This docuseries highlights how carbon projects in Colombia have supported community-led development as well as biodiversity conservation.
Resource - Video
Chemonics’ chief of party on the USAID Heshimu Bahari Activity discusses the path that brought him home to lead an all-Tanzanian team to protect the ocean's resources.
Blog Post
Sadiki Lotha Laiser
Chief of Party
Sadiki Lotha Laiser has 17 years of experience in environmental, natural resources management, livelihoods & wellbeing, policy planning, and governance. He has led departments, units, consultants, and experienced teams that delivered science-policy and decision-making interfaces across…
Person - Specialist
Managing river basin resources across national boundaries can be challenging. Conservation trust funds, which are fit for context and purpose, offer a sustainable option.
Blog Post
This final report describes the project’s activities, approaches, and results achieved, and recommendations for the sustainability of these achievements.
Resource - Project Report
For almost a decade USAID has worked with Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities to protect their way of life. Learn how the pacific forest communities in Colombia are safeguarding the most biodiverse rainforests in the world.
Video
The Sustainable Environmental Governance Across Regions activity ensures Indonesia makes progress toward meeting its development objectives by promoting biodiversity conservation and integrating inclusive economic development with sustainable land use.
Project Page
This case study details the process, added value, and lessons learned from using applied political economy analysis as a tool to think and work politically on the Chemonics-implemented USAID/Guatemala Biodiversity Project.
Resource - Technical Brief
Luis Fernando Jara
Chief of Party, USAID Páramos and Forests Activity
Luis Fernando Jara is a forestry and climate change expert with 40 years of experience in project design and management, capacity building, and development of the forestry sector across the climatically diverse regions within Colombia, Costa…
Person - Specialist
The USAID Regional Program for the Management of Aquatic Resources and Economic Alternatives strengthened coastal-marine resource management and biodiversity conservation while improving the livelihoods of local populations.
Resource - Project Report
What needs to change to create the conditions necessary for communities to pursue sustainability? Michael Brown, Samantha Cheng, and Jim Tolisano propose a two step solution.
Blog Post
Alejandro Arrivillaga
Chief of Party, Guatemala Biodiversity Project
Alejandro Arrivillaga is a biologist with more than 25 years of experience with complex, multi-country biodiversity conservation and sustainable resource management projects, in government and non-governmental settings. Alejandro has a proven scientific record and experience with…
Person - Specialist