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December’s 32 Top Resources: Climate | Adaptation | Finance | Climate Smart Ag.

December’s 32 Top Resources: Climate Change| Adaptation | Climate Finance | Winter Training | Climate Smart Agriculture
Special December Newsletter on the Best New Resources for Adaptation, Development, Sustainability and Nonprofit Programs

We have so many excellent resources come through CSDi that we periodically compile them and share them in an occasional, special newsletter.

Please note: web addresses change frequently – if one doesn’t work simply type the resource title into your browser.

CSDi Distance Learning Winter Academy in climate change, adaptation and DRR. Courses begin January 7
 

1. CLIMATE CHANGE

Measuring, Reporting and Verifying NAMAs (Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions)
Caroline De Vit, Frauke Röser and Hanna Fekete
Ecofys
November 2013
 
Climate change threatens world food supply, panel warns
Justin Gillis
The New York Times News Service
November, 2013
 
Concentrations of warming gases break record
Matt McGrath
BBC
November, 2013
 
January 7: Join CSDi for an intensive series of courses with other students from all over the world.
Community Based Adaptation
Climate Smart Agriculture
International Development
Community Based DRR
 
Lean Energy Solutions wins the AfriCAN Climate Award
Dinesh Tembhekar, Managing Director of Lean Energy Solutions
November, 2013
 

2. ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE

Adaptation Toolkit: Guidebook for Community-Based Adaptation Practitioners
Gifty Ampomah, Tahia
ENDA
2013
 
The State of Adaptation Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Adaptation Committee
November, 2013
 
Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change. Emerging Lessons
Edited by Jonathan Ensor, Rachel Berger, Saleemul Huq
Practical Action1
December, 2013
 

3. DEVELOPMENT

The Charitable-Industrial Complex
Peter Buffett
The New York Times
2013
 

4. COLLECTIVE ACTION

Beyond the Toolkit: Experiences with Institutionalizing
GTZ
 
Set up a community-based organization- Learner Manual
The Development Practice Project
 
Community-driven development decision tools for rural development programmes
Enabling poor rural people to overcome poverty
IFAD
 
Decision Tools for Rural Finance
IFAD
 
Thematic publications: enabling poor rural people to overcome poverty
A collection of Community-driven development decision tools for rural development
IFAD
 
Sustaining the Commons
John M. Anderies and Marco A. Janssen
Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity at Arizona State University
 
Best Practices using Indigenous Knowledge
Karin Boven, Jun Morohashi
 
Australian Indigenous Knowledge and Libraries
Edited By Martin Nakata and Marcia Langton
University of Technology, Sydney
 
Mapping and Documenting Indigenous Knowledge in Climate Change Adaptation in Ghana
Benjamin A. Gyampoh and Winston A. Asante
 
Guidelines for Incorporating Traditional Knowledge in Environmental Impact Assessment
Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board
 
The secrets of the world’s happiest cities
Charles Montgomery
The Guardian
November, 2013
 

5. WATER

Manuel de Formation des Comités de Gestion d’Eau Villageois
Helvetas Cameroon
 
People First, Water and Sanitation Later
David Drucker
WHO/IRIS
 

6. FORESTRY

Who Counts Most? Assessing Human Well-Being in Sustainable Forest Management
Carol J. Pierce Colfer
CIFOR
 
IUCN Best Practice Guidelines on Governance of Protected Areas
Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Nigel Dudley, Tilman Jaeger, Barbara Lassen, Neema Pathak Broome, Adrian Phillips and Trevor Sandwith
IUCN, the ICCA Consortium, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the CBD Secretariat
November, 2013
 

7. CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE

Climate-Smart Agriculture? A review of current practice of agroforestry and conservation agriculture in Malawi and Zambia
David Kaczan, Aslihan Arslan and Leslie Lipper
FAO
November, 2013
 

8. CLIMATE FINANCE

Understanding Climate Finance Readiness Needs in Southern Africa: Insights from Namibia, Tanzania and Zambia
GIZ, ODI, BMZ
November 2013
 
Foreign aid and sustainable forestry
Pekka E. Kauppi
UNU-WIDER Working Paper
October, 2013
 
9. WINTER QUARTER
Distance Learning Courses Begin January 7.  Haga click aquí para Cursos en Español.

We’ve trained development professionals from 500 organizations in 147 countries to develop projects impacting over 350,000 people. Student projects have utilized 270 different kinds of solution-oriented activities to address community need. Scan the list to see which would work best for your project.
 
