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Population Dynamics, Climate Change, and Sustainable Development in Africa

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This report calls on governments, donors, and civil society to invest more in population and climate change work, to address the two issues together in policies and programs, and to build the technical capacity to develop programs and research. Ensuring women in sub-Saharan Africa who wish to avoid pregnancy have access to family planning can reduce population pressures and reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts. It can also help meet other development goals, including reducing poverty and maternal mortality, and improving education.

Year: 2012

Source: PAI | African Institute for Development Policy

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    Climate Change

    Economic Development

    Family Planning

    Population

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    Population and the Environment: Where We’re Headed and What We Can Do

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    Many environmental problems will be easier to address if world population peaks at 8 billion rather than continuing to grow to 11 billion or higher. The good news: there is already a global consensus on how to slow population growth, with programs that improve human well-being at very little cost.

    Year: 2011

    Source: PAI

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      Population and Reproductive Health in National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) for Climate Change

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      PAI’s Population and Climate Change Program produced this working paper which reviews 41 National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) for Climate Change submitted by least developed countries (LDCs) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as of May 2009. The review found that 37 of the NAPAs link high and rapid population growth to climate change. However, only six plans clearly mention consideration for slowing population growth or investing in reproductive health/family planning (RH/FP) among their adaptation priority responses. Only two country NAPAs propose integrating FP and RH elements with priority adaptation interventions. The working paper presents conclusions and five recommendations for LDC governments to consider as they refine and implement the NAPAs, such as adopting multisectoral approaches to adaptation projects and offering both short and long term projects. The paper also provides an annex describing the NAPA process, including guidelines for development, implementation and financing of the plans.

      Year: 2009

      Source: PAI

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        Mapping Population and Climate Change

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        These maps by Population Action International shows how climate change and population dynamics will change the world over time. Country profiles of Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, and Peru are included with maps, graphs, videos, and additional resources on population, gender, and climate change trends. Interactive maps illustrate how climate change impacts, demographic trends, and the need for contraception are likely to affect countries’ abilities to adapt to climate change. The maps also identify 26 population and climate change hotspots. In many countries, a high proportion of women lack access to reproductive health services and contraceptives. Investments in family planning programs in these hotspots could improve health and well-being, slow population growth, and reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts.

        Year: 2011

        Source: PAI

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          Linking Population, Fertility and Family Planning with Adaptation to Climate Change: Views from Ethiopia

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          The effects of global climate change are being felt disproportionately in the world’s poorest countries, where people are the least able to cope. As climate change adaptation strategies gain international attention, it is important to show how people are dealing with the effects of climate change, how they could become more resilient to these effects, and how people and communities can adapt to climate change. Using qualitative methods, PAI, in collaboration with Miz-Hsab Research Center and the Joint Global Change Research Institute, explored how Ethiopian communities react to and cope with climate variation, which groups are the most vulnerable, what resources communities need to adapt to climate change, and the role of family planning and reproductive health in increasing resilience to climate change impacts. This study was one of the first to explore the linkages of population, fertility and family size with aspects of vulnerability and resilience to climate change.

          Year: 2009

          Source: PAI

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            Adaptation

            Climate Change

            Family Planning

            Resilience

            Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

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            Integrated Population, Health and Environment (PHE): More Than the Sum of Its Parts

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            This brief describes the reasoning behind population, health, and environment (PHE) projects, which aim to simultaneously improve access to health services and manage natural resources in ways that improve livelihoods and conserve critical ecosystems. These projects have demonstrated that implementing a comprehensive and integrated strategy which builds upon existing synergies between health, family planning, and the environment is more efficient than implementing separate programs to address each of these needs. The brief also discusses the history of US engagement in supporting PHE initiatives during the past 10 years and offers several policy recommendations to expand support to non-health sectors, strengthen the evidence base and reach new audiences, and scale-up PHE programs.

            Year: 2014

            Source: PAI

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              Finding Balance: Forests and Family Planning in Madagascar

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              Filmed in Madagascar, this 9-minute documentary explores the linkages between population growth and environmental destruction in one of the world’s most biologically unique places. Finding Balance profiles Voahary Salama, a local organization working to preserve the island’s rainforest by integrating health and family planning into conservation efforts. This innovative approach to conservation and development addresses the needs of women in remote rural areas while offering hope for the sustainability of critical ecosystems and the biodiversity they shelter.

              It is accompanied by a factsheet that explains population-environment links, and provides background on Madagascar and Voahary Salama.

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              Source: PAI

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                Climate Change and Population: A Review of the Literature

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                There is a sizeable body of literature that explores the connections between population and climate change and family planning as a link between the two. Overall, family planning has been proposed as both a means of preventing further climate change by slowing population growth, and thereby reducing consumption, and as a tool to equip vulnerable individuals, households, communities, and countries to better manage the challenges of a warming world. The following review summarizes the academic literature, conference papers, and UN reports from the last decade, exploring the background of these two perspectives, with an emphasis on family planning as a strategy of climate change adaptation, particularly for women.

                Year: 2013

                Source: PAI

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                  Climate Change

                  Family Planning

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                  Climate Change and Population: An Annotated Bibliography

                  This annotated bibliography provides an overview of 25 research papers that represent some of the diversity of research, perspectives, policy relevance, and advocacy opportunities around population and climate change interactions. These final 25 papers were selected as a useful start to anyone interested in exploring how the issues of population dynamics, reproductive health, family planning, women’s empowerment and climate change interact. Undoubtedly, the selection of these papers reflects some biases. Population Action International is primarily interested in policy application, climate change adaptation, and the role of increasing access to family planning and reproductive health services as a way to improve the well-being of women, their families and the environment.

                  Year: 2013

                  Source: PAI

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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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