Resources
Sustainable Water Partnership Newsletter September 2017
Achieving and maintaining water security is a fundamental development challenge. This toolkit, the first in a series of six, aims to inform stakeholders on water issues, and outlines SWP’s revolutionary Water Security Improvement process. Featured in This Issue: – SWP Launches Toolkit #1 – Making a Splash in Stockholm – SWP Blog Featured on ClimateLinks
SAFETI January 2017 – September 2021
SAFETI’s vision is that by 2021, the project will have supported efforts to significantly increase farmed shrimp and prawn productivity and national exports and production; an increase in the income of all value chain participants – particularly farmers but also input suppliers and others, and an improvement in the quality of exported shrimp and prawn.
Land Tenure and Natural Resource Access Issues in Northern Ghana – With a focus on women
The USAID Feed the Future (FtF) Ghana Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Project (AgNRM) seeks to reduce poverty through sustainable increases in wealth and nutrition from natural and non-traditional agriculture products by addressing environmental, agricultural, governance, and natural resource management challenges. Using an integrated landscape approach that aligns development with conservation and responds to the […]
Pay-for-Performance Conservation: A How-To Guide
Authors: Kristin A. Fisher, PhD, Jonathan R. Winsten, PhD, Elisabeth Spratt (all of Winrock International), Ryan Anderson (Delta Institute), Ryan Smith (Delta Institute) Water quality impairments resulting, in part, from agricultural nutrient runoff have remained stubbornly difficult to solve in the United States. Pay-for-Performance conservation capitalizes on scientific and technological advances to identify cost-effective land […]
Using Wisconsin’s SnapPlus Planning Tool in Pay-for-Performance Projects
SnapPlus is a nutrient management (NM) planning application, developed by scientists at University of Wisconsin-Madison, designed to assist farmers in the creation of NM plans and estimate phosphorus (P) loss in accordance with statewide agricultural performance standards and resource management policies. SnapPlus also incorporates the latest planning criteria and guidelines from the Wisconsin Natural Resources […]
Sustainable Water Partnership Newsletter August 2017
Water drives all aspects of life, from basic health and hygiene to industries like agriculture, energy and transportation. But what do we mean when we say “water security” – and how is SWP working to improve it? Featured in this issue: – What is Water Security – Introducing the Sustainable Water Partnership – MUS Blog […]
USAID BERSAMA Collaberates with the Government of Papua to Empower Women
USAID BERSAMA is committed to coordinating and collaborating with government partners. To facilitate this coordination, USAID BERSAMA has scheduled regular quarterly meetings with the government in each district. This enables USAID BERSAMA to report quarterly developments and discuss the challenges encountered during program implementation. The quarterly meetings also provide an opportunity for USAID BERSAMA to […]
Papuan CSO Capacity Strengthened in Writing Proposals
Being able to respond to solicitations and submit a strong proposal is an essential skill for civil society organizations (CSOs) working in development. A key component of the USAID BERSAMA project is to strengthen the capacity of Papuan CSOs to not only improve the technical quality of their programs to fight gender-based violence (GBV) in […]
Greenhouse gas emissions from tropical forest degradation: an underestimated source.
Authors: Timothy R H Pearson, Sandra Brown, Lara Murray, and Gabriel Sidman. The degradation of forests in developing countries is perceived to be an important contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions yet its impacts understudied and poorly understood. This is largely because international emission reduction programs have focused on deforestation, which is easier to detect […]