July’s 32 Top Resources: Climate Change | CBA | REDD+ | Climate Finance | CSA
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. 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.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.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.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.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.pdf

2. 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/

3. 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

4. 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.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

5. 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.pdf

6. 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.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

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: Training 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

International Adaptation Training: Designing & Funding CBA Projects. Come Study with Us September 30 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. Take this as a 100% Distance Learning Program

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.

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 August 6 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.

June Top Resources: Climate Change | Climate Smart Agriculture | Smallholder Value Chains
Special June Newsletter on the Best New Resources for Adaptation, Resilience and Sustainability

We encounter so many excellent adaptation and climate change resources that we periodically compile them and share them in a special issue newsletter.

Please note: web addresses change frequently – if one doesn’t work simply type the resource title into your browser.
Climate Change
Youth in action on climate change: Inspirations from around the world
UNFCC
United Nations Joint Framework Initiative on Children, Youth and Climate Change
May 2013
http://unfccc.int/cc_inet/files/cc_inet/information_pool/application/pdf/youth_pub_2013_en_m.pdf

Status Report on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs)
Midyear Update June 2013
ECOFYS
http://www.ecofys.com/en/publication/status-report-on-nationally-appropriate-mitigation-actions-namas/

A Training of Trainers Manual for REDD+. For community level facilitators.
RECOFTC
http://www.recoftc.org/site/resources/REDD-ToT-Manual-for-Community-level-Facilitators.php
http://www.recoftc.org/site/uploads/content/pdf/REDD+%20Training%20-%20Community%20Level%20Manual%20v.11%20-%20web%20version_243.pdf

Integrating Disaster Risk Management into Climate Change Adaptation
Disaster Risk Management Practitioner’s Handbook Series
http://www.adpc.net/2012/download/DRM-Handbook/ADPC%20DRM%20Practitioners%20Handbook%20-%20Climate%20Change%20Adaptation.pdf

Mainstreaming climate change resilience into development planning in Kenya
Vincent Mutie Nzau
http://pubs.iied.org/10044IIED.html

Eight Steps to Climate Proof Development in Africa
Richard Munang
The Guardian: Global Development Professionals Network
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development-professionals-network/2013/apr/08/mdgs-climate-change-agenda-africa

A Toolkit of Resilient Agricultural Responses to Climatic Challenges in Tropical Asia
Rick Burnette
ECHO Asian notes
http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.echocommunity.org/resource/collection/0ADF35ED-72B3-44AA-92B5-D50F9B4A741D/AN_16.pdf

Agriculture and Climate Change. Learning from Experience and Early Interventions
Case Study Compilation
CDKN
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/CCAg_LEEI-Case-Studies-2.pdf

Achieving food security in the face of climate change
Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change
CGIAR
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/climate_food_commission-final-mar2012.pdf

The Demography of Adaptation to Climate Change
UNFPA/IIED
http://www.unfpa.org/webdav/site/global/shared/images/publications/2013/The%20Demography%20of%20Adaptation%20to%20Climate%20Change.pdf

Climate Smart Agriculture
Climate Smart Agriculture Sourcebook. 570 pages
FAO. June, 2013
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/i3325e.pdf

Download the executive summary: http://www.fao.org/climatechange/climatesmart/en/

YPARD 2012 Activity Report
Young Professionals’ Platform for Agricultural Research for Development
http://ypard.net/resources/ypard-activity-report-2012

Interventions for Achieving Sustainability in Tropical Forest and Agricultural Landscapes
CAPRI
Peter Newton, Arun Agrawal, and Lini Wollenberg
May 2013
http://www.capri.cgiar.org/wp/capriwp110.asp

Forage crop production and management. The effects of herbaceous legume intercropping and mulching on the productivity of Napier grass (Pehnisetum purpureum) and total forage yield in coastal lowland Kenya
J.G. Mureithi and W. Thorpe
ILRI
http://www.ilri.cgiar.org/InfoServ/Webpub/fulldocs/AFRNET/Theefec.htm

A Scientific Perspective on Composting
John K. Lekasi, Keziah W. Ndung’u and Mary N. Kifuk0
Organic resource Management in Kenya – Chapter 8
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/Scientific20Perspective20on20Composting.pdf

Organic Resource Management in Kenya – Perspectives and Guidelines
Savala, Canon E. N., Omare, Musa N. | Woomer, Paul L.
http://41.215.122.106/dspace/handle/0/4040

