Reports
| A Preliminary Assessment of the Natural Resource Management Capacity of Community Based Organizations in Southern Africa | 508 hits |
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2005 (April) In an effort to gain some insight into the kind of interventions required to mitigate the threats to biodiversity conservation and at the same time maximising opportunities for rural poverty reduction, this report presents the results of a preliminary assessment of the natural resource management capacity of community based organizations in Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It illustrates the diversity of management challenges in the five southern African countries and considers the capacity building needs - in policy and legislation, use of decisions tools, and skills in negotiating relationships with other stakeholders. Full report >> |
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| A Scoping Assessment of Current Work on Payments for Ecosystem Services in Asia, Latin America, and East & Southern Africa | 551 hits |
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2006 (April) This research sumamry presents the findings of a scoping exercise — conducted between late April and mid-August 2005 — on the barriers to payments for ecosystem services (PES), capacity building needs, and current capacity building initiatives in Latin America, Asia, and East and Southern Africa. The findings are based on document reviews, internet research, and fifty-seven interviews, which represented a global sampling of NGO, government, and business people working on establishment of paments for ecosystem services. Four overall categories of capacity building needs include: 1. Assessing the appropriateness of applying the payments for ecosystem servies tool in a given context; 2. Undertaking and/or interpreting various ecological technical issues; 3. Administering and managing the scheme over time; 4. Payments for ecosystem services-related systems thinking. Full report >> |
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| Building capacity amongst Protected Area agency staff in East and Southern Africa: lessons learned from InWEnt’s Seminars on Sustainable Tourism | 504 hits |
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2003 (September) This paper disscusses building capacities for sustainable tourism in protected areas, drawing on Capacity Building International's (InWEnt's) experiences with a professional training programme in East and Southern Africa. The report asserts that there is a growing demand for capacity building in sustainable tourism for a variety of audiences - conservation and development agency staff; local communities; government agencies and the private sector - if the potential of tourism is to be used to generate income for protected areas and local communities and not to destroy the very attractions on which it depends. Full report >> |
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| Building Effective States, Forging Engaged Societies: Report of the World Bank Task Force on Capacity Development in Africa | 533 hits |
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2005 (September) This report of the analyzes four decades of capacity development experience in Africa and offers key messages for African countries and their international partners that should underpin a renewed effort to develop, use, and retain capacity for development in Sub Saharan Africa. Full report >> |
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| Competence Standards for Protected Area Jobs in South East Asia | 720 hits |
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2003 This book identifies two hundred and fifty different skills that are needed at different levels and at different times by protected area staff in the ASEAN region. The book also enumerates the knowledge levels and competence needed with each skill. This is the first time in ASEAN (and possibley anywhere in the developing world) that such professional competence standards have been so thoroughly identified and agreed upon. The standards have been developed through a review of best practice in the region. They consist of recommendations for the skills and knowledge required in key protected area jobs, as well as guidance for their use. A non-prescriptive tool, they are intended to be adapted as required by those using them to meet specific national requirements and training and development contexts. Full report >> |
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| Curriculum development at the Regional African Wildlife Colleges, with special reference to the Ecole de Faune (Cameroon) | 330 hits |
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2003 Scholte, P. 2003. Curriculum development at the Regional African Wildlife Colleges, with special reference to the Ecole de Faune (Cameroon). Environmental Conservation 30: 249-258. For more information, please contact Paul Scholte: ScholKerst@cs.com or tel: Yemen + 967-1-425310. Full report >> |
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| Five Key Messages: Recommendations for Capacity Development in Africa | 505 hits |
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2006 (Feb) Mr. Callisto Madavo presents five key messages from the assessment of the World Bank's Operational Taskforce on Capacity Development in Africa. Full report >> |
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| HIV/AIDS and Conservation Capacity: Impacts and Coping Strategies | 526 hits |
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2005 (July) This Powerpoint proposes strategies to tackle the loss of capacity in conservation organizations and the loss of community capacity for land and natural resource management resulting from the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa. Modifying training programmes - sending more people on shorter courses to broaden their skills base; including HIV/AIDS in conservation curricula and college policies; and reducing the separation fo staff from their families through the use of distance education - are amongst the strategies promoted. Full report >> |
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| HIV/AIDS and Conservation: Impacts and Ways to Reduce Them-- A Fact Sheet for the Conservation Community | 476 hits |
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2004 (November) New fact sheet for the conservation community on the impacts of HIV/AIDS on conservation and ways to reduce these impacts. The fact sheet describes the impacts to conservation capacity, natural resources and land use. It describes what can be done such as steps involved in developing AIDS institutional policies, developing new training strategies, working with communities on resource management, and conducting research, communication and advocacy. The fact sheet also provides useful resources and websites on HIV/AIDS and conservation linkages. Full report >> |
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| Notre Intérêt Commun: Rapport de la Commission pour l'Afrique. Chapitre 4: Avoir des bons systemes - la gouvernance et le développement des capacités | 592 hits |
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2005 (Mars) Chaptire 4 de le rapport de la Commission pour l'Afrique addresse la necessité des mesures de renforcement les capacités d'Afrique. "Les compétences et les connaissances scientifiques permettent aux pays de trouver leurs propres solutions à leurs propres problèmes et entraînent des changements radicaux dans différents domaines, allant de la santé à l’alimentation en eau, en passant par l’assainissement et l’énergie, sans oublier les nouveaux défis de l’urbanisation et des changements climatiques. En outre, ce qui est fondamental, elles libèrent le potentiel d’innovation et de progrès technologique qui peut accélérer la croissance économique et aider un pays à entrer dans l’économie mondiale." Full report >> |
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