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Special Water Field Projects Issue: Mali | Zimbabwe | Peru | Tanzania | Uganda | Kenya

THIS MONTH’S NEWS
March Field Projects Special Issue—Community Based Water Management
Mali | Zimbabwe | Peru | Tanzania | Uganda | Kenya



 
Here is a sample of CSDi partner field projects that include Community Based Water Conservation and Management programs. It’s very interesting to notice that although these projects are from different parts of the world, these communities suffer from many of the same challenges. It is also interesting to note that although these partners have included similar types of programs in their projects, each program is customized to best fit their specific context, location and cultural norms.
 
1. Uganda
 1,800 families from Gombe will be able to improve their household income and water supply.

These villagers are suffering from a shortage of water due to the lack of a land use management plan and climate related altered rain patterns and drought that have a negative impact on crop yields. These challenges lead to land degradation, deforestation, and a shortage of food that only allows one meal a day to be eaten. Leonard Ssozi’s project will increase nutrition and access to water in the community. His project includes the following programs:

  • Household Rain water harvesting and storage system program
  • Land Use Management Plan
  • Climate Smart Agricultural Practices Programme
 
2. Zimbabwe
 In Bulawayo 1,500 people will enjoy safer water through a rain water harvesting program.

Community members suffer from poor health due to a lack of healthcare and a shortage of clean water due to climate change in the countryside causing migration into cities resulting in insufficient water for the city’s population. Beauty Macheka and Christine Jones’ project will increase health and income generation in the community. Their project includes these programs:

  • Household rain water harvesting and storage system program
  • Health and Community Awareness Program: Local Community Health Practitioners
  • Family garden and nutrition program

 
3. Peru
 300 in Chinchero will enjoy access to water through Water Harvesting & a Water Use Management Plan

These families are suffering from a lack of water due to competition for water use and a reduction in crop production due to climate change related extreme weather events leading to poverty, a reduction in food security and malnutrition in women and children. Berioska Quispe Estrada, Tam Hoang, and Hilary Joy Autry’s project will help these community members enjoy better access to water and food security. Their project includes the following programs:

  • Water Use Management Plan
  • Climate Smart Agricultural Practices Program
  • Community Level Water Harvesting Program

 
4. Mali
 30 families in Fulani will have good access to water through a Water Use Management Plan.

These community members suffer from poor access to water due to a lack of a Water Use Management Plan and are suffering from livestock challenges due climate change related increased temperatures and changing rainfall patterns. Mahalmadane Aly Toure and Ram Padmanabhan Mony’s project will help their community members improve livestock health and increase access to safe water. Their project includes the following programs:

  • Water Use Management Plan
  • Animal Husbandry Program

 
5. Tanzania
 4,000 community members in the Wagete will have improved health & improved crops.

These community members are suffering from a reduced crop yield due to unpredictable weather patterns related to climate change. Chris Enns & Catalina Gheorghe’s project will helped their community members improve health levels and increase crop yields. Their project includes the following programs:

  • Farmer Soil and Water Conservation Program
  • Education support program
  • Health care advocacy program

 
6. Kenya
 500 households in Lita will enjoy fresh water and improved health and hygiene.

Families in Kenyan village have 4% of the water as do Canadian families. Due to a lack of adequate water resources, the community of Lita suffers from many problems including a lack of food security, poor hygiene, and increased risk of disease. Maggie Muthui and Erin Watson’s project will protect the village spring and distribute fresh water into the village. Their project includes the following programs:

  • Water Harvesting and Community Water Management Program
  • Household kitchen garden program to reduce food insecurity
7. Mali
 Family members from 387 families in Sodieni will enjoy increased crop harvests.

3,096 family members are suffering food insecurity and unsecure livelihoods due to a lack of a water use management plan, and climate change related unpredictable water availability. . Walter Sissoko, Ife Olabampe and Stacey Sawchuck’s project will help their community members increase crop harvests and become food-secure. Their project includes these programs:

  • Water Use Management Program
  • Pond Rehabilitation and Proper Use of Water Resources Program
  • Establishing a Village Agricultural and Water Use Management Committee
  • Climate-Smart Agriculture program

Contact Us to learn more about your organization joining our field partner program.
 
