Biblioteca

This manual highlights the need for a system approach to contribute to addressing conflict-related issues and improving community ownership in sustainable management. It aims to create better understanding of participatory mapping as an empowerment for vulnerable groups to sustainable management of resources, and to develop an IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) approach to participatory mapping to enable a more systemic implementation of these activities within IFAD-supported programmes. This manual strengthens IFAD’s knowledge about participatory mapping tools and provides the basic for developing IFAD’s step-by-step methodology. It was compiled from desk reviews, knowledge gained in workshops and in field visits.

This analytical report tackles participatory mapping as a contribution to addressing conflict-related issues and improving community ownership in sustainable natural resource management for enhanced rural poverty reduction. Thus, an overall framework for the implementation of participatory mapping processes within IFAD-supported projects becomes critical to ensuring that the potential of this methodology is fully explored. This report provides a comprehensive overview of such a framework. It outlines the actions needed at each step of the project cycle for the implementation of participatory mapping processes in IFAD programmes and projects. Finally, it builds on an initial review that identifies core principles of good participatory mapping processes, and on knowledge captured from visits to ILC and IFAD projects.

This manual provides guidance to IFAD project staff on developing participatory communication strategies that will support and enhance the impact of participatory mapping initiatives, especially among pastoralists, indigenous peoples and forest dwellers. It provides a list of tools for documenting and managing the knowledge that emerges from the mapping process. The first section provides a review of participatory mapping and communication. The second section outlines a four-stage process for developing and implementing a communication strategy to support a participatory mapping initiative. It includes a step-by-step guide for creating a communication action plan and implementing communication activities. And the third section addresses knowledge management procedures that can be employed.

This analytical report addresses International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)’s staff and was undertaken to complement the IFAD adaptive approach to participatory mapping (IFAD 2010) developed under the project for the Development of Decision Tools for Participatory Mapping in Specific Livelihood Systems (Pastoralists, Indigenous Peoples, Forest Dwellers) – Phase I. The ‘adaptive approach’ details the actions needed at each step of the project cycle to implement participatory mapping processes in IFAD supported programmes and projects. To strengthen information regarding the ‘adaptive approach’, this report provides guidance on how to design and implement participatory monitoring and evaluation of participatory mapping initiatives. It is divided into three main sections, providing guidelines expected to help communities, project managers in the field and members of IFAD’s evaluation team to evaluate the outcomes of the processes and monitor their impact on IFAD-supported programmes and projects.

This toolkit details on how ICT companies can build sustainability into the operations and management of their organizations, through practical applications of international standards and guidelines. The toolkit begins with an introduction to the topic, then explores other areas to tackle green initiatives in the ICT Sector. It is designed to help improve business and sustainability performance and explores why companies cannot ignore their sustainability performance if they seek superior financial performance. Finally, the toolkit covers how it may mature and develop in future, through extending its scope, deepening its metrics, lowering the questionnaire burden on ICT companies, and through the provision of an implementation program to enable national regulators, policy-makers and individual ICT organizations to use the toolkit to achieve their own objectives.

This technical document speaks of minerals as key inputs for products of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry. A feature of this is that much of the outputs of these minerals are by small-scale mining. This means that the livelihood of much of the population depends on a sustainable minerals supply chain. However, due to global spotlights on the contributing role of artisanally-mined minerals with the financing of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s on-going armed conflict, these minerals have become symbolic of conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the nine adjoining states. This document however raises overlooked issues of artisanal and industrial mining of minerals impacts on two of the most important ecosystems on Earth: the Congo Basin and the Albertine Rift. This document points at the efforts to safeguard and protect ecological resilience.

This technical document speaks of the ocean’s storage of heat and carbon and its connection with the rate and degree of changes in climate and in the Earth climate system. Long-time series data requires cable systems that join continents and form the fabric of the Internet. These cables appear to offer a low cost support mechanism for the placement of instruments to obtain time series data. This document considers the implications for telecommunications companies. It explores existing technologies, future green ones, some assumptions and their responses, and finally, some evaluations and considerations with regards to the findings collected in this report. The study concludes that it is feasible to support a modest number of low power instruments in green repeaters.

This analytical report highlights that standardizing efficiency characteristics could reduce energy consumptions and greenhouse emissions of external power supplies by up to 50 per cent. It underlines opportunities to achieve further reductions in e-waste, energy use and greenhouse gas emissions by widening the range of ICTs supported by power adaptors and standardizing design parameters able to optimize these adaptors’ eco-efficiency. It raises awareness on the contribution of innovative technology to sustainability. It presents the results of a study of 300 available adapters, both for ICT and non-ICT use. The report suggests that an environmentally friendly design could result in savings of more than 30 per cent of the materials used to build the devices. Finally, this report focuses on efforts for improving energy efficiency wherever possible by building a responsible world through ICT-enabled transformation.

