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Journal articles on the topic "Community-led strategies"
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Baptiste, Solange, Alain Manouan, Pedro Garcia, Helen Etya’ale, Tracy Swan, and Wame Jallow. "Community-Led Monitoring: When Community Data Drives Implementation Strategies." Current HIV/AIDS Reports 17, no. 5 (2020): 415–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11904-020-00521-2.
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Abstract Purpose of Review Communities occupy a central position in effective health systems, notably through monitoring of health service quality and by giving recipients of care a voice. Our review identifies community-led monitoring mechanisms and best practices. Recent Findings Implementation of community-led monitoring mechanisms improved service delivery at facility-level, health system-wide infrastructure and health outcomes among recipients of care. Successful models were community-led, collaborative, continuous and systematic, and incorporated advocacy and community education. Summary Identifying and replicating successful community-led monitoring practices is a key pathway to equitable access to HIV and health services overall.
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Horowitz, Carol R., Barbara L. Brenner, Susanne Lachapelle, Duna A. Amara, and Guedy Arniella. "Effective Recruitment of Minority Populations Through Community-Led Strategies." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 37, no. 6 (2009): S195—S200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2009.08.006.
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Datta, Ranjan, Barsha Kairy, and Margot Hurlbert. "Addressing Wetland Flood Disasters Through Community-led Strategies in Bangladesh." Asia-Pacific Journal of Rural Development 34, no. 1 (2024): 98–112. https://doi.org/10.1177/10185291241296587.
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This study focused on mitigating wetland flood disasters in Bangladesh through community-led strategies, particularly in land-based minority communities. Wetland ecosystems, integral to the country’s landscape, are increasingly vulnerable to floods exacerbated by climate change. Recognising the intersectionality of environmental challenges and community well-being led to proactively addressing the impacts of wetland floods. This study uses participatory methods to engage minority communities, particularly those in the wetland regions. Focusing on local community-engaged approaches, the research aims to develop community-led adaptive strategies. The study emphasises the active participation of community members in decision-making processes through a community-led approach, enhancing resilience and sustainability. The study also explores the role of women in these community-led initiatives, acknowledging their unique perspectives and contributions to adaptive strategies. Ultimately, the findings aspire to inform policy frameworks and global discourse on disaster resilience, offering insights into how community-led strategies can serve as effective models in mitigating the impact of wetland flood disasters and foster a sense of hope and optimism for the future.
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Carter, Jeremy G., and Bryanna Fox. "Community policing and intelligence-led policing." Policing: An International Journal 42, no. 1 (2019): 43–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/pijpsm-07-2018-0105.
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Purpose Despite increased scholarly inquiry regarding intelligence-led policing (ILP) and popularity among law enforcement agencies around the globe, ambiguity remains regarding the conceptual foundation and appropriate measurement of ILP. Although most scholars agree that ILP is indeed a unique policing philosophy, there is less consensus regarding the relationship between ILP and the ever-present model of community-oriented policing (COP). Consequently, there is a clear need to study the empirical distinctions and overlaps in these policing philosophies as implemented by US law enforcement agencies. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach Data were gleaned from the 2007 LEMAS and 2009 NIJ Intelligence surveys. A total of 227 unique police agencies in the USA are included. A series of bivariate, exploratory factor analyses and structural models are used to determine discriminatory or convergent validity across COP and ILP constructs. Findings The goal was to answer the question: are these two policing philosophies are being implemented as separate and distinct strategies? Results of our exploratory and structural models indicate that COP and ILP loaded on unique latent constructs. This affirms the results of the bivariate correlations, and indicates that COP and ILP have discriminant measurement validity. In other words, COP and ILP are conceptually distinct, even when implemented in police departments across the USA. Implications of these findings and suggestions for future research are discussed. Originality/value This is the first study to empirically test the discriminant or convergent validity of COP and ILP.
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Romanus, Dokgubong Dinye, Dede Adai Tetteh Yvonne, Akponzele Raphael, and Kwaku Boafo Henry. "Strategies for Upgrading Informal Settlements Towards a Robust Built Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa." International Journal of Social Science and Human Research 08, no. 05 (2025): 2637–51. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15321548.
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Addressing urban housing crisis, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, requires implementing informal settlement upgrading (ISU). This paper investigates, compares and contrasts government-led and community-led ISU strategies, assessing their efficacy in fostering sustainable and affordable housing options. Comparative analysis was done based on themes that run across literature, and emphasises important aspects such as planning and execution, socio-economic effect, financial sustainability, governance systems, and resilience. Results reveal that while they may be sluggish to implement, lack community involvement, and run gentrification concerns, government-led projects offer policy support and large-scale infrastructure. Community-led initiatives prioritise local empowerment, affordability, and participatory planning but struggle with limited resources and lack of official acknowledgement. The results further imply that hybrid strategies (mixing government assistance with grassroots involvement) provide the most hopeful road for sustained urban growth. Efforts to promote resilient ISU require fundamental methods such as enhancing community involvement, using digital technologies, and closing policy holes.
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chitopo, James, Rosemary Farayi Masaire, Edmond Marunda, and Dennis Nikisi. "Community-led conservation efforts in Zimbabwe." Journal of Financial and Management Sciences; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): Special Issue: Sustainable Development 1, no. 1 (2025): 151–67. https://doi.org/10.70970/6xjf7780.
