The term "governance" covers all the structures and processes aimed at making decisions for a collective entity. It plays a key role in all aspects of development. Women’s voices are consistently under-represented in governance bodies, whether they are public, such as local councils and land allocation committees, or private organisations, such as producer organisations and cooperatives.
In this presentation, researchers from the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) argue that good governance must involve the active participation of women in decision-making. But they found there is limited evidence of what works, and how, in promoting women’s voices across different sectors.
To identify the critical factors that enable local women to effectively participate in public and private governance, the researchers studied projects tackling land rights, climate finance and sustainable markets in three African countries: Tanzania, Ghana and Senegal.
The presenters are law, gender and development specialist Philippine Sutz, an associate in IIED's Natural Resources research group; Emilie Beauchamp, senior researcher in IIED's Strategy and Learning Group; and Anna Bolin, senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group.
Community empowerment for rural developement sameera thilakarathnaSameera Thilakarathna
This document discusses community empowerment for rural development. It defines community empowerment as a process that enables communities to gain greater control over decisions that affect their lives. The key aspects of community empowerment are making communities confident, inclusive, organized, cooperative and influential. Community empowerment encourages active community participation in identifying problems and solutions. It builds on local strengths and resources to ensure sustainability. Some challenges to community empowerment include lack of community participation in decision making and resistance to change. Examples of community empowerment projects in Sri Lanka include rural agricultural development programs and village uplifting programs focused on road development, drug prevention, and milk production.
SustaiN 2013 presentation (Afghanistan/community based development)Yoshiko Ogawa
This document discusses community-based development approaches in Afghanistan. It provides two case studies of projects implemented using the People's Process methodology in Afghanistan.
The first case study describes a community upgrading project in an informal settlement in Jalalabad that strengthened local governance and improved infrastructure over time as trust developed between social organizers and the community. The second case study outlines a road project involving five rural communities that initially stalled due to tensions between two of the communities, but was able to proceed after social organizers facilitated reconciliation discussions. The document emphasizes the importance of social organizers developing trust and understanding community dynamics to effectively facilitate participatory processes.
This document summarizes a training program developed by IWMI to improve community engagement in small-scale irrigation projects. The training aims to address issues like lack of community participation in decision making and poor integration of local knowledge that had led to technical failures and unsustainable water user groups. The 5-day training uses experiential and appreciative approaches, and involves project staff directly interacting with communities. Key activities include using PRA methods, case studies, system walks, interviews and having trainees participate in project planning, analysis and design with the community. The training aims to not just build skills but also make project staff work together and view irrigation systems as complex social-ecological systems.
Nagorik uddyog’s economic and social contributionAshraf Ahmed
Nagorik Uddyog (NU) is a Bangladeshi NGO established in 1995 to provide justice, promote women's rights, and increase human rights awareness. NU operates in 9 districts through various projects, including providing legal aid, empowering women leaders, strengthening local governments, and advocating for rights to information. However, NU's annual reports lack financial transparency and accountability. With a focus on underserved areas and improvement in reporting, NU can better achieve its social and economic goals.
This document discusses concepts related to community involvement and empowerment. It provides definitions of community engagement from different sources, highlighting both top-down and balanced approaches. It notes that community engagement assumes communities are agreed on their needs and can communicate them rationally, which may not always be the case. Effective community governance principles include recognizing contributions from public, private and voluntary organizations. Critical thinking is important for community practice to avoid simplistic assumptions about communities.
The project aims to improve food security, income, and natural resource management for local communities through participatory development approaches. It targets 320,000 households in rural areas of Karak and Tafila governorates. Community participation is a core principle, with local committees involved in planning, implementing, and monitoring community action plans and annual work plans over three-year cycles. The project finances infrastructure and agricultural activities through these participatory processes to empower disadvantaged community members and strengthen local institutions.
Community participation(Prepared by sanjog Macwan)sanjog macwan
The document discusses the importance of community participation for building empowered communities. It states that communities with high participation rates receive more funding than those with less involvement. It emphasizes that participation should be welcoming, provide meaningful roles for all citizens, actively engage diverse groups, publicize opportunities, and respect all ideas. Participating communities operate openly, with many people and groups involved in decision-making. They succeed more than those just paying lip service to participation.
This document discusses participation in development. It defines participation as people's involvement in decision-making, program implementation, and benefits, as well as their role in evaluation. There are two main types of participation: instrumental participation focuses on project outcomes and sustainability, while transformative participation empowers communities to take independent action to improve their situation. The document also examines conceptual contexts around development, inclusion and exclusion, and criteria for classifying different levels of participation, from passive to self-mobilization. It explores how participation and citizenship are linked, with citizenship participation based on extending participation rights.
Community empowerment for rural developement sameera thilakarathnaSameera Thilakarathna
This document discusses community empowerment for rural development. It defines community empowerment as a process that enables communities to gain greater control over decisions that affect their lives. The key aspects of community empowerment are making communities confident, inclusive, organized, cooperative and influential. Community empowerment encourages active community participation in identifying problems and solutions. It builds on local strengths and resources to ensure sustainability. Some challenges to community empowerment include lack of community participation in decision making and resistance to change. Examples of community empowerment projects in Sri Lanka include rural agricultural development programs and village uplifting programs focused on road development, drug prevention, and milk production.
SustaiN 2013 presentation (Afghanistan/community based development)Yoshiko Ogawa
This document discusses community-based development approaches in Afghanistan. It provides two case studies of projects implemented using the People's Process methodology in Afghanistan.
The first case study describes a community upgrading project in an informal settlement in Jalalabad that strengthened local governance and improved infrastructure over time as trust developed between social organizers and the community. The second case study outlines a road project involving five rural communities that initially stalled due to tensions between two of the communities, but was able to proceed after social organizers facilitated reconciliation discussions. The document emphasizes the importance of social organizers developing trust and understanding community dynamics to effectively facilitate participatory processes.
This document summarizes a training program developed by IWMI to improve community engagement in small-scale irrigation projects. The training aims to address issues like lack of community participation in decision making and poor integration of local knowledge that had led to technical failures and unsustainable water user groups. The 5-day training uses experiential and appreciative approaches, and involves project staff directly interacting with communities. Key activities include using PRA methods, case studies, system walks, interviews and having trainees participate in project planning, analysis and design with the community. The training aims to not just build skills but also make project staff work together and view irrigation systems as complex social-ecological systems.
Nagorik uddyog’s economic and social contributionAshraf Ahmed
Nagorik Uddyog (NU) is a Bangladeshi NGO established in 1995 to provide justice, promote women's rights, and increase human rights awareness. NU operates in 9 districts through various projects, including providing legal aid, empowering women leaders, strengthening local governments, and advocating for rights to information. However, NU's annual reports lack financial transparency and accountability. With a focus on underserved areas and improvement in reporting, NU can better achieve its social and economic goals.
This document discusses concepts related to community involvement and empowerment. It provides definitions of community engagement from different sources, highlighting both top-down and balanced approaches. It notes that community engagement assumes communities are agreed on their needs and can communicate them rationally, which may not always be the case. Effective community governance principles include recognizing contributions from public, private and voluntary organizations. Critical thinking is important for community practice to avoid simplistic assumptions about communities.
The project aims to improve food security, income, and natural resource management for local communities through participatory development approaches. It targets 320,000 households in rural areas of Karak and Tafila governorates. Community participation is a core principle, with local committees involved in planning, implementing, and monitoring community action plans and annual work plans over three-year cycles. The project finances infrastructure and agricultural activities through these participatory processes to empower disadvantaged community members and strengthen local institutions.
Community participation(Prepared by sanjog Macwan)sanjog macwan
The document discusses the importance of community participation for building empowered communities. It states that communities with high participation rates receive more funding than those with less involvement. It emphasizes that participation should be welcoming, provide meaningful roles for all citizens, actively engage diverse groups, publicize opportunities, and respect all ideas. Participating communities operate openly, with many people and groups involved in decision-making. They succeed more than those just paying lip service to participation.
This document discusses participation in development. It defines participation as people's involvement in decision-making, program implementation, and benefits, as well as their role in evaluation. There are two main types of participation: instrumental participation focuses on project outcomes and sustainability, while transformative participation empowers communities to take independent action to improve their situation. The document also examines conceptual contexts around development, inclusion and exclusion, and criteria for classifying different levels of participation, from passive to self-mobilization. It explores how participation and citizenship are linked, with citizenship participation based on extending participation rights.
Community participation involves community members taking responsibility for their own health and development by being actively involved in planning, operating, and controlling health programs. It is a voluntary and ongoing process where community members share control over initiatives and resources. There are various degrees of participation from token involvement to full cooperation between community members and outsiders. Barriers to participation include lack of access to services, dependence on authorities rather than self-reliance, and resistance to empowering communities.
