Aug 12, 2013
Increasing the Profile of Disability Rights – ICAAD Gets Underway A lot has been happening in our four project districts since we began implementing the Improving Community Awareness and Advocacy on Disability project four months ago. In fact, activities didn’t...
Aug 12, 2013
The Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction Research Alliance [PAPR] is into it s final year now. The project has supported considerable research into the relationships between protected area conservation and the challenges of neighbouring communities under the four...
May 22, 2013
Bruce’s recent jouranl entry raises some very significant observations around poverty which I would like to build on. As I think you rightly highlight, poverty is multi-dimensional and often subjective which is why coming up with generalised definitions and...
May 17, 2013
Our volunteer Brent Liddle, who traveled to Tanzania at the end of last year, has completed the conceptual design report for the World Elephant Centre initiative. It is an important step forward in this major undertaking and we appreciate Brent’s significant...
May 17, 2013
“I don’t consider myself poor as long as I have something to eat.” [village interviewee] One of the problems our PAPR research program has had is to understand and address poverty in the context of conservation. Typically, approaches to poverty reduction have been...
