Archive for: Community Outreach

Conservation

English Tool/Guide, Training Material Coastal Resources Center Philippines Community Health, Community Outreach, Conservation, Integration, Project Design

March 31, 2021/by Sean Stewart

Developing Behavior Change Communications for Population, Health and Environment Projects: A Facilitator’s Guide

This Guide was designed for facilitators/trainers who work with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) implementing population, health and environment (PHE) activities to develop a behavior change communication (BCC) intervention that supports the achievement of the PHE project’s goals and objectives. It instructs the facilitator on how to train participants on the basic components of a BCC intervention. It also advises how to adapt these components for PHE projects that need integrated messages to raise community awareness of the PHE linkages of health and pro-conservation behaviors. This training is best suited for NGOs and/or government agencies with existing PHE or core health/conservation activities. It is ideal for individuals from organizations that have already participated in a workshop on PHE project design or in a PHE-related workshop in which they developed a PHE conceptual framework, PHE project goal, and objectives and activities.

Year: 2013

Source: The BALANCED Project

English Journal Article Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science Madagascar Adaptation, Climate Change, Community Outreach, Conservation, Resilience

March 23, 2021/by Sean Stewart

Building Socio-ecological Resilience to Climate Change through Community-Based Coastal Conservation and Development: Experiences in Southern Madagascar

Climate change impacts fall disproportionately on the world’s poorest, most marginalised communities, particularly those highly dependent on direct use of natural resources, such as subsistence fishing communities. Vulnerability to climate change involves social and ecological factors, and efforts to reduce it and build long-term resilience must target both. In Madagascar, generalised strategies developed at the national level address vulnerability, adding to a variety of international initiatives. Yet, such high-level planning inevitably remains vague and indeterminate for most of the island’s coastal communities, with little meaningful implementation on the ground. Therefore, local measures to build resilience and adaptive capacity are critical to ensure that resource-dependent communities are able to cope with the immediate and long-term effects of climate change. Examination of an integrated population-health-environment (PHE) programme in Madagascar, comprising a locally-managed marine area (LMMA) and socio-economic development activities, illustrates how practical initiatives can contribute to building immediate and long-lasting resilience and adaptive capacity. Such community-based approaches should play a key role in adaptation measures within the western Indian Ocean region, where many coastal communities live in severe poverty on the front line of a rapidly changing climate.

Year: 2012

Source: Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science

March 12, 2021/by Sean Stewart

Baseline Survey (2011) for Population, Health and Environment Scale-up Project in the Philippines

English Report Coastal Resources Center Philippines Coastal, Community Outreach, Conservation, Integration

This document summarizes the results of a baseline survey conducted in 40 randomly-selected villages in Bohol and the Verde Island Passage in central Philippines in 2011. The study was sponsored by the US Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded “Building Actors and Leaders for Advancing Community Excellence in Development” (BALANCED) Project to inform future activities in the Philippines. The survey covers basic reproductive health, disease management, and livelihood and marine protection behaviors among men and women in vulnerable communities on the island of Bohol. The report then compares these Bohol behaviors to those of men and women in “new” sites in the Verde Island Passage. According to the survey analysis, households in coastal villages depend on the productivity of the marine environment for their livelihoods. The report also recommends increasing the amount and quality of public participation in project activities in order to maximize health and conservation outcomes.

Year: 2012

Source: The BALANCED Project

English Report Coastal Resources Center Tanzania Coastal, Community Outreach, Conservation, Family Planning, Integration, Monitoring & Evaluation, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

March 11, 2021/by Sean Stewart

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

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

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Monitoring & Evaluation

March 9, 2021/by Sean Stewart

A Participatory Market Systems Approach to Sustainable Livelihoods Development

English Tool/Guide Fauna & Flora International Global Community Outreach, Conservation, Participatory Market System, Project Design

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

Participatory Market System

Conservation

Project Design

March 8, 2021/by Sean Stewart

A Manual for Training Community Conservation and Health Workers (CCHWs)

English, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kiswahili Training Material Lake Victoria Basin Commission East Africa Community Outreach, Integration

This manual for training Community Health Workers ( CHWs), Village Health Teams (VHTs), Community Forest Associations (CFAs) and Community Wildlife Conservation workers (CWCWs) aims at building their capacity to accompany the households and communities in their efforts to improve their health and environmental conservation initiatives in an integrated manner. Recognizing that households and communities are fully engaged in addressing their own health and issues, the training intends to enable Community Health Workers, Village Health Teams and Environmental Conservation Workers to assist communities in assessing their situations, identifying gaps and reflecting on the causes of the gaps in order to take action. The objective of this manual is to build the capacity of CCHWs to lead their communities in health improvement and environmental conservation initiatives in terms of: disease prevention, health promotion, simple curative care, conservation of forests and protected areas, pollution control, gender empowerment and livelihood improvement. In this way, the CBWs will be able to motivate and advocate for the key household health and conservation practices in their areas of coverage.

Each module has a set of trainer resources, participant materials, training evaluation tools, and reference materials for further reading. The training manual is designed for so that the curriculum can cascade national, regional, local/district and community levels across LVBC member states.

Year: 2014

Source: Lake Victoria Basin Commission

Access the resource: English | Kiswahili | Kirundi | Kinyarwanda

March 8, 2021/by Sean Stewart

Working Together: Population, Health, and Environment in Madagascar

English, Malagasy Video John Snow Inc. Madagascar Advocacy, Community Outreach

As part of JSI’s Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) Integration Activity, policymakers and program implementers learned how community members perceive and participate in community-based health services. JSI, in collaboration with a local NGO Ny Tanintsika, used the partnership model to introduce communities to high impact approaches that can support income generation activities to reduce human pressure on the forest corridor and water. This video provides beautiful footage and scenery of the forest corridor of Fandriana Vondrozo in Madagascar and the interviews and perspectives from the community members in the village of Ambilo. The video is in Malagasy with English subtitles.

Year: 2019

Source: John Snow Inc (JSI)

Advocacy

February 26, 2021/by Sean Stewart

Population, Health, and Environment Integration Programming Manual

English Tool/Guide PHE Ethiopia Consortium Ethiopia, Global Community Outreach, Implementation, Integration, Monitoring & Evaluation, Project Design, Scale-up

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

Implementation

Monitoring & Evaluation

Project Design

Scale-up

February 26, 2021/by Sean Stewart

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

English Brief World Wildlife Fund Nepal Community Outreach, Conservation, Integration

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

Conservation