Training in Project Design for:
Nonprofits | International Development | Climate Change | Nutrition | Agriculture | Water Management
 
Become the Solution. 18 courses starting in the next 10 days. Sign up to become part of the solution to challenges like the villagers above are facing.
 
The following programs provide the training, materials, guidance, mentoring and expert consultancy to allow you to develop projects like the examples above in your own country. Participants develop real projects in real communities and complete the programs with the tools necessary to both manage the projects and approach donors.
 
Programs in English & Español
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We’ve trained development professionals from 153 countries to develop projects impacting over 400,000 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.
 
 
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.
 
Learn more about design and implementing Community Based Development Projects.
 
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Special CBA Field Projects Issue: Mali | Abkhazia | India | Pakistan | Ethiopia | Tanzania | Iran

 
THIS MONTH’S NEWS
 
February Field Projects Special Issue—Community Based Adaptation to Climate
Mali | Abkhazia | India | Pakistan | Ethiopia | Tanzania | Iran
Here is a sample of CSDi partner field projects that include Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change programs. It’s very interesting to notice that although these projects are from different parts of the world, these communities suffer from many of the same challenges. It is also interesting to note that although these partners have included similar types of programs in their projects, each program is customized to best fit their specific context, location and cultural norms.
 
1. Mali
 Family members from 387 families Sodieni will be food secure.

3096 family members from Sodieni run short of food due to insufficient and erratic rainfall. Walter Sissoko, Ife Olabampe and Stacey Sawchuck’s project will help their community members become food-secure and wealthy enough to rise out of extreme poverty. Their project includes the following programs:

  • Water Use Management Program
  • Climate-Smart Agricultural Innovation Program
  • Market-Oriented Agricultural Development Program

2. Abkhazia
 1163 family members from Pichouri will increase agricultural productivity and incomes.

The majority of the 279 families in Pichouri are suffering from a decrease in agriculture production due to obsolete irrigation systems and a lack of knowledge of improved agricultural practices. Edgar Barata and Marnie Cunningham’s project will help their community members increase both agricultural production & employment levels. Their project includes the following programs:

  • Advocacy Program for Government Irrigation Support
  • Improved Agricultural Practices Program
  • Alternative Income Generation Program

 
3. India
 1000 islanders in Goa India will enjoy increased crop yields—Climate Smart Agriculture.

1000 Community members from the Island community of Chodan village in Goa, India are suffering from low crop yields caused by disturbed rainfall patterns and a rise in sea levels that increase salinity on agricultural land. Ruchita Khurana’s project will help the islanders increase productivity through a climate smart agricultural program leading to increased food security. Her project includes the following programs:

  • Extension training in Climate Smart Agricultural Practices
  • Participatory mapping of natural water sources and challenges
  • Identifying and adoption of saline tolerant crops
 
4. Pakistan
 100 families in Jaffarabad Pakistan will have flood resilient shelter and food security.

These families are living in the open or in tents due to climate change related flooding, and are suffering from shortages of food due to flood damage to crops. Rehmat Durrani’s project will help his community members access flood resilient shelter and enjoy food security. His project includes the following programs:

  • Advocacy Program for Government/INGO Housing Support
  • Climate Smart Agricultural Practices Programme
  • Community-Based Flood Mitigation and Adaptation Program

 
5. Ethiopia
 1265 families in Addis Ababa will enjoy increased incomes, crop productivity & food security.

These community members suffer from chronic poverty and from reduced crop harvests due to erratic rains linked to climate change. These challenges affect their health and impact food security. Alem Adela and Conrd Otterness’s project will help their community members increase income levels and agriculture production. Their project includes the following programs:

  • Alternative Income Generation Program
  • Capital, Savings, and Loan/Credit Program
  • Disaster Risk Reduction Program
  • Climate Smart Agricultural Practices Programme

 
6. Tanzania
 600 families in Nyange Tanzania will be able to access product markets & improved crops.

These community members in Tanzania are suffering from low incomes, poor access to product markets, and climate change related events that have reduced crop harvests. Mohamed Semdoe’s project will help their community members increase income levels and increase crop harvests. Their project includes the following programs:

  • Alternative Income Generation Program
  • Conservation Agriculture/Agroforestry Programme

 
7. Iran
 200 families in Iran will be free from pollution and enjoy economic viability.

These community members are suffering from pollution due to a malfunction of sewage filtration systems and are also suffering from economic weakness caused by problematic agriculture due to drought. Said’s project will help his community members increase health levels and increase crop harvests. Their project includes the following programs:

  • Advocacy Program for Sanitation Support
  • Health and Hygiene Program
  • Agricultural Income Generation Program
  • Climate Smart Agricultural Practices Programme

  • See his participatory needs assessment
  • See his project outline
  • See his logframe

 
Contact Us to learn more about your organization joining our field partner program.
 
