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Population, Health, and Environment Integration Programming Manual

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The Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) approach necessitates an integrated design and implementation of program activities. The purpose of this manual is to provide basic, easy to use information on the different stages of a PHE program cycle. In the Designing a PHE Program section, the authors walk through the design process including pre-project planning, establishing the linkages between the identified problem to be addressed through the integrated approach, selecting the appropriate interventions and activities, and gaining support and partnerships for the PHE program among local governments and communities. The Implementing PHE Projects section outlines models of implementation including multi-sectoral coordination, peer education, and involving community members, including women and youth, in PHE project activities. The final two sections of the manual focus on monitoring, evaluating, and communicating results and the sustaining and scaling up of PHE programming.

Year: 2018

Source: PHE Ethiopia Consortium

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Population, Health, and Environment as a Biodiversity Conservation Strategic Approach: A Synthesis of Evidence

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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been a strong supporter of Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) activities for over two decades and established a Population-Environment program to allocate funds for voluntary family planning and reproductive health care in areas where population growth threatens biodiversity or endangered species. In an effort to strengthen the evidence base about integrated programming, this report synthesizes the documentation around three distinct topics. First, it aims to improve program design by demonstrating the causal pathways between PHE projects and their stated goals. Second, it provides a synthesis of the indicators used by PHE programs to assess their biodiversity conservation impacts. And third, it summarizes major assumptions that underpin PHE activities. In addition, the report provides recommendations for improving biodiversity outcomes and monitoring for missions considering this integrated approach.

Year: 2018

Source: ICF | Environmental Incentives

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The Impact of Population, Health, and Environment Projects: A Synthesis of the Evidence

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This synthesis report examines and summarizes available evidence from integrated Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) projects to document what they are measuring and/or not measuring, assess the current state of PHE project monitoring and evaluation, and identify gaps in evaluation and research for current and future PHE projects to improve upon. Forty-three documents from 35 projects were reviewed in conducting this synthesis. The report analyzes the available documentation assessing integrated programming’s effectiveness at implementing complementary interventions in the well-established fields of population, health, and the environment. It explores the documentation available from projects across different sectors and thus gives a sense of the current state of monitoring and evaluation within PHE projects. Findings from the synthesis suggest that projects report data and impact in some areas, particularly family planning, consistently.

Year: 2015

Source: Population Council

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Opportunities for Integrating Family Planning, Health and Nutrition Interventions Into Coastal-Fisheries Governance Agendas for Improved Food Security in Western Region, Ghana

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The Coastal Resources Center (CRC) of the University of Rhode Island and its partners are implementing an Integrated Coastal and Fisheries Governance (ICFG) project in all the six coastal districts of Western Region (2009-2013), with funding from USAID Ghana. The goal of the ICFG Program is to support the government of Ghana in achieving its fisheries development objectives of poverty reduction, food security, sustainable management and conservation. CRC recognizes that it will be difficult to sustain the project’s gains in the long run, however, because of the country’s high rate of population growth. Thus it is assessing the feasibility of linking Family Planning and Reproductive Health (FP/RH) interventions with ICFG’s strategies. Experiences from other developing countries show integrated population-health-environment (PHE) approaches can create synergies and results that surpass sectoral management strategies both in terms of impact and sustainability. At the request of CRC, the BALANCED3 project sent a PHE specialist to Ghana in June 2010 to meet with ICFG stakeholders and visit project field sites in Western Region to explore needs, opportunities and possible mechanism of integration. This report summarizes the consultant’s findings and recommendations for integrating FP/RH and other health, nutrition and food security interventions into the ICFG framework. It builds upon a PHE concept that was drafted by CRC’s local implementing partner – Friends of the Nation (FoN) following an exposure visit to the Philippines where local communities have been implementing family planning in conjunction with coastal conservation strategies since 2001.

Year: 2010

Source: Coastal Resources Center

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Food Security

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Learning Brief Number 3: Goodwill Generation for Conservation Through the Population-Health-Environment Approach

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The Population-Health-Environment (PHE) Alliance Project, implemented by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) from 2008 to 2011, with support from the United States Agency for International Development’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health and Johnson & Johnson, aimed to change that practice, and by doing so, deepen the sector’s understanding of the value of the PHE approach for conservation, and how the sector could better measure that value. The following learning brief explores the role of goodwill generation in-site based conservation through the PHE approach, using a case study from one PHE Alliance project site- in Nepal. The brief concludes that generating goodwill for conservation is a viable justification for implementing PHE projects to improve conservation outcomes. The case study highlights positive outcomes relating to the generation of goodwill for conservation, in a place where communities have historically been somewhat suspicious about WWF’s conservation agenda. The case study findings suggest that in the future, with more research, the PHE approach might emerge as a useful strategy for transforming community attitudes and behaviors towards conservation that are critical to ensuring long term conservation success.

