Archive for: Conservation

Family Planning as a Contributor to Environmental Sustainability: Weighing the Evidence

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The purpose of this review is to highlight recent evidence that family planning, readily accessible to all who seek it and exercised as a human right, can contribute to environmental sustainability. As global concern increases about the health of our planet, better understanding of the role family planning programs play in maintaining a sustainable environment could bolster public and policymaker support for access to family planning.

Year: 2018

Source: Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

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    Family Planning

    Population

    Women's Empowerment

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    Family Planning and the Samburu: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Thoughts of Men on a Population Health and Environment Programme in Rural Kenya

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    Population Health and Environment (PHE) strategies are argued to improve ecosystem and human health by addressing family size and its effects on natural resource use, food security, and reproductive health. This study investigates men’s views on a PHE family planning (FP) programme delivered among the pastoral Samburu tribe in rural northern Kenya. Three focus group discussions and nine semi-structured interviews were conducted with 27 Samburu men. These discussions revealed support for environmentally-sensitised family planning promotion. Men highlighted their dependency on natural resources and challenges faced in providing for large families and maintaining livestock during drought. These practices were said to lead to natural resource exhaustion, environmental degradation, and wildlife dispersal, undermining key economic benefits of environmental and wildlife conservation. Relating family size to the environment is a compelling strategy to improve support for FP among Samburu men. Kenyan policy-makers should consider integrating community-based PHE strategies among underserved pastoral groups living in fragile ecosystems.

    Year: 2017

    Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

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      Climate Change

      Conservation

      Family Planning

      Maternal and Child Health

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      Family Planning and the Environment: Connected Through Human and Community Well-Being

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      This issue of Outlook examines the relationships between family planning and the environment, including key lessons learned from integrated or linked family planning and conservation interventions. The author targets family planning practitioners who are seeking new ways of reframing a fundamental issue – how family planning and the environment relate within the context of well-being and promoting social equity. Case studies from projects in the Philippines and Uganda demonstrate the possibilities and challenges of operationally linking family planning and environmental interventions on the ground.

      Year: 2010

      Source: PATH | Outlook

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        Family Planning

        Integration

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        Family Planning and Environmental Sustainability: Assessing the Science

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        This report explores whether there a scientific evidence base demonstrating that the use of family planning contributes to environmental sustainability. The Family Planning and Environmental Sustainability Assessment (FPESA) conducted a two-year collaborative review of more than 900 peer-reviewed research papers from around the world published from 2005 through early 2016. The findings generally affirm that the influence of voluntary family planning on environmental problems is both real and constructive. FPESA identified considerable evidence supporting—and very little refuting—that voluntary family planning promotes environmental benefits and that expanding access to it can help bring about an environmentally sustainable world that meets human needs. The report also concludes that the diversity of researchers interested in the family-planning connection to the environment is high. The report features the project’s findings, perspectives on major related issues by eight authors, and an annotated bibliography containing assessments of 50 of the most compelling papers relevant to the linkage.

        Year: 2016

        Source: Worldwatch Institute

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          Conservation

          Family Planning

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          Exploring Cross-Sector Linkages Between Population, Health, Environment, Nutrition, and Food Security: A Review of Best Practices and Lessons Learned

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          This comprehensive literature review documents best practices for integrating nutrition and food security interventions into existing Population, Health and Environment (PHE) projects and presents recommendations for incorporating cross-sector indicators. ABCG, through its thematic working group, Global Health Linkages to Biodiversity Conservation, provides methodological guidance to advance a vision that incorporates health outcomes into biodiversity conservation and sustainable development by employing PHE guidelines to identify and develop synergies between critical ecosystem services, and human health and well-being.

          Year: 2017

          Source: Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group

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            Food Security

            Integration

            Nutrition

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            Evaluating the Impacts of Protected Areas on Human Well-Being Across the Developing World

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            The world has committed, through the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), to halt biodiversity loss and increase protected area (PA) coverage and to reduce multidimensional poverty by half by 2030. Recent calls to evaluate interactions between SDGs have highlighted that achieving one goal in isolation may actually have negative consequences for sustainable development foci of other goals. PAs are fundamental for biodiversity conservation, yet their impacts on nearby residents are contested. This study aimed to determine the impact that the expansion of the world’s PA network—a cornerstone of biodiversity conservation strategies—on the prospects of achieving global goals around poverty alleviation and human health.

            Year: 2019

            Source: Science Advances

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              Enlisting Organizational Support for Population, Health, and Environment: Perspectives From a Microfinance Institution

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              This case study demonstrates how an NGO microfinance institution went from being skeptical to optimistic about innovative approaches to social development in the Philippines. With the prevalence of poverty on the rise in the Philippines, from 37% of the population to 50% in three years, the FCB Foundation, Inc. (FCBFI) was founded as the first microfinance institution in the province of Bohol, as a branch of the First Consolidated Bank. The FCBFI’s mission is to address the social development needs of the population through microcredit programs, aiming to create jobs and expand entrepreneurial activities. But questioning arose that FCBFI had been spreading itself thin across too many development sectors. Integrated population, health, and environment (PHE) approaches were introduced to FCBFI with PATH Foundation Philippines, Inc. (PFPI)’s project, Integrated Population and Coastal Resource Management (IPOPCORM). This gave birth to a partnership between the two organizations.

              Year: 2006

              Source: Population Reference Bureau

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                Integration

                Microfinance

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                Engendering Conservation Constituencies: Understanding the Links between Women’s Empowerment and Biodiversity Conservation Outcomes for PHE Programs – WWF-Nepal Case Study

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                This WWF-Nepal case study explores the impact of the PHE component of the WWF-Nepal Terai Arc Landscape (TAL) Project on women’s empowerment. The key research questions focus on 1) how PHE activities contribute to women’s empowerment and (2) how empowered women contribute to conservation outcomes. This case study piloted the WWF Women’s Economic, Social and Political Empowerment (WWESPE) Tool. The aim is to help conservation and/or other PHE project staff understand how their PHE (or conservation-only) projects contribute to women’s empowerment and the conservation outcomes and learn how to enhance these women’s empowerment impacts. The case study found that the TAL and TAL-PHE approach helped to advance women’s empowerment and their involvement in conservation in project communities. The report found that the extent and pattern of women’s economic, social and political empowerment varied within project communities, but the use of adult and youth peer educators and inclusion of a gender module in the peer educator trainings successfully contributed to women’s empowerment.

                Year: 2010

                Source: World Wildlife Fund

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

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                  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

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                    Community Outreach

                    Conservation

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                    Designing and Implementing Integrated Approaches to Population, Health and Environment (PHE): Training Materials

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                    USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health supported the creation of a set of training materials for developing the capacity of field practitioners to design, implement and monitor integrated approaches to Population-Health-Environment (PHE). The materials aim to build country capacity to implement the steps and models outlined in the Integrating Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) Projects: A Programming Manual developed in 2007 (available in this resource). The training materials consist of the following:

                    Year: 2009

                    Source: United States Agency for International Development

                      Conservation

                      Implementation

                      Integration

                      Monitoring & Evaluation

                      Population

                      Project Design

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