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Community-led conservation is a strategy that involves local communities and indigenous people taking the lead in managing and protecting natural resources. This approach aims to ensure sustainable use of resources and preservation of biodiversity. The objectives of this paper are to make an assessment of the state of Community-Led Conservation (CLC) effort in Zimbabwe. This paper argues that community-led conservation efforts can have a positive impact on local communities by supporting traditional ways of life and building political support for protected areas if done properly. Community-led approaches put communities in charge, allowing them to make key decisions. This study conducts a comprehensive literature review anchored by Ghana’s Community Resource Management Areas Model (CREMA) to address the following issues: Role of community-led conservation, Reasons for supporting community-led conservation, Principles of community-led conservation, and Impact of Community-led conservation on biodiversity and ecosystem services. CREMA is a structured, democratic and legally supported approach to conservation that prioritizes community-led strategies. By integrating conservation practices into the daily lives of communities such as sustainable agriculture, responsible tourism, and habitat restoration, this model ensures that both humans and wildlife can thrive without compromising the delicate balance of ecosystems. This study utilise the interpretivist research philosophy and data were collected through focus group discussions with communities around three conservancies. Qualitative data was analyzed through thematic approach. The study found that CLC in Zimbabwe is in a state of paralysis, communities are no longer involved in conservation efforts and communities are no longer have buy-in in conservation. Human- wildlife conflict is increasing as new human settlements encroach into conservancies. This study recommends the resuscitation of CAMPIRE and the adoption of the CREMA model through collaboration with local stakeholders to build awareness and support for conservation efforts and encourage local communities to use land sustainably to reduce human-wildlife conflict and improve ecosystem health.
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Courtney-Pratt, Helen, Karin Mathison, and Kathleen Doherty. "Distilling authentic community-led strategies to support people with dementia to live well." Community Development 49, no. 4 (2018): 432–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15575330.2018.1481443.
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Setiawan, Wisnu, Rini Hidayati, Nur Rahmawati Syamsiyah, and Fauzi Mizan Prabowo Aji. "Post-Pandemic resilient rural tourism in Yogyakarta: Community-led strategies toward a blue economy." BIO Web of Conferences 180 (2025): 03007. https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/202518003007.
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The COVID-19 epidemic not only forces local people to adjust to a new reality but also badly impacts rural tourism. Two Yogyakarta, Indonesia villages – Desa Brayut and Desa Kebonagung – whose longstanding community-led rural tourism activities have been well-known, form the subject of this study. Under a comparative case study method, this study explores post-pandemic adjustment strategies by means of field observations, interviews, and focus-group discussion. The analysis work employed a thematic analysis approach. Desa Brayut evolved in response to using its robust community networks and moving to small-group, specialized travel. On the other hand, Desa Kebonagung maximized the agricultural advantages by embracing agrotourism and farm-to-table experiences. Although they are different, both villages demonstrate the enormous need of community involvement in the resilience of tourism. Emphasized in the paper are basic ideas for sustainable rural tourism: the need for local economic development, digital revolution, and cross-village contact. The results support current debates on rural post-pandemic recovery and sustainable travel development and contribute to the development of feedback to the stakeholders.
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Silva, Paula Alexandra, Oksana Tymoshchuk, Denis Renó, Ana Margarida Almeida, Luís Pedro, and Fernando Ramos. "Understanding the role of digital communication and mediation strategies in community-led territorial innovation: a systematic review." Interaction Design and Architecture(s), no. 44 (May 10, 2020): 7–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-044-001.
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This article brings together empirical academic research on community-led territorial innovation initiatives. By engaging in a systematic literature review, the research analyses the role of digital technology in supporting community-led initiatives. Besides identifying the technologies used, this research develops an understanding both on its purpose of use and on its relation to communication and mediation strategies. A clear gap is found not only in terms of research reporting on community-led initiatives, but also on research studying the specific use of digital technology by those communities, highlighting a need for future research in the area. From an initial set of 1312, six articles are identified which meet the inclusion criteria for this review and only five of them report on technology use. Results show that a diversity of digital technologies, from blogs to online repositories, is used by the initiatives analysed, leveraging on the global coverage of the Internet. Besides a key role in supporting community collaboration and cooperation, digital technology also emerges as an important vehicle for community debate and as an enabler of community empowerment and advocacy.
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Aldrich, Daniel P., and Emi Kyota. "Creating Community Resilience Through Elder-Led Physical and Social Infrastructure." Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 11, no. 1 (2017): 120–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2016.206.
