U PCLG - Where does it come from, what it is, how it is organised
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Short overview of U-PCLG's history, Alessandra Giuliani
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U PCLG - Where does it come from, what it is, how it is organised
- 1. Uganda PCLG: How did we get here? Alessandra Giuliani Kampala 10 July 2015 Author name Date Alessandra Giuliani Kampala 10 July 2015 Kampala, 10 July 2015 Uganda PCLG: How did we get here?
- 2. Uganda PCLG: How did we get here? Alessandra Giuliani Kampala 10 July 2015 So… • What is U-PCLG? • How did U-PCLG start? • How is U-PCLG organised?
- 3. Uganda PCLG: How did we get here? Alessandra Giuliani Kampala 10 July 2015 What is U-PCLG? Uganda Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (U-PCLG) is a learning network that brings together Ugandan conservationists and development practitioners to share their experiences and to work together to better inform development and conservation policy and practice.
- 4. Uganda PCLG: How did we get here? Alessandra Giuliani Kampala 10 July 2015 …but how did U-PCLG start?
- 5. Uganda PCLG: How did we get here? Alessandra Giuliani Kampala 10 July 2015 Poverty and Conservation Learning Group • An international network of conservation, development organisations concerned with the links between conservation and poverty • Established by IIED in 2005 • Collect and disseminate information on conservation- poverty linkages, undertake or support research on specific themes, organise targeted learning events • Latest phase (from 2008) funded by the Arcus Foundation which led to its focus on great apes
- 6. Uganda PCLG: How did we get here? Alessandra Giuliani Kampala 10 July 2015 http://povertyandconservation.info
- 7. Uganda PCLG: How did we get here? Alessandra Giuliani Kampala 10 July 2015
- 8. Uganda PCLG: How did we get here? Alessandra Giuliani Kampala 10 July 2015National PCLG groups • PCLG workshop in November 2010 held in Masindi, Uganda • Brought together conservation organisations from different African ape range states to share experience on what works (and what doesn’t) in linking conservation and poverty alleviation • Participants agreed that it would be useful to establish national chapters of the PCLG network • Uganda PCLG and Cameroon PCLG started in 2011, DRC PCLG in 2014 and currently discussing the opportunities for setting up a PCLG group in Rwanda • Second round of funding from Arcus foundation from 2013 to 2015
- 9. Uganda PCLG: How did we get here? Alessandra Giuliani Kampala 10 July 2015 How is U-PCLG organised? • U-PCLG is coordinated by the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) Uganda, with support from the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). • Funding from the Arcus Foundation • About 30 organisational members to date • Regular group meetings • Regular steering committee meetings • Website • Social media presence (twitter, Facebook)
- 10. Uganda PCLG: How did we get here? Alessandra Giuliani Kampala 10 July 2015 http://povertyandconservation.info/en/pages/uganda-pclg
Editor's Notes
- The Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG) is a network of organisations and individuals with a shared interest in integrated approaches to conservation and development. The heart of PCLG lies in the international network – currently made up of more than 100 organisations and 600 individuals - that has been running since 2004. Our core activities revolve around collecting, analysing and disseminating information on conservation-poverty linkages.
- In 2010 a PCLG workshop on linking ape conservation and poverty reduction took place in Masindi, Uganda. Around 30 participants from a variety of ape range states in Africa shared their experiences of engaging with communities in high biodiversity areas. Participants visited community enterprises and conservation programmes in the local area; There was a great degree of interest in establishing national level groups that could continue the learning process started at the Masindi workshop. A Uganda group was convened shortly after the workshop, hosted by the Jane Goodall Institute. The Group identified its own priorities and developed a workplan for the final year of the project. The activities of the Group focused on information sharing, awareness raising, mapping conservation and development actors and research on human wildlife conflict.
- PCLG Uganda The group is made of about 30 organisations. These include mainly civil society organisations (conservation and development NGOs) but also representative of UWA and universities. The group has been working together for four years now and have gradually grown stronger and stronger. They have developed their own identity (e.g. logo) and have started to gain recognition from the policy arena.