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A Planetary Health Innovation for Disease, Food and Water Challenges in Africa
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Many communities in low- and middle-income countries globally lack sustainable, cost-effective and mutually beneficial solutions for infectious disease, food, water, and poverty challenges. This research supports the hypothesis that agricultural development and fertilizer use in West Africa increases the burden of the parasitic disease schistosomiasis by fueling the growth of submerged aquatic vegetation that chokes out water access points and serves as habitat for freshwater snails that transmit Schistosoma parasites to more than 200 million people globally.
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['Biodiversity', 'One Health', '2023', 'Research', 'Africa', 'Ecosystem Health', 'Human Well-Being', 'Infectious Disease']
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Dec 12, 2023 09:10 PM
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Democratising forest business: a compendium of successful locally controlled forest business organisations
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The main purpose of this book is to present 19 case studies from 14 developing countries that show how local people have been democratising forest business. By this is meant the process of asserting collective local control through ownership and management arrangements so that the integrated needs of families, communities and indigenous peoples remain central to the business operation.
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['Brazil', 'Non-Cash Benefits', 'Community Forest Management', 'Latin America and the Caribbean', 'Nepal', 'Governance', 'Ethiopia', 'CE Community Resources', 'Market Demand', 'Laos', 'Bolivia', 'Burkina Faso', 'Resources', 'Technical Capacity', 'Stakeholder Alignment', 'Forest Communities', 'Forest Based Industries and Products', 'Guatemala', 'Community Involvement in Forest Management', 'Ownership', 'Profit Potential', 'Thailand', 'Biodiversity', 'Business Alliances', 'Gambia', 'Philippines', 'Indonesia', 'RMP', 'Policies for Enterprises', 'Communities', 'Vietnam', 'Asia', 'Increased Income for Participants', 'Forest Enterprises', 'Cambodia', 'Financial Management Capacity', 'Diversification', 'Mexico', 'Africa', 'Agroforestry', 'Library', 'Access to Credit Capital', 'Community Enterprises', 'FRAME', 'CE Community']
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Nov 16, 2016 04:43 PM
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Evaluation Design Report for the USAID/West Africa RESTORE Activity
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The objective of this report is to provide details on the impact and performance evaluation design for the Health, Ecosystems, and Agriculture for Resilient Thriving Societies (HEARTH) RESTORE activity in in Ghana and CDI.
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['Biodiversity', 'Africa', 'Report', 'Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM)', 'INRM', 'Evaluation', '2024', 'HEARTH', 'HEARTH Resources', 'HEARTH Evidence', 'New Resources']
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Jul 09, 2024 04:45 PM
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Exploring the Connection between Poultry Production and Reduced Wild Meat Consumption: USAID Conserving the Biodiversity of Northern Congo by Diversifying the Livelihoods of Bushmeat Value Chain Agents and Increasing Poultry Production
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USAID launched the Conserving the Biodiversity of Northern Congo by Diversifying the Livelihoods of Bushmeat Value Chain Agents and Increasing Poultry Production activity in September 2020. Called “Soso Pona Moto Nyonso” in Lingala, or Chicken for Everyone, the activity addresses unsustainable levels of wild meat consumption in RoC by combining livelihood and biodiversity-focused interventions. This case study addresses the activity’s approach and early results, including successes and barriers to protecting wildlife by increasing alternative protein sources and developing a more diverse economy.
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['Biodiversity', 'Wild Meat', 'Wild Meat Learning Group', 'Evidence', 'Case Study', 'Africa', 'Republic of the Congo', 'Nutrition', 'Supply Chains', 'Livelihoods', 'Disease']
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Jan 18, 2024 02:55 PM
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Impact Evaluation Feasibility Assessment of the USAID/Zambia Eastern Kafue Nature Alliance Activity
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The objective of this feasibility assessment (FA) is to assess the possible evaluation options for the Health, Ecosystems, and Agriculture for Resilient Thriving Societies (HEARTH) Eastern Kafue Nature Alliance activity (“Kafue Activity”) in Zambia. The assessment considers design options, including impact evaluation (IE) and performance evaluation (PE), that meet Agency-wide HEARTH and Mission learning interests, with the goal of determining the most rigorous options that can be applied given implementation, resource, and other constraints for this activity.
