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April 2011
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About Us
The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) is a joint program of l'Agence Française de Développement, Conservation International, the Global Environment Facility, the Government of Japan, the MacArthur Foundation and the World Bank.
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Indochina
Indo-Burma: Progress toward Positive Impacts on Natural Resources and People
By Amy Gilbert
CEPF Grants Coordinator
Implementation of CEPF's conservation strategy in the Indo-Burma Hotspot is well under way. Recently I traveled with CEPF Grant Director Jack Tordoff and members of the regional implementation team, BirdLife International, to visit grantees and project sites in the region.
During the two-week trip, the team met with 16 grantee organizations and conducted site visits of projects run by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Cambodian Rural Development Team (CRDT) and Community Economic Development (CED). We visited grantee projects in Laos and Cambodia.
In 2008, CEPF began a $9.5 million investment into the region, covering land in China, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. The five-year investment focuses on the Northern Highlands Limestone and the Mekong River and Major Tributaries corridors, and prioritizes 28 key biodiversity areas, 67 animal species and 248 globally threatened plant species. |
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Photo Gallery
Making Progress in Indo-Burma
During Amy Gilbert's trip to the Indo-Burma Hotspot, she captured images of some of the progress being made there through support from CEPF. |
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Bhutan
Lesson Learned: Kuensel Corporation Limited of Bhutan
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Final Project Report
Kuensel Corporation Limited: Advocacy and Awareness Campaign on Biodiversity in Bhutan, English (PDF - 34 KB) | In its final project report to CEPF, Kuensel said it met all of its objectives and successfully completed the project. In the course of the work, project implementers learned some valuable lessons, which they shared with us.
In terms of the project's outputs, the Kuensel staff reported that they gained experience in different fields including news reporting, advocacy and producing supplements related to conservation issues. They also attended a training on the media's role in environmental conservation, enhancing Kuensel's capacity to develop an environmental and/or conservation project in partnership with other organizations. Finally, through Kuensel's efforts in knowledge distribution, an increased interaction among the stakeholders in the society helped to increase understanding of each one's roles and responsibilities.
Pushpa Chhetri of Kuensel believes that "awareness and education are key to achieving conservation outcomes." She also stated that local ownership of the projects is very important; and she realized that in order to have sustained conservation activities, funding is required.
Chhetri revealed that "it was good to partner with the Nature Conservation Division and the Royal Society for the Protection of Nature (RSPN) for identification of project sites, but we should have selected fewer project sites for better penetration." Kuensel Corporation Ltd. selected five project sites to which it distributed awareness and education-related supplements. Additionally, "since Kuensel staff was responsible for the whole execution, it became very challenging, especially as a daily newspaper, to both publish the paper and run the project. An intern or a temporary staff could have been hired," offered Chhetri.
Chhetri also reported that, "With the exposure and training that the Kuensel staff received from this project, Kuensel now has better understanding and skills to conduct advocacy and awareness campaigns on biodiversity issues with or without the project. Kuensel's coverage on the environment will continue and with increased partnerships, it will be easier to get funding for the supplemental materials and other activities."
Finally, Chhetri reported that, "Overall, the project has had a very positive impact on Kuensel and the project staff. The whole process has been a chain of educational experience not only in terms of coverage of biodiversity conservation but also in building capacity, understanding the value [of their work] and media's role attached to it." |
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New Resources Grantee Newsletters, Publications, and Web sites
Newsletters
- Newsletter: Winged News, Armenian Society for the Protection of Birds, Issue 13, July – December 2010, English (PDF – 1 MB)
- Newsletter: Brown Hyena Research Project, Issue 33, March 2011, English (PDF – 685 KB)
Publications
- Document: 2010 Vahatra Annual Report, from CEPF grant, "Support to the Malagasy International Association Vahatra," English (PDF – 3 MB)
- Document: Biodiversity Conservation Lessons Learned 2: The Rare Plants of Samoa, English, January 2011 (PDF – 7 MB)
Biodiversity Conservation Lessons Learned Technical Series is a series of 10 reports sharing lessons learned in biodiversity conservation in the Pacific. These are technical reports prepared by a range of partners funded by CEPF and CI. The reports are being produced on an ad hoc basis as projects are completed, with more reports expected to be published every year.
* Editor’s Note: Correction made from the last newsletter: This technical series is being realized through Ms. Joanne Aitken, a consultant hired by CI-Pacific.
The report, The Rare Plants of Samoa, is the second in the series. |
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Photo Credits: Amy Gilbert & kids, © CI/Photo by Amy Gilbert; Boat on the Mekong, © CI/Photo by Amy Gilbert; Environmental education, Photo courtesy of Pushpa Chhetri
Header Photo: Tim Fitzharris / Minden Pictures | |
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