Community participation is defined as a process where a community takes responsibility for its own development by initiating and mobilizing its own resources. It aims to develop self-reliance, critical awareness, and problem-solving skills among community members. There are different types of participation ranging from passive to active involvement. Active participation involves carrying out tasks but not decision-making, while involvement entails participation in all aspects including planning, implementation, and evaluation. Factors like education, infrastructure, economic status, and leadership influence the degree of community participation.
The Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) was launched by the Government of Pakistan in 1972 based on the model of the successful Shadab Pilot Project. The IRDP aimed to improve the socio-economic status of small and medium farmers through increased agricultural productivity, diversification, commercialization, and development of infrastructure and institutions. Key aspects of the IRDP included technical guidance and supervised credit provided by development agents, and the formation of farmers' cooperatives. The basic operational unit was the "Markaz", managed by a Project Manager and small team. The IRDP sought to establish local government and cooperative organizations to meet economic and development needs. However, evaluations found it conferred most benefits on middle and upper classes and did not
This document discusses community participation and defines key terms. It describes a community as a set of people living together with common interests, values, beliefs, etc. Participation is defined as having a share or taking part. Community participation involves shaping planning, mobilizing and training community members, implementing programs, and evaluating and monitoring outcomes. Barriers to participation include physical limits, cultural restrictions, language barriers, misunderstandings, and time constraints. Maximizing community involvement is important for developing self-reliance, critical awareness, and problem-solving skills.
A process by which a community mobilizes its resources, initiates and takes responsibility for its own development activities and share in decision making for and implementation of all other development programmes for the overall improvement of its health status.
AIMS OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
The community develops self-reliance
The community develops critical awareness
The community develops problem solving skills
TYPES OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
Passive – (Manipulation)
Active – (consultation)
Involvement – (Community control)
ANIS2013_Social Innovation Led by Technology_Aloysius Suratin, Zarniel Wolekangoinnovation
1) The document discusses a program called ASMARA DIGITAL created by Oxfam Indonesia that uses mobile phones to facilitate communication between women in remote villages and decision makers.
2) Through ASMARA DIGITAL, 92 messages from women were received by a district chief secretary in one hour, allowing women's voices and priorities to be directly heard.
3) The network created by ASMARA DIGITAL also enabled women to discuss important issues like access to fertilizers, flooding, and pest attacks, and helped promote environmentally friendly farming techniques.
PDF CEE 2019 - Andreea Maier - Strategic Planning for Disadvantaged CommunitiesFundacja ePaństwo
This document discusses inclusive strategic planning for disadvantaged communities. It outlines the benefits of involving community members in the planning process, such as finding the best solutions to local issues and building trust. The key aspects of inclusive planning covered are getting to know the community through questionnaires and social workers, facilitating public debates on priorities, and ensuring representation of different groups. An example is provided of a project that involved 400 community members through questionnaires, debates and activities to improve the lives of 1500 people in two neighborhoods.
The document discusses building partnerships between government and communities. It outlines different types of community engagement like citizen participation and empowerment. It provides examples of how governments can support communities through initiatives like matching funds for neighborhood projects. The document advocates for governments to move away from top-down approaches and focus on empowering communities to determine their own priorities. It also discusses challenges facing communities and the potential for partnerships to help address issues like social isolation.
This document discusses various sustainable development projects undertaken by TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute). It provides details of TERI's Eco-City project in Navi Mumbai which aims to reduce the city's carbon emissions. It also describes programs providing electricity access in rural areas through biomass gasification and solar micro-grids. Another initiative discussed is a nutri-garden pilot project in Maharashtra to address malnutrition. The document summarizes TERI's work on sustainable development affecting communities through principles like ESG, and highlights some of its key people like RK Pachauri.
The document summarizes two programs that used community participation to strengthen health systems responsiveness in Liberia and Guatemala. In Liberia, maternity waiting homes were established with input from communities and traditional midwives. This increased skilled birth attendance. In Guatemala, a census approach and casa maternas (maternity homes) were used. Community priorities helped define the program, and findings showed increased knowledge of pregnancy dangers and facility births. Both programs demonstrated how community collaboration can effectively strengthen rural health services.
Community mobilization workshop slides for sharing day 1SM Lalon
The document outlines an agenda for a two-day workshop on community mobilization, including sessions that define community and why mobilization is important, describe the role of community mobilizers, and discuss involving stakeholders, identifying deprived groups, and degrees of community participation from compliance to collective action. Participants will learn about defining community mobilization, assessing community participation levels, and the benefits of mobilizing communities for health projects.
Community Participation in the Tourism Development ProcessCevat Tosun
This document summarizes a study examining the expected nature of community participation in tourism development by different interest groups in Ürgüp, Cappadocia, Turkey. The study found that local people strongly supported spontaneous participation, while local bodies and central bodies supported more coercive or induced participation that maintains existing power structures. The private sector also supported less community participation. This reveals tensions between interest groups over how much control the local community should have in tourism development planning and decision making. More research is still needed to develop effective models for meaningful community participation.
The document discusses community participation in tourism projects. It defines community participation as involving local people in solving their own problems through projects, while allowing them to decide what impacts their lives. Community participation means shared responsibilities between local governments and citizens. It is important at all stages of a project from needs assessment to monitoring. Benefits include motivating community cooperation, developing skills, and providing income. Risks include some benefiting more than others and loss of culture to tourism. For the environment and tourism to benefit, natural resources must be sustainably used and communities must understand how they benefit from tourism. Excluding communities risks conflicts, resource restrictions, and tourists not receiving true cultural experiences.
Local solutions to strengthen women’s voices in land governanceIIED
This webinar summarized lessons from implementing locally-negotiated solutions to increase women's participation in local land decision-making processes in Ghana, Tanzania, and Senegal. Presenters from each country discussed their approaches: in Tanzania, supporting adoption of gender-sensitive village by-laws; in Ghana, strengthening community land committees and developing tenancy agreements; and in Senegal, including women on land commissions. Key lessons included the importance of inclusive, consensus-building processes and addressing both legal and social barriers to strengthen women's voices in land governance.
Innovation Plan: Bridging the gap to linking networks. BangladeshPROCASUR Corporation
Learning Route on women’s empowerment, business development and sustainable natural resource management.
Scaling-up programmes for the rural poor in Nepal. 6 to 13 December, 2014. IFAD & PROCASUR.
More contents at: http://asia.procasur.org/portfolio_item/nepal-learning-route/
Presentation - Using Innovations and Partnerships in Digital Technologies to ...CORE Group
Elizabeth, a community leader in Bafie district, Cameroon, works to raise awareness on family planning methods. The photo was taken by Alain Ngann for HRH2030 and Chemonics International in 2018. The document discusses a meeting on using digital technologies and partnerships to strengthen humanitarian response that took place on May 8, 2019 from 3:30pm to 5:00pm. It includes hashtags about global health, innovations for health, and partnerships for health.
Participatory development seeks to engage local populations in development projects to strengthen their influence over decisions and resources. It empowers groups to negotiate with institutions, improves efficiency and sustainability of programs, and checks government power. Effective participatory development requires identifying stakeholders like community groups, governments, NGOs and donors, and incorporating their input at all stages through methods ranging from information sharing to shared control. Examples from Philippines projects demonstrate how participatory planning at village, municipal and provincial levels built social capital and empowered communities.
The document summarizes the founding and objectives of an organization called Mahila Vikas Ashram. It was founded by people who believed in gender equality, with a vision of empowering women and children to build a better society. The organization works for the total empowerment of women through promoting their rights. Some of its activities include mainstreaming an marginalized community called Kanjars, securing land rights for families, conducting rights-based activities, forming self-help groups for women, and working on issues like the environment, disaster relief, and increasing social harmony. It aims to involve more marginalized women and communities in its work through training and capacity building efforts.
Gender-responsive stakeholder engagement and meaningful participation | Na-Hy...NAP Global Network
Presentation by Na-Hyeon Shin, GIZ, as part of the webinar "Gender-Responsive NAP Processes" in March 2018. You can watch a recording of this webinar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY9J7zhCdoY
Ensuring Citizen-led Accountability of the Sustainable Development Goals.Humentum
Community members stand to gain or lose the most from SDG's, but do they have the tools to be active participants in the process? Hear practical examples of how others have empowered citizens to raise their voices concerning SDGs and accountability. Walk away with insights, methods, and tools including exposure to an online tool sharing platform available to all.
Community participation involves community members taking responsibility for their own health and development by being actively involved in planning, operating, and controlling health programs. It is a voluntary and ongoing process where community members share control over initiatives and resources. There are various degrees of participation from token involvement to full cooperation between community members and outsiders. Barriers to participation include lack of access to services, dependence on authorities rather than self-reliance, and resistance to empowering communities.
Community participation is defined as a process where a community takes responsibility for its own development by initiating and mobilizing its own resources. It aims to develop self-reliance, critical awareness, and problem-solving skills among community members. There are different types of participation ranging from passive to active involvement. Active participation involves carrying out tasks but not decision-making, while involvement entails participation in all aspects including planning, implementation, and evaluation. Factors like education, infrastructure, economic status, and leadership influence the degree of community participation.
The Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) was launched by the Government of Pakistan in 1972 based on the model of the successful Shadab Pilot Project. The IRDP aimed to improve the socio-economic status of small and medium farmers through increased agricultural productivity, diversification, commercialization, and development of infrastructure and institutions. Key aspects of the IRDP included technical guidance and supervised credit provided by development agents, and the formation of farmers' cooperatives. The basic operational unit was the "Markaz", managed by a Project Manager and small team. The IRDP sought to establish local government and cooperative organizations to meet economic and development needs. However, evaluations found it conferred most benefits on middle and upper classes and did not
This document discusses community participation and defines key terms. It describes a community as a set of people living together with common interests, values, beliefs, etc. Participation is defined as having a share or taking part. Community participation involves shaping planning, mobilizing and training community members, implementing programs, and evaluating and monitoring outcomes. Barriers to participation include physical limits, cultural restrictions, language barriers, misunderstandings, and time constraints. Maximizing community involvement is important for developing self-reliance, critical awareness, and problem-solving skills.
A process by which a community mobilizes its resources, initiates and takes responsibility for its own development activities and share in decision making for and implementation of all other development programmes for the overall improvement of its health status.
AIMS OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
The community develops self-reliance
The community develops critical awareness
The community develops problem solving skills
TYPES OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
Passive – (Manipulation)
Active – (consultation)
Involvement – (Community control)
ANIS2013_Social Innovation Led by Technology_Aloysius Suratin, Zarniel Wolekangoinnovation
1) The document discusses a program called ASMARA DIGITAL created by Oxfam Indonesia that uses mobile phones to facilitate communication between women in remote villages and decision makers.
2) Through ASMARA DIGITAL, 92 messages from women were received by a district chief secretary in one hour, allowing women's voices and priorities to be directly heard.
3) The network created by ASMARA DIGITAL also enabled women to discuss important issues like access to fertilizers, flooding, and pest attacks, and helped promote environmentally friendly farming techniques.
PDF CEE 2019 - Andreea Maier - Strategic Planning for Disadvantaged CommunitiesFundacja ePaństwo
This document discusses inclusive strategic planning for disadvantaged communities. It outlines the benefits of involving community members in the planning process, such as finding the best solutions to local issues and building trust. The key aspects of inclusive planning covered are getting to know the community through questionnaires and social workers, facilitating public debates on priorities, and ensuring representation of different groups. An example is provided of a project that involved 400 community members through questionnaires, debates and activities to improve the lives of 1500 people in two neighborhoods.
The document discusses building partnerships between government and communities. It outlines different types of community engagement like citizen participation and empowerment. It provides examples of how governments can support communities through initiatives like matching funds for neighborhood projects. The document advocates for governments to move away from top-down approaches and focus on empowering communities to determine their own priorities. It also discusses challenges facing communities and the potential for partnerships to help address issues like social isolation.
This document discusses various sustainable development projects undertaken by TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute). It provides details of TERI's Eco-City project in Navi Mumbai which aims to reduce the city's carbon emissions. It also describes programs providing electricity access in rural areas through biomass gasification and solar micro-grids. Another initiative discussed is a nutri-garden pilot project in Maharashtra to address malnutrition. The document summarizes TERI's work on sustainable development affecting communities through principles like ESG, and highlights some of its key people like RK Pachauri.
The document summarizes two programs that used community participation to strengthen health systems responsiveness in Liberia and Guatemala. In Liberia, maternity waiting homes were established with input from communities and traditional midwives. This increased skilled birth attendance. In Guatemala, a census approach and casa maternas (maternity homes) were used. Community priorities helped define the program, and findings showed increased knowledge of pregnancy dangers and facility births. Both programs demonstrated how community collaboration can effectively strengthen rural health services.
Community mobilization workshop slides for sharing day 1SM Lalon
The document outlines an agenda for a two-day workshop on community mobilization, including sessions that define community and why mobilization is important, describe the role of community mobilizers, and discuss involving stakeholders, identifying deprived groups, and degrees of community participation from compliance to collective action. Participants will learn about defining community mobilization, assessing community participation levels, and the benefits of mobilizing communities for health projects.
Community Participation in the Tourism Development ProcessCevat Tosun
This document summarizes a study examining the expected nature of community participation in tourism development by different interest groups in Ürgüp, Cappadocia, Turkey. The study found that local people strongly supported spontaneous participation, while local bodies and central bodies supported more coercive or induced participation that maintains existing power structures. The private sector also supported less community participation. This reveals tensions between interest groups over how much control the local community should have in tourism development planning and decision making. More research is still needed to develop effective models for meaningful community participation.
The document discusses community participation in tourism projects. It defines community participation as involving local people in solving their own problems through projects, while allowing them to decide what impacts their lives. Community participation means shared responsibilities between local governments and citizens. It is important at all stages of a project from needs assessment to monitoring. Benefits include motivating community cooperation, developing skills, and providing income. Risks include some benefiting more than others and loss of culture to tourism. For the environment and tourism to benefit, natural resources must be sustainably used and communities must understand how they benefit from tourism. Excluding communities risks conflicts, resource restrictions, and tourists not receiving true cultural experiences.
Local solutions to strengthen women’s voices in land governanceIIED
This webinar summarized lessons from implementing locally-negotiated solutions to increase women's participation in local land decision-making processes in Ghana, Tanzania, and Senegal. Presenters from each country discussed their approaches: in Tanzania, supporting adoption of gender-sensitive village by-laws; in Ghana, strengthening community land committees and developing tenancy agreements; and in Senegal, including women on land commissions. Key lessons included the importance of inclusive, consensus-building processes and addressing both legal and social barriers to strengthen women's voices in land governance.
Innovation Plan: Bridging the gap to linking networks. BangladeshPROCASUR Corporation
Learning Route on women’s empowerment, business development and sustainable natural resource management.
Scaling-up programmes for the rural poor in Nepal. 6 to 13 December, 2014. IFAD & PROCASUR.
More contents at: http://asia.procasur.org/portfolio_item/nepal-learning-route/
Presentation - Using Innovations and Partnerships in Digital Technologies to ...CORE Group
Elizabeth, a community leader in Bafie district, Cameroon, works to raise awareness on family planning methods. The photo was taken by Alain Ngann for HRH2030 and Chemonics International in 2018. The document discusses a meeting on using digital technologies and partnerships to strengthen humanitarian response that took place on May 8, 2019 from 3:30pm to 5:00pm. It includes hashtags about global health, innovations for health, and partnerships for health.
Participatory development seeks to engage local populations in development projects to strengthen their influence over decisions and resources. It empowers groups to negotiate with institutions, improves efficiency and sustainability of programs, and checks government power. Effective participatory development requires identifying stakeholders like community groups, governments, NGOs and donors, and incorporating their input at all stages through methods ranging from information sharing to shared control. Examples from Philippines projects demonstrate how participatory planning at village, municipal and provincial levels built social capital and empowered communities.
The document summarizes the founding and objectives of an organization called Mahila Vikas Ashram. It was founded by people who believed in gender equality, with a vision of empowering women and children to build a better society. The organization works for the total empowerment of women through promoting their rights. Some of its activities include mainstreaming an marginalized community called Kanjars, securing land rights for families, conducting rights-based activities, forming self-help groups for women, and working on issues like the environment, disaster relief, and increasing social harmony. It aims to involve more marginalized women and communities in its work through training and capacity building efforts.
Gender-responsive stakeholder engagement and meaningful participation | Na-Hy...NAP Global Network
Presentation by Na-Hyeon Shin, GIZ, as part of the webinar "Gender-Responsive NAP Processes" in March 2018. You can watch a recording of this webinar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY9J7zhCdoY
Ensuring Citizen-led Accountability of the Sustainable Development Goals.Humentum
Community members stand to gain or lose the most from SDG's, but do they have the tools to be active participants in the process? Hear practical examples of how others have empowered citizens to raise their voices concerning SDGs and accountability. Walk away with insights, methods, and tools including exposure to an online tool sharing platform available to all.
WiLDAF is a pan-African NGO established in 1990 to promote women's rights in Africa. It builds capacity and conducts legal literacy education to empower women. Since 2009, WiLDAF has worked with women farmers in West Africa to promote their economic, political, and social rights using law as a tool. Under two projects funded by the Netherlands, WiLDAF empowered communities and women farmers' organizations on women's rights, trained traditional leaders, and helped over 3,000 women gain access to decision-making structures, land, credit, inputs and technology.
The document summarizes the experiences of an intern at FOWODE during a 3-week internship. Some key points:
1) The intern attended a joint budget listening session with various civil society organizations and found it insightful to see how NGOs collaborate and discuss the Ugandan government's budget plans.
2) The intern visited FOWODE project sites and was impressed by the Village Budget Club program's efforts to empower communities and create sustainable change.
3) The intern gained valuable experience in non-profit work and a better understanding of Uganda's culture by interacting with FOWODE's dedicated staff.