Year: 2011

Source: World Wildlife Fund

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Learning Brief Number 2: Women’s Empowerment for Conservation Through the Population-Health-Environment Approach

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The Population-Health-Environment (PHE) Alliance Project, implemented by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) from 2008 to 2011, with support from the United States Agency for International Development’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health and Johnson & Johnson, aimed to change that practice, and by doing so, deepen the sector’s understanding of the value of the PHE approach for conservation, and how the sector could better measure that value. The following learning brief explores the role of women’s empowerment in site-based conservation through the PHE approach, using case studies from two PHE Alliance project sites – in Nepal and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The brief concludes that women’s empowerment is a viable justification for implementing PHE projects to improve conservation outcomes, as well as an end in itself. The case studies highlight positive women’s empowerment outcomes and suggest that in the future, the PHE approach might emerge as a powerful strategy for ensuring: women’s meaningful involvement in conservation, women’s ability to derive tangible benefits from conservation, and more sustainable conservation successes.

Year: 2011

Source: World Wildlife Fund

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Learning Brief Number 1: Conservation and Family Planning: What Is the Value of Integrating Family Planning Into Conservation Projects?

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Conservation organizations have integrated family planning into site-based conservation activities in selected countries for almost two decades yet lacked strong evidence of the approach’s value to conservation. The aim of this analysis was to identify evidence of linkages between family planning interventions and conservation outcomes in conservation field projects. The analysis examined a portfolio of eight projects across six countries that had: primary end goals of conservation, been involved for at least three years in bringing family planning to local communities, and substantial amounts of monitoring and evaluation. WWF staff conducted semi-structured interviews with field project managers about linkages between family planning interventions and conservation outcomes. WWF staff then solicited existing data from projects and synthesized evidence. Results indicate strong evidence for the earliest stages of several common assumption patterns, particularly in support of the assumption that family planning interventions implemented by conservation organizations lead to an increase in family planning use in the remote areas where these projects are implemented. Other linkages remained more tenuous.

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Year: 2011

Source: World Wildlife Fund

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Conservation and Family Planning: What Is the Value of Integrating Family Planning Into Conservation Projects?

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Conservation organizations have integrated family planning into site-based conservation activities in selected countries for almost two decades yet lacked strong evidence of the approach’s value to conservation. The aim of this analysis was to identify evidence of linkages between family planning interventions and conservation outcomes in conservation field projects. The analysis examined a portfolio of eight projects across six countries that had: primary end goals of conservation, been involved for at least three years in bringing family planning to local communities, and substantial amounts of monitoring and evaluation. WWF staff conducted semistructured interviews with field project managers about linkages between family planning interventions and conservation outcomes. WWF staff then solicited existing data from projects and synthesized evidence. Results indicate strong evidence for the earliest stages of several common assumption patterns, particularly in support of the assumption that family planning interventions implemented by conservation organizations lead to an increase in family planning use in the remote areas where these projects are implemented. Other linkages remained more tenuous.

Year: 2012

Source: Population Association of America

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The Link Between Climate Change and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: An Evidence Review

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This report is designed to be used by decision-makers and climate change, humanitarian, and gender equality advocates to better understand the linkages between sectors and align efforts to generate effective policies and programs. Drawing on published literature as well as key informant interviews, this evidence review explores: (i) the impact of climate change on SRHR and (ii) the linkages between climate action, including adaptation and mitigation, and SRHR. The evidence review also explores the evidence through an intersectional lens.

Year: 2021

Source: Women Deliver

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Climate Change

Family Planning

Integration

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

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Healthy People, Healthy Ecosystems: A Manual on Integrating Health and Family Planning into Conservation Projects

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Several conservation organizations integrate health and family planning with conservation projects. This integration has multiple benefits. Often conservation practitioners recognize the potential value of integrated PHE (population-health-environment) projects, but need guidance on how to effectively incorporate P and H components into their project or on how to create a PHE project from scratch. This manual was created as a resource for these practitioners. It reviews not only the how, but also the why and what of PHE projects. The manual defines PHE as projects that integrate health and/or family planning with conservation activities, thereby seeking synergistic successes and greater conservation and human welfare outcomes than if they were implemented in single-sector approaches.

Year: 2008

Source: World Wildlife Fund

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Family Planning

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Project Design

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