Economic Growth/Livelihoods Evidence and Guidance
USAID Cambodia Morodok Baitang Fact Sheet
Morodok Baitang is a five-year activity to conserve Cambodia’s unique biodiversity, reduce land-based sources of carbon emissions, and improve accountable and equitable economic development.
Hariyo Ban Program II Final Technical Report Volume II: Detailed Annexes
This is the final report of the second phase of the Hariyo Ban Program.
Hariyo Ban Program II Final Technical Report Volume I
This is the final report of the second phase of the Hariyo Ban Program.
Hariyo Ban: Ensuring a resilient future for Nepal's people, wildlife, forests, and rivers
USAID’s 10-year Hariyo Ban Program aims to increase ecosystem and community resilience in the Chitwan-Annapurna and Terai Arc landscapes.
Partnership for Resilience and Economic Growth (PREG)
Kenya’s 23 counties in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) are home to over 10 million people and constitute over 70 percent of Kenya’s landmass.
Combating the Commercial Bushmeat Trade in Central Africa
Fact Sheet: Unsustainable hunting for wild-sourced meat, commonly referred to as bushmeat, has been identified as one of the greatest threats to Central Africa’s wildlife.
COVID-19, Systemic Crisis, and Possible Implications for the Wild Meat Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa
Wild animals play an integral and complex role in the economies and ecologies of many countries across the globe, including those of West and Central Africa, the focus of this policy perspective.
Attitudes, practices, and zoonoses awareness of community members involved in the bushmeat trade near Murchison Falls National Park, northern Uganda
The harvest of bushmeat is widespread in the tropics and sub-tropics.
Amazon Vision 2020 Report
USAID’s Amazon Vision unifies the Agency’s goals to combat deforestation, conserve biodiversity, create environmentally friendly economic opportunities, improve the management of important landscapes, and support Indigenous rights.
Amazon Vision 2020 Report Summary
USAID’s Amazon Vision unifies the Agency’s goals to combat deforestation, conserve biodiversity, create environmentally friendly economic opportunities, improve the management of important landscapes, and support Indigenous rights.
Conservation Landscape for Peace: Sustaining Wildlife, and Community Livelihoods in the Southern Sudan-Northern Uganda Transboundary Landscape
The Global Conservation Program Achievements and Lessons Learned from 10 Years of Support for Threats-based Conservation at a Landscape and Seascape Scale.
Conservation is Development
This resource provides an overview of programming examples, tools and approaches, and evidence that support cross-sectoral collaboration to achieve shared development goals.
Webinar Presentation: Gorongosa Project Conservation Enterprises
Working with approximately 200,000 people living in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park buffer zone, the USAID Integrated Gorongosa and Buffer Zone Program seeks to leverage the park as an economic engine to lift every family in the buffer zone out of poverty in the next 30 years.
A Framework for Monitoring, Evaluating, and Learning from Conservation Enterprises
The Conservation Enterprise Learning Group developed a MEL framework for USAID and Implementing Partner staff to use to inform the adaptive management of their CE programs.
A Sourcebook for Community-Based Forestry Enterprise Programming
This Sourcebook aims to inform design and implementation of community forestry interventions that seek to deliver social, environmental, and economic outcomes in developing countries.
Webinar Presentation: Community Forest Management in Peru
More than 400,000 indigenous people live in the Peruvian Amazon, many of whom live in vulnerable conditions due to a combination of extractive industries, ecosystem degradation, and a lack of indigenous-owned businesses.
Webinar Presentation: Peer-to-Peer Learning Exchange in the Africa Conservation Enterprises Portfolio
Peer-to-Peer Learning is an approach to sharing experience to facilitate a continuation of institutional knowledge and can be used to orient incoming staff to the history, context, challenges, and opportunities within the portfolio they are taking on.
Advancing Gender in the Environment: Gender in Fisheries—A Sea of Opportunities
Produced by USAID’s Office of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GenDev), USAID’s Office of Forestry and Biodiversity (FAB), and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the guide provides an overview of the unique roles and contributions women make in the wild-caught fisheries sector.
The Nature of Conservation Enterprises: A 20-year retrospective evaluation of the theory of change behind this widely used approach to biodiversity conservation
USAID’s “The Nature of Conservation Enterprises: A 20-year retrospective evaluation of the theory of change behind this widely used approach to biodiversity conservation” uses a theory of change to examine the assumptions and draw lessons learned on the conditions needed for enterprise and conservation sustainability from six sites across the globe.
Hariyo Ban: REDD+ for Economic Development in Nepal: A national, local-level initiative
The Hariyo Ban project—which is named after the Nepali saying “Hariyo Ban Nepal ko Dhan” meaning “healthy green forests are the wealth of Nepal”—is a five-year initiative (2011-2016) that aims to reduce the adverse impacts of climate change and threats to biodiversity in Nepal.