10. ELECTIVES Fine Tune your Projects with this Powerful array of Elective Courses

 
 
11. International Workshop: Designing and Funding CBA Projects. Come Study with Us January 14.
Two Month Blended Distance & Live Training
This blended training program includes 6 days in the field.
In this training we will lead you through the development of a real project, in real time, in a real village, and leave you with the practical field tools to sustain it. Follow link for detailed syllabus.

  1. Conduct a participatory needs assessment with a community in your own country in preparation for the Guatemala workshop—guided by CSDi staff.
  2. Upon arrival at the workshop, use the needs assessment to begin the development of a complete, fundable, launchable project in this 6-day training workshop.
  3. Return home and launch your project with the continued guidance of your CSDi workshop leader.

Designing and Funding CBA Projects is available in both a:
1. 100% Distance Learning Program beginning January 7.
2. A Two Month Blended Distance and Live Training program beginning January 14.
 12. Northern Nonprofit: Designing & Funding Nonprofit Projects in Developed Nations. 
If you work with a nonprofit in a northern country working on traditional programs such as food banks, animal rescue, teen drop-in centers, homeless shelters, day care centers, community development, or environmental restoration—Diploma OL 240 for Northern Nonprofits will help you develop a sustainable, impact oriented, local project. Follow the links below to learn more.
 
The course will lead you through the development of a real project, in real time, and leave you with the practical tools to sustain it. For example, student projects have included efforts to help communities in Europe and North America with community development, youth employment, income generation, empowering immigrant women, the Inuit and climate change, and environmental restoration.
 Northern Nonprofit: Designing & Funding Nonprofit Projects in Developed Nations is available in both a:
1. 100% Distance Learning Program beginning January 7.
2. A Two Month Blended Distance and Live Training program beginning January 14.
 
13. International Development: Designing & Funding International Development Projects.
Are you working in international development in areas such as food security, health and hygiene, watershed management, agriculture, or income generation? Then this training program is for you. Follow the links below to read the syllabus and see how the course is organized.
 
This training program will present an ‘online field experience,’ and lead participants in the process of developing sustainable, self sufficient communities. This blended learning program will lead you through the development of a real project, in real time, in a real village.
International Development: Designing & Funding International Development Projects is available in both a:
1. 100% Distance Learning Program beginning January 7.
2. A Two Month Blended Distance and Live Training program beginning January 14.

 

 
We look forward to working with you in our training programs.
 
Sincerely,
 
Tim Magee, Executive Director
 
Tim Magee is the author of A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation published by Routledge, Oxford, England.
 
Be sure to visit CSDi’s Development Community. Join 850 colleagues in sharing resources & collaborating online.
Like us: CSDi Facebook.
Learn more about design and implementing Community Based Development Projects.
 
Would you like to subscribe to this newsletter?
 
If you have a question don’t hesitate to contact us at: Online.Learning@csd-i.org.
 
The Center for Sustainable Development specializes in providing sound, evidence-based information, tools and training for humanitarian development professionals worldwide. CSDi is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
 

 

 

Una Beca Guatemateca: Taller de diseño y financiamiento de proyectos de Adaptación Comunitaria

Beca para Guatemala: Taller de diseño y financiamiento de proyectos de Adaptación Comunitaria
El Centro de Desarrollo Sostenible (CSDi) está ofreciendo un programa de capacitación internacional de 2 meses en el diseño y financiamiento de proyectos de Adaptación Comunitaria comenzando en septiembre — incluyendo un taller en vivo en Guatemala.
 
Estamos entrevistando personas para seleccionar un socio con contactos en el campo para el taller.
 
Estamos ofreciendo sólo una beca para un socio para el taller.
 
Requisitos para la Beca:

  1. Trabajar para una organización que tiene acceso a una comunidad para llevar a cabo evaluaciones participativas de necesidades cerca de la Ciudad de Guatemala o Antigua.
  2. Llevar a cabo las 2 evaluaciones de necesidades el sábado 28 y el domingo, 29 de septiembre, 2013.
  3. Esta dispuesto a permitir que otros participantes en el taller observen el proceso de la evaluación.
  4. Tener conocimiento de inglés (los otros participantes hablan inglés).

Para solicitar la beca:

  1. Llenar el Formulario de Inscripción:
    http://www.csd-i.org/ol-101-formulario-inscripcion/
  2. Un correo electronico corto, corto con su nombre, el nombre de su organización, y el nombre de la comunidad y su ubicación: Cursos.Linea@csd-i.org

Revisaremos las solicitudes y nos pondremos en contacto con los finalistas.

