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    Gestion Communautaire Durable et Décisions Nationales d’aménagement Administratif et Territorial Le Cas de la Réserve Communautaire : la Somone / Sustainable Community Planning and Administrative and Territorial Decisions The Case of the National Communi

    "The pilot project aimed at the collaborative and decentralised management of the community managed nature reserve of La Somone (RNICS) could, in light of its achievements (economic, ecological, and social), serve as a model to be replicated through…

    Papa Faye

    Cheikh Oumar Ba, Dr

    Silmang Diouf

    • Community Management
    • Gestion Communautaire
    • Electoral Redistricting
    • Redecoupage Electoraliste
    • Sustainable Management of Natural Resources
    • Gestion Durable des Ressources Naturelles
    • Natural resources
    • Environmental management--Developing countries
    • Sustainable development
    10 pages

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    The OAU/AU at 50 : Democratic Governance as a Precondition for a Sustainable African Future

    "The 50th anniversary of the African Union (AU), previously the Organisation for African Unity (OAU), in May 2013 provided a fitting moment for the continental body to reflect on its achievements, challenges and the way forward. When compared with …

    Alfredo Tjiurimo Hengari

    Yarik Turianskyi

    • African Union
    • Economic Growth
    • Governance
    • Regional Integration
    • Democracy
    • Sustainable development
    • Economic development
    4 pages

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    Managing Climate Extremes and Disasters in the Water Sector: Lessons from the IPCC SREX Report

    "This thematic brief summarises the key findings of the report relevant to water resources, and water management. It draws exclusively on material from SREX. It includes an assessment of the science and the implications for society and sustainable d…

    Emma Back

    Catherine Cameron

    Gemma Norrington Davies

    • Disaster Risk Reduction
    • Water Resource Management
    • Climate Extremes
    • Climatic changes
    • Water management
    • Sustainable development
    36 pages

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    Managing Climate Extremes and Disasters in the Health Sector: Lessons from the IPCC SREX Report

    "This thematic brief summarises the key findings of the report relevant to health. It includes an assessment of the science and the implications for society and sustainable development. This brief seeks to highlight key thematic findings and learni…

    Mairi Dupar

    Maarten Van Aalst

    Jeremy Hess

    • Disaster Risk Management
    • Climate Extremes
    • Vulnerability
    • Climatic changes
    • Health risk assessment
    • Sustainable development
    36 pages

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    Managing Climate Extremes and Disasters in the Agriculture Sector: Lessons from the IPCC SREX Report

    "This thematic brief summarises the key findings of the report relevant to the agricultural sector. The agricultural sector is amongst those sectors most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and weather extremes, not least because of its depe…

    Gemma Norrington Davies

    Catherine Cameron

    Emma Back

    • Agricultural Production
    • Climate Smart Agriculture Policies
    • Climate Science Information
    • Climate Extremes
    • Climatic changes
    • Agriculture--Environmental aspects
    • Sustainable development
    • Conservation of natural resources
    36 pages

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    Africa's Extractive Governance Architecture: Lessons to Inform a Shifting Agenda

    "Careful reflection is needed in examining options for streamlining and capacitating the myriad Africa-led initiatives that have emerged recently in the area of resource governance. The best known among them – the Africa Mining Vision (AMV) and its…

    Oladiran Bello

    • Resource Governance
    • Extractive Industry
    • Mines and mineral resources
    • Sustainable development
    4 pages

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    Governing Agricultural Biotechnology in Africa Building Public Confidence and Capacity for Policy-making

    "Persistent poor agricultural production and rising food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa have brought into sharp focus the role of modern agricultural biotechnology in human development. Growing food insecurity in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambi…

    Norman Clark

    John Mugabe

    James Smith

    • Biotechnology
    • Food Insecurities
    • Genetically Modified Crops
    • Biosafety Policy
    • Agricultural resources
    • Sustainable development
    42 pages

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    Bioenergy Policy Review in Tanzania

    "Biofuel is a fast growing sector in Tanzania. some companies are acquiring big tracts of land, some up to 400 000 hectares for growing biofuel crops. It is believed that the country has a reserve of 88 million hectares for agriculture. The governme…

    Agnes G. Mwakaje

    • Biofuels
    • Clean Energy
    • Bio-energy Related Policies
    • Biomass energy
    • Energy
    • Sustainable development
    • Agricultural resources
    8 pages

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    Biofuels Investment and Community Land Tenure in Tanzania: The Case of Bioshape, Kilwa District

    "The main objective of this report is to examine the outcomes and impacts that arise from the withdrawal or bankruptcy of a large-scale, land-based investment in Tanzania, and to use this evidence to draw insights for policy and practice around loc…

    Emmanuel Sulle

    Fred Nelson

    • Biofuels
    • Land Tenure
    • Land Acquisition
    • Rural Development
    • Biomass energy
    • Land reform
    • Sustainable development
    27 pages

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    On the Future Africa Wants: The Common African Position on the Post-2015 Development Agenda

    "This Policy & Practice Brief critically discusses the Common African Position (CAP) on the Post-2015 Development Agenda against lessons learnt from operationalisation of the MDGs, particularly in light of the fact that a truly humanist future is ne…

    Siphamandla Zondi

    • Millennium Development Goals
    • Globalization
    • Economic Transformation
    • Environmental Sustainability
    • Security Services
    • International relations
    • Economic development
    • Sustainable development
    • Peace
    • Poverty
    • Finance
    8 pages