The role of Non Governmental Organisations and Community based organisations has continued to evolve. What is the role of this third sector and how can the youth of today be a part of this key sector
Spiraling up and down: Mapping rural women’s empowerment in EthiopiaILRI
The document summarizes a study that used the Community Capitals Framework to examine how rural women in Ethiopia engaged in a UN program became empowered. It found that women's empowerment is a process involving changes in their control over various types of capital (social, human, financial, etc.). Empowerment can spiral up as increasing assets in one capital boosts other capitals, or spiral down if deficiencies in one capital limit growth in others. The study assessed changes in women's lives and control over decision making through qualitative interviews with participants in the UN program in two regions of Ethiopia. It found that strategically building social, human and financial capital can lead to empowerment, but this requires a holistic, integrated approach
SE_scoping_090215_lo_British Council PhilippinesJustine Ong
This document provides an overview of a study conducted on social enterprise activity in the Philippines. The study included a desk-based review of relevant literature, policies and plans, as well as interviews with 40 stakeholders across the social enterprise sector in Metro Manila, Cebu City and Davao City. The purpose was to map and assess the current social enterprise landscape in the country by identifying skills needs, barriers to growth, and challenges faced. Key findings and recommendations on developing the social enterprise sector in the Philippines are presented.
Presentation on Mapping rural women's empowerment in Ethiopia ckmtraining
Presented by Annet Mulema at the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research Second Annual Scientific Conference, ILRI, Addis Ababa, 25-28 September 2018
In the failure of the formal accountability channels, social accountability is slowly becoming an effective response to governance deficit. Understanding good governance is a prerequisite to understand social accountability. Social Accountability is an approach towards enforcing & building accountability that relies on civic engagement in which citizens participate directly or indirectly in demanding accountability from service providers and public officials.
Accountability is no longer between the state only and citizens. Non state, national and transnational actors are now, heavily involved in all stages of the production of public goods.
The influence of corporate interests in the provision of public goods and services, as well as the entry of several unregulated providers poses a big threat to accountability and inclusion.
The strategies below represent the practical ways in which CSOs have applied the notion of social accountability to the context and issues of concern to their members, constituents and beneficiaries.
Strategic Litigation
Participatory Budgeting
Mobilisation and Networking
Social Audit, Monitoring and Evaluation
Information Communication Technology
Participatory Planning and Decision-making
Consultations and Stakeholder Participation
Accountability Reporting/Investigative Journalism
Participatory Procurement and Financial Management
Social Accountability is a journey.
The work of social accountability is not a sprint but marathon.
Spiraling up and down: Mapping rural women's empowerment in EthiopiaCGIAR
This presentation was given by Annet Mulema (ILRI), as part of the Annual Gender Scientific Conference hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 25-27 September 2018 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and co-organized with KIT Royal Tropical Institute.
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-conference-2018/
The document provides information about the Social Mainstreaming for Gender Equality Organization (SMGEO) in Tanzania. SMGEO was established in 2015 to promote gender equality and empower women. It aims to raise awareness of health issues, preserve the environment, conduct research, and promote good agricultural practices. The organization has an office in Morogoro and is led by a chairperson and coordinator. SMGEO has implemented various projects focused on gender equality, good governance, and women's empowerment.
“Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.”
- Kofi Annan
From 2008-2013, Oxfam’s Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme worked to create more effective governance systems by ensuring that women’s voices influence decisions about
services, investments, policies and legal frameworks, from community, through to national and regional levels. To date, over one million marginalised women in 17 countries, including Armenia,are estimated to have benefited from increased activism, leading to increased voice and influence, more effective engagement with targeted decision makers and greater institutional accountability.
By Ermias Betemariam, Land Health Scientist, World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
Securing inclusive land restoration
From Research to Resilience
WLE webinar series
October 25, 2021
The Women on Farms Project aims to empower and strengthen farmwomen. Their mission is to claim their rights and help transform their communities. They work to ensure women are treated with dignity and have access to basic needs and services. They partner with various sectors to influence change. Their core activities include education, advocacy, research, and human rights work. They build women's organizations and structures to share experiences and initiate campaigns around land, labor, health, and empowerment. While they face challenges like economic hardship and deep-rooted social issues, their work has led to positive changes like women addressing issues independently and representing themselves and their needs in meetings with officials.
This document discusses solutions to empower and ensure the safety of women in India. It notes that India has high rates of crimes against women like rape and domestic violence. It proposes establishing a dedicated body that uses media and communication to change societal perceptions and empower women through entrepreneurship training. Key aspects of the solution include guiding women to define empowerment, covering initiatives by media, and building partnerships between corporations, NGOs, and government to fund skills development programs. The solution aims to increase safety awareness, promote gender equitable attitudes, and enhance women's confidence through various media campaigns and community initiatives. The impact would be measured based on improved perceptions of self-worth and empowerment among women. Challenges and mitigation strategies are also
Women paying the health cost of the climate crisisIIED
The impacts of climate change result in both economic and non-economic losses and damages. While economic impacts often receive attention through policy and programming, the non-economic losses remain largely invisible and unaddressed, particularly in climate finance.
The presentation by IIED principal researcher Ritu Bharadwaj, from an online event in March 2024, focuses on the loss and damage faced by women battling drought, debt bondage and migration in Beed, India.
The presentation examines how women are disproportionately affected by climate change, looking at the connections between climate-induced droughts and debt bondage, and significant impacts on women's physical and mental health – leading to drastic health decisions.
It introduces the innovative C-CIQ methodology, which is a comprehensive approach allowing for in-depth assessment of climate change impacts, encompassing not only physical and economic aspects but also the social, cultural and psychological wellbeing of individuals and communities.
The C-CIQ methodology, with its emphasis on simplicity, replicability and clarity, aims to provide a framework for quantifying non-economic loss and damage through composite indices, making it a valuable tool for practitioners and policymakers in diverse contexts.
More information: https://www.iied.org/women-paying-health-cost-climate-crisis
This report provides an overview of the International Institute for Environment and Development's carbon emissions for 2022/23, and details plans to reduce its impact across our operations.
Emphasising transparency and accountability, the report underscores IIED's dedication to creating a more sustainable and equitable world.
The report highlights ways IIED has changed to reduce its environmental impact and promote positive changes in social, financial and governance operations.
As an organisation IIED is committed to becoming a net-zero organisation, aligning with science-based targets and reflecting short- and long-term emission reduction targets, which will be monitored annually.
Summary presentation on the case study on approaches for supporting pastorali...IIED
This is a presentation of the report 'Case study on approaches for supporting pastoralists groups facing climate change effects in Tanzania'.
Published June 2015
Further information: https://www.iied.org/climate-learning-partnership
Cities for refugees: places of economic productivity, participation and wellb...IIED
This is a presentation by Lucy Earle, director of the Human Settlements research group at the International Institute for Environment and Development, showing results of research into protracted displacement in an urban world.
The presentation was given on 6 December 2022.
This presentation (in English and French) was delivered during an IIED webinar on Wednesday, 21 September, which discussed the topic of special economic zones and the broader questions they raise, particularly in Senegal and Madagascar.
This presentation was delivered by Mamy Rakotondrainibe, president of the collective for the Defense of Malagasy Land (TANY). TANY is a civil society organisation that fights against land grabs that affect citizens and farmers in Madagascar.
More information: https://www.iied.org/special-economic-zones-global-trends-issues-senegal-madagascar
Special economic zones in Senegal: characteristics, land ans socio-economic i...IIED
This presentation (in English and French) was delivered during an IIED webinar on Wednesday, 21 September, which discussed the topic of special economic zones and the broader questions they raise, particularly in Senegal and Madagascar.
This presentation was delivered by Dr Alpha Ba, lecturer and researcher at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Agriculture (ENSA), University of Thiès. Alpha holds a PhD in Sociology. As a consultant specialised in agricultural, land, gender and human rights issues, he has more than 15 years of experience and has accompanied many public organisations in Senegal, as well as NGOs and international institutions, in research and training sessions on those topics.
More information: https://www.iied.org/special-economic-zones-global-trends-issues-senegal-madagascar
Investment zones in Madagascar: characteristics and land implicationsIIED
This presentation (in English and French) was delivered during an IIED webinar on Wednesday, 21 September, which discussed the topic of special economic zones and the broader questions they raise, particularly in Senegal and Madagascar.
This presentation was delivered by Dr Perrine Burnod and Heriniaina Rakotomalala, respectively researcher at CIRAD; and land expert and PhD candidate at the Institut d’Agro from Montpellier and Antananarivo University.
More information: https://www.iied.org/special-economic-zones-global-trends-issues-senegal-madagascar
Special economic zones and land tenure: global trends and local impacts in Se...IIED
This presentation (in English and French) was delivered during an IIED webinar on Wednesday, 21 September, which discussed the topic of special economic zones and the broader questions they raise, particularly in Senegal and Madagascar.