March Training in Project Design for:
Nonprofits | International Development | Climate Change | Nutrition | Agriculture | Water Management
The following programs provide the training, materials, guidance, mentoring and expert consultancy to allow you to develop projects like the examples above in your own country. Participants develop real projects in real communities and complete the programs with the tools necessary to both manage the projects and approach donors.
 
Programs in English & Español
Spring Quarter Distance Learning Courses Begin March 4.  Haga click aquí para Cursos en Español.

We’ve trained development professionals from 500 organizations in 153 countries to develop projects impacting over 400,000 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.
 
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.
 
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Learn more about design and implementing Community Based Development Projects.
 
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February’s 35 Top Resources: Climate | Adaptation | Gender | DRR | Finance | SIDS | Arid Lands

February’s 35 Top Resources: Climate | Adaptation | Gender | DRR | Finance | SIDS | Arid Lands
Special February 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 Spring Academy in Adaptation, Development, Sustainability, Nonprofit Climate Change and DRR programs. Courses begin March 4
 
1. CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate Change Is a Challenge For Sustainable Development
Rachel Kyte
Gaidar Forum
Moscow
January 15, 2014
 
Farmers in a changing climate – Does gender matter?
Yianna Lambrou and Sibyl Nelson
FAO
 
March 4: Join CSDi for an intensive series of courses with other students from all over the world.
• Community Based Adaptation
• Climate Smart Agriculture
• Designing and Funding Northern Nonprofit Projects
• International Development
• Community Based DRR
 
2. CLIMATE FINANCE
Ensuring devolution supports adaptation and climate resilient growth in Kenya
Ced Hesse and James Pattinson
IIED
 
3. ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
The indirect effects of adaptation: Pathways for vulnerability redistribution in the Colombian coffee sector
Aaron Atteridge & Elise Remling
 
Minimum Standards for local climate smart disaster risk reduction
Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre
 
Community Based Adaptation: An Empowering Approach for Climate Resilient Development and Risk Reduction
Nicola Ward, Fiona Percy
CARE
 
The indirect effects of adaptation: Pathways for vulnerability redistribution in the Colombian coffee sector
Aaron Atteridge & Denise Remling
 

Climate Change Vulnerability and Capacity in the Arid and Semi-arid Lands

Emma Bowa
CARE
 
New Report and Communique from the West Africa Learning Event on CBA
Peter Gubbels
CARE
September, 2013
 
Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement
Edited by Matthias Dietz, Heiko Garrelts
Routledge
2014
 
Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change. Scaling it up.
Edited by: E. Lisa F. Schipper, Jessica Ayers, Hannah Reid, Saleemul Huq, Atiq Rahman
Routledge
 
Optimum fisheries management under climate variability: Evidence from artisanal marine fishing in Ghana.
Edited Wisdom Akpalu, Isaac Dasmani, and Ametefee K. Normanyo
UNU-WIDER
January 2014
 
4. CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE
Everything you wanted to know about Climate Change and Agriculture
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)

http://ccafs.cgiar.org/bigfacts2014/#

5. DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction – Good Practice
Gautam, D. R. Kailali Disaster
Mercy Corps
2009
 
Community-based Disaster Risk Management: Field Practitioner’s Handbook
Imelda Abarquez and Zubair Murshed
The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)
 
Good Practices & Lessons Learnt on Community Based Disaster Risk Management in Upland Vietnam
Centre for International Studies and Cooperation

Community Based Early Warning System: A Best Practice Guide for Upland Areas of Vietnam
CECI (Centre for International Studies and Cooperation)

Framework on Community Based Disaster Risk Management in Upland Areas of Vietnam
CECI (Centre for International Studies and Cooperation)
http://www.ceci.ca/assets/Asia/Asia-Publications/CBDRM-Framework.pdf

Flood Preparedness Initiatives of High Risk Communities of Jakarta
Gabrielle Iglesias
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center

