Archive for: Coastal Resources Center

Analyzing Changes in Population, Health and Environment Perceptions and Behaviors in the Saandani National Park, Tanzania

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This report shows the results of a Behavior Monitoring Survey conducted in 2012 in the communities around Saadani National Park (SANAPA) in Tanzania and a comparison with the results with those of a similar survey done three years earlier. In 2009, the BALANCED Project started working in the SANAPA area through an ongoing integrated coastal management initiative to develop and deliver integrated PHE messages through peer educators and community-based distributers of family planning commodities. In 2012, the BALANCED team conducted a follow-up survey to assess the changes in behaviors and attitudes resulting from the four years of BALANCED Project interventions. A comparison of results from the 2009 and 2012 surveys shows that the population, socioeconomic, health, and environmental conditions of those living around SANAPA have remained relatively stable between 2009 and 2012. It points as well to increased awareness of family planning and reproductive health FP/RH in the target areas, increased support amongst men for FP/RH, and increased support (by both males and females) for conservation activities.

Year: 2013

Source: The BALANCED Project

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    Coastal

    Community Outreach

    Conservation

    Family Planning

    Integration

    Monitoring & Evaluation

    Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

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    An Assessment of the Benefits of Integrating Family Planning and Environmental Management Activities in the Visayas Region of the Philippines

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    The purpose of the research presented here is to further evaluate whether the integrated delivery of reproductive health and environmental management practices in one project results in added value. Finn (2007:19-20) defines value-added as “results across two or more sectors (e.g. reproductive health and coastal environmental management) in such a way that outcomes go beyond those anticipated if the interventions had been implemented separately.” Here, value-added is defined as meaning that the integration of the reproductive health and environmental management components will enhance the levels of success of each to the extent that their levels of achievement will be greater than if the projects were delivered separately.

    Year: 2011

    Source: The BALANCED Project

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      Integration

      Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

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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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        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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          Coastal

          Conservation

          Family Planning

          Food Security

          Integration

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