This presentation is by Lorenzo Cotula, principal researcher and head of law, economies and justice programme in IIED's Natural Resources research group, and Thierry Berger, associate (law, economies and justice programme) in IIED's Natural Resources research group.
More information: https://www.iied.org/special-economic-zones-global-trends-issues-senegal-madagascar
Adaptability of peri-urban agricultural workers towards resilienceIIED
This case study highlights the way that women working in peri-urban agriculture in India have to adapt to changing circumstances in order to sustain themselves and their families.
It was produced by Siddharth Agarwal, Kanupriya Kothiwal, Shabnam Verma and Sampurna Kundu of the Urban Health Resource Centre, India.
Conclusions include agricultural work being one of the major forms of livelihood for peri-urban workers. Many peri-urban workers chose this form of work because they already had the skills from their native rural farms.
Women find agricultural work convenient because of its self-paced nature and because farms are mostly close to where they live. Food security is another benefit, as many women are able to procure vegetables and food grains from their farming work.
Peri-urban women workers are resilient, adapting to an ever-changing peri-urban ecosystem and often pursuing an additional livelihood in seasons when agricultural work is not available. Their strategy of forming links with more than one employer offering different forms of work is key to this resilience.
They are also preparing themselves for a future when farms will be sold to developers and builders, and express anxiety about the uncertainty of sustaining agriculture work in the future.
The adaptability and resilience shown by the workers can be tailored to other situations and promoted among vulnerable urban women workers.
More information: https://www.iied.org/resilience-through-flexibility-story-peri-urban-agricultural-workers-india
Stitching their trajectories with determination: stories from Indore, IndiaIIED
Many women in Indore work as informal home-based garment workers. This case study demonstrates their commitment to investing in equipment and learning new skills in order to contribute to the family income.
Behind closed doors lies a vast segment of largely invisible women and girls working in India’s flourishing garment industry.
Women working from home account for about 14% of urban employment in India. In low- and middle-income countries, outsourced garment production thrives on account of cheap labour to keep the levels of production high and costs low.
Through pursuing sewing, women can overcome the limitations of little or no education or formal training. Most women stitchers enhance their skills through experience. This helps them get regular and progressively higher paying piece-rate work.
More information: https://www.iied.org/stitching-determination-stories-women-garment-workers-indore-india
Improving strategy and uptake of cleaner cooking in Kitui, KenyaIIED
This presentation contains a brief overview of work to understand households’ cooking needs that can help improve the uptake of improved cooking devices and promote gender justice in the cooking space.
The presentation is by Enzo Leone, a researcher in the Shaping Sustainable Markets research group at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).
IIED is working with Caritas Kitui, Access to Energy Institute (A2EI), African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) and Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS).
More information: https://www.iied.org/tailored-cooking-solutions-close-gender-gap
Placing COVID-19 and the wildlife trade within the bigger pictureIIED
This presentation by EJ Milner-Gulland was delivered during the online event 'Why eat wild meat? Insights from Africa and lessons for COVID-19 responses' on Wednesday, 4 August.
The event explored why people eat wild meat and how to design interventions that can help improve sustainability and safety.
EJ Milner-Gulland is director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science at University of Oxford.
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on wild meat use and perception in communiti...IIED
The document summarizes a study on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on wild meat use and perceptions in communities near the Dja Faunal Reserve in Cameroon. The study found that the pandemic increased difficulties in accessing schools, income, travel, customers, work and food for many communities. It also found that wild meat consumption remained important despite Covid-19 risks. Most respondents disagreed with proposals to close wild meat markets due to livelihood dependencies and a lack of alternatives. The conclusion was that pandemic impacts on livelihoods seemed more concerning than health risks from wild meat, and findings could help policymaking support communities.
Drivers of wild meat consumption steph brittainIIED
Dr. Stephanie Brittain conducted research on the drivers of wild meat consumption in Cameroon through a literature review and fieldwork interviewing 542 people in four villages. Key findings included: 1) availability and affordability are primary drivers of wild meat consumption, while health benefits and culture are secondary; 2) consumption rates varied between villages and demographics; and 3) preferences for wild meat centered on taste and ease of access, while avoidance was due to taste, health, and tradition. The research provided insights into designing alternative food projects that consider local tastes, traditions, and access to markets and resources.
This presentation by Stephanie Brittain was delivered during the online event 'Why eat wild meat? Insights from Africa and lessons for COVID-19 responses' on Wednesday, 4 August.
The event explored why people eat wild meat and how to design interventions that can help improve sustainability and safety.
Stephanie Brittain is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford focusing on local knowledge and drivers of wild meat consumption in Cameroon.
Multifaceted approach to transition from emergency aid and rehabilitation to ...IIED
This document summarizes Friendship's approach to transitioning vulnerable communities from emergency aid to resilience and development. It uses a holistic approach involving community groups, local government, and NGOs. Interventions include capacity building, demonstrations, savings programs, and advocacy. Outcomes include infrastructure development, increased savings and assets, and more families accessing social programs. Challenges include low literacy rates and needing more advocacy meetings.
Sociétés Coopératives de cacao et Différentiel du revenu Décent : Leçons de l...IIED
This presentation was made by Pauline Zei at a webinar on Wednesday, 2 June that discussed the challenges around, and opportunities for, producer voice and agency in the design and implementation of the new Living Income Differential (LID) in Ghana and the Côte d'Ivoire.
The online event on 'Cocoa producer agency and the living income differential: lessons from civil society organisations' was organised by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).
Zei is director of Inades-Formation Cote d'Ivoire. She holds a degree in agronomy from the Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët Boigny in Yamoussoukro, specialising in crop protection. Inades-Formation is a network of pan-African associations that works for equitable and sustainable development in Africa.
This was the seventh in a series of events organised under the IIED-led Empowering Producers in Commercial Agriculture (EPIC) project.
EPIC is funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office through its Commercial Agriculture for Smallholders and Agribusiness (CASA) programme, though the views expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the UK government. CASA seeks to increase economic opportunities for smallholders by demonstrating the commercial viability of businesses with significant smallholder supply chains and attracting more investment into the sector.
More details: https://www.iied.org/cocoa-producer-agency-living-income-differential-lessons-civil-society-organisations
Innovating to improve the ownership, sustainability and multi-actor nature of...IIED
This presentation by Stephen Bright Sakwa, of Tree Adoption Uganda, features the 'Waste management for flood control' project which is being implemented in Bwaise, an urban slum in Kampala, Uganda.
It focuses on tackling floods and creating livelihoods in informal settlements. It showcases how the community has been trained to manage waste appropriately and make valuable products out of it so that it doesn't end up in drainage channels to cause floods that devastates the community.
This presentation features as part of the Marketplace area of the 15th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation (CBA15). The event takes place online from 14-18 June, 2021.
More details: https://cba15.iied.org/atrium
This is a presentation from the final event of an online learning series for the East African Community region on communities combating illegal wildlife trade.
The event discussed the future of the ‘Local communities: First Line of Defence against Illegal Wildlife Trade (FLoD)’ methodology, which aims to support designers and implementers of anti-poaching and anti-wildlife trafficking strategies and projects to effectively engage local communities as partners.
The events are organised by IUCN, together with the International Institute for Environment and Development and IUCN CEESP/SSC Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group. They are supported by USAID Kenya and East Africa through the Conserving Natural Capital and Enhancing Collaborative Management of Transboundary Resources (CONNECT) project, and will supplement the comprehensive training course on FLoD, which is currently under development with support from the BIOPAMA programme, supported by the European Union and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States.
More information: https://www.iucn.org/regions/eastern-and-southern-africa/our-work/conservation-areas-and-species/local-communities-first-line-defence-against-illegal-wildlife-trade-flod
Organisational innovations that make community forestry prosperousIIED
This is a presentation by Duncan MacQueen, principal researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), about the importance of including smallholder producers and producer organisations in sustainable value chains to strengthen local resilience to external shocks.
Macqueen used the example of his work with the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) program at the FTA Science Conference 2020. The presentation focuses on the role of commercial organisation around accountable finance systems at four tiered levels: local producer groups, regional aggregators and processors, national advocacy federations, international alliances.
More details: https://www.iied.org/locally-controlled-forestry
Epcon is One of the World's leading Manufacturing Companies.EpconLP
Epcon is One of the World's leading Manufacturing Companies. With over 4000 installations worldwide, EPCON has been pioneering new techniques since 1977 that have become industry standards now. Founded in 1977, Epcon has grown from a one-man operation to a global leader in developing and manufacturing innovative air pollution control technology and industrial heating equipment.
Evolving Lifecycles with High Resolution Site Characterization (HRSC) and 3-D...Joshua Orris
The incorporation of a 3DCSM and completion of HRSC provided a tool for enhanced, data-driven, decisions to support a change in remediation closure strategies. Currently, an approved pilot study has been obtained to shut-down the remediation systems (ISCO, P&T) and conduct a hydraulic study under non-pumping conditions. A separate micro-biological bench scale treatability study was competed that yielded positive results for an emerging innovative technology. As a result, a field pilot study has commenced with results expected in nine-twelve months. With the results of the hydraulic study, field pilot studies and an updated risk assessment leading site monitoring optimization cost lifecycle savings upwards of $15MM towards an alternatively evolved best available technology remediation closure strategy.
