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Community protocols can bring real benefits to communities and combat biodiversity loss
… and traditional knowledge are being lost at an unprecedented rate.   Community Protocols provide communities with a vital way forward for … as instruments by which responsibilities for implementing global environmental agreements can be formally adopted by communities. This … Access and Benefit Sharing among the Communities of the Potato Park based on Quechua Customary Norms Browse our website on biocultural …
Insight, 15 March 2012
A woman scoops water in a dry riverbed near Kataboi village in the Turkana region of Northern Kenya (Photo: Marisol Grandon/DFID via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Kenya's new climate fund listens to community ideas for building resilience
… these communities be dependent on aid? New hope A project that gives community members a voice and aims to build their resilience to the … Adaptation Planning Committee. The committee will write proposals based on the community’s suggestions, with the support of project staff … by the community." The fund has also supported training of resource management committees and rangeland users' associations. These groups …
Insight, 03 April 2014
Participants at the third China-Africa Forest Governance Learning Platform meeting in Beijing (Photo: Simon Lim/IIED)
China-Africa Forest Governance Learning Platform puts focus on business solutions
… and Sustainable Development (DRC); and Nathan Mununuzi, senior environmental officer, Ministry of Water and Environment (Uganda).   … Chinese company commitments and stock exchange requirements in land-based sectors.   Ideas for pro-poor investments in Africa Teodyl … an open dialogue space for Chinese, African and the international community to come together. The latest event, on 24 and 25 october, was …
News, 14 February 2017
An image of Saleemul Huq at the podium giving a speech. On the final day of the CBA10 conference, he called for federations and communities of the urban poor to be better utilised by urban developers, climate change practitioners and local government to mainstream local adaptation (Photo: ICCCAD, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
International climate adaptation conference calls for governments, NGOs and infrastructure investors to work with urban community federations to mainstream and finance local adaptation
… the conference had an urban focus, with the theme of 'enhancing urban community resilience'. Discussions at the conference highlighted … slum dwellers associations have the potential to scale up community-based adaptation projects and initiatives and continue the work started … we first started, climate change was originally perceived to be an environmental problem, but developing countries soon recognised that the …
News, 28 April 2016
Solar panels on a lake.
Organisers offer busy events programme in the countdown to CBA14
… inclusivity, the organisers of the  14th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation (CBA14) are hosting a wide range of pre-conference … BRAC , the Huariou Commission , Green Africa Youth , IUCN NL , Environmental Management for Livelihood Improvement Bwaise Facility , …
News, 31 August 2020
Stakeholders inspect timber as part of the Eighth field dialogue on Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry (ILCF) in Yogyakarta (Jogya), Central Java Province, Indonesia.
Needed: Local farmers and communities to plant trees in Indonesia
… extensive timber processing capacity, it now faces an economic and environmental problem. Indonesia is one of the only Asian countries not … ownership is less prevalent, there is a need to make diverse forms of community-based forest management arrangements functional. Ultimately, optimising …
Insight, 22 February 2012
A Conservancy Rhino Ranger in Namibia stands proudly before a cow and calf that he has tracked during a patrol. Rhino sightings have increased over the past 12 months thanks to an expanded Rhino Ranger force and support organisations (Photo: Minnesota Zoo and Save the Rhino Trust)
Community-led solutions: key force in tackling wildlife crime
… at the source has been issued by a group of more than 70 researchers, community representatives, government officials, UN agencies and NGOs … what drivers trigger wildlife crime. The South African Minister of Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa, addressed the symposium attendees, … Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) , said: "Approaches based on trust building, engagement and empowerment of communities, …
News, 02 March 2015
Two men on the side of a mountain; one bends over to pick up two sacks, the other carries them on his shoulders
Promoting better policy and citizen agency in the mining sector
Project, 22 December 2021
Turtle hatchlings, targeted by the illegal wildlife trade, are pictured on a beach (Photo: Wildlife Rescue and Conservation Association)
How can we engage communities to help reduce illegal wildlife trade?
… Specialist Group (SULi) , and the Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED) at the University of Queensland, have developed a 'theory of change' for understanding how community-level interventions can help in tackling illegal wildlife … to a reduction in illegal wildlife trade through different forms of community engagement, and unpacking the assumptions underpinning each …
Insight, 03 September 2015
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Decade of Change: from the Urban Community Development Office to the Community Organization Development Institute in Thailand, A
… the innovative poverty reduction programmes set up by the Urban Community Development Office (UCDO) in Thailand and how this fed into a … Institute (CODI). Both UCDO and its successor CODI provide community-based savings groups with a range of loans to support income generation, … were complimented with a small grants programme for community managed environmental improvement projects and support for community welfare …
Publication, 01 January 2003