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AbstractObjectiveNatural disasters and rapidly aging populations are chronic problems for societies worldwide. We investigated the effects of an intervention in Japan known asIbasho, which embeds elderly residents in vulnerable areas within larger social networks and encourages them to participate in leadership activities. This project sought to deepen the connections of these elderly residents to society and to build elderly leadership and community capacity for future crises.MethodsWe carried out surveys of participants and nonparticipant residents across the city of Ofunato in Tohoku, Japan, 1 year after the intervention began. Our surveys included questions assessing participation levels inIbasho, demographic characteristics, efficacy, social networks, and a sense of belonging.ResultsRegression analysis and propensity score matching of more than 1100 respondents showed that regular participation in theIbashoproject had a statistically significant and positive connection with various measures of social capital.ConclusionsGiven its relatively low cost and focus on deepening cohesion, we suggest that this community-based project could be replicated and scaled up in other countries to deepen resilience, elder health, and social capital. Moving away from an emphasis on investing in physical infrastructure, we believe that disaster risk reduction strategies should center on social infrastructure. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2017;11:120–126)
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Community-led strategies"
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Dimitropoulos, Yvonne. "Strategies to provide co-designed and community-led oral health promotion for Aboriginal children in rural and remote communities in New South Wales, Australia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/22491.
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Background: Australian public policy prioritises the development of evidence-based and culturally appropriate oral health promotion to improve the oral health of Aboriginal people, including children. Aim: This thesis aims to identify themes of effective and culturally appropriate oral health promotion targeting Indigenous children in high-income nations; develop, implement and evaluate oral health promotion for Aboriginal children in rural and remote communities in NSW and determine if these strategies are effective and sustainable. Methods: A collaboration took place with three Aboriginal communities in Central Northern NSW, Australia, in 2014 to collect baseline oral health status of Aboriginal children and inform potential oral health promotion strategies. In 2015, a suite of oral health promotion strategies were co-designed with Aboriginal communities in Central Northern NSW including in-school toothbrushing, installation of refrigerated and filtered water fountains, water bottle program, distribution of fluoride toothpaste and toothbrushes; dental health education and a structured fluoride varnish program. These strategies were implemented in three schools in the region in 2016. The fluoride varnish program was also implemented in seven schools in NSW in 2017 piloting Aboriginal dental assistants to apply fluoride varnish. Oral health promotion was evaluated to determine feasibility, sustainability and impact. Results: Community-led oral health promotion strategies significantly reduced dental caries among children, increased positive oral hygiene behaviours and were considered sustainable. School fluoride varnish programs are feasible and Aboriginal dental assistants can safely provide children with at least three fluoride varnish applications per year using this approach. Discussion and Conclusion: Co-designed and community-led oral health promotion is effective and sustainable and may be a solution to improving the oral health of Aboriginal children.
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Chabaneix, Nicole. "Exploring change agent strategies in navigating transformation towards safe and just agri-food systems in South Africa - A case study of the SPAR Rural hub project." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-194232.
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Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) champions the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services to help people adapt to the adverse effects of climate change. Moreover, EbA presents an exemplary opportunity to confer social-ecological resilience. But how can such initiatives be effectively implemented and managed towards a resilient supply of key ecosystem services? Through case study research on community-led water sow and harvest (WSH) – a traditional form of EbA in the Peruvian Andes – this thesis explores social-ecological conditions for self-organization, collaboration and learning for the adoption of the practice, as well as the emergence of adaptive co-management (ACM) and its potential for building local water resilience. Qualitative data collected from interviews and participatory observations were thematically coded, and analysed for self-organization using the Multilevel Nested Framework (Ostrom 2009) and subsequently for social learning using ACM literature. This study found that self-organization for the adoption of WSH was primarily influenced by strong leadership, the importance of the water resource to the community, and users bonded by formal institutions of collective choice and social norms rooted in Andean culture. In addition, four types of collaboration and five learning activities were found to conform a social learning process and result in social learning outcomes for enhanced adaptive capacity, indicating the emergence of ACM around community-led WSH. By supporting knowledge exchange through a social network, ACM allows the practice to be scaled-up to create enabling legislation, scaled-out to increase the number of communities adopting WSH, and scaleddeep to support cultural internalization of the practice. Such scaling can potentially enable community-led WSH to build local water resilience through: 1) implementation at the landscape level to match the scale of ecological processes that sustain water ecosystem services; and 2) continuous management over time to support adaptive forms of water resource governance in the face of change and uncertainty.
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Thompson, Paul Anthony. "An analysis of Dubai's socio-economic development strategies and performance between 1998-2008." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13261.
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This study explores the socio-economic development path of the former Trucial State of Dubai, now an economic powerhouse within the Federal State of the United Arab Emirates. This thesis emanated out of the researcher’s need to understand the development trajectory of Dubai from the perspective of a development discourse, as literature and debates on the city’s developmental trajectory have generally focused on micro-and macro-economic variables and a sectoral emphasis without considering the total and complex development matrix. The author proposes a rentier, developmental and competition (RDC) Model as a basis for understanding the state-led social and economic development of the Emirate of Dubai. Empirically, the study examines a whole raft of home-grown social and economic development policies that fall exclusively within the domain of the Dubai Strategic Plans (DSPs). Conceptually, the thesis argues that although the Dubai Inc model has successfully changed the socio-economic landscape of the Emirate, nevertheless, a soft underbelly of the model displays the exploitative nature of unbridled free market capitalism.