Smallholder farmers in Makueni turn to drought resistant crops
By Agatha Ngotho, Nairobi Star
http://www.agra.org/news-events/news/smallholder-farmers-in-makueni-turn-to-droughtresistant-crops-/

Conservation Agriculture – A manual for farmers and extension workers in Africa
IIRR
http://www.fao.org/ag/ca/AfricaTrainingManual.html
http://publications.cta.int/publications/publication/1563/post-harvest-processing/

Conservation agriculture and smallholder farming in Africa: the heretics view
Ken E. Giller, Ernst Witter, Marc Corbeels, Pablo Tittonell
Elsevier
http://www.csd-i.org/storage/blog/Conservation%20agriculture%20and%20smallholder%20farming%20in%20Africa%20-%20The%20heretics%27%20view.pdf

A review of the effectiveness of agriculture interventions and improving nutrition outcomes
Peter R Berti, Julia Krasevec and Sian FitzGerald
PATH Canada (Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health)
http://www.healthbridge.ca/phn07599.pdf

Smallholder Value Chains
Leaping and Learning. Linking Smallholders to Markets
ODI
Steve Wiggins and Sharada Keats
May 2013
http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/7453-leaping-learning-smallholder-farming-market-intervention

World Bank: Africa Agribusiness Report 2013 – Africa Agribusiness
Feature Story: Africa’s Agriculture and Agribusiness Markets Set to Top US$ One Trillion in 2030
http://www.africaag.org/2013/03/04/world-bank-report-2013/?goback=.gde_3241614_member_219729675

FARA Agricultural Value Chain Member Discussion June 2013
Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa
http://next.dgroups.org/fara-net
www.fara-africa.org
http://www.csd-i.org/storage/blog/Fara%20Agricultural%20Value%20Chain%20Discussion%20June%202013.docx

Growing Africa. Unlocking the Potential For Agribusiness.
The World Bank
January 2013
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/africa-agribusiness-report-2013.pdf

Empowerment Initiatives
West Africa Insight
http://westafricainsight.org/issues/view/32

Realizing the potential of collective action groups.
Coordinating approaches to women’s market engagement.
Oxfam
Written by Martin Walsh, Global Research Adviser, Oxfam GB. Editors: Imogen Davies and Sally Baden, Oxfam GB.
Researchers: Dr. Nandera Mhando, Dr. Elibariki Msuya and Dr. Carine Pionetti.
http://womenscollectiveaction.com/file/view/Eng_Tanzania_lorez.pdf

Women’s Collective Action. Unlocking the Potential of Agricultural Markets.
Oxfam
http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/womens-collective-action-unlocking-the-potential-of-agricultural-markets-276159
http://womenscollectiveaction.com/file/view/GST_GROW.pdf

Excellent article on the importance of internships during a period of unemployment.
The Internship: Not the Movie
Thomas L Friedman
New York Times
June 8, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/the-internship-not-the-movie.html?_r=0

Development
‘Post -2015’ international development goals. Who wants what and why.
Emily Benson
http://pubs.iied.org/17162IIED.html

An Action Agenda for Sustainable Development. Report for the UN Secretary General
6 June 2013
Prepared by the Leadership Council of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network
http://unsdsn.org/resources/sdsnreportjune2013/

An introduction to the use of randomized controlled trials to evaluate development interventions
Howard White. 3ie
Journal of Development Effectiveness
http://www.3ieimpact.org/evaluation/working-papers/working-paper-9/

Health
Nutrition ‘must be a global priority’, says researchers
Helen Briggs
BBC News, 5 June 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22779656

Does a child die of hunger every 10 seconds?
Ruth Alexander
BBC News, 18 June 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22935692

Water Management
Sand dams bank water for dry season in semiarid Kenya
Isaiah Esipisu
http://www.trust.org/item/?map=sand-dams-bank-water-for-dry-season-in-semi-arid-kenya/

Community dams aim to build water security in arid Kenya
Kagondu Njagi
http://www.trust.org/item/20130603103952-mba98/

Women, unity, water: Adapting to climate change in improving livelihoods in Swaziland
IFAD and Rural Poverty Portal
http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/country/voice/tags/swaziland/swaziland_climate

International Adaptation Workshop: Designing & Funding CBA Projects. Come Study with Us September 16 in Beautiful Guatemala
	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.

Distance Learning Course: 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—OL 101 for Northern Nonprofits will help you develop a sustainable, impact oriented, local project. Take this course as a live workshop. 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.

Join us on July 2 for an intensive series of courses with other students from all over the world.

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 courses.