Haga click abajo para saber más sobre la capacitación internacional de 2 meses:
Desarrollo en América Latina: Sección en Español
Septiembre de 2013
El Centro de Desarrollo Sostenible (CSDi) está ofreciendo un programa de capacitación internacional de 2 meses en el diseño y financiamiento de proyectos de desarrollo —incluyendo un taller en vivo en Guatemala comenzando en Septiembre.
 
Este programa de aprendizaje mixto está disponible en 2 temas especializados:

  1. Diseño y financiamiento para proyectos de adaptación al cambio climático basado en la comunidad
  2. Diseño y financiamiento de proyectos sostenibles de desarrollo internacional


Aprendizaje Mixto:

Programa de Aprendizaje a Distancia & Taller en Vivo. Durante este aprendizaje mixto de capacitación de 2 meses participará en:
  • Aprendizaje a Distancia: Evaluación Participativa de Necesidades. 4 Semanas. Se realizarán evaluaciones participativas de necesidades con una comunidad en su propio país.
  • Un Taller en Vivo: Diseño y Desarrollo de un Proyecto Completo. 6 Días: 28 de septiembre – 4 de octubre, 2013. Al llegar a Guatemala, usará sus evaluaciones de necesidades para comenzar a desarrollar un proyecto completo.
  • Lanzamiento del Proyecto: Desarrollo de Capacidades Comunitarias: 4 Semanas. Regrese a su país para lanzar su proyecto con la orientación continua del líder del taller de CSDi.
 
Personas de 147 diferentes países y 500 organizaciones han usado los cursos de CSDi para desarrollar proyectos impactando a 350,000 personas.
 
 
¿Preguntas?
 
Atentamente,
 
Tim Magee
Director Ejecutivo
 
Tim Magee es el autor de la Guía de Campo para la Adaptación Basada en la Comunidad (A Field Guide To Community Based Adaptation) publicado por Routledge, Oxford, Inglaterra.
International Development: English Section
September, 2013
The Center for Sustainable Development (CSDi) is pleased to offer an international, two-month blended training program on designing and funding development projects —including a live workshop in Guatemala beginning in September.
 
Choose from one of three specialized fields that will best meet your programming needs:

  1. Designing and funding projects for community-based adaptation
  2. Designing and funding international development projects
  3. Designing and funding northern nonprofit projects

Blended Training:
Blended Distance Learning & Live Workshop training program. During the 2 month blended training program you will participate in:

  • Distance Learning: Participatory Needs Assessments. 4 Weeks. Conduct participatory needs assessments with a community in the country where you work.
  • Live Workshop: Full Project Design & Development. 6 Days: September 28 – October 4, 2013. In Guatemala, you will use your needs assessments to begin the development of a complete, manageable
    project.
  • Project Launch: Community Capacity Building. 4 Weeks. Return home to your country and launch your project with the continued guidance of CSDi staff.
Development Professionals from 147 countries and 500 organizations have developed course projects that are impacting over 350,000 people.
 
 
Additional questions? Please don’t hesitate to contact us at:
 
Sincerely,
 
Tim Magee
Executive Director
 
Tim Magee is the author of A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation published by Routledge, Oxford, England.
 
 

August’s Top Resources: Climate Change | Climate Finance | Climate Smart Agriculture | Livelihoods

August’s 30 Top Resources: Climate Change | Climate Finance | Climate Smart Agriculture | Livelihoods
Special August Newsletter on the Best New Resources for Adaptation, Development, Sustainability and Nonprofit Programs
We have so many excellent resources come through CSDi that we periodically compile them and share them in an occasional, special newsletter.

Please note: web addresses change frequently – if one doesn’t work simply type the resource title into your browser.

Climate Change

CSDi Fall Training
2 Month International Blended Training Program: September 3 – October 31, 2013
Including a 5 Day Live Workshop: Antigua, Guatemala: September 29 – October 4, 2013
 
El Programa en Español
Programa de Capacitación Internacional de 2 Meses: 3 de septiembre al 31 de octubre de 2013
 
An option: These training programs in 100% distance learning.