Methodologically, triangulation backed up the qualitative research methodology by utilising a mixed-methods approach to enhance the richness of the research. Specific data collection methods used included in-depth semi-structured interviews and non-participative observation, supported by documentation analyses of relevant documents. The research findings unambiguously demonstrated that the socio-economic transformation of Dubai, between 1998 and 2008, was a result of the aforementioned hybrid model, which this thesis uses as its theoretical framework. The conclusion drawn from the study is that there is no one path to development; the Government of Dubai is cognisant of that and has thus used the capacity of the state to transform the once impoverished and marginalised sheikhdom into a ‘commodified’ city-corporate entity.<br>Development Studies<br>D. Litt. et Phil. (Developmental Studies)
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KOUBKOVÁ, Michaela. "Strategie komunitně vedeného místního rozvoje (2014-2020) SCLLD." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-394202.
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The aim of the paper was the comparison of performance indicators of selected local action groups for the program period of 2007-2013. For the comparison, the Local Action Group Blatensko and the Local Action Group Strakonicko were selected. Both groups are located in South Bohemia and were suitable for comparison. The theoretical part is focused on the characteristics of the LEADER method, its principles, history and origin. Then the focus shifts on explaining terms such as local action group, their standards, community-led local development, evaluation and monitoring. In the practical part, selected performance indicators which are used to evaluate LAG activity were analyzed. The result of this work was evaluation and comparison of selected LAGs. According to the analyzes, we have concluded that LAG Strakonicko is more successful and more efficient. The reason is better processing of the strategic plan and the Strategic document LEADER 2007-2013 itself.
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Borole, Thabo Daniel. "Poverty alleviation by means of integrated development planning : the case of Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality (Dr KKDM) / Thabo Daniel Borole." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/10828.
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Across the world, war has been declared against poverty because of its devastating effects on local communities. The world has made a concerted effort to fight the effects of poverty through developmental agencies and regional integration bodies such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Trade Organisation (WTO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
In an effort to complement the efforts of the above–mentioned agencies and bodies, the South African government has developed its own poverty alleviation strategies, policies, initiatives and Acts that focus primarily on alleviation of poverty on the level of local government. The Constitution of South Africa, 1996 provides the guidelines to several regulations and Acts (such as the Development and Facilitation Act, 67 of 1995, the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 32 of 2000, and the Local Government: Municipal Structures Act, 117 of 1998.) that support the alleviation of poverty on the local sphere of government. The Integrated Development Planning programme was formulated and implemented to alleviate poverty at this level.
The purpose of this study was to determine how the level of poverty within the Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality could be alleviated through effective integrated development planning. A quantitative approach was followed because the target population response rate was expected to be large. In addition, the research design for this study included a literature review, analyses of official documents, observation and data sampling through questionnaires and scientific analysis of the responses. The study found that IDP objectives aligned to service delivery targets were unclear and did not depict the aspirations and needs of the community. The programmes aimed at the infrastructure coupled with skills development programmes and job creation initiatives could assist in the alleviation of poverty.<br>M Development and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014
Books on the topic "Community-led strategies"
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Mathuews, Katy B., and Ryan A. Spellman. Creating a Staff-Led Strategic Plan. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216171171.
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Taking a staff-led approach, this book helps libraries of all types create their own meaningful and authentic strategic plans while demystifying a process that can bring many benefits to the organization. With dwindling budgets to pay for consultants and a growing interest in collaboration across the organization, libraries are increasingly taking a do-it-yourself approach to strategic planning. This book takes a step-by-step approach to grassroots strategic planning for libraries of all types. The authors, who led a successful strategic planning process at their own library, provide practical advice and detailed information to guide library personnel through their own process. Topics include aligning with institutional and community values, creating vision and mission statements, researching stakeholder needs, conducting environmental scans, collaborative drafting of the plan, communication strategies, and implementation and assessment of the plan. Each chapter helps librarians create a strategic plan for a broad spectrum of libraries, including K–12, post-secondary, public, and special libraries. A unique feature of the book is its emphasis on the ways in which different library types can collaborate to meet shared goals. This book is a one-stop-shop, providing everything library staff will need to create a strategic plan without searching for additional sources.
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Shanks, Trina R., and Patricia L. Miller. Building and Maintaining Community Capacity. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190463311.003.0008.
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Abstract: This chapter details the work of the UMSSW/TAC to connect with informal leaders and support neighborhood residents in accomplishing their goals. The TAC led or supported several strategies that directly assisted residents of the six Good Neighborhoods communities. These include the Leadership Academy (a co-designed model of individual capacity development), the Small Grants Resident Decision-Making Panel, workshops and issue forums, and staffing or participating in the various learning communities. Engaging and training residents and the creation of learning communities became signature tools of Good Neighborhoods. The learning communities include the Good Neighborhoods Learning Partnership; the Youth employment learning community, which eventually formed what is now the Detroit Youth Employment Consortium; the Ready to work, ready to hire learning community; and the Neighborhood-based transportation learning community.
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Flores, Edward Orozco. "Jesus Saved an Ex-Con". NYU Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479884148.001.0001.
