#learning group meeting report
Poverty and Conservation Learning Group Inception Meeting - Taking the Learning Group Forward
12-13 December 2005, UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, UK
The inception meeting of the Poverty and Conservation Learning Group was convened in December 2005. 46 organisations that are actively involved in, or affected by, conservation-poverty linkages were invited. Of these, 27 organisations were able to participate in the meeting. The meeting was convened with three key aims:
1. To recap on the rationale for the Learning Group and to introduce potential Group members to each other
2. To review and agree proposed protocols of the Group
3. To develop a learning agenda for the next 1-2 years
Meeting report: Poverty and Conservation Learning Group Inception Meeting Report (PDF, 127k)
Other meeting documents:
- Advancing Conservation in a Social Context
Thoma McShane - Advancing Conservation in a Social Context (Slides, 82k) - Conservation, Poverty and Indigenous Peoples
Marcus Colchester - Forest Peoples Programme (Slides, 760k) - IUCN Conservation for Poverty Reduction Initiative
Presentation (Slides, 122k) - Nature and Poverty Initiative
Peter van Sluijs - IUCN NL (Slides, 5040k) - Poverty and Conservation - CBD
Peter Herkenrath - UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (Slides, 67k) - Poverty Environment Partnership
Steve Bass - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (Slides, 152k) - Poverty-Conservation Programming in CARE
Presentation (Slides, 222k) - ProFor Poverty Forest Linkages Toolkit
Jill Blockhus - PROFOR (Slides, 4473k) - UNDP/UNEP Poverty and Environment Initiative
Presentation (Slides, 41k) - Wetlands and Poverty Reduction
(PDF, 510k)
#This is one meeting - see details of all PCLG meetings