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Unpacking Climate Insights from WD2023 to Drive COP28 Action

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At the Women Deliver 2023 Conference (WD2023), the intersection of girls and women and the climate crisis was a cross-cutting issue recognized as one of the biggest challenges to gender equality globally. Many critical topics and calls-to-action were raised, and we have identified three main themes:

  • Bodily autonomy is a climate justice issue
  • Girls, women, and youth are key to driving climate justice
  • We need feminist systems change

Year: 2023

Source: Women Deliver

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“We Have Kept PHE Alive and Well”: What happened to the HoPE-LVB project post-closure

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The Health of People and Environment–Lake Victoria Basin (HoPE–LVB), a cross-sectoral integrated Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) effort implemented by Pathfinder International and a range of partners in Kenya and Uganda during 2011-2019, aimed to improve interconnected health, environment, and development challenges in an ecologically biodiverse region. After an external evaluation in 2018 documented the results of the project, partners and donors were interested in learning about the ongoing sustainability of the project activities to draw lessons for designing future projects. Therefore in 2022, USAID through the Knowledge SUCCESS project, collaborated with a philanthropic partner, Preston-Werner Ventures, to conduct a rapid stock-taking exercise to explore the successes, challenges, and opportunities in scaling-up and sustaining the cross-sectoral programming. This learning brief features the voices from a range of stakeholders that were involved in the project to share their perspectives and knowledge on the scale-up and sustainability of HoPE-LVB activities.

Year: 2022

Source: Knowledge SUCCESS

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Scale-up

Sustainability

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Climate Justice and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

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This issue brief, first published ahead of COP26 underscores why climate change, gender equality, and SRHR are linked, and reinforces why SRHR must be considered a key component of climate adaptation, resilience action, and climate justice.

Year: 2021

Source: Women & Gender Constituency, SRHR and Climate Justice Coalition

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Climate Justice

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

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How to Bring Anti-Racism into the Population Conversation

This piece provides background on how population has been communicated about in the past and provides guidance and recommendations on how to bring anti-racism into the conversation going forward.

Source: Center for Biological Diversity

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Population

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Drawdown’s Health and Education Solution: The Cascading Benefits of Access to Universal Education and Voluntary Family Planning

This policy brief discusses how universal access to quality education and voluntary family planning services are not only essential human rights and cornerstones of gender equality, but also can contribute to efforts to achieve drawdown. It makes the case that both should be integrated into climate deliberations, funding priorities, and country-level actions.

Year: 2022

Source: Project Drawdown

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Education

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Girls’ Education and Family Planning: Essential Components of Climate Adaptation and Resilience

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Today, both universal education and sexual and reproductive health and rights are severely underfunded, particularly for women and girls in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs). Dedicating climate adaptation financing to include girls’ education and modern voluntary family planning as part of multisectoral climate adaptation approaches would help ensure that those most vulnerable to climate change and its impacts have access to basic human rights. This policy brief makes the case for recognizing family planning and girls’ education as effective long-term climate adaptation strategies. Both should be integrated into climate deliberations, funding priorities, and country-level actions.

Year: 2021

Source: Project Drawdown

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Education

Family Planning

Resilience

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Scaling Up Community Forest Enterprises in Tanzania

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Across the globe, locally controlled forestry is gaining momentum, increasingly recognised for improving environmental resource management and bringing socio-economic returns to local communities. In short: it works for both people and forests. Since the 1990s, Tanzania has pioneered locally controlled forestry (also known as African participatory forest management). Supported by donors and NGOs, the government has transferred management of more than 2.5 million hectares of forest and woodland to local communities, restoring forests and improving environmental services. But converting and scaling up this transfer of natural capital into long-term economic benefits for communities remains a challenge. We present three emerging sustainable community forest enterprises that have delivered important social, economic and conservation benefits, and explore options for scaling up these approaches across Tanzania and elsewhere.

Year: 2019

Source: International Institute for Environment and Development

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    Economic Development

    Environment

    Forests

    Integration

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    Research Brief: Assessing the Benefits of Integrating Family Planning and Environmental Management Activities – Lessons Learned from the Philippines

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    This brief summarizes a study conducted in the Philippines by Pollnac and Dacanay in 2011, which assessed the benefits of the Integrated Population and Coastal Resource Management (IPOPCORM) project, an integrated population and environment (PE) project implemented by PATH Foundation Philippines Inc.(PFPI) in the Visayan region of the Philippines. In light of the growing interest in evidence to support the position that integrated projects create synergies and add value, the “Building Actors and Leaders for Advancing Community Excellence in Development” (BALANCED) Project conducted research that tested this hypothesis. The study investigated what factors contributed most towards attaining benefits from an integrated PE approach. The authors found that the level of participation was a key determinant of benefits. Other significant factors in determining the degree of benefits included type of nongovernmental organization activities, context factors inherent to a community (e.g., population size and density), and individual characteristics of those who participated in the project.

    Year: 2011

    Source: The BALANCED Project

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      Community Outreach

      Integration

      Project Design

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      Population, Health, and Environment Conference: Healthy Families, Healthy Environment

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      This Population Reference Bureau (PRB) brief from the second international Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) Conference, held in Addis Ababa Ethiopia in November 2007, shares key conference outcomes on implementation best practices; monitoring and evaluation; networking, advocacy, and media communication; and expanding and institutionalizing PHE interventions. The brief outlines needs, priorities, and ways that PHE implementers and advocates can capitalize on the conference to increase interest in and support of PHE integration.The PHE community came together to share experiences, coordinate efforts, and develop strategies to extend the integrated approach to new rural and remote communities.

      Year: 2014

      Source: Population Reference Bureau

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        Advocacy

        Environment

        Integration

        Monitoring & Evaluation

        Population

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        Population Dynamics, Environment and Sustainable Development in Siaya County

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        Siaya County in Kenya’s Lake Victoria Basin is characterized by a rapidly growing population, high population density, water scarcity, falling food and fisheries production, and environmental degradation. The combined effects of climate change and rapid population growth are increasing food insecurity, environmental degradation, and poverty levels in the county. Siaya County’s Integrated Development Plan (CIDP) identifies population dynamics, environmental degradation, and climate change as key development challenges. These issues need to be linked in county policies and programs to ensure that projects that address them are implemented jointly. Addressing population growth, environmental degradation, and climate change together should be a top priority if Siaya County is to achieve sustainable development. The county government, donors and program implementers should develop policies and implement programs that integrate population dynamics, environment/climate change, and development.

        Year: 2013

        Source: PAI

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          Advocacy

          Climate Change

          Economic Development

          Family Planning

          Institutionalization

          Integration

          Population

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