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Biodiversity Areas under Threat: Overlap of Climate Change and Population Pressures on the World’s Biodiversity Priorities

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Humans and the ecosystem services they depend on are threatened by climate change. Places with high or growing human population as well as increasing climate variability, have a reduced ability to provide ecosystem services just as the need for these services is most critical. A spiral of vulnerability and ecosystem degradation often ensues in such places. We apply different global conservation schemes as proxies to examine the spatial relation between wet season precipitation, population change over three decades, and natural resource conservation. Identifying areas of climate and population risk and their overlap with conservation priorities can help to target activities and resources that promote biodiversity and ecosystem services while improving human well-being.

Year: 2017

Source: PLOS One

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Climate Change

Conservation

Population

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Benefits and Costs of the Population and Demography Targets for the Post-2015 Development Agenda

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The purpose of this paper is to assess the costs and benefits of targets for population and demography. The authors show that, for high fertility countries, providing universal access to sexual and reproductive health rights and meeting unmet need for contraception are phenomenal targets for the post-2015 agenda. For developed countries with ageing populations, a good strategy is to encourage people to retire later. Furthermore, instead of attempting to increase fertility organically, it is better to expand migration to rejuvenate an ageing population.

Year: 2014

Source: Copenhagen Consensus Center

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    Family Planning

    Population

    Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

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    Assessment of USAID’s Population and Environment Projects and Progamming Options

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    The assessment reviews the results of in-country USAID PHE projects, especially on increasing access to quality family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH) products and services; determines USAID and the office of Population and Reproductive Health’s (PRH) role in providing technical leadership; identifies barriers and challenges facing the portfolio; and makes suggestions for USAID‘s follow-on strategy for PHE. Among the findings: PHE program results clearly make some contributions to the overall objectives. PHE programs may be particularly useful in facilitating partnership building and leveraging funds from non-USAID sources and may be avenues to learning how best to provide family planning to youth and males. The assessment identifies principal barriers related to inadequate funding, which in turn is linked to the complexity of integrated efforts; the limited evidence base for the integrated PHE program model; and the growing but still limited capacity to implement PHE field programs.

    Year: 2007

    Source: Global Health Technical Assistance Project

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      Family Planning

      Integration

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      An update—People in the Balance: Population and Natural Resources

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      Highlights from the updated People in the Balance database (no longer online) illustrate how population growth exerts pressure on available natural resources, especially in countries experiencing rapid growth. The database provides information about the availability of three critical resources—freshwater, cropland and forests. It also includes data for population growth, which has important implications for resource availability.

      Year: 2011

      Source: PAI

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        Conservation

        Population

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        A Tool for Conducting Population, Health and Environment Behavior Monitoring Surveys

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        The Building Actors and Leaders for Advancing Community Excellence in Development (BALANCED) Project developed this Population, Health and Environment (PHE) Behavior Monitoring Survey tool to help PHE practitioners develop and implement situational and behavior monitoring surveys. Understanding the context of the place will help identify possible entry points where PHE activities might have the potential to improve the quality of life and environment in the field sites. This tool is useful to anyone designing a new PHE project or developing baseline or follow-up surveys to monitor PHE-related behaviors and/or perceptions. It is primarily written for PHE practitioners who need to develop a survey, but who have limited training and expertise in survey methodologies. A secondary audience includes students or other researchers who plan to conduct behavior monitoring surveys.

        Year: 2013

        Source: The BALANCED Project

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          Monitoring & Evaluation

          Project Design

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          A Participatory Market Systems Approach to Sustainable Livelihoods Development

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          Produced by Fauna & Flora International, this set of learning documents and practical tools illustrates how to take a participatory market systems approach to sustainable livelihoods development in a conservation context.

          Year: 2019

          Source: Fauna & Flora International

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            Community Outreach

            Conservation

            Participatory Market System

            Project Design

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            A Guide for Monitoring and Evaluating Population-Health-Environment Programs

            This document is a guide to effective M&E of integrated PHE projects and serves as a reference for the entire international development community. The guide consists of three parts covering the PHE conceptual framework, guidance on monitoring and evaluation in programs, and a detailed discussion of indicators for population, health, environment, integration and value-added. Starting with an overview and then diving into technical information, the guide covers types of evaluations, data quality and sources, and terminology. PHE indicators are provided and organized into categories for all aspects of a PHE project: population, health, environment, integration, and value-added. These indicators are presented clearly so that they can be adapted to and used for different projects.
            Year: 2007
            Source: MEASURE Evaluation

              Monitoring & Evaluation

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              A Framework for Population, Health and Environment Program

              This document, with its accompanying Excel file, provides an interactive tool for assessing the potential impact of a PHE integrated approach. In essence, the Framework mirrors the logical framework of a PHE program but allows for more detail and for various assumptions on how inputs, outputs and outcomes are related.

              Year: 2015

              Source: Health Policy Project

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                Project Design

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                2019 Revision of World Population Prospects

                The 2019 Revision of World Population Prospects is the twenty-sixth round of official United Nations population estimates and projections that have been prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat.

                The main results are presented in a series of Excel files displaying key demographic indicators for each UN development group, World Bank income group, geographic region, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) region, subregion and country or area for selected periods or dates within 1950-2100. For advanced users who need to use these data in a database form or statistical software, we recommend to use the CSV format for bulk download. Forthcoming special aggregates will also provide additional groupings of countries.

                Year: 2019

                Source: United Nations

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                  2013 International Population, Health and Environment Conference Proceedings

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                  The 2013 International Population, Health, and Environment Conference, organized by the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) and the PHE Ethiopia Consortium, convened over two days in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia around the theme “Healthy Families, Healthy Environments.” The PHE Conference brought together over 150 PHE implementers and advocates representing 20 different countries from sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe, and North America.

                  Practitioners, donors, policymakers, journalists, and potential partners had the chance to learn about recent accomplishments and pressing issues during roundtable discussions, plenary sessions, and an evening reception. Roundtable discussions provided a space to discuss experiences and challenges and chart paths forward in areas critical to the advancement of the field. The discussion themes included: “Best Practices in Implementation,” “Monitoring and Evaluation,” “Expanding and Institutionalizing PHE Interventions,” and “Advocacy and Communications/Networks.”

                  Year: 2014

                  Source: Population Reference Bureau

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                    Advocacy

                    Implementation

                    Integration

                    Monitoring & Evaluation

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