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Field Projects Special Issue: Adaptation | Islands | Water | Forests | New CBA Field Guide
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Tim Magee on Dec 14 at 11:25AM
Tim Magee on Dec 14 at 11:25AM Also: Winter Quarter 2012 | Scaling Up Projects | Networking | Call for CBA Projects | Scholarship Appeal
December 2011 Newsletter
CSDi Winter Quarter 2012: Online Field Courses: January 10, 2012
Are you interested in:
Designing and Funding Sustainable Development Projects?
A Diploma in Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change?
A Diploma in Integrated Community Based Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction & Rural Development?
Food Security, Nutrition, and Home Gardens?
Designing and Funding Sustainable Development Projects?
A Diploma in Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change?
A Diploma in Integrated Community Based Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction & Rural Development?
Food Security, Nutrition, and Home Gardens?
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Worldwide over 1 billion people suffer from hunger. 2.6 billion people don’t have access to decent sanitation. 1.1 billion people don’t have access to safe drinking water. 1.3 billion people live on $1.25 a day or less. The growing costs of inaction are real. Your donation will get sound tools & training into the hands of field staff solving these challenges.
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Your donation will help the Center continue to support programs to end hunger and poverty, improve health—and empower entire communities like ones in the newsletters below to adapt to climate change.
CSDi is firmly committed to proven solutions to end suffering and poverty. Our goal is to spread these solutions across the globe through our online field guides and resources, and interactive online field courses. Invest in us & Become the Solution.
We've been very lucky in 2011 with the high quality of our student field partners and of the projects they developed—and during November we featured select projects in four newsletters for specialty audiences. Each project has a short write-up—as well as detailed background information about the actual communities and solution oriented project activities.
| Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change News: CBA |
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CBA projects from 4 countries & tools for perfecting project design
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- Climate Change Risk & Vulnerability in a Remote Tanzanian Village
- CC Study in Injustice: 10 Million Additional African Children Malnourished by 2050
- Do you think that indigenous knowledge should be incorporated into CBA projects?
| Forests and Climate Change News |
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Forests are a major component of coastlines, rivers, biodiversity & farms
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- Forest Reserve Nigeria: REDD+ | NTFPs | Climate Smart Agroforestry
- Community Afforestation Program in Bangladesh
| Water and Climate Change News |
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Water challenges range from domestic water to agriculture, floods, drought, health
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- Community Afforestation Program in Bangladesh
- Water Management Program: Will It Help Mauritian Farmers Adapt to Climate Change Hazards?
| Islands and Climate Change News |
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Islanders suffer from erosion, water shortages, pollution, habitat loss and tropical storms
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- British Virgin Islands: climate change induced heavy rains impact local economy
- Mindanao Island: reduced fish catch due to climate variability
- Wet and Dry in Mauritius: Film by Matt Gray—Fulbright Scholar and CSDi student
To learn about other student projects in real time, please visit our Facebook Page and visit the CSDi Development Community to see their regular postings—and join 600 colleagues in sharing resources & collaborating online.
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Do you have a community-based adaptation to climate change project that you would like to be featured in a new Earthscan book from Routledge?
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'A Field Guide to Community-Based Adaptation' is being written by Tim Magee for development practitioners and will include clear, step-by-step descriptions of successful project activities. We are seeking an international range of innovative and successful activities to include.
We look forward to receiving contributions from actors at all levels—and we especially welcome contributions from practitioners themselves. Please follow the link for submission instructions including an example submission.
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Help Scale Up Project Successes: Help Us Increase Impact to 200,000 Beneficiaries by December 31.
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Help us to scale-up these impacted-oriented courses and their resulting projects. In the courses' first 21 months 500 people from 320 organizations in 113 countries have developed and are developing projects impacting 170,000 people. Help us scale up the reach of our courses so that a much greater number of students can begin projects and increase this impact to 200,000 people by year's end.
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HOW:
1. NETWORKING.
Please spread the word about our courses to your friends/colleagues through your blog, your newsletter or your Facebook page—or by 'liking' & commenting on our Facebook Page. Please consider providing a link to our Online Learning page on your website.
2. SCHOLARSHIPS.
Consider making a scholarship donation for field staff who can’t afford course fees.
3. ENROLL.
BECOME THE SOLUTION. Are you a donor, a development practitioner, in a job transition, or a student who wants to learn more about what works in development?
Join us along with students from all over the world January 10 to improve an existing project or learn from scratch how to design, fund and launch a community based project. Student projects have utilized 175 different kinds of solution-oriented activities to address community need. Scan the list to see which ones would work best for your project.
Visit Online Learning to see a full listing of Winter Quarter 2012, Community Based courses that begin on January 10.
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Be sure to visit CSDi’s Development Community. Join 600 colleagues in sharing resources & collaborating online.
Like us: CSDi Facebook.
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Reader Comments (1)
I have resolved and plan on undertaking a Diploma in Integrated Community Based Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Rural Development, beginning this January, 2012.
Please send me a form to enable me to pay the discounted price of USD115. Kindly allow me to deposit for at least four modules but I will be taking the one at a time.
Thanks,
Enoch Ongwara
P O Box 10 Ngong, Kenya
Tel: +254 723 222330