Conceptualizing an established network of a community based flood early warning system: Case of Cawang, East Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia
Jonatan A. Lassa, Saut Sagala, Adi Suryadini
Institute of Resource Governance and Social Change
 

Good Practices of Enhancement Early Warning System for High Populated Cities – A case study of Jakarta Flood

Harkunti P. RAHAYU and Seigo NASU
Kochi University of Technology

6. AGRICULTURE AND NUTRITION
Effectiveness of agricultural interventions that aim to improve nutritional status of children: systematic review
Edoardo Masset, Lawrence Haddad, Alexander Cornelius, and Jairo Isaza-Castro
British Medical Journal
January 2012

The role of integrated home gardens and local, neglected and underutilized plant species in food security in Nepal and meeting the Millennium Development Goal 1
Roshan Pudasaini, Sajal Sthapit, Rojee Suwal and Bhuwon Sthapit
Self Employed Women’s Association
2009

http://www.b4fn.org/fileadmin/B4FN_Docs/documents/Diversity_for_Food_and_Diets/CS2-Sthapitetal.pd

Agricultural Biodiversity Is Essential for a Sustainable Improvement in Food and Nutrition Security
Emile A Frison, Jeremy Cherfas and Toby Hodgkin
Trees in Home Gardens: Making the Most of an Age-Old Practice to Improve Food Security and Nutrition
Marion Davis, Matilda Palm, Eskil Mattsson, Ekaterina Bessonova
Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative (SIANI)
Forest, Climate & Livelihood Research Network (Focali)
February 2014

http://www.siani.se/sites/clients.codepositive.com/files/document/siani_policy_brief_-_food_security.pdf

The Seeds of a New Generation

Michael Moss
New York Times
February 4, 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/05/dining/the-seeds-of-a-new-generation.html?_r=0

7. AGROFORESTRY

Marion Davis, Matilda Palm, Eskil Mattsson, Ekaterina Bessonova
Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative (SIANI)
Forest, Climate & Livelihood Research Network (Focali)
February 2014
http://www.siani.se/brief/agroforestry_land_restoration

8. FORESTRY
Local Environmental, Economic and Social Tragedies of International Interventions on Community Based Forest Management for Global Environmental Conservation: A Critical Evaluation

Bhubaneswor Dhakal
Open Journal of Forestry

http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=42219#.Uu_IlPuJPF9


9. ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
Plan Vivo Standard for Community Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES)

Coastal Blue Carbon Opportunity Assessment for the Snohomish Estuary: The Climate Benefits of Estuary Restoration

Crooks, S., Rybczyk, J., O’Connell, K., Devier, D.L., Poppe, K., Emmett-Mattox, S.
Restore America’s Estuaries, Environmental Science Associates, EarthCorps, and Western Washington University
February 2014
http://www.estuaries.org/landmark-coastal-blue-carbon-report-released.html


10. COLLECTIVE ACTION
Gender and Equity Implications of Land-Related Investments
FAO
http://news.capri.cgiar.org/2014/01/publication-fao-case-studies-on-gender.html
 
Women, Donors and Land Administration The Tanzania Case
Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen and Scholastica Haule
Danish Institute of International Studies
2013
http://www.risdrwanda.org/spip.php?article207
 
The Impact of Land Property Rights Interventions on Investment and Agricultural Productivity in Developing Countries: a Systematic Review
Steven Lawry, Cyrus Samii, Ruth Hall, Aaron Leopold, Donna Hornby, Farai Mtero
The Campbell Library
 

11. ISLAND STATES

Kiribati: Tiny island’s struggle with overpopulation
Julian Siddle
BBC News Science and Environment
 
12. WATER
Ecosystem Approaches in Integrated Water Resources Management
Dimple Roy, Jane Barr, and Henry David Venema
 
13. SPRING QUARTER
 Distance Learning Courses Begin March 4.  Haga click aquí para Cursos en Español.

We’ve trained development professionals from 500 organizations in 149 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. International Workshop: Designing and Funding CBA Projects. Come Study with Us March 10.
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 March 4.
2. A Two Month Blended Distance and Live Training program beginning March 10.
 16. 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 March 4.
2. A Two Month Blended Distance and Live Training program beginning March 10. 
17. 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 March 4.
2. A Two Month Blended Distance and Live Training program beginning March 10.
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.
 
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