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['Biodiversity', 'Zambia', 'Africa', 'Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM)', 'INRM', 'Impact Assessment']
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Jul 08, 2022 01:39 PM
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Impact Evaluation Feasibility Assessment for the USAID/Southern Africa ECCO Activity
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The objective of this feasibility assessment is to assess the possible evaluation options for the USAID/Southern Africa Regional Ecosystems, Communities and Climate, Cubango-Okavango (ECCO) activity in Angola. The assessment considers evaluation design options that meet priority learning objectives related to cross-sectoral benefits, attitude and behavior change, threat reduction, and biophysical impacts, with the goal of determining the most rigorous options that can be applied given implementation, resources, and other constraints.
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['Biodiversity', '2024', 'Africa', 'Southern Africa', 'Climate', 'Report', 'Impact Assessment', 'Evaluation', 'HEARTH', 'HEARTH Evidence', 'HEARTH Resources', 'Evidence']
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Apr 22, 2024 08:58 PM
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Impact Evaluation Feasibility Assessment of RESTORE
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The objective of this feasibility assessment is to assess the possible evaluation options for the USAID/West Africa Resilient Ecosystem and Sustainable Transformation of Rural Economies (RESTORE) Activity in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. The assessment considers evaluation design options that meet priority learning interests, with a focus on on-farm and off-farm biodiversity and conservation outcomes and risk of zoonotic disease transmission, with the goal of determining the most rigorous options that can be applied given implementation, resources, and other constraints.
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['Biodiversity', 'HEARTH', 'HEARTH Evidence', 'HEARTH Resources', 'Report', '2024', 'Africa', 'West Africa', 'Ghana', "Cote d'Ivoire", 'Reforestation', 'Zoonotic Diseases']
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Apr 22, 2024 08:49 PM
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Mutual Legal Assistance and Extradition in Southern Africa
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This report comprises a review of existing legislation governing mutual legal assistance and extradition across eight member states of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) with a view to examining the effectiveness of these mechanisms in facilitating the investigation and prosecution of wildlife crime in that region. The countries examined were Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
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['Southern Africa', 'Biodiversity', 'VukaNow', 'Southern African Development Community (SADC)', 'Wildlife Crime', 'VukaNow Resources', 'Africa']
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Oct 20, 2022 03:23 PM
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Right Priorities for Africa’s Power Sector: An Evaluation of Dams Under the Programme of Infrastructure Development for Africa (PIDA)
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Under the auspices of the African Union, in 2012 African heads of state adopted and endorsed the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) as the blueprint for the continent’s infrastructure development agenda. PIDA - which is governed by the African Development Bank, the African Union Commission and NEPAD - is not a nancing mechanism in its own right, but rather is intended to act as a vehicle to attract support for an ambitious suite of cross-border infrastructure mega-projects.These projects are valued at a colossal $360 billion up to 2040 and integrate energy, transportation, and water development on a continental scale.
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['International Rivers', 'Biodiversity', 'Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa', 'PIDA', 'BiodiversityLinks', 'BUILD', 'Livelihoods', 'Evaluation', 'Biodiversity Understanding in Infrastructure and Landscape Development (BUILD)', 'Infrastructure', 'Learning Group', 'BUILD Resources', 'Economic Growth/Livelihoods', 'Africa', 'BUILD Project Resources', 'Economic Growth']
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Mar 27, 2016 03:55 PM
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Social-ecological System Health in Transfrontier Conservation Areas to Promote the Coexistence Between People and Nature
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The ProSuLi in Transfrontier Conservation Areas in southern Africa project engaged with four communities in three countries (Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe) to identify, co-design, implement, and monitor livelihoods interventions that could improve well-being.