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This book presents two cases of faith-based community organizing for and among the formerly incarcerated. It examines how the Community Renewal Society, a protestant-founded group, and LA Voice, an affiliate of the Catholic-Jesuit-founded PICO National Network, foster faith-based community organizing for the formerly incarcerated. It conceptualizes the expanding boundaries of democratic inclusion—in order to facilitate the social integration of the formerly incarcerated—as prophetic redemption. It draws from participant observation and semistructured interviews to examine how the Community Renewal Society offered support for the Fighting to Overcome Records and Create Equality (FORCE) project, while LA Voice offered support for the Homeboy Industries–affiliated Homeboys Local Organizing Committee (LOC), both as forms of prophetic redemption. Both FORCE and the Homeboys LOC were led by formerly incarcerated persons, and drew from their parent organizations’ respective religious traditions and community organizing strategies. At the same time, FORCE and Homeboys LOC members drew from displays learned in recovery to participate in community organizing. The result was that prophetic redemption led to an empowering form of social integration, “returning citizenship.”
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Blackwell, Angela Glover. Be the Change. Edited by Keely Rees, Jody Early, and Cicily Hampton. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197570890.001.0001.
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Abstract Be the Change: Putting Health Advocacy, Policy, and Community Organization into Practice in Public Health Education is an essential and affordable resource on advocacy for both undergraduate and graduate students within the health and social sciences. Using a conversational and reader-friendly style, this text provides an overview of the purpose, strategies, and tactics used in successful advocacy campaigns in public health. Coauthored by advocates, practitioners, and experts in the field, the book presents real examples and case studies of advocacy campaigns along with concrete and strategic recommendations for implementing advocacy strategies for change at the local, state, and federal levels. The book amplifies the important advocacy work being organized and led by health professionals around the United States and highlights the work of traditional and emerging health organizations as well as the mighty work of grassroots community activists. Ideally, the information, stories, advice, and tools shared within these pages will inspire you to “be the change” and catalyze your involvement in health advocacy in a way that works for you.
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Kay, Tamara, and R. L. Evans. Mobilizing Public and Legislative Hostility against NAFTA. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190847432.003.0005.
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This chapter examines how activists used outsider strategies and mobilized public pressure to increase legislative opposition to NAFTA during the substantive treaty negotiations that followed passage of fast-track reauthorization. It focuses on activists’ mobilization of a mass movement of NAFTA opponents during the year and a half of NAFTA’s substantive negotiations beginning in June 1991 until President Bush signed the agreement in December 1992. While the AFL-CIO and some environmentalists concentrated on insider strategies, labor unions and the majority of environmental organizations created a strong anti-NAFTA grassroots coalition and mobilized; they held local protests and rallies, wrote press releases, held forums with community groups and local politicians, and appeared in media outlets in over one hundred cities. The chapter also reveals how activists’ pressure led to the negotiation of additional labor and environmental side agreements.
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de Andrade, Dominique. The “Drugs-Crime Nexus”. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199374847.003.0001.
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The prioritization of imprisonment as a response to drug use in many countries has led to growing prison populations, with little impact on drug use, drug-related harm, or drug-related crime. There is increased international debate around how to best manage and respond to at-risk populations, with good evidence to suggest that embracing harm reduction strategies in the community and in prison can lead to reduced rates of imprisonment, infectious disease, and other preventable harms. Despite this, evidence-based treatment and harm reduction programs have largely failed to penetrate the walls of correctional institutions in most countries. This chapter provides an overview of major drug groups and explores the impact of drug policy on international imprisonment rates, and the diversity of responses to people who use drugs in the community and prison. The potential for corrections to play a significant therapeutic role in addressing the urgent treatment and harm reduction needs of at-risk, drug-using populations in prison and during their transition back to the community is highlighted.
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Jaskoski, Maiah. The Politics of Extraction. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197568927.001.0001.
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Abstract In the face of new extraction, communities in Latin America’s hydrocarbon and mining regions use participatory institutions to challenge extraction. In some cases, communities act within the formal participatory spaces, while in others, they organize “around” or “in reaction to” the institutions, using participatory procedures as a focal point for the escalation of conflict. Communities select their strategies in response to the participatory challenges they confront. Those challenges are associated with contestation over the boundaries that determine access to the participatory institutions. Contestation over the line between subnational authority vis-à-vis central-state jurisdictions heightens communities’ challenge of initiating a participatory process. Disagreement over the territorial delineation of communities impacted by planned extraction creates the challenge of gaining inclusion in participatory events, for formally nonimpacted communities. Finally, disputes over the boundary that sets representatives of an affected community apart from the community at large intensify the community’s challenge of conveying a position on extraction. This analysis of thirty major extractive conflicts in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru in the 2000s and 2010s examines community uses of public hearings built into environmental licensing, state-led prior consultations with native communities, and local popular consultations, or referenda.
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University Leadership in Urban School Renewal. Praeger, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216193036.