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    The Constant Quest for Solutions through Dialogue and Consensus in Rwanda: The Mechanisms for Dialogue and Consensus

    "Following the devastating Genocide against the Tutsi in 1994, Rwanda has deliberately set out to build a society that is socially cohesive and makes the good life possible for all. It has aimed not just to overcome sectarian divides but for economi…

    Institute of Policy Analysis and Research - Rwanda (IPAR-Rwanda)

    • Social Transformation
    • Social Cohesion
    • Socio-Economic Status
    • Community Identity
    • Postwar reconstruction
    • Genocide
    • Economic development
    • Poverty
    • Sustainable development
    216 pages

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    Revamping Artisanal Gold Mining in Zimbabwe to Catalyse Poverty Reduction

    "This briefing discusses the challenges and opportunities presented by the artisanal gold mining sector in Zimbabwe. It reflects on the measures needed to promote artisanal miners’ contribution to sustainable development, economic growth and povert…

    Oladiran Bello

    Megan Bybee

    • Gold Mining
    • Poverty Alleviation
    • Economic Growth
    • Artisanal Mining
    • Mines and mineral resources
    • Sustainable development
    4 pages

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    Emerging Insights into Governance and Sustainable Management of Africa's Natural Ecosystems

    "Developing countries need to grow their economies to meet the needs of their people, while ensuring that the productivity and viability of the underlying ecosystems are maintained at healthy levels. Resilient ecosystems are vital to achieve globa…

    Romy Chevallier

    • Natural Ecosystems
    • Economic Growth
    • Natural resources
    • Sustainable development
    • Conservation of natural resources
    4 pages

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    Border Governance for African Integration: Progress and Challenges

    "This Report is aimed at two immediacies. The first is for it to serve the purpose of an instant aide memoire for the Colloquium participants. The second is to disseminate information about the Colloquium further afield. The Handbook is organized in…

    Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS)

    • Resource Mobalization
    • Cross-Border Cooperation
    • Regional Integration
    • Peace
    • Border security
    • Sustainable development
    • Human rights--Security
    • Economic development
    • Regional economics
    48 pages

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    Increasing the Economic Value and Contribution of Protected Areas in Africa

    "The more value African countries derive from PAs, the more importance they will attach to them and the more effectively they will be regulated and protected. Similarly, if local communities consider natural resources and wildlife as central to thei…

    Romy Chevallier

    Richard Milburn

    • Protected Areas
    • Economic Value
    • Conservation of natural resources
    • Sustainable development
    4 pages

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    Re-conceptualization of Wildlife Conservation Toward Resonation between Subsistence and Wildlife

    The contents of this book were originally presented on the international workshop held at Nairobi on 7th August 2008. The purpose of these proceedings is to bring some hints for reconceptualization. Chapter 2 deals with community participation. Loca…

    Charles Musyoki

    Itsuhiro Hazama

    Toshio Meguro

    David Western

    Mordecai O. Ogada

    • Wildlife Conservation
    • Community Participation
    • Community-Based Natural Resource Management
    • Livestock
    • Livelihoods
    • Conservation of natural resources
    • Sustainable development
    98 pages

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    What Natural Capital Disclosure for Integrated Reporting ? Designing and Modelling an Integrated Financial - Natural Capital Accounting and Reporting Framework

    "This paper argues that a solid accounting foundation is required for these to be able to effectively incorporate the broader and longer term social and environmental consequences of corporate decision-making. To support this argument, this paper …

    African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)

    • Natural Capital Accounting Framework
    • Environmental Management Accounting
    • Finance, Public
    • Environment--Economic aspects
    • Sustainable development
    62 pages

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    The Role of Targeting in Service Delivery to Vulnerable Populations - The FANRPAN Household Vulnerability Index (HVI) A Synthesis of Three Country Reports

    "The objective of the HVI pilot study conducted in Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe was to further develop and test the HVI as a statistical tool for quantifying household vulnerability resulting from shocks such as HIV and AIDS. Key outputs from the…

    Tendayi Kureya

    Unity Chipfupa

    • Service Delivery
    • Household Vulnerability Index (HVI)
    • Food Security
    • Sustainable development
    • Population
    4 pages

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    Development, Sustainability and Social Justice: The Elusive Balancing Act of African Fisheries Governance

    "The discourse on African fisheries governance is dominated by themes of unrealised potential and crisis. Undoubtedly, the threats are significant: illegal fishing and overfishing by foreign industrial vessels, as well as intense fishing pressure in…

    Alex Benkenstein

    • Small-Scale Fisheries
    • Fisheries Governance
    • Fisheries
    • Sustainable development
    • Climatic changes
    4 pages

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    The Intricate Road to Development: Government Development Strategies in the Pastoral Areas of the Horn of Africa

    "Pastoralism is a livelihood strategy and a system of mobile livestock production that makes wide-ranging use of grazing lands in arid and semi-arid environment that doesn’t uphold sustainable crop cultivation. The freedom of mobility over outsized …

    Yohannes Aberra

    Mahmmud Abdulahi

    • Pastoralism
    • Pastoral Conflict
    • Livestock Trade
    • Indigenous Knowledge Systems
    • Resource Conflicts
    • Livelihoods
    • Animal Husbandry
    • Horn of Africa
    • Green Economy
    • Agriculture--Economic aspects
    • Agriculture--Environmental aspects
    • Natural resources
    • International trade--Environmental aspects
    • Environmental policy
    • Diseases
    • Sustainable development
    454 pages

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