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InWEnt and IUCN Environmental Law Centre (IUCN-ELC) are pleased to publish the second volume of ‘Environmental Law in Developing Countries – Selected Issues’.
The first volume was produced at the beginning of a five-year ‘Fellowship Programme at the IUCN-ELC’ sponsored by the Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft, which became InWEnt during the course of this...
At the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity the Programme of Work on article 13 Communication, Education and Public Awareness (CEPA) was adopted. One of the elements of the work programme was to provide for capacity-building on CEPA for Parties to the Convention. During the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-8) in Curitiba,...
Conservation International (CI) has worked throughout the globe developing and implementing communications and awareness programmes since 1991. During this time, they have come to share a common vision and goals with many communities, organisations, governments and private sector partners interested in biodiversity conservation. These experiences have helped them define their approaches, share...
This newsletter gives an update on WCPA Oceania, covering also international, Australian, New Zealand and Pacific island news. News includes updates on hazards (fires), biodiversity, climate change, policy on national parks and protected areas.
ICIMOD is the first International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development. It was established to serve the HKH through an ambitious mandate that gave it the responsibility to mobilize knowledge and disseminate it, along with skills necessary for its use. The acquisition and dissemination of relevant knowledge related to mountain development in the Hindu Kush–Himalayas is ICIMOD’...
This training manual defines the concepts of gender, presents the CGISP gender strategy, clarifying gender analysis and why it is used in CSISP, and looks to planning for change.
The Sinharaja World Heritage Site is Sri Lanka’s last remnant of virgin tropical rainforest. The districts bordering the Sinharaja forest are among the most densely populated in the country, but until recently very few families lived in the Sinharaja “buffer zone” directly bordering the forest reserve. There were no roads into the area, and the few established villages could...
Farming is the principal source of income for communities in the Luangwa Valley, a mixed woodland landscape dotted with smallholder farms. The main food crops are maize and sorghum, but increasingly farmers rely on cash crops such as cotton and tobacco, which leaves families less able to directly meet their own food security needs. Planting monoculture crops depletes nutrients in the soil, as...
Pese a que el gobierno ha firmado acuerdos internacionales para la protección de sus derechos, los 2,2 millones de indígenas o adivasi de Bangladesh sufren prejuicios, discriminación y violencia estructurales a manos de la mayoría bengalí, y carecen de poder e influencia a nivel comunitario, regional y nacional. Por ello, Oxfam GB y sus 20 organizaciones...
This manual, produced by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Nepal, encapsulates the experiences and lessons learned from a recent project on "Incorporating the Needs and Roles of Women in Water and Energy Management in Rural Areas in South Asia - Capacity Building of Women in Rural Areas of the Himalayas...
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