Microbial characterisation and identification, and potability of River Kuywa ...Open Access Research Paper
Water contamination is one of the major causes of water borne diseases worldwide. In Kenya, approximately 43% of people lack access to potable water due to human contamination. River Kuywa water is currently experiencing contamination due to human activities. Its water is widely used for domestic, agricultural, industrial and recreational purposes. This study aimed at characterizing bacteria and fungi in river Kuywa water. Water samples were randomly collected from four sites of the river: site A (Matisi), site B (Ngwelo), site C (Nzoia water pump) and site D (Chalicha), during the dry season (January-March 2018) and wet season (April-July 2018) and were transported to Maseno University Microbiology and plant pathology laboratory for analysis. The characterization and identification of bacteria and fungi were carried out using standard microbiological techniques. Nine bacterial genera and three fungi were identified from Kuywa river water. Clostridium spp., Staphylococcus spp., Enterobacter spp., Streptococcus spp., E. coli, Klebsiella spp., Shigella spp., Proteus spp. and Salmonella spp. Fungi were Fusarium oxysporum, Aspergillus flavus complex and Penicillium species. Wet season recorded highest bacterial and fungal counts (6.61-7.66 and 3.83-6.75cfu/ml) respectively. The results indicated that the river Kuywa water is polluted and therefore unsafe for human consumption before treatment. It is therefore recommended that the communities to ensure that they boil water especially for drinking.
Kinetic studies on malachite green dye adsorption from aqueous solutions by A...Open Access Research Paper
Water polluted by dyestuffs compounds is a global threat to health and the environment; accordingly, we prepared a green novel sorbent chemical and Physical system from an algae, chitosan and chitosan nanoparticle and impregnated with algae with chitosan nanocomposite for the sorption of Malachite green dye from water. The algae with chitosan nanocomposite by a simple method and used as a recyclable and effective adsorbent for the removal of malachite green dye from aqueous solutions. Algae, chitosan, chitosan nanoparticle and algae with chitosan nanocomposite were characterized using different physicochemical methods. The functional groups and chemical compounds found in algae, chitosan, chitosan algae, chitosan nanoparticle, and chitosan nanoparticle with algae were identified using FTIR, SEM, and TGADTA/DTG techniques. The optimal adsorption conditions, different dosages, pH and Temperature the amount of algae with chitosan nanocomposite were determined. At optimized conditions and the batch equilibrium studies more than 99% of the dye was removed. The adsorption process data matched well kinetics showed that the reaction order for dye varied with pseudo-first order and pseudo-second order. Furthermore, the maximum adsorption capacity of the algae with chitosan nanocomposite toward malachite green dye reached as high as 15.5mg/g, respectively. Finally, multiple times reusing of algae with chitosan nanocomposite and removing dye from a real wastewater has made it a promising and attractive option for further practical applications.
Presented by The Global Peatlands Assessment: Mapping, Policy, and Action at GLF Peatlands 2024 - The Global Peatlands Assessment: Mapping, Policy, and Action
ENVIRONMENT~ Renewable Energy Sources and their future prospects.tiwarimanvi3129
This presentation is for us to know that how our Environment need Attention for protection of our natural resources which are depleted day by day that's why we need to take time and shift our attention to renewable energy sources instead of non-renewable sources which are better and Eco-friendly for our environment. these renewable energy sources are so helpful for our planet and for every living organism which depends on environment.
Optimizing Post Remediation Groundwater Performance with Enhanced Microbiolog...Joshua Orris
Results of geophysics and pneumatic injection pilot tests during 2003 – 2007 yielded significant positive results for injection delivery design and contaminant mass treatment, resulting in permanent shut-down of an existing groundwater Pump & Treat system.
Accessible source areas were subsequently removed (2011) by soil excavation and treated with the placement of Emulsified Vegetable Oil EVO and zero-valent iron ZVI to accelerate treatment of impacted groundwater in overburden and weathered fractured bedrock. Post pilot test and post remediation groundwater monitoring has included analyses of CVOCs, organic fatty acids, dissolved gases and QuantArray® -Chlor to quantify key microorganisms (e.g., Dehalococcoides, Dehalobacter, etc.) and functional genes (e.g., vinyl chloride reductase, methane monooxygenase, etc.) to assess potential for reductive dechlorination and aerobic cometabolism of CVOCs.
In 2022, the first commercial application of MetaArray™ was performed at the site. MetaArray™ utilizes statistical analysis, such as principal component analysis and multivariate analysis to provide evidence that reductive dechlorination is active or even that it is slowing. This creates actionable data allowing users to save money by making important site management decisions earlier.
The results of the MetaArray™ analysis’ support vector machine (SVM) identified groundwater monitoring wells with a 80% confidence that were characterized as either Limited for Reductive Decholorination or had a High Reductive Reduction Dechlorination potential. The results of MetaArray™ will be used to further optimize the site’s post remediation monitoring program for monitored natural attenuation.
Improving the viability of probiotics by encapsulation methods for developmen...Open Access Research Paper
The popularity of functional foods among scientists and common people has been increasing day by day. Awareness and modernization make the consumer think better regarding food and nutrition. Now a day’s individual knows very well about the relation between food consumption and disease prevalence. Humans have a diversity of microbes in the gut that together form the gut microflora. Probiotics are the health-promoting live microbial cells improve host health through gut and brain connection and fighting against harmful bacteria. Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus are the two bacterial genera which are considered to be probiotic. These good bacteria are facing challenges of viability. There are so many factors such as sensitivity to heat, pH, acidity, osmotic effect, mechanical shear, chemical components, freezing and storage time as well which affects the viability of probiotics in the dairy food matrix as well as in the gut. Multiple efforts have been done in the past and ongoing in present for these beneficial microbial population stability until their destination in the gut. One of a useful technique known as microencapsulation makes the probiotic effective in the diversified conditions and maintain these microbe’s community to the optimum level for achieving targeted benefits. Dairy products are found to be an ideal vehicle for probiotic incorporation. It has been seen that the encapsulated microbial cells show higher viability than the free cells in different processing and storage conditions as well as against bile salts in the gut. They make the food functional when incorporated, without affecting the product sensory characteristics.
Climate Change All over the World .pptxsairaanwer024
Climate change refers to significant and lasting changes in the average weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It encompasses both global warming driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. While climate change is a natural phenomenon, human activities, particularly since the Industrial Revolution, have accelerated its pace and intensity
2. Our vision
“We work together to strengthen people’s
voices in the decision-making arenas that affect
them — from village councils to international
conventions.”
--Andrew Norton, Director, IIED
3. Why do local
women’s voices
in private and
public
governance
matter?
Women in Senegal attending a forum on
women’s land rights (Photo: Copyright Philippine Sutz)
4. Philippine Sutz Emilie Beauchamp Anna Bolin / @IIED
• Voice /participation key for gender equality and women’s
empowerment;
• Local women’s voices underrepresented in public and private
governance;
• Need for better integration into projects, programming and
policies, but how?
• Limited evidence of what works, and how in promoting
women’s voices across sectors
• Decided to undertake a cross-sectoral analysis to identify in our
work factors that enable or constrain local women’s voices and
participation in public and private governance
4
5. Philippine Sutz Emilie Beauchamp Anna Bolin / @IIED
• Voice /participation key for gender equality and women’s
empowerment;
• Local women’s voices underrepresented in public and private
governance;
• Need for better integration into projects, programming and
policies, but how?
• Limited evidence of what works, and how, in promoting
women’s voices across sectors
• Decided to undertake a cross-sectoral analysis to identify in our
work factors that enable or constrain local women’s voices and
participation in public and private governance
5
6. Philippine Sutz Emilie Beauchamp Anna Bolin / @IIED
• Voice /participation key for gender equality and women’s
empowerment;
• Local women’s voices underrepresented in public and private
governance;
• Need for better integration into projects, programming and
policies, but how?
