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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 12 Participatory monitoring and evaluation in flood proofing pilot project, CARE-Bangladesh
… families and communities. The FPP seeks to reduce the year community based Flood Proofing Pilot disruption of normal social and … flood proofing measures with villagers. · conserve household and community resources during floods; After the devastating floods of 1987 …
Publication, 01 January 1998
Films shot two decades apart reveal environmental recovery and improved livelihoods in Africa
… A new film and book, to be launched in London on 5 October, show how community participation in development projects has led to successful … extension workers, NGO workers, students and the wider development community The DVD and book pack is published by Practical Action …
News, 01 October 2010
Gatekeeper series: Local organization Profiles
… The Evolution of Casa Pueblo, Puerto Rico: From Mining Opposition to Community Revolution Alexis Massol-González, Avril Andromache Johnnidis … in the central region. Its aims have since evolved to promoting community-based self-reliance and self-management, while conserving … based on a “social transformation model” through the development of community culture, information-gathering, sound science and research and …
Article, 01 April 2010
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PLA Notes 32: Participation, Literacy and Empowerment
… This issue includes:~ ~A paper on participatory approach to community assessment and planning in Ethiopia and Zambia. A report on a … place in the early 1990s in Western Kenya A report on introducing community participation in Bangladesh at the stage of programme … of participatory methods to understand indigenous approaches to soil conservation in Bolivia. Guidelines on how to get reliable yield …
Publication, 01 June 1998
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PLA Notes 41: General Issue
… of Vietnamese rural communities. A discussion of the limitations of community participation in relation to conservation and development in Cameroon. A report on using 'typical … Health Education Project in Zimbabwe. An article looking at how community groups in Australia redefined LogFrames to help them prepare …
Publication, 01 June 2001
Guinea's Kaleta dam was completed by a Chinese company in 2015, ending chronic power shortages in the capital city, Conakry (Photo: Jamie Skinner/IIED)
How a new ECOWAS directive could change the way dams are built and managed in West Africa
… and displace vast numbers of people.  In 2009, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) launched a region-wide … large dam projects. Through my work at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) supporting communication activities and …
Insight, 08 August 2017
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 12 Participatory student research increases awareness of sustainable fisheries management
… part of the LCFDPP's integrated natural resource management and community development programme is the support it This paper considers the use of participatory provides for community-based aquatic student research and essay writing in rural … fisheries management and The local government has recognised a system conservation issues in the Mekong River, in in which local communities …
Publication, 01 January 1997
View of Monterrey, Mexico
New coalition to transform cities – and lives
… funded by the  German Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety  under its  International Climate …
News, 10 May 2021
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Getting the Private Sector to Work for the Public Good: Instruments for sustainable private sector forestry in China
… environmental services such as watershed protection and biodiversity conservation; and forest certification. …
Publication, 01 January 2002
Seeds collected from a farm in Chiapas, Mexico, for replanting and use in traditional medicine. (Photo: Ina Porras)
Conditional transfers for poverty reduction and ecosystem management
… this experience, gathering inputs from the research and academic community to inform practitioners and policymakers about what works and … or watershed to provide an ecological service (such as improving soil conservation). CSTs are a form of social protection, usually cash, used …
Project, 26 April 2016