Rise in violence linked to climate change
Rebecca Morelle
BBC News: Science and Environment
August 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23538771
Review of:

Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict
Solomon M. Hsiang, Marshall Burke and Edward Miguel
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/07/31/science.1235367

Climate Smart Agriculture
The New Harvest. Agricultural Innovation in Africa
Calestous Juma
January 2011
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/The-New-Harvest-Agricultural-Innovation-In-Africa-1.pdf

MEAS: Five extension related case studies:
Senegal – Beginnings of a Grain Revolution  – by Brent Simpson, MSU
Ghana – Women Extension Volunteers: An Extension Approach for Female Farmers – by Miriam Hird-Younger, EWB, and Brent Simpson, MSU
Uganda – The Mud on Their Legs – Farmer to Farmer Videos – by Jeffery Bentley, Paul Van Mele, and Grace Musimami, Agro-Insight
Kenya – Exploring the Promise of ICTs for Women Farmers – by Cristina Manfre, Caitlin Nordehn, Cultural Practice, LLC
India – Delivering Extension Services through Effective and Inclusive Women’s Groups: The Case of SEWA in India – by Chris Gale, Kathleen Collett and Piera Freccero, City and Guilds Centre for Skills Development

MEAS case studies are available for download at:
http://www.meas-extension.org/meas-offers/case-studies.

Making Sense of Gender, Climate Change and Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: Creating Gender Responsive Climate Adaptation Policy
Christine Okali and Lars Otto Naess
May 2013
http://www.future-agricultures.org/component/docman/doc_details/1727-making-sense-of-gender-climate-change-and-agriculture-in-sub-saharan-africa#.Uh6AVT9fw2w

Agricultural Based Livelihood Systems in Drylands in the Context of Climate Change
Inventory of Adaptation Practices and Technologies of Ethiopia
Kidane Georgis
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)
http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i1786e/i1786e00.pdf

Agricultural Management for Climate Change Adaptation, Greenhouse Gas Mitigation, and Agricultural Productivity
Insights from Kenya
Elizabeth Bryan, Claudia Ringler, Barrack Okoba, Jawoo Koo, Mario Herrero, Silvia Silvestri
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/ifpridp01098-1.pdf

Climate Resilient Sustainable Agriculture Experiences
ActionAid
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/exhibition_document_-_final_draft-1.pdf

Sustainable Intensification: A New Paradigm for African Agriculture
A 2013 Montpellier Panel Report
Imperial College London
May 2013
https://workspace.imperial.ac.uk/africanagriculturaldevelopment/Public/Montpellier%20Panel%20Report%202013%20-%20Sustainable%20Intensification%20-%20A%20New%20Paradigm%20for%20African%20Agriculture.pdf

How Africa can solve its food crisis by growing crops more sustainably
Camilla Toulmin
The Guardian: Poverty Matters Blog
April 2013
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/apr/18/africa-food-crisis-growing-crops-sustainably

Building an Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
Gary Toenniessen, Akinwumi Desina, And Joseph Devries
June 2008
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/nyas_building_agra-1.pdf

Gates Foundation Program for Emerging Agriculture Research Leaders

3rd World Congress on Agroforestry will be held in Delhi, India, 10 – 14 February 2014

2012 Gap Report Warns of Regional Food Security Challenges Despite Global Progress
Global Harvest Initiative
October 2012
http://www.globalharvestinitiative.org/index.php/2012/10/ghis-2012-gap-report-warns-of-regional-food-security-challenges-despite-global-progress/

Climate Finance
Carbon Pricing Scenarios
Promethean Carbon
July 2013
http://www.promethium.co.za/carbon/CARBON%20PRICING%20-%20Promethuim%20digital%20lr.pdf

Food Security And Nutrition
Briefing Note of the 1st Africa Food Security and Adaptation Conference 20-21 AUGUST 2013: Harnessing Ecosystem-based Approaches for Food Security and Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa
http://www.iisd.ca/food/afsc1/brief/afsc1_brief.html and
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/afsc1_brief-1.pdf

Home gardens: a promising approach to enhance household food security and well-being
Dilrukshi H Galhena
Agriculture and Food Security
May 2013
http://www.agricultureandfoodsecurity.com/content/2/1/8
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/2048-7010-2-8-1.pdf

Urban Livelihoods and Food and Nutrition Security and Greater Accra, Ghana
IFPRI
Daniel Maxwell, Carol Levin,Margaret Armar-Klemesu, Marie Ruel, Saul Morris and Clement Ahiadeke
http://www.ifpri.org/publication/urban-livelihoods-and-food-and-nutrition-security-greater-accra-ghana?print

Statistics by Area/Child Nutrition
UNICEF: Childinfo
Stunting, Underweight, Wasting, Overweight.
February 2013
http://www.childinfo.org/malnutrition_status.html