• Limited evidence of what works, and how in promoting
women’s voices across sectors
• Decided to undertake a cross-sectoral analysis to identify in our
work factors that enable or constrain local women’s voices and
participation in public and private governance
6
8. Philippine Sutz Emilie Beauchamp Anna Bolin / @IIED 8
Tanzania: bringing the law home through
village by-laws
Women discussing draft by-laws at the Women’s Forum in Msanga ward, Kisarawe district in Tanzania
(Photo: Copyright Kennedy Rwegarulila)
9. Philippine Sutz Emilie Beauchamp Anna Bolin / @IIED
TAWLA’s Approach
• supporting adoption of gender-
sensitive village by-laws
Participatory
community dialogue
Promoting local ownership
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Outcomes
• Implemented in 6 districts
• Women are more present and
vocal in village meetings
• Women have an increased
knowledge of their land rights
Approach and outcomes
10. Philippine Sutz Emilie Beauchamp Anna Bolin / @IIED
• Women’s quotas in national
legislation: an important
starting point
• Local rules: effective tool to
‘ensure that national
legislation is implemented
locally
10
• Having community members
in the driving seat is
paramount
• Collaboration with local
authorities also key
• Local rules that provide
community-wide benefits
contribute to local ownership
Lessons learnt
11. Philippine Sutz Emilie Beauchamp Anna Bolin / @IIED 11
Senegal: inclusion in local climate investment
decisions
Devolved Climate Finance
mechanism:
• Implemented over 284
community-prioritised
resilience investments in four
countries in the Sahel
• Core component of
mechanism is community-
centered planning
DCF investments in Senegal: a
rice cultivation project, a well, and
a school where toilets for girls were
constructed (Photo: Emilie
Beauchamp)
12. Philippine Sutz Emilie Beauchamp Anna Bolin / @IIED 12
Approach
• Social inclusion of
different social group
groups (including women)
is critical for sustainable
outcomes
Gender-positive actions:
• Community involvement
• Quotas in communal
decision committees
Soanes et al. 2019. https://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/G04424.pdf
13. Philippine Sutz Emilie Beauchamp Anna Bolin / @IIED
• Women’s priorities seen
reflected in the types,
locations, designs of
investments
• Although women’s priorities not
systematically integrated
• Women’s participation varied
highly between villages
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Outcomes
Women using DCF investments in Senegal: top – an irrigated
garden, bottom a well. (Photo: Daouda Cissé)
14. Philippine Sutz Emilie Beauchamp Anna Bolin / @IIED
• Gender lens and active
engagement of women
needed at all stages of
planning
• Engaging with “all relevant
groups” requires power
dynamics assessments
throughout project
14
• Education/skills and
social networks, and
recognition of women’s role
were key factor
• Participation occurred
across intersecting identities
& influenced by
intrahousehold dynamics
Lessons learnt and reflections
See papers:
Djohy. 2019. Social inclusion in the DCF mechanism in Senegal & Mali
Patnaik. 2021. Gender and participation […]: Evidence from the decentralized climate funds project in Se
16. Philippine Sutz Emilie Beauchamp Anna Bolin / @IIED
National Executive
Committee (NEC)
Forest Zone
Working Group
(BIT & Women’s coaches/
advocates/mentors)
National Working Group
Savanna Zone
Working Group
(BIT & Women’s coaches/
advocates/mentors)
Transition Zone
Working Group
(BIT & Women’s coaches/
advocates/mentors)
FFPO FFPO FFPO
FFPO FFPO FFPO FFPO FFPO FFPO
Producers
Producers
Producers
Producers
Producers
Producers
Producers
Producers
Producers
General Assembly
Business Incubation
Team (BIT) & Women
Champions Wing
Ghana Federation
of Forest and Farm
Producers
20. Philippine Sutz Emilie Beauchamp Anna Bolin / @IIED
• Women’s groups and
networks:
o amplify current voices
o support new voices
o create role models
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• Basic education & skills:
ability and confidence to
speak in public;
• Legal and technical
knowledge on relevant
issues (land, agriculture
etc..)
Individual & collective capabilities are both
needed…
21. Philippine Sutz Emilie Beauchamp Anna Bolin / @IIED
• Working horizontally & vertically –
not just a gender lens
• Work on short and long-term
pathways for critical mass
• Shifting social recognition of
women’s role
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… to build critical mass so voices are heard at
scale
Exchange visit and training of Nepalese women entrepreneurs to
the Self-Employed women’s Association in India (Photo : Amit Poudyal)
22. Philippine Sutz Emilie Beauchamp Anna Bolin / @IIED
New challenges:
• How gender intersects
with other identities
• Need new approaches
to address power
dynamics
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Challenges
Known challenges:
• Social norms
• Limited access to
resources
• Few examples of
leadership
• Project duration &
learning
23. Next steps?
Meeting of the Women’s economic group in Darou
Khoudoss, Senegal (Photo: Mamadou Fall)
Editor's Notes
Philippine: Together with Anna and Emilie, we are going to present some recent work that we have done to identify factors that enable women’s voices in decision making processes in public and private gov
Philippine
I would like to start the presentation with this quote from our director Andrew Norton which nicely sums up our work and highlights how voices + decision making are core to what IIED does
Although IIED’s reseach groups focus on specific and diverse issues - governance of NR / Climate Change/ Sustainable Markets; and making cities work for people and the planet – all our projects are characterised by a similar approach :
We work 'bottom up' to amplify marginalised voices
Philippine
Why did we decide to focus on local women’s voices in public and priv governance and why does it matter?
Women make half of the world’s population. They should be able to actively participate and express their preferences and views everywhere decisions are made. Women’s voices in private, economic and public life should be a key component for gender equality and women’s empowerment;
women’s participation in decision-making processes is a target under SDG 5 ; it was also the focus of the last session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).
In our work at the community level, we have noticed that local women’s voices are consistently underrepresented in governance bodies and processes. This relates to public gov - such as local councils and committees making decision on the use of NR - but also private governance bodies, like in the case of producer organisations and cooperatives.
Our work shows that decision-making bodies in sectors such as land, climate change, conservation or forest entrepreneurship are consistently dominated by men and that women’s needs and interests are rarely taken into account.
There are Projects and programmes focusing on women’s participation but they remain an exception. We believe that local women’s participation should be integrated much more systematically into programming
But how?
Active and effective participation is complex . It requires multiple factors.
limited evidence of what works to ensure that women’s voices are heard in decision-making across fields;
We have decided to review some of our work from various sectors to better identify factors that enable or constrain local women to participate in governance. We’re hoping that this will pave the way for a more integrated approach to women’s participation governance.
To that effect, we have selected 3 case studies from different areas of work which all had some level of focus on women’s participation in governance.
one is from our land governance work in Tanzania; the other from DCF in Senegal and the last one from work on forest and farm producer organisations in Ghana.
To that effect, we have selected 3 case studies from different areas of our work which all had some level of focus on women’s participation in governance.
one is from our land governance work in Tanzania; the other from DCF in Senegal and the last one from work on forest and farm producer organisations in Ghana.
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- First present the 3 case studies then present the factors that we have identified as enabling or constraining to local women’s participation in public and private governance and make programmatic recommendations
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In Tanzania - as in many other parts of Africa, land is a key but pressured resource– it is affected by a variety of factors including large scale land investments
When land given away to an investor – community can be negatively impacted - Women often more affected than men – including because they’re often not involved in DM processes
This is despite the fact that Tz has a progressive legal framework on participation in local government bodies – which provides for a minimum number of women to be members - however poorly implemented - women members often do not attend meetings for a variety of reasons
Pressures on land/ large-scale land acquisitions
Poor participation of women in decision-making processes on land despite progressive legal framework
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Our partner TAWLA developed an approach to strengthen local women’s participation in decision-making processes on land by ‘bring the law home’ – this is done through the adoption of gender-sensitive village bylaws–: subsidiary rules enacted locally – regulate local life including use of NR – social and cultural relations
Bylaws includes provisions on women’s participation
Rationale: when adopting their own rules – villagers will know and implement them better
The approach is participatory + it is based on extensive community dialogues and the promotion of local ownership
Since 2016 – TAWLA implemented approach in 6 district across 4 regions in Tanzania
A recent study in some of the villages where bylaws were adopted show that women were more present and vocal during meetings
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So what have we learnt from this process?
Quotas and legislation on women’s participation–per se are not enough but an important starting point. They provide a legal ground for supporting approaches to strengthen women’s voices; this allowed TAWLA to replicate their approach in an important number of villages
Local regulations such as bylaws: useful tool to ensure that national legislation – including on women’s participation – is implemented locally
From a process prospective/more programmatic prospective, we have also learnt that what made the approach successful :
-having community members in driving in seat + co leading the process
collaboration with local authorities is essential – TAWLA worked closely with district and village authorities
Local rules that provide community wide benefits contribute to local ownership – the fact that bylaws were also including other rules benefitting all community members was part of their success
Thanks Philippine for presenting the experiences from Tanzania.
I’m now going to share reflections from the Devolved Climate Finance, or DCF, mechanism piloted in Senegal.
In a nutshell, DCF is an approach to adaptation planning and financing, that puts communities at the heart of decisions for investing in local climate resilient projects or infrastructures. So a core component of the approach is engagement and involvement of communities.
To date, the DCF mechanism has been piloted in Kenya, Tanzania, Mali and Senegal and has channelled over £6 million of funding to create a total of 284 community-prioritised investments.
Today, we’re going to look at lessons from Senegal more specifically, based on a DCF pilot that took place from 2015 to 2019 through the DFID funded programme Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED).
The DCF approach works by devolving decision-making for investment in adaptation at the lower levels possible and directly include communities in the process.
Inclusion of different social groups is critical to make sure the investments will truly respond to needs of those most vulnerable, including women and girls.
