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.
Resource - Paper
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.
Resource - Paper
The USAID-funded Resilience in the Limpopo Basin Program (RESILIM) contributed to significant advances in water management, biodiversity, and climate change adaptation across an area of Southern Africa.
Resource - Project Report
USAID’s Southern African Regional Environmental Program worked with partners and stakeholders related to the Okavango River Basin, to forge relationships that allowed a large portion of the people of the basin to have better lives, now and in the future.
Resource - Project Report
This case study discusses how Filipino policymakers in Bago City developed a conservation financing model to protect its local ecosystem and to better educate its residents. This occurred by way of USAID’s Biodiversity and Watersheds Improved for Stronger Economy and Ecosystem Resilience (B+WISER) Program.
Resource - Fact Sheet
