of Malawi (GOM) for re-orienting program and project activities.The report recommends the following changes in program focus: Increase emphasis on implementing national policy reforms in ways that positively influence the incentives and behavior of local resources managers; Strengthen local level NRM initiatives; Balance of capacity building efforts down and out: down from the central to the district and local public sector; out from the public sector to the private economy; Increase relative program emphasis on NRM practices by smallholders on individually managed lands, while retaining attention to communal management of common property resources; Establish and focus resources on three to five local target zones to test market based approaches to smallholder natural resources management on individually-managed lands; Build long-term, structural linkages with East and Southern African sister institutions to help transfer lessons from similar NRM experiences elsewhere in the region; Build targeted operational linkages with other USAID Strategic Objectives (especially SO1) and with other Government of Malawi and donor-supported programs relating to rural production. Finally, the report presents a modified results framework, which includes some of the most significant changes that should be considered. It is also analyses SO2 program activities in 7 areas: policy reform, environmental monitoring, agroforestry, community based natural resources management, endowment fund, performance based budgeting, and institutional development.

Adjusting priorities: A strategic assessment of USAID/Malawi’s natural resources program — by Authors Chinkhuntha, G., M. Furst, J. Griffin, C. Lafranchi, L. A. Neme, B. Rands, A. Shaikh, and R. Winterbottom — last modified Mar 31, 2010 05:09 AM

KEYWORD: Community-based Natural Forest Management, Africa. Africa, Malawi, conservation, decentralization, institutional collaboration, institutional strengthening, policy, training, community based natural resource management, evaluation. SUMMARY: This report summarizes the findings of the strategic assessment of USAID/Malawi's natural resources program, strategic objective (SO) 2. SO2 aimed to increasing the sustainable use, conservation and management of Malawi's renewable natural resources. The major funding vehicle SO2 was the five-year, $40 million Natural Resource Management and Environmental Support Program (NATURE). The purpose of this assessment was to reexamine USAID's SO2 activities, with an eye toward determining if it is appropriately positioned to achieve its intended results, particularly given underlying demographic, economic, market, environmental and political trends in the country. The findings and recommendations of this assessment provided guidance for USAID and the Government of Malawi (GOM) for re-orienting program and project activities.The report recommends the following changes in program focus: Increase emphasis on implementing national policy reforms in ways that positively influence the incentives and behavior of local resources managers; Strengthen local level NRM initiatives; Balance of capacity building efforts down and out: down from the central to the district and local public sector; out from the public sector to the private economy; Increase relative program emphasis on NRM practices by smallholders on individually managed lands, while retaining attention to communal management of common property resources; Establish and focus resources on three to five local target zones to test market based approaches to smallholder natural resources management on individually-managed lands; Build long-term, structural linkages with East and Southern African sister institutions to help transfer lessons from similar NRM experiences elsewhere in the region; Build targeted operational linkages with other USAID Strategic Objectives (especially SO1) and with other Government of Malawi and donor-supported programs relating to rural production. Finally, the report presents a modified results framework, which includes some of the most significant changes that should be considered. It is also analyses SO2 program activities in 7 areas: policy reform, environmental monitoring, agroforestry, community based natural resources management, endowment fund, performance based budgeting, and institutional development.

Africa - up in smoke? — by Portal Web Editor — last modified Jul 26, 2009 03:38 PM

Global warming is already affecting Africa. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts that, "the effects of climate change are expected to be greatest in developing countries in terms of loss of life and relative effects on investment

Africa Environment Outlook 2 – Our Environment, Our Wealth (UNEP Report) — by Carmen Tedesco — last modified Aug 18, 2009 11:15 AM

UNEP report profiling Africa’s environmental resources as an asset for the region’s development. The report highlights the opportunities presented by the natural resource base to support development and the objectives of the African Union (AU) and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). The report underscores the need for sustainable livelihoods, and the importance of environmental initiatives in supporting them. Emphasis is put on what should and can be done with existing (remaining) environmental assets, in the context of identified constraints (issues), rather than focusing on what has been already lost.

African Voices: A newsletter on democracy and governance in Africa — by Portal Web Editor — last modified Apr 30, 2010 12:59 AM

This newsletter contains brief treatments of two themes relevant to the role of democracy and governance programs in promoting natural resource management.

Ag-NRM Research Priority - Desktop Study — by USAID — last modified Dec 24, 2008 01:00 AM

A 2005 "desktop" review study that gives a partial overview of current thinking by key donors, universities, and research organizations on development and research priorities in agricultural and natural resources management. It is intended to assist USAID in identifying the priority topics that would warrant Agency support in order to achieve the greatest impact on smallholder-oriented agricultural growth and rural development. There is an emerging consensus within the donor community that research on agricultural and natural resources management problems should play a key role in helping to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).

Agricultural Technologies and Tropical Deforestation — by Angelsen, A. — last modified Dec 23, 2008 03:10 PM

Book published by CABI and CIFOR, edited by A. Angelsen and D. Kaimowitz, 2001. Original source: CIFOR website. 436 pp.