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['Biodiversity', 'One Health', '2022', 'Ecosystem Health', 'Human Well-Being', 'Research', 'Africa']
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Jul 12, 2023 06:59 PM
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The African Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests (REFACOF): Empowering African Women to Influence REDD+
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The African Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests (Réseau des Femmes Africaines pour la Gestion Communautaire des Forêts, or “REFACOF”) aims to make concrete, meaningful, and effective contributions to forest governance in order to influence national policies and international frameworks regarding women’s rights and tenure in member countries. Under African customary law, women seldom own or inherit land, and the only way they can access it is by marriage or through their male children. Through advocacy work, REFACOF has been able to propose articles and forest policies to the Government and to the Parliament that include women’s interests and ultimately will secure women’s rights in forestry and natural resource management, as well as REDD+ in the coming years. By strengthening women’s networks and partnering with men so they can advocate for comprehensive gender equality, which benefits broad community wellbeing, REFACOF has made it clear that inequitable situations are not an option.
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['Forestry', 'Case Study', 'Biodiversity', 'AGENT Resources', 'Gender', 'Advancing Gender in the Environment', 'Africa', 'AGENT']
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Dec 13, 2017 03:19 PM
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Webinar Presentation: Gorongosa Project Conservation Enterprises
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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. In this webinar, the Gorongosa Project team described lessons learned from its conservation enterprise approach to sustainable development, which includes coffee, cashew, honey, and ecotourism-based enterprises.
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['BiodiversityLinks', 'Biodiversity', 'Learning Group', 'Conservation Enterprises', 'Economic Growth/Livelihoods', 'Africa', 'Webinar', 'CE', 'Economic Growth', 'Mozambique', 'Livelihoods', 'Report', 'MI2', 'Measuring Impact II', 'Communities and Conservation', 'Video', 'Videos']
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Dec 11, 2020 11:09 AM
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Wet Market Biosecurity Reform: Three Social Narratives Influence Stakeholder Responses in Vietnam, Kenya, and the Philippines
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In 2020, Covid-19 led to global policy statements promoting bans and reforms to wet markets in Asia and Africa to prevent future pandemics. This report describes a comparative, exploratory qualitative study in 2021 in three countries (Kenya, Vietnam and the Philippines) to understand the social and political dimensions to biosecurity reform at wet markets. This included 60 key informant interviews and rapid ethnographic research in 15 markets, as well as a review of policy documents and online media articles.
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['Biodiversity', 'One Health', 'Research', 'Africa', 'Asia', '2023', 'One Health Highlighted Resources', 'Infectious Disease', 'Governance/Management']
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Dec 01, 2023 08:14 PM
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Where are the weakest links in the illegal wildlife trade enforcement chain? Lessons from corruption risk assessments with agencies in three countries
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This note has a dual focus. First, it summarizes experiences and lessons from conducting CRAs with authorities responsible for investigations and prosecutions of IWT cases in three countries in Africa and Latin America. It seeks to demonstrate the value of adopting a collaborative approach to CRAs, illustrates potential avenues for pursuing such an approach when the right factors are in place, and demonstrates how mapping the criminal justice process provides a solid starting point to identify critical vulnerabilities.
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['Biodiversity', 'Targeting Natural Resource Corruption', 'Latin America and the Caribbean', 'TNRC', 'Africa', 'Corruption', 'TNRC Resources']
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Aug 11, 2022 03:18 PM
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Zambia Climate Change Gender Action Plan (ccGAP:ZM) Report
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With the development of Zambia’s first Climate Change Gender Action Plan (ccGAP:ZM), the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) will endeavour to take action on women’s leadership in the context of climate change. Without such plans in place, a country’s climate change policy and planning is often gender blind. Through the multi-stakeholder process, the strategies increase public awareness of climate change and gender equality issues to stimulate interest, participation and consultation with different stakeholders in developing climate change policies, and to increase capacity of those national actors to continue their involvement. The objective of the ccGAP:ZM is to ensure that Zambia’s climate change processes mainstream gender considerations to guarantee that women and men can have access to, participate in, and benefit equally from climate change initiatives.
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['Biodiversity', 'Gender', 'Zambia', 'Africa', 'AGENT', 'AGENT Resources', 'Report', 'Climate and Biodiversity', 'Advancing Gender in the Environment']
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Dec 11, 2017 08:08 PM
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