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Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge Sharing project
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"IDS, in partnership with three African organisations, has been awarded a three-year grant to enhance communication and sharing of climate change adaptation knowledge across Africa. Supported by DFID/IDRC’s Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) programme, the project will focus on building skills in communicating research and sharing knowledge amongst vulnerable groups, researchers, policy makers and civil society organisations, to ensure that the growing wealth of research and experience on climate change adaptation in Africa is used to the benefit of vulnerable communities.

The project will develop knowledge-sharing and networking tools including web-based platforms, print and audio-visual resources and skills development workshops. It will build on and help to network the CCAA Programme’s participatory action research consortia that are spread across the continent and that began work in 2007 or 2008. Details of these consortia can be found on IDRC’s website.

The four complementing partners will lead and coordinate the project activities, with a knowledge sharing officer based at each of the four institutions to facilitate knowledge flows across networks. IDS will be helping to build the capacity of these officers and the other partners, drawing on our experience of adaptation research and international knowledge sharing networks from across the Institute’s climate change researchers and Information Department. Ownership of resulting networks and activities will ultimately be with lead African institutions.

The four core partners of the project are :

•ENDA-Tiers Monde (Senegal)
•Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (Ghana)
•IGAD Climate Predictions and Applications Centre (Kenya)
•Institute of Development Studies (UK)"

From Enda website

August 2, 2008 | 6:04 PM Comments  0 comments



Planète Jeunesse : La jeunesse bouge le monde ... 3 jeunes en font le tour!
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Planet Youth: Youth moves the world… 3 young people make the turn of it!
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“Planet Youth, it is a project imagined by three students of the Central School of Electronics (ECE) who had a little the head in the voyages. During several months, in university exchange in Australia or in Canada, we shared the life of young people of the whole world. Marked by these environments “D? Spanish inn”, the idea of a turn of the world of youth came quite naturally and was concretized month in month.

Youth and voyages, here are our motivations, our engines which pushed us to assemble this adventure. Here principal conducting wire of our odyssey? “


http://www.planete-jeunesse.fr/


July 29, 2008 | 3:09 PM Comments  0 comments

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1re École d’été de l’Unité jeunesse de la Francophonie sur l’environnement et le développement
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1st School D? summer of L? Unit youth of the Francophonie on L? environment and the development
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The 1st School D? summer of L? Unit youth of the Francophonie on L? will environment and the development be held of with L? Hotel Ibis Moussafir Casablanca City Center, in Morocco, of the 21 at July 25, 2008. Organized by L? Unit youth of L? International organization of the Francophonie and L? Institute of L? energy and of L? environment of Francophonie (IEPF), L? event will also include the meeting of launching of work of the 2nd committee of “young people reporters” of Médiaterre.

L? school D? will summer include/understand a session D? initiation with L? Saving in L? environment and a formation on L? animation of the Gate young people of Médiaterre. L? does event target of 30 young actors of the development of L? spaces French-speaking (North Africa, Africa of L? West, Africa Central, Indian Ocean, Asia, Caribbean, North America and Europe). It aims at developing among young French-speaking people of the aptitudes for:
· to insert in a network of division D? information on the development durable (Médiaterre, Resourcefulness? French-speaking information world);
· to identify the opportunities offered by L? aggregate environment in terms of layer D? employment (trades of L? environment)
· S? to register in the chain of decision-making on the assembly and the realization of environmental projects.

Let us note what the Médiaterre committee has for principal mission D? to animate the Gate “young people” of Médiaterre http://www.mediaterre.org/jeunes/. Are the members the voluntary ones who S? engage to regularly publish dispatches on the Gate young people of Médiaterre. Does posted information generally relate to L? topicality of the durable development and on the occasions for the young people in this field.

For more D? information:
Foamed IF NOT
Officer projects of co-operation
Unité youth of L? International organization of Francophonie (OIF)
Telephone : +1 506.856? 7664
Telecopier: +1 506.856 - 3879

Moussa.Sinon@francophonie.org
Moussa.Sinon@gnb.ca

http://jeunesse.francophonie.org/actualites/index.cfm?id=16752

July 29, 2008 | 2:49 PM Comments  0 comments

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Africa is approaching its ecological limits
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Why does ecological capacity matter to human development in Africa?

As the ongoing world food crises makes clear, human welfare is critically linked to mankind’s use and stewardship of biological resources. Nowhere is this more true than in Africa – a region with tremendous natural wealth, yet which often suffers first and most tragically when humanity’s demand on nature exceeds what nature can provide.

There are many issues facing the African continent that are linked to ecological assets, including population growth, food security, political instability, and inequitable access to resources. Despite these challenges there are many opportunities for nations to improve their quality of life while maintaining their ecological assets. As individuals, organizations, countries and regions work on advancing human development, decision-makers will need solid information and metrics in order to set goals and track progress towards sustainable development. Measures such as the Ecological Footprint are critical to setting targets and managing performance-based development projects.

Global Footprint Network’s Africa Project

To explore how ecological limits apply and relate to human development, Global Footprint Network and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation have joined forces on a multi-phase initiative focused on Africa.

On June 9, 2008 at the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment in Johannesburg, Global Footprint Network in conjunction with SDC and WWF International, released the first-ever detailed look at the Ecological Footprints of African nations and the trends at play over the last few decades.

Africa: Ecological Footprint and Human Well-Being offers an in-depth look at Africa’s ecological resources and the role those resources can play in advancing the region’s human development goals – or, if mismanaged, in thwarting them.

“There is a strong international commitment to improving human wellbeing in Africa and advancing the Millennium Development Goals to reduce poverty, hunger and disease,” said Global Footprint Network Executive Director, Mathis Wackernagel. “Yet, to advance these critical goals and produce lasting success, we need to work with, rather than against, ecological budget constraints. If development ignores the limits of our natural resources, the gains that are made cannot persist, and the most vulnerable people such as the rural poor will be the first to suffer the horrendous consequences of our resource blunder.”

Africa: Ecological Footprint and Human Well-Being helps chart a course for progress by analyzing the region’s ecological assets and pressures. It does this in part by examining the continent’s as well as individual countries’ Ecological Footprint -- the amount of productive land and sea it takes to produce what a population consumes and absorb its waste. “There are huge opportunities to improve well-being in lasting ways while staying within our ecological constraints,” Wackernagel continued. Among these are giving women access to health choices, education and economic opportunities; designing infrastructure that will make cities more resilient to resource scarcities; and leapfrogging directly to the most resource-efficient technologies.

Download the report

Africa: Ecological Footprint and Human Well-Being (1.73 mb download)

Our Africa report is the result of a multi-year project focused on learning from our partners about the factors at play in human development As a precursor to the report, we published our findings in a fact book, Africa's Ecological Footprint: Human Well-Being and Biological Capital Factbook Additionally, we engaged with our African partners in workshops held in Pretoria, Nairobi, Dakar, and Algiers who have first hand experience with the on-the-ground needs in Africa.


http://www.footprintnetwork.org/