This analytical report refers to the mobile handset industry as mobile telecom operators and standards bodies develop eco-rating schemes to communicate the sustainability and environmental performance of their products to consumers. It focuses on two approaches to the schemes: the comparative approach to performance that can be reviewed by the purchaser; and the certification approach which provides a level of certification that a device meets a minimum level of performance. This report explains that each approach attempts to provide a broad perspective of the sustainability impact of the manufacture, use and disposal of mobile handsets. This report encourages leading processes in conjunction with mobile operators, manufacturers, countries, NGOs and other interested sustainability stakeholders, to develop a unified global eco-rating standard for communicating the sustainability and environmental attributes of mobile handsets.

This analytical report discusses the potential for scale and sustainability in weather index insurance for agriculture and rural livelihoods and identifies eight key principles. It includes nine case studies – Mexico, India, Ethiopia, China, Canada, United States, Ukraine and Brazil – on index insurance programmes and outlines how donors and governments can support the sector.

This publication summarizes the work that Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is undertaking, with its partners, to assist countries to mitigate and adapt to climate change as it relates to forests, trees and the people who depend on them. It is organized in four of the five main areas of FAO’s integrated approach to Sustainable Forest Management: Monitoring and Assessment; Management Planning and Practices; Policy and Governance; Forest Products, Services and Industry. The fifth main area of work, Intersectoral Cooperation and Coordination, cuts across the other four areas.

This manual aims to assist governments and education practitioners in scaling up and mainstreaming climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in the education sector in order to provide young people with the knowledge and skills to protect the environment and contribute to sustainable and equitable development.

This technical document seeks to quantify how a 1-meter sea-level, as a consequence of global warming, would affect coastal wetlands in 76 developing countries and territories, taking into account how much of wetlands would be submerged and how likely the wetlands would move inland as the coastline recedes. It is estimated that approximately 64 percent of the freshwater marsh, 66 percent of Global Lakes and Wetlands Database coastal wetlands, and 61 percent of brackish/saline wetlands are at risk. A large percentage of this loss would be shouldered by two regions: East Asia and the Pacific, and the Middle East and North Africa.

This booklet captures the Poverty-Environment Initiative (PEI) experiences of various stakeholders ranging from the government to vulnerable groups in Laos, Malawi, Bangladesh, Tajikistan and Uruguay. It includes chapters on a new climate change accounting system to reveal the real cost of adaptation in Bangladesh, new green enterprises in Tajikistan and a new wastewater law that recognizes waste recyclers in Uruguay and catalyses the transition to an inclusive green economy.

This technical document emerged from the results of an expert group meeting held in at El Colegio de México in Mexico City, October 2010, entitled “Population Dynamics and Climate Change II: Building for Adaptation.” The meeting was organized by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and El Colegio de México, with support and contributions by other partners. The book analyses the linkages between population dynamics and climate response. In particular section 1 focuses on key concepts and perspectives of population dynamics and adaptation, section 2 on sources and methodologies of population data for adaptation, and section 3 on the planning and practice of adaptation.

This brochure underscores the relationship between the vision for global food security of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and climate change impacts. It outlines FAO-Adapt’s core principles and notes the priority themes of: data and knowledge; institutions, policies and financing; sustainable management of resources; technologies, practices and processes; and disaster risk reduction (DRR). It subsequently describes projects related to each of these areas of interest.

This technical document analyses the outcomes of a pilot project to operationalize the “Making Cities Resilient Campaign” in three cities in Africa – Narok and Kisumu in Kenya and Moshi in Tanzania. It also describes disaster prevention activities undertaken by pilot cities, and provides assessment and analysis of city resilience according to the Ten Essentials for Making Cities Resilient: 1. Institutional and administrative frameworks; 2. Financing and resources; 3. Multi-hazard risk assessment – know your risk; 4. Infrastructure protection, upgrading and resilience; 5. Protect vital facilities: education and health, (food and water) supplies; 6. Building regulations and land use planning; 7. Training, education and public awareness; 8. Environmental protection and strengthening of ecosystems, including addressing climate change; 9. Effective preparedness, early warning and response; 10. Recovery and rebuilding communities.

This technical document aims to accelerate the adoption of clean energy technologies, by facilitating the development of a policy framework for promoting climate-friendly investment in South Asia. Its specific objectives are to: 1) systematically and objectively evaluate and compare the enabling environments for private sector investment in clean energy technologies; and 2) construct a Climate Investment Readiness Index (CIRI) for South Asian countries to capture the multitude of incentives and barriers to clean energy investment, with the aim of facilitating comparisons of the readiness of different countries to support such investment.

This technical document stresses that climate information is a critical input for effective climate risk management. Therefore it assesses the current state of climate science, data and information in Africa and its use in development activities. It identifies key gaps and recommends actions needed to be taken for bridging the gaps.

This technical document includes a risk and vulnerability mapping highlighting the hotspots of current and future climate-related vulnerability in Africa for adaptation planning and knowledge disseminating processes. The mapping is done for the water, agriculture, health, coastal and marine sectors. Some adaptation strategies have been pointed out for the different sectors but an integrated approach has been suggested to minimize the cost of adaptation.