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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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    Conservation

    Family Planning

    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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      Conservation

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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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        Family Planning

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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.

        Abridged version of this resource.

        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

                Implementation

                Integration

                Project Design

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                Let’s Unite: The Promise of Tuungane

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                An overview video of the Tuungane project, a partnership between The Nature Conservancy, Pathfinder International, and conservation organization Frankfurt Zoological Society, to improve the health of both people and nature on Lake Tanganyika’s Tanzanian shore.

                Year: 2015

                Source: Tuungane Project

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                  Changes in Household Well-Being and Resilience: 2011-2016

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                  This document details the results of a household follow-­on survey and outcome assessment for the Tuungane (‘let’s unite’ in Kiswahili) project, which is working near Mahale Mountains National Park in Uvinza District of Tanzania’s Kigoma Region. The survey was implemented in August 2016. Tuungane is a project that simultaneously addresses population, health and environmental issues. This type of project is known globally as a ‘PHE project’.

                  Year: 2017

                  Source: Tuungane Project

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                    Integration

                    Monitoring & Evaluation

                    Resilience

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                    Hope in the Basin

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                    An overview video of the HoPE-LVB project, implemented by Pathfinder International in the Lake Victoria Basin region of Uganda and Kenya.

                    Year: 2014

                    Source: Pathfinder International

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                      Advocacy

                      Integration

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