Archive for: Project Design


Small-scale pilot projects have demonstrated that integrated population, health and environment approaches can address the needs and rights of vulnerable communities. However, these and other types of health and development projects rarely influence larger policies and programmes. ExpandNet, a network of health professionals working on scaling up, argues this is because projects are often not designed with sustainability and scaling up in mind. This paper shows how this new approach is being applied and the initial lessons from its use in the Health of People and Environment in the Lake Victoria Basin Project (HoPE-LVB) currently underway (2011-2017) in Uganda and Kenya. Specific emerging lessons are: 1) ongoing, meaningful stakeholder engagement has significantly shaped the design and implementation, 2) multi-sectoral projects are complex and striving for simplicity in the interventions is challenging, and 3) projects that address a sharply felt need experience substantial pressure for scale up, even before their effectiveness is established. This paper recommends that other projects would also benefit from applying a scale-up perspective from the outset.

Year: 2014

Source: Reproductive Health Matters

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    Since the beginning of 2011, Pathfinder International has been working together with The Nature Conservancy and the Frankfurt Zoological Society to design and implement a project that reduces pressures on the diverse and fragile Greater Mahale Ecosystem in western Tanzania adjacent to Lake Tanganyika. This brief describes a rapid needs assessment of the health facilities conducted in March 2011 and summarizes information gathered through focus groups.

    Year: 2011

    Source: Tuungane Project

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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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        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

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          This document, with its accompanying Excel file, provides an interactive tool for assessing the potential impact of a PHE integrated approach. In essence, the Framework mirrors the logical framework of a PHE program but allows for more detail and for various assumptions on how inputs, outputs and outcomes are related.

          Year: 2015

          Source: Health Policy Project

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            Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) programs improve primary health care services such as family planning and reproductive health, while also helping communities conserve biodiversity, manage natural resources, and develop sustainable livelihoods. When these issues are addressed simultaneously, communities thrive. This collection highlights the experiences of PHE stakeholders and champions in the Lake Victoria Basin through stories and photos. The booklet shares a diverse set of voices from policy makers, community members, and PHE program implementers.

            Year: 2018

            Source: Lake Victoria Basin Commission | Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project

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              The Health of People and Environment in the Lake Victoria Basin (HoPE-LVB) project uses an integrated Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) approach with island and coastal communities in Kenya and Uganda. The project, managed by Pathfinder International and local partners, works to ensure that community members can access voluntary family planning and reproductive health services while also managing their natural resources in a way that safeguards their future. This video highlights the project and its activities – including how they aligned their program design with several of the High Impact Practices (HIPs) in Family Planning such as Community Health Workers, Community Group Engagement, and Policy. The video includes beautiful photography and footage of the Lake Victoria Basin region and has excerpts of community members describing the HIPs being used in the project.

              Year: 2018

              Source: Population Reference Bureau

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                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

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                  The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been a strong supporter of Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) activities for over two decades and established a Population-Environment program to allocate funds for voluntary family planning and reproductive health care in areas where population growth threatens biodiversity or endangered species. In an effort to strengthen the evidence base about integrated programming, this report synthesizes the documentation around three distinct topics. First, it aims to improve program design by demonstrating the causal pathways between PHE projects and their stated goals. Second, it provides a synthesis of the indicators used by PHE programs to assess their biodiversity conservation impacts. And third, it summarizes major assumptions that underpin PHE activities. In addition, the report provides recommendations for improving biodiversity outcomes and monitoring for missions considering this integrated approach.

                  Year: 2018

                  Source: ICF | Environmental Incentives

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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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