http://rmportal.net Smartfolder for DEmocracy and Governance C. Corruption and Resource-based Conflict Links daily 1 2006-12-02T17:33:42Z http://rmportal.net/training/poverty-reduction-seminar/link_nrm_eg_nric-seminar-poverty USAID EGAT Bureau Office of Natural Resources Management hosted a cross-sectoral seminar series, in October 2005 to explore the links between natural resource management and poverty reduction in developing and transitional countries. Experts from both within and outside USAID shared their knowledge and tools for understanding the complex role that wise natural resource management plays in reducing poverty. The seminars explored the conflicts and barriers to improving the livelihoods of the poor, and ways of assisting them with both improving their immediate standard of living and ensuring a sustainable future. The series presented eight seminars organized around the following topics: (1) Links beteen NRM & Poverty? (2) Power and Social Dimensions; (3) Assests, Poverty Traps & Rights; (4) Markets, Trade and Poverty Reduction; (5) Migrations and Marginal Lands; (6) Macro/National Level Issues; (7) Programmatic Issues & Tools; and (8) Conflict, Corruption, NRM & Poverty Reduction. MOVED TO THE FOLDER "NATURAL RESOURCES, PROTECTED AREA AND LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT" UNDER "ENVIRONMENT" IN THE NEW LIBRARY No publisher webadmin 2006-12-01T08:01:14Z Link http://rmportal.net/groups/extractive/usaid-democracy-and-governance-anti-corruption-news Calls for Financial Disclosure in Extractive Industries From Global Witness Website No publisher webadmin 2006-02-27T07:42:49Z Link http://rmportal.net/tools/conflict-assessment-and-management-tools/link_liveli_conflict This toolkit is par t of a series that explores how development assistance can address key risk factors associated with conflict. It shows how violent conflict can affect individual and community access to essential resources and how an approach that focuses on strengthening that access can help people sur vive and recover from conflict. Livelihoods, or individuals' or households' access to resources, is often a primary factor in motivating violence. In some cases, if livelihood support is offered early enough, conflict may be avoided. This document is intended to provide USAID mission staff, their par tners, and others working in countries affected by conflict and instability with: 1) an examination of the relationship between conflict and people's livelihoods; 2) lessons in developing livelihoods programs-- including an introduction to livelihood analysis; 3) a range of program options designed to reduce livelihood vulnerability, strengthen resiliency, and help people manage conflict-related shocks; and 4) listings of relevant USAID mechanisms, implementing partners, and contact information. 2005. No publisher webadmin 2006-03-13T17:36:53Z Link http://rmportal.net/tools/conflict-assessment-and-management-tools/link-to-water-and-conflict-toolkit No publisher webeditor 2007-03-16T01:08:48Z Link http://rmportal.net/library/V/D/nrm_dg_property/ard-land-tenure-and-property-rights-community-of-practice The demand to address property rights issues is increasing from both United States Agency for International Development (USAID) field missions and host country governments. The increase in demand is due, in part, to a growing awareness among development practitioners of the role played by property rights (and natural resources access and use) in economic growth, governance, and conflict and resource management. USAID and its partners have learned several important lessons from the last decade of research and policy work in regards to the relationship between property rights and economic growth, productivity, natural resource management and conflict.... No publisher USAID USAID and ARD 2007 In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, any copyrighted material herein is distributed without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. 2007-10-17T17:02:00Z Link http://rmportal.net/links/usaid-organizational-links-on-the-portal/africa-bureau-sub-saharan-africa-environment USAID environment programs across Africa are demonstrating the sector’s ability to be a robust vehicle for rural economic growth, stronger local governance, and conflict mitigation as well as reduced degradation. Sub-Saharan Africa has abundant natural resources that can be a major contributor to sustained economic growth. Several countries in the region have implemented highly innovative community-based approaches to improve the management of their natural resource base and to extend the economic benefits to lower income households. No publisher jdale usaid organizational links 2006-12-05T19:40:50Z Link http://rmportal.net/library/I/A/1/b/nrm_pa-gef-indig The Amazon Protected Areas Project aims to create a mosaic of protected areas in the Amazon Region, where the design of protected areas responds to the specific needs of each environmental and social conditions of each area. The project takes into account the possibility of people living within the boundaries of the protected areas (PA), and for such reason, the project will guarantee the right of the traditional and indigenous people during the process of establishing and managing the PAs. The project will benefit indigenous people in the vicinity of the PAs, as the PAs will act as buffer zones for frontier encroachment or illegal activities Besides, the project will benefit conservation of waterways, vegetation and wildlife in the neighborhood of the indigenous land. The indigenous people will participate in project management through its representatives in the Project Committee and/or through the PAs Management Councils established in the surroundings of the indigenous people. For unresolved cases of PA consolidation, the Conflict Resolution Mediation Committee will be called upon to investigate the particular situations. Full report available at this site. No publisher webadmin 2006-09-21T18:50:47Z Link