Quarter of Worlds Children at Risk of Underperforming at School
Save the Children
May 2013
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/news-and-comment/news/2013-05/quarter-worlds-children-risk-under-performing-school

Livelihoods
Innovative financing for inclusive agricultural development
Capacity.org
August 2013
http://www.capacity.org/capacity/export/sites/capacity/documents/journal-pdfs/CAP_47_ENG_DEF_LR.pdf

EMN Study for Youth Entrepreneurship
European Micro-Finance Network
November 2012
http://www.european-microfinance.org/data/file/section_nos_services/publications/etudes/Youth%20entrepreneurship%20Study.pdf

Empowering Communities through Market led Development: Community Agro-enterprise Experiences from Uganda and Malawi
J. Njuki, S. Kaaria, P. Sanginga, E. Kaganzi and T. Magombo
http://www.future-agricultures.org/farmerfirst/files/T1b_Njuki.pdf

Linking Farmers to Markets: Some Success Stories from Asia-Pacific Region
Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions
FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Bangkok, Thailand
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/ss_2008_01-1.pdf

Linking Farmers to Markets: An Agro-enterprise Approach
John Connell and Ouneko Pathammavong
http://www.nafri.org.la/document/sourcebook/Sourcebook_eng/Volume1/22_farmermarkets_ciat.pdf

Energy
Alfredo Moser: bottle light inventor proud to be poor
Gibby Zobel
BBC News Magazine
August 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23536914

Collective Action
Land Matrix Global Observatory
http://www.landmatrix.org/

Health

The low-cost technology saving premature babies’ lives
Shilpa Kannan
BBC News
26 August, 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23817127

Building Capacity in Information Retrieval and Online Research for Health Researchers at the University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences
Masimba Muziringa
August 2013
http://community.eldis.org/.5ba3d039/1

Clean water and soap boost growth in young children
Helen Briggs
BBC News: Health
July 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23519775

Northern Nonprofits
How gardening is helping people with dementia
Rachel Pugh
The Guardian
July 2013
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/jul/30/dementia-gardening-helping-people

CSDi Training: Designing & Funding Nonprofit Projects in Developed Nations
2 Month International Blended Training Program: September 2- October 31, 2013
Including a 5 Day Live Workshop: Antigua, Guatemala: September 30 – October 4, 2013

Water Management

Water for Rural Communities: How Kenyan rural communities can create their own water supplies with assistance from Water Services Trust Fund
http://my.ewb-usa.org/theme/library/myewb-usa/project-resources/technical/book2water_for_rural_communitiespdf.pdf

Water Use Master Plan (WUMP)
A concept to equitably share water resources within and amongst rural communities,
Helvetas Switzerland, Weinbergstrasse 22a, P.O. Box, Zürich, Phone: +41 (0)44 368 65 46 – thomas.stadtmueller@helvetas.org
https://assets.helvetas.ch/downloads/13_waterusemasterplan_wump_blau_final_engl_a4_portrait.pdf

Planning of Sustainable Land and Water Management in Mbulu and Karatu Districts in Tanzania
Fredrick M. Mngube
http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/HC270799/LM/SUSLUP/Thema2/565/565.pdf

11. Sept. 2: Programs in English & Español | Adaptation | Guatemala | DRR | Food | Ag | Water | Development
12. Special 2 Month Blended Distance and  Live Training Program: September 2 – October 28.
Designing and Funding International Development—and Community Based Adaptation Projects:
Desarrollo en América Latina: Sección en Español
El Centro de Desarrollo Sostenible (CSDi) está ofreciendo un programa de capacitación internacional de 2 meses en el diseño y financiamiento de proyectos de desarrollo —incluyendo un taller en vivo en Guatemala comenzando en Septiembre.
 
Este programa de aprendizaje mixto está disponible en 2 temas especializados:

  1. Diseño y financiamiento para proyectos de adaptación al cambio climático basado en la comunidad
  2. Diseño y financiamiento de proyectos sostenibles de desarrollo internacional


Aprendizaje Mixto:

Programa de Aprendizaje a Distancia & Taller en Vivo. Durante este aprendizaje mixto de capacitación de 2 meses participará en:
  • Aprendizaje a Distancia: Evaluación Participativa de Necesidades. 4 Semanas. Se realizarán evaluaciones participativas de necesidades con una comunidad en su propio país.
  • Un Taller en Vivo: Diseño y Desarrollo de un Proyecto Completo. 6 Días. Al llegar a Guatemala, usará sus evaluaciones de necesidades para comenzar a desarrollar un proyecto completo.
  • Lanzamiento del Proyecto: Desarrollo de Capacidades Comunitarias: 4 Semanas. Regrese a su país para lanzar su proyecto con la orientación continua del líder del taller de CSDi.
International Development: English Section
The Center for Sustainable Development (CSDi) is pleased to offer an international, two-month blended training program on designing and funding development projects —including a live workshop in Guatemala beginning in September.
 
