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Community forestry and sustainable livelihoods: the Nepal-UK community forestry project
Eldis Document Store, 1999Can the livelihoods approach refocus existing projects to better address poverty elimination? How difficult is it for already established projects to realign themselves with the Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) framework? Can our understanding of the complexities of theSL approach be 'improved' by linking them with other frameworks?DocumentChanging organisations for watershed management in India: from policy to practice
Eldis Document Store, 2002How does organisational change favourable to sustainable livelihoods policy take place?What factors facilitate or inhibit the policy implementation process?DocumentBiomass, livelihoods and international trade challenges and opportunities for the EU and Southern Africa
Stockholm Environment Institute, 2007How can biomass and bio-energy contribute to creating livelihoods while also promoting trade and sustainable development? What are the prospects for this in different regions?DocumentAlternative sustainable livelihoods for coastal communities – A review of experience and guide to best practice
IDL Group, 2004What benefits and opportunities exist for the introduction of alternative livelihoods in coastal areas? What is the role of livelihoods analysis in interventions?DocumentSub-Saharan Africa and the resource curse: limitations of the conventional wisdom
Danish Institute for International Studies, 2008This paper takes into consideration, the ‘resource curse thesis’ that is widely accepted in academic and policy circles and symptomatic of the current ‘good governance’ agenda.DocumentPayments for ecosystem services: getting started. A primer
The Katoomba Group's Ecosystem Marketplace, 2008Designed to provide the reader with a solid understanding of what Payments for Ecosystem Service (PES) are and how they work, this primer is intended for an audience interested in exploring the potential of PES — either as prospective PES sellers themselves or as staff of organisations that work directly with communities or landowners who may be interested in PES.DocumentSustainable forestry in the Democratic Republic of Congo: the way out of poverty and conflict
Both ENDS, 2008This paper focuses on sustainable forestry in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and what role it can play.DocumentUN-water global annual assessment of sanitation and drinking-water: 2008 pilot report: testing a new reporting approach
World Health Organization, 2008This paper presents a new approach to reporting on progress in the sanitation and drinking-water sectors that aims to strengthen evidence-based policy making towards and beyond the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).DocumentConstructed wetlands: a promising wastewater treatment system for small localities. Experiences from Latin America
UNDP - World Bank Water and Sanitation Program, 2008Concentrating on experiences with constructed wetland schemes in Central and South America, this report provides an overview of how constructed wetlands serve as natural wastewater treatment systems.DocumentRights-based approaches to forest conservation
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2008In context of the recent emergence of the debate on rights-based approaches (RBA) to conservation, this paper provides a collaborative piece of work on the constitution of RBA’s and some of the key issues surrounding them. It also looks at some examples from countries where there is a need for RBA’s.Pages