Wetlands and Poverty Reduction Project (WPRP)
Initiative I0020
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| Implementing org | Wetlands International |
Summary
The Wetlands and Poverty Reduction Project (WPRP) endeavours to work with the conservation and development sectors to integrate socio-economic development and poverty-reduction issues into their planning and actions. The WPRP aims to achieve this by facilitating dialogue between these sectors, and identifying a common agenda that provides complementary solutions for wetland conservation and poverty reduction.
Outputs
1. Demonstration Projects: Five demonstration projects were selected and launched, one in Southern Kenya, one in South Africa, one in Zambia / Malawi, one in Mali and one in Indonesia. The demonstration projects are managed by local partners and the lessons learned from these projects will be used to show how sustainable livelihoods and poverty alleviation can simultaneously be achieved, and how inter-sector partnerships can work.
2. Seed Funding Facility: In 2006 WPRP received 106 applications from Latin America, Africa and Asia and is now selecting 5 grantees. The second call for proposals closes in June 2007.
3. Capacity Building: On the basis of stakeholder consultations training modules for Capacity Building have been developed and the first Training of Trainers has started. The trainings will eventually be given to 120 policy makers and 150 wetland management practitioners, helping them to get poverty reduction issues into wetland policy and management and get wetland issues into poverty reduction policies and projects.
4. Policy: In 2006 WPRP assisted in the development of National Wetland Strategies in four African countries and raised the profile of wetlands in poverty reduction strategy papers in West Africa. WPRP also worked on influencing Water Policies to acknowledge the functions and values of wetlands.
Geographic coverage
Africa
Asia
Americas
Starts
January 2005
Ends
December 2007
People
Trevor Wickham, Project Manager Wetlands and Poverty Alleviation Project
E-mail: Trevor.wickham@wetlands.org
Phone: +31 317 478887
Web URL
www.wetlands.org
Related records below this one:
- Wetlands International (Organisation O0114)