At Chemonics and the Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association's Communities in Conservation Summit, frontline environmental stewards, policymakers and experts came together to rethink the role communities play in protecting wildlife.
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This paper examines how conservation practitioners can learn from the effort to question the utility of community engagement, adapt lessons to bridge conservation and development more effectively, and apply the limited funds available to conservation to accomplish more on the ground.
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This paper uses systematic synthesis methods to assess the state of the peer-reviewed evidence base on community engagement interventions linked to terrestrial conservation projects. Specifically, it examines the relationships between different engagement approaches and land tenure/governance structures.
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Sharon Van Pelt is the former lead for Chemonics’ Democracy and Governance Practice.
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Director Joshua Leland presents on applying digital distributed ledger technologies to development efforts at the D.C. Blockchain Summit, which takes place March 15 to 16.
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ASU anthropologists are tracking cultural shifts that could spell safety for Mozambique's coastal communities.
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Former chief of party Ryan Smith discusses the challenges of measuring results on countering violent extremism programs and shares what his project learned in Kenya.
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