Now I need to stress that DCF, unlike our two other examples, considers women’s participation on an equal step as other social groups – we used a gender lens, but this wasn’t targeted only or specifically to women.
That said, gender positive actions were implemented at different key stages of the project process,
for example to consult women and women’s groups separately when involving communities, and quotas were used to ensure a 50% representation of women in local and communal decision-making committees.
What this means is that there were different stages where women’s priorities specifically were channeled, integrated and prioritized.
This was reflected through decisions on the types of investments – for example one village’s decision to invest in building toilets for girls to be able to attend school; but also in the location and design of the investment.
This is especially the case for water investments, for which women got more involved and vocal in specifying where the well, pump or trough should be to truly respond to their needs, or how to design a trough so that both households and animals could use it safely.
However, women’s participation did vary a lot between villages – and women’s priorities were sometimes absent from investment decisions.
A clear factor explaining not only how many, but also how much women were actively participating was education and skills, and this could be formal education but also skills from working at a market, counting and writing. Women who had experiences being recognized in their professional lives were the ones taking the stage.
But even with education and skills, we saw that participation really occurred at intersecting identities – there were no villages where all educated women participated, or none. From interviews, we find that despite a women’s education and confidence to speak, if her husband or family doesn’t support it, then she likely won’t. That of course is not a new finding.
What we really learned though was that sporadic engagement – even if it’s done in a structure way – is simply not enough to make sure planning decisions reflect women’s priorities, for climate investments or any other issues.
And our very clear next steps the DCF project is to redress this gap and give women much more space, and time, to engage with the process.
In our final case study we will turn to Ghana. Here a federation of forest and farm producer organisations is strengthening women’s individual and collective agency through their enterprise.
This is part of IIED’s work with the Forest and Farm Facility, which is a partnership between the FAO, IIED, IUCN and Agricord. SIDA is a main donor of this 10-country programme and just over 60% of programme funding goes directly to producer organisations in the form of partner grants. Although gender equality is not a main focus, it is mainstreamed throughout and nearly 50% of in-country budgets now go directly to either women’s organisations or gender related activities.
The Ghana Federation of Forest and Farm Producers – GHAPPFAP –is a mixed-gender organisation that have carefully built a structure to ensure women voices and interests are heard and acted upon from the grassroots to the national level.
So how does this work in practice? GhaFFaP has set up a set of working groups at the national level and across the three ecological zones of Ghana, where members are based – these are the Forest-, the Transition – and the Savanna zones.
Within the national working group, a Women’s Champions Wing have been set up to coordinate the organization of roundtables, networking and targeted skills development for women members. Roundtable discussions feed into dialogue platforms, that on a regular basis are organized by the Federation at national and zonal levels to communicate with stakeholders form the government and private sector.
At a more hands-on level, the Women Champions wing coordinates activities with women advocates, coaches and business mentors at the zonal and local levels. They do trainings and coaching in various areas ranging from leadership to business development.
Collectively, these women champions have been put in place by GhaFFaP to ensure women’s interests are heard and that, at no point, women are lagging behind in the opportunities and benefits created through its work, which should equally benefit women and men producers.
From this organisational set up, GhaFFaP have been able to identify strategic priorities of particular concern to their women members.
One of them is the overexploitation and competition over the Shea and Baobab trees in the Savanna zone – this is creating all sorts of problems for women’s shea and baobab cooperatives in the region.
To improve the protection of these resources, GhaFFaP members are working with local traditional chiefs, law enforcement agencies, and charcoal producers to integrate local by-laws with national level legislation, but also to create market incentives for sustainably produced charcoal. This is on-going work but will allow for stronger law enforcement and protection locally.
Another identified priority was to support village savings and loans associations formalise into credit unions. These are common and most of the members are women. To their surprise GhaFFaP found that up to $ 300,000 a year is saved in these associations in one zone only and $ 4 million collectively across all members.
Not only is there a need to keep such amounts in a safer place than the village cash box, but also this amount of savings should open opportunities for something more. By formalising into credit unions, members are more likely to be able to leverage investment from other sources, which is desperately needed for them to grow their businesses.
What lessons can we draw from this so far?
The integration of dialogues at local and zonal level helped build a critical mass of women and bring attention to these issues from a landscape and broader socio-economic perspective. The economic and social implications of these enterprises failing will have broader consequences for entire communities and potentially regions.
In this way GhaFFaP have been able to move away from a tendency to treat issues as “women issues” but as common challenges that need a solution.
This is further reinforced by its ability to convene and create incentives for each of the key stakeholders to buy into a joint solution to the problem.
From these cases tudies, we have tried to identify factors enabling local women to actively participate and voice their concerns, needs and interests in public or private governance independently from the sector of focus.
Here we will review the factors we have identified so far.
The case studies show that a supportive environment starts with an enabling institutional and legislative framework:
We see the positive relationship between a heavily decentralised institutional framework with clear structures and bottom-up processes and women’s ability to influence decisions. Decentralised governance allow for rules to be created and adopted locally, be-it for a village assembly or another representative body such as a producer organisation, and they are more likely to generate community-wide benefits and ownership.
They also highlight the role a progressive laws, that promote gender-equality, or initiatives such as decentralised finance, that create space and target support to help women participate in decision-making processes. Within this context democratically governed members based institutions such as producer organisations, can also act as an important vehicle for change. Even if quotas or women’s intra-institutional committees and champions are not an end per se, they are a start.
At the community and household levels there are also some basic steps that can be taken to create a more supportive environment.
Women often have more constraints to attend meetings due to domestic work and childcare, or the need to get permission from their husbands. For this reason, it is good practice to ensure meetings are held at times that work for them and with forward warning so that childcare can be arranged.
Of course women should be able to attend meetings without a male relative’s consent. But because this can be quite sensitive, it is also important to engage men and community leaders in conversations on gender roles and division of labour to create support and reduce tensions.
Beyond a supportive environment, there are key ingredients needed to make participation occur and foster.
First, there is the question of building individual skills of women.
Across cases, we have found that skills and education play a huge role for women to participate in governance and decision processes.
Whether it can be more basic skills like reading/writing, counting and managing small stands or business, up to graduate education.
In short professional and personal individual experiences that give them confidence in speaking out
We also found that legal and technical knowledge can elevate a woman’s confidence: women need to know their rights but also have technical knowledge of the issues at stake whether this relate to farming, seeds, land but also how institutions work.
But individual skills alone are not enough:
Women’s group and networks are key in not only amplifying the voices of women who already participate, but also support the engagement of new members
- In short, networks give women support, agency, a common, amplified voice that is more likely to be heard, and role models for more participation.
So individual and collective efforts are both needed at the same time….
In order to build critical mass so voices are heard AT SCALE
Working horizontally & vertically is critical – as we’ve seen from the reach and influence of women in our Ghana case study.
The work of DCF in Senegal shows it: a gender lens is simply not enough.
- We need to work on women’s participation at devolved local levels, and at national policy level – and at every stage of the planning cycles
Women are 50% of the world’s population, It’s time to stop treating gender as an add-on… it just doesn’t work to truly get critical mass.
Doing this means focusing on both short and long-term pathways to get this critical mass.
Changes are not going to happen overnight – but small steps taken now really help
Bylaws and practical, power sensitive engagement can help immediately
But we should never forget to working on long-term pathways of change, such as women’s education, which is what will help shape future generations
Long-term pathways are needed to shifting social norms, and specifically get the recognition of women’s roles in society.
These social changes need time to seep in, down to intra-household dynamics
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Throughout this work we noted several known challenges…
This is very surprising, considering most projects still address gender work is still done in siloes… It is great that we see more project specifically targeting women, but again – it’s not enough.
Women, communities and societies won’t overcome these known challenges as long as we don’t start working in a more holistic way.
Now, a new challenge we have encountered if the question of how to work with intersectionality: or in other words, how to really engage with the different identities that women and girls have.
We know that women, people, don’t identify with just one social group... That said, we still engage and approach projects with very structured, delineated categories for social groups: we engage men, women, youth, elders, other marginalised groups… But what about educated girls from marginalised groups vs non marginalised groups? How different or similar are they in what they need to improve their participation?
We don’t have the answer now, but part of our next steps is to look into how to first identify differential experiences of participation first, and then structure project activities accordingly.
Here, better tools already exist and more application is needed (for example using power analyses that have ‘inductive’ and ‘deductive’ approaches at project inception – to avoid falling into classical categories – and the trap they represent.
These are initial findings and there is a need for more fine-grained and in-depth analysis in order to develop projects and programmes which address both the practical and structural constraints to women’s voices - context matters and there are no blanket solutions.
But as a starting with we would really like to see women’s participation in decision-making becoming a high priority on national and international agendas. This was the case at CSW last month but we need to keep the momentum. to develop ambitious programmes which promote better and gender-sensitive governance in all sectors
Governance and decisions making processes are everywhere – they are at the core of societies and communities and they shape the world of tomorrow.
Thank you