Choose from one of three specialized fields that will best meet your programming needs:

  1. Designing and funding projects for community-based adaptation
  2. Designing and funding international development projects
  3. Designing and funding northern nonprofit projects

Blended Training:
Blended Distance Learning & Live Workshop training program. During the 2 month blended training program you will participate in:

  • Distance Learning: Participatory Needs Assessments. 4 Weeks. Conduct participatory needs assessments with a community in the country where you work.
  • Live Workshop: Full Project Design & Development. 6 Days. In Guatemala, you will use your needs assessments to begin the development of a complete, manageable project.
  • Project Launch: Community Capacity Building. 4 Weeks. Return home to your country and launch your project with the cotinued guidance of CSDi staff.
13. Fall Quarter
Distance Learning Courses Begin September 2.  Haga click aquí para Cursos en Español.

We’ve trained development professionals from 500 organizations in 147 countries to develop projects impacting over 350,000 people. Student projects have utilized 270 different kinds of solution-oriented activities to address community need. Scan the list to see which would work best for your project.
 
14. Electives
Fine Tune your Projects with this Powerful array of Elective Courses

 
15. Come Back!
1/2 Price Courses
Several of you were too busy to complete one of our courses. We realize that many of our participants lead busy professional lives—and because of that we offer to let you take the course again in order to finish your project—for one half of the normal price.

Some of you asked us to send you an occasional reminder about when courses will be offered again. Fall quarter begins September 2. Now is your chance! You can re-enroll in the course you want to finish for 1/2 the normal price if you continue with the same project.

Contact us to learn more about this special offer at: Online.Learning@csd-i.org.
 
16. International Workshop: Designing and Funding CBA Projects. Come Study with Us September 2.
Two Month Blended Distance & Live Training
This blended training program includes 6 days in beautiful Guatemala.
In this training we will lead you through the development of a real project, in real time, in a real village, and leave you with the practical field tools to sustain it. Follow link for detailed syllabus.

  1. Conduct a participatory needs assessment with a community in your own country in preparation for the Guatemala workshop—guided by CSDi staff.
  2. Upon arriving in Guatemala, use the needs assessment to begin the development of a complete, fundable, launchable project in this 6-day training workshop.
  3. Return home and launch your project with the continued guidance of your CSDi workshop leader.

 
 17. Northern Nonprofit: Designing & Funding Nonprofit Projects in Developed Nations. Blended Distance and Live Training.
If you work with a nonprofit in a northern country working on traditional programs such as food banks, animal rescue, teen drop-in centers, homeless shelters, day care centers, community development, or environmental restoration—Diploma OL 240 for Northern Nonprofits will help you develop a sustainable, impact oriented, local project. Take this course as a 100% Distance Learning Program. Follow the link to learn more.
 
The course will lead you through the development of a real project, in real time, and leave you with the practical tools to sustain it. For example, student projects have included efforts to help communities in Europe and North America with community development, youth employment, income generation, empowering immigrant women, the Inuit and climate change, and environmental restoration.
 
18. International Development: Designing & Funding International Development Projects. 2 Month Blended Distance and Live Training.
Are you working in international development in areas such as food security, health and hygiene, watershed management, agriculture, or income generation? Then this training program is for you. Read the syllabus and see how the course is organized.
 
This two-month training program will present an ‘online field experience,’ and lead participants in the process of developing sustainable, self sufficient communities. This blended learning program will lead you through the development of a real project, in real time, in a real village.
 
We look forward to working with you in our training programs.
 
Sincerely,
 
Tim Magee, Executive Director
 
Tim Magee is the author of A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation published by Routledge, Oxford, England.
 
Be sure to visit CSDi’s Development Community. Join 850 colleagues in sharing resources & collaborating online.
Like us: CSDi Facebook.
Learn more about design and implementing Community Based Development Projects.
 
Would you like to subscribe to this newsletter?
 
If you have a question don’t hesitate to contact us at: Online.Learning@csd-i.org.
 
The Center for Sustainable Development specializes in providing sound, evidence-based information, tools and training for humanitarian development professionals worldwide. CSDi is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.