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The themes of this book resonate closely with the values of ACE: leadership, change, community partnership, and the importance of teacher education and learning. The book features examples of university leaders who took a personal interest in and led their institutions' efforts to improve the quality of teacher preparation, and who developed partnerships with school systems to ensure that more future teachers were recruited, prepared, and provided with an excellent transition into their teaching roles. The themes of this book resonate closely with the values of ACE: leadership, change, community partnership, and the importance of teacher education and learning. With higher education facing increasing financial constraints, and public education under continued strain, education leaders must dedicate their efforts to strengthening the partnership of higher education with K-12 education, and with the community, to ensure success. This book features examples of university leaders who took a personal interest in and led their institutions' efforts to improve the quality of teacher preparation, and to develop partnerships with school systems to ensure that more future teachers were recruited, prepared, and provided with an excellent transition into their teaching roles. The leaders used their power to mommunicate with campus communities and partner beyond their institutions, into the communities in which they are located. University Leadership in Urban School Renewal describes the role of the public urban university president and chancellor in providing leadership in P-16 education through activities undertaken in partnership with local urban school districts to improve the quality of teaching and learning. Leaders from urban institutions of higher education who are members of the 14 Great Cities' Universities--universities that collectively serve more than 340,000 students and prepare one-fifth of the nation's teachers--reflect upon their efforts to respond to the needs of education reform, particularly within the country's most challenging metropolitan environments. The authors describe strategies that make education reform the responsibility of all, from teacher education as a university-wide effort to university-community partnerships. They explicate the link from higher education to school districts, other educational institutions, local business, government, and the community at large. The authors asked 14 presidents of urban universities to make as explicit as possible their leadership actions and change strategies within the context of how they have worked to improve the quality of education for urban youth. The first-person accounts of these leaders reflect the important role of urban, state universities in addressing the pervasive problems in urban education as they illustrate the leadership practices of presidents and chancellors.
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Moreillon, Judi, ed. Core Values in School Librarianship. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400632204.
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This title offers pre-service, newly practicing, and seasoned school librarians opportunities for reflection as well as inspiring strategies for enacting four core values of the profession. The school library profession has been in "crisis" for more than a decade. Educational decision-makers have not been made aware of or sold on the core values of school librarianship and its value to students, classroom teachers, administrators, and the entire school community. Budgetary priorities often do not include school librarians, resulting in a lack of funding and the elimination of many positions, which can cause many school librarians to feel vulnerable and afraid. Guideposts are needed to offer today's school librarians a chance to connect or reconnect with their passion for literacy, learning, and serving that led them to the profession. Core Values in School Librarianship: Responding with Commitment and Courageprovides preservice, newly practicing, and seasoned school librarians with opportunities for thoughtful reflection alongside inspiring strategies for gathering courage and enacting four core values of the profession. It is an important and visionary book that all school librarians should read as they develop in their role as leaders in their schools.
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Bussel, Robert. “Fuck Him, He Wasn’t With Us”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039492.003.0012.
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This chapter examines the convergence of events that thrust Harold Gibbons into the maelstrom of national politics and led to his estrangement from the Teamsters's hierarchy. It first considers how Gibbons's rifts with Teamsters played out among Local 688's membership in St. Louis, which helped oust Gibbons in the summer of 1973, terminated his political partnership with Ernest Calloway, and signaled the demise of their quest for total person unionism and working-class citizenship. It then discusses Calloway's gradual withdrawal from direct involvement in civil rights activism and union affairs by the end of the 1960s, assuming instead the role of respected community elder. It also describes Gibbons's opposition to the Vietnam War and his difficulty in finding outlets for political expression during the last years of his career, even as he continued with his advocacy of interracial politics and comprehensive strategies for urban revitalization. Finally, it reflects on Calloway's death on December 31, 1989.
Book chapters on the topic "Community-led strategies"
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Datta, Ranjan, Margot Hurlbert, Arifatul Kibria, Rajmoni Singha, Barsha Kairy, and Somashree Chattapadhya. "The Meanings of Community-Led Disaster Adaptation Strategies." In Rethinking and Relearning Disaster Adaptations from and within Indigenous Land-Based Perspectives. Routledge, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003536345-2.
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Levin, Brett. "How Community-Led Action Can Advance the Development of Biodiversity Islands." In Biodiversity Islands: Strategies for Conservation in Human-Dominated Environments. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92234-4_19.
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Madureira, Ana Mafalda, Ana M. Bustamante Duarte, Karin Pfeffer, Fikri Zul Fahmi, Ari Nurman, and Adiwan F. Aritenang. "Tourism Development Strategies and Creative Industries: The Case of Creative, Thematic, and Tourism Kampungs." In Inclusive Cities and Global Urban Transformation. Springer Nature Singapore, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7521-7_25.
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AbstractIn Indonesia, creative industries (CIs) have been strongly promoted through policies that strengthen national, regional, and local economic development. Bandung City has been one of the core cities carrying such an approach. It has a large presence of CIs, many of which are located in traditional neighborhoods—kampungs. These CIs represent an important cultural, social, and source of livelihood for much of the population residing in these kampungs. This chapter discusses three ways of how kampung communities engaged creativity and CIs as drivers for tourism development and economic promotion. The cases range from grassroots movements leading these initiatives to combined government- and community-led strategies. We investigate the case of Dago Pojok, a community-led “creative kampung” that emerged as an act of resistance against the exclusionary local government’s urban development actions. Second, Binongjati is a historical local industrial center with a large professional community-led CIs association aiming to convert the area into a “tourism kampung.” Thirdly, Cigadung, where traditional batik industries are clustered, is promoted as a “thematic creative kampung” by municipality-led strategies in close collaboration with strong local CIs actors. Interviews with kampung leaders inform the chapter. It explores similarities and differences in strategies followed by these three cases and investigates the involvement of the local community, associations/organizations, and the municipality to promote these kampungs as tourist creativity-based attractions. Finally, it reflects how community-led, community-driven, or community-informed tourism strategies are linked with local urban governance arrangements supporting these communities’ inclusion in the city’s wider identity-shaping discourses.
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Robinson, Laurence. "Planning Doveton College: Holistic Vision, Innovative Design and Paving the Way for Others." In Schools as Community Hubs. Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9972-7_14.
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AbstractDoveton College is a unique project in the delivery of integrated community and education services for a community in need. It is one of the most comprehensive and successful examples of a school as community hub and since its opening it has been a strong influence for the delivery of many other projects with similar ambitions. This paper explores the planning context for the project, the key architectural strategies that led to the success of the design and some of the lessons learnt during the process and since opening.
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Benjumea Mejia, Diana M. "An Ecology Model for Participatory Strategies: Community-Led Green Networks and Its Social and Spatial Agents." In Urban Sustainability. Springer Nature Singapore, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9595-0_8.
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Navarrete Gil, Cynthia, Manjula Ramaiah, Andrea Mantsios, Clare Barrington, and Deanna Kerrigan. "Best Practices and Challenges to Sex Worker Community Empowerment and Mobilisation Strategies to Promote Health and Human Rights." In Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64171-9_11.
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AbstractSex workers face a number of health and human rights challenges including heightened risk for HIV infection and suboptimal care and treatment outcomes, institutional and interpersonal violence, labour rights violations, and financial insecurity. In response, sex worker-led groups have been formed and sustained across geographic settings to address these challenges and other needs. Over the last several decades, a growing body of literature has shown that community empowerment approaches among sex workers are associated with significant reductions in HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Yet legal and policy environments, as well as funding constraints, have often limited the reach, along with the impact and sustainability, of such approaches.In this chapter, we first review the literature on community empowerment and mobilisation strategies as a means to collectively address HIV, violence, and other health and human rights issues among sex workers. We then utilise two case studies, developed by the sex worker-led groups APROASE in Mexico and Ashodaya Samithi in India, to illustrate and contextualise community empowerment processes and challenges, including barriers to scale-up. By integrating the global literature with context-specific case studies, we distil lessons learned and recommendations related to community empowerment approaches among sex workers.
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Alonso, Cristina, Irene Torres, and Barbara Profeta. "When Women Lead in Global Health: Alternative Mobilizations." In Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53793-6_21.
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AbstractOngoing discussions on what is “wrong” with global health or how to decolonialize global health tend to focus exclusively on structural shortcomings, such as effectiveness of global platforms and institutions or lack of truly participatory consultation strategies (downstream perspective). Thereby they fail to capture alternative approaches to global health leadership (upstream perspective) and to recognize the sovereignty of non-Western knowledge and the intrinsic value of community regeneration in all its forms as a key ingredient for effective global health practice. Women’s perspectives have been largely relegated to the gender agenda (balance, parity, equity) or proposed as models on “how to lead better” based on preconceived, male-based notions of what constitutes “effective” leadership, including setting and prioritizing goals. Instead of creating hierarchies of priorities, we must understand the complexity of human experience and the power and inequality patterns it is embedded in, and remain open to or embrace apparent contradictions when designing support mechanisms. This chapter centers on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 in the lives of Latin American immigrants in Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States, during the 2020 pandemic. The chapter explores how public health prioritization of basic needs neither captured the relationship between impact and social response nor acknowledged the interplay between the different needs of people. Employing an insider’s look, we describe how the women leaders of the local organization La Colaborativa called upon culturally accepted codes to reverse power roles, questioned scientific definitions of needs and led their community out of potentially irreversible consequences of the crisis in a holistic and sustainable way. Their leadership serves as an example of how self-governed, women-led organizations that are rooted in the community may address the real needs of its members during a global catastrophic event.
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Ćwikła, Małgorzata, Cristina Garzillo, Martina Bosone, and Antonia Gravagnuolo. "Stakeholders Engagement Processes for Co-Creation of Strategic Action Plans for Circular and Human-Centred Cultural Tourism in European Heritage Sites." In Advances in Cultural Tourism Research. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65537-1_4.
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AbstractSustainable cultural tourism can be a powerful means to enhance communities’ wellbeing increasing economic wealth in currently less known and remote areas, as well as residents’ awareness on local culture and cultural heritage, environmental preservation and social cohesion. However, tourism activities can threaten cultural and natural resources, especially in fragile natural & cultural areas. Sustainability-led innovation and creativity could contribute to ensure that tourism activity is conducted within a responsible framework, engaging local operators and stakeholders towards reaching shared objectives. The integration of a circular economy oriented approach in cultural tourism strategies can be beneficial to allow sustainable tourism activities which avoid depletion of natural resources, excessive greenhouse gas emissions, over-consumption of cultural resources. Local communities represent the owners and custodians of important natural and cultural resources, thus their active role in cultural tourism strategies development is fundamental to ensure their conservation, regeneration and valorisation over time. Engaging stakeholder groups already at the initial stage of designing changes, can contribute to the development of strategies aiming at implementation of community-based circular and human-centred actions in various areas. The paper describes the co-creation process conducted with various types of stakeholders in six European regions within the Horizon 2020 Be.CULTOUR project. Special attention was given to the process of activating local communities and making them co-create and co-initiative innovative solutions.
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Wu, Chen-Fa, Chen Yang Lee, Chen-Chuan Huang, et al. "Sustainable Rural Development and Water Resources Management on a Hilly Landscape: A Case Study of Gonglaoping Community, Taichung, ROC (Chinese Taipei)." In Fostering Transformative Change for Sustainability in the Context of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS). Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6761-6_7.
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AbstractThe Gonglaoping community is located in Central Western Taiwan, with approximately 700 residents. The hilly landscape contains farmlands and sloping areas with abundant natural resources. Locals rely on the Han River system and seasonal rainfall for water supply for domestic use and irrigation. Uneven rainfall patterns and high demand for water has led to the overuse of groundwater and conflicts among the people. The surrounding natural forests provide important ecosystem services, including wildlife habitats and water conservation, among others; however, overlap with human activities has brought threats to biodiversity conservation. Considering these challenges, locals were determined to transform their community towards sustainability. The Gonglaoping Industrial Development Association (GIDA) and the Soil and Water Conservation Bureau (SWCB) joined hands to initiate the promotion of the Satoyama Initiative, playing catalytic roles in several implementations, such as establishing water management strategies based on mutual trust, rebuilding the masonry landscape, and economic development, forming partnerships with other stakeholders. This multi-stakeholder and co-management platform allowed the community to achieve transformative change, particularly in resolving conflicts of water use, restoring the SEPL, enhancing biodiversity conservation, and developing a self-sustaining economy.Achieving sustainability in a SEPL requires the application of a holistic approach and a multi-sector collaborating (community-government-university) platform. This case demonstrates a practical, effective framework for government authorities, policymakers and other stakeholders in terms of maintaining the integrity of ecosystems. With the final outcome of promoting a vision of co-prosperity, it is a solid example showing a win-win strategy for both the human population and the farmland ecosystem in a hilly landscape.
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Govan, Hugh, Watisoni Lalavanua, and Dirk J. Steenbergen. "Coastal Fisheries Governance in the Pacific Islands: The Evolution of Policy and the Progress of Management-at-Scale." In MARE Publication Series. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56716-2_11.
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AbstractFor Pacific Island people, coastal fisheries are fundamental for supporting livelihoods, nutrition and health, cultures, and economies. However, only in the last 30 years has the region’s fisheries policy come to recognize the significant contributions of coastal fisheries and the need for national management strategies. This chapter tracks the evolving regional policy on coastal fisheries, including the challenges and opportunities for prospective regional and national policy formation and implementation. Regional policy first recognized the importance of management across coastal waters in 2003; since then, this recognition has increased through a series of directives and strategic frameworks. The need to accelerate the national implementation of coastal fisheries management has led fisheries agency staff and other science and civil society stakeholders to collectively develop, under the auspices of the Pacific Community (SPC), the “Pacific Framework for Action on Scaling up Community-based Fisheries Management: 2021–2025.” Regional policies are specifically targeted and prioritized for national needs and provide the most effective means of support delivery. The SSF Guidelines are supplementary, particularly in the areas of human rights, and their further integration through joint delivery at the national level will be important. Over 600 community-based fisheries management sites have been documented across the Pacific Islands, which in some countries includes most fishing communities. These sites represent almost the entirety of coastal marine protected areas, which are significant for achieving international conservation targets. However, in highly populated countries, substantial community coverage remains unlikely, suggesting that other aspects of the enabling environment need to be addressed. More crucially, implementation is challenged by limitations to national staffing and recurrent budgets. With increasing philanthropic interest in funding locally governed marine and coastal areas, it will be crucial that these efforts build on the substantial progress made and are guided by regional and national public policy. A critical consideration is ensuring substantially increased management budgets and administrative capacity of fisheries agencies.
Conference papers on the topic "Community-led strategies"
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Haraz, Svetlana, and Flavius-Vasile-Iulian Istudor. "Community development – strategy for creating welfare." In International Scientific Conference "The contemporary issues of the socio-humanistic sciences", XIV edition. Free International University of Moldova, 2024. https://doi.org/10.54481/pcss2023.33.
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Community development has become a topic of major interest in the contemporary context, amid economic, social and political changes affecting rural communities. Globalization and rapid urbanization have led to significant disparities between urban and rural areas, negatively affecting the well-being of rural communities. In this context, community development stands out as an essential strategy for promoting social and economic equity, facilitating integration and social cohesion. Community development is a topic of crucial interest in the current context, especially in rural Romania, where communities face significant challenges related to economic, social and infrastructural disparities. Globalization and rapid urbanization have accentuated the differences between urban and rural areas, leading to an urgent need for effective strategies to promote sustainable development and well-being in rural communities. The main problem of the research consists in identifying and analyzing effective community development strategies that can contribute to the creation of well-being in rural communities in Romania. Without adequate interventions, these communities risk being left behind economically and socially. The purpose of the research: to assess the effectiveness of community development strategies in creating well-being in rural communities from the perspective of community leaders and residents.
