Recent Work

Recent work conducted by the partners includes:

World Vision Canada, Governance - Ecosystems - Livelihoods (GEL) CIDA-NGO Grant, December 2007

  • Facilitated, in French, a 5-day Training of Facilitators Workshop in Mauritania.
  • Introduced 21 national staff to systems-based thinking and approaches to community development.
  • Developed, together with participants, some practical tools which are aligned with World Vision's current Design Monitoring and Evaluation practice and which take into consideration the complexity of systems-based approaches.

The World Bank, Agriculture and Rural Development Division, Program on Forests (PROFOR), February - April 2007

  • Analysed case study research conducted by PROFOR in six countries. PROFOR, in partnership with IUCN, ODI, CIFOR and Winrock International, is building a body of knowledge, based on real examples, to show how locally and sustainably managed forests can help enhance rural livelihoods, conserve biodiversity and achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
  • Wrote introductory paper for the Poverty-Forest Linkages Toolkit.