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The town of Nakuru — Kenya’s fourth largest town — lies in a unique setting in the Great Rift Valley. Recent developments on the Menengai Crater, the Mau Escarpment, and the Bahati Highlands exemplify the impacts of poorly planned urban growth on mountain ecosystems. The Nakuru Local Urban Observatory (LUO) project was initiated by the Municipal Council of Nakuru in January...
Cet article montre comment le projet « Mener le changement » ("Driving Change" en anglais) a utilisé le plaidoyer et le renforcement des capacités en Indonésie pour garantir que la voix des pauvres, et des femmes en particulier, fasse partie intégrante des processus de planification gouvernementaux pour lutter contre la pauvreté. Il se...
This paper shows how the ‘Driving Change’ project in Indonesia used advocacy and capacity-building to ensure that the voices of poor people, especially women, became part of government planning processes to alleviate poverty. It focuses on people’s participation at village level as a key entry point, leading to advocacy for policy change at district and national levels. It...
Este documento demuestra cómo el proyecto “Impulsar el Cambio” en Indonesia utilizó la incidencia y la capacitación para garantizar que las voces de las personas pobres, en especial de las mujeres, pasen a ser parte de los procesos oficiales de planificación para aliviar la pobreza. Se centra en la participación de las personas a nivel de aldea...
This paper examines the performance of an adaptive collaborative management approach (ACM) to increasing poor people's access to, rights and benefits from a community-based nonwood forest product (NWFP) network enterprise in the Eastern Hills of Nepal. This network has rights over some 2,000 hectares of community forests and more than 1,346 member households. It had existed for two-and-a-half...
A fundamental characteristic of the NBSAPs should be the active involvement of all social groups in their elaboration. However, in order to ensure genuine representation, it is necessary to recognise that there is diversity within social groups due to their sex, age, ethnic group, income, occupations and civil status, among others.
This position paper highlights gender and the missing links in financing climate change adaptation and mitigation. It is advocated that there is a need for the UNFCCC to carefully plan the future of the climate regime in conjunction with proactive gender equality and sustainability guidelines, instead of being driven by dominant economic factors. A call is made that all parties and...
This publication forms one of a series of six reports prepared under the ECHO-funded project on ‘Reducing the vulnerability of pastoral communities through policy and practice change in the Horn and East Africa’. The aim of the project is to raise awareness among planners and policymakers about the full potential of pastoral systems to make a significant contribution to the...
Remember the scenes from New Orleans of flooded streets and scavenging people? One year on and little progress is evident in achieving the step-change needed in controlling greenhouse gases. Hurricane Katrina showed only too vividly the massive power of natural forces combined with inadequate preparation. The flood waters washed away and exposed fully the lack of planning and low priority...
Four decades of theory and research on resilience in human development have yielded informative lessons for planning disaster response and recovery. In developmental theory, resilience following disaster could take multiple forms, including stress resistance, recovery, and positive transformation. Empirical findings suggest that fundamental adaptive systems play a key role in the resilience of...
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