August’s 32 Top Resources: Forestry | REDD+ | Collective Action | Climate Finance
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.

1. Forestry and REDD+
Landscapes for public goods: multifunctional mosaics are fairer by far
IIED
June 2013
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/17164IIED-1.pdf

Safeguards in REDD+ and Forest Carbon Standards: A Review of Social, Environmental and Procedural Concepts and Application
CLIMATEFOCUS
Stephanie Roe, Charlotte Streck, Luke Pritchard, John Costenbader
May 2013
http://www.climatefocus.com/documents/files/safeguards.pdf

Community Participation and Benefits in REDD+: A Review of Initial Outcomes and Lessons
Kathleen Lawlor, Erin Myers Madeira, Jill Blockhus and David J. Ganz
May 2013
http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/4/2/296

2. Climate Change | Community Based Adaptation

Comparative analysis of climate change vulnerability assessments: lessons from Tunisia and Indonesia
Anne Hammill, Livia Bizikova, Julie Dekens, Matthew McCandless
International Institute for Sustainable Development
March 2013
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/Comperative-analysis-of-climate-change-vulnerability-assessments-1.pdf

Climate resilience and disaster risk management. Stories of change from CDKN
CDKN
April 2013
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/CDKN-Resilience-and-DRM-April-2013-1.pdf

Climate change and ecosystem based adaptation: a new pragmatic approach to buffering climate change impacts
Richard Munang, Ibrahim Thiaw, Keith Alverson, Musonda Mumba, Jian Liu, and Mike Rivington
Elesevier
2013
http://www.aaknet.org/index.php/knowledge-base/publications/item/178-climate_change_and_ecosystem-based_adaptation-_a_new_pragmatic_approach_to_buffering_climate_change_impacts

CBA 7 conference proceedings. Community-based adaptation: Mainstreaming CBA international and local planning
seventh international conference. April 2013. Dhaka Bangladesh
https://www.adaptation-fund.org/sites/default/files/Proceedings%20final%20CBA7.pdf

Conference Concept: West Africa learning event – community-based adaptation
hosted by Adaptation Learning Program, CARE International
September 2013
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/Concept_ABC_Conference_EN-1.pdf

Webinar/PowerPoint. Monitoring and evaluation for community-based adaptation: unpacking the CARE PMERL and ARCAB approaches and their interconnection
Tina Rossing and Lucy Faulkner
May 2013
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/20132006201720SEA20Change2016th20webinar200120CARE20PMERL2028T20Rossing29-Presentation-1.pdf

Good Practice. Climate change adaptation and mitigation.
AfriCAN Climate
2013
http://africanclimate.net/sites/default/files/AfriCAN%20Climate%20-%20Good%20Practice%20Brochure.pdf

8 Principles Of Good Practice
AfriCAN Climate
http://africanclimate.net/en/good-practice/8-principles-good-practice

StovePlus
GERES
http://www.geres.eu/en/stoveplus

Assessing the Climate Impacts of Cookstove Projects: Issues in Emissions Accounting
Stockholm Environment Institute
2013
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/sei-wp-2013-01-cookstoves-carbon-markets-1.pdf

3. Climate Smart Agriculture
Smallholder Farmers Perception of the Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Rain Fed Agricultural Practices in Semiarid and Subhumid Regions of Kenya
Jokastah Wanzuu Kalungu, Walter Leal Filho, and David Harris
Journal of Environment and Earth Science
2013
http://www.iiste.org/Journals/index.php/JEES/article/download/6379/6432‎

Our Coming Food Crisis
Discusses farm scale activities such as the need for composting.
Gary Paul Nabhan
New York Times
July 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/opinion/our-coming-food-crisis.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Guinea: farmers restore soil fertility with composted market waste
Discusses farmers in Africa using compost on a community scale for their farms.
Ibrahima Sory Cisse
Farm Radio Weekly
July 2013
http://weekly.farmradio.org/2013/07/15/guinea-farmers-restore-soil-fertility-with-composted-market-waste-by-ibrahima-sory-cisse-for-farm-radio-weekly-in-guinea/

4. Climate Finance
Maneuvering the Mosaic. State of the voluntary carbon markets 2013
Forest Trends Ecosystem Marketplace
May 2013
http://www.forest-trends.org/vcm2013.php

Ready for Climate Finance: GIZ’s Approach to Making Climate Finance Work
GIZ
http://www.giz.de/Themen/en/dokumente/giz2013-en-climate-finance-approach.pdf

5. Livelihoods, Smallholders & Markets, Job Preparation
Enhancing Smallholder Farmer Participation in Markets: The IMOD Way
William D. Dar
ICRISAT
http://oar.icrisat.org/6499/

Evaluating the Business Case for Investment in the Resilience of the Tourism Sector of Small Island Developing States
Roché Mahon, Susanne Becken and Hamish Rennie
Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/Mahon20et.al_.202012-1.pdf

Alternative Agricultural Markets for Improved Livelihoods
BAOBAB special issue
June 2013
http://www.agriculturesnetwork.org/magazines/east-africa/alternative-markets

Volunteers More Likely to Land Jobs, Study Finds
Corporation for National and Community Service
June 2013
http://www.nationalservice.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2013/volunteers-more-likely-land-jobs-study-finds

Should I take that unpaid internship?
Kate Warren
devex
June 2013
https://www.devex.com/en/news/should-i-take-an-unpaid-or-paid-internship/81298

6. Disaster Risk Reduction
Compendium Of IOM Activities In Disaster Risk Reduction And Resilience
IOM
2013
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/IOM-DRR-Compendium-2013-1.pdf

7. Collective Action
Resource conflict, collective action, and resilience: an analytical framework
Ratner, B.D. ; Meinzen-Dick, R. ; May, C. ; Haglund, E.
CAPRI
March 2013
http://aas.cgiar.org/publications/resource-conflict-collective-action-and-resilience-analytical-framework#.UfQ8S21fw2w

8. Water Management
Cap-Net.org: T
raining Materials
26 handbooks, manuals and toolkits
http://www.cap-net.org/node/1263/

9. Health
Was Blind, but Now She Sees
Nicholas D Kristof
New York Times
July 17, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/18/opinion/kristof-was-blind-but-now-she-sees.html

The world’s creeping challenge
Jenny Lei Ravelo
devex
July 2013
https://www.devex.com/en/news/world-population-day/81423

10. Education
Tanzanian girl’s long walk to education
BBC
July 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23239800

Malala Yousafzai, Girl Shot by Taliban, Makes Appeal at U.N.
Jennifer Preston
New York Times
July 2013
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/12/video-of-malala-yousafzai-at-u-n-calling-on-world-leaders-to-provide-education-to-every-child/?_r=0

11. Northern Nonprofits
Broken Promises
Byron L. Dorgan
New York Times
July 2013
www.nytimes.com/2013/07/11/opinion/broken-promises.html

Abandoned In Indian Country
Editorial
New York Times
July 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/24/opinion/abandoned-in-indian-country.html

Pain on the Reservation
Annie Lowrey
New York Times
July 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/13/business/economy/us-budget-cuts-fall-heavily-on-american-indians.html?ref=opinion

Programa de Capacitación Internacional de 2 Meses: 2 de septiembre al 31 de octubre de 2013

 

International Adaptation Training: Designing & Funding CBA Projects. Come Study with Us in Beautiful Guatemala. Blended Distance and Live Training.

This blended learning workshop 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. Conduct a participatory needs assessment with a community in your own country in preparation for the Guatemala workshop—guided by CSDi staff. Upon arriving in Guatemala, use the needs assessment to begin the development of a complete, fundable, launchable project in this 5-day training workshop. Return home and launch your project with the continued guidance of your CSDi workshop leader.

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—OL 101 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.

 

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. Take this program as a 100% Distance Learning Program.

An Option: 100% Distance Learning. Join us on September 3 for an intensive series of courses with other international students.
	Are you a donor, a development practitioner, in a job transition, or a student who wants to learn more about what works in designing impact-oriented projects? Online course participants are using our courses to develop real, on-the-ground projects with real communities—both individually and through North/South student partnerships.

Our online courses use each class assignment as a concrete step in developing a real project within a real community. You will take an assignment into the field and use it as a solution-oriented activity that you do together with community members—thereby finishing one component of the project you are developing in the class. And there you have it: an online field course with tangible, concrete results.

 

Visit Online Learning to see a listing of Summer Quarter distance learning courses and blended distance learning & live workshop programs.

 

Would you like to learn about:

Designing and Funding Northern Nonprofit Programs and Projects
Designing and Funding Sustainable International Development Projects

Diploma Program: Community Based Adaptation

Diploma Program: Integrated Community Based Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction, & Rural Development

Advanced Courses:

Food Security, Nutrition, and Starting Home Gardens 1

Community Level Water Conservation and Management

Climate Smart Agriculture

Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction

 

Blended Distance/Live Workshop Training Programs: Designing & Funding Sustainable Projects

These blended training programs are available in 3 specialized sections:

Section 1. Designing & Funding Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change Projects

Section 2. Designing & Funding International Development Projects

Section 3. Designing & Funding Nonprofit Projects in Developed Nations

 

We look forward to working with you in our training programs.

 

Sincerely,

 

Tim Magee, Executive Director

Center for Sustainable Development

 

Tim Magee is the author of A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation published by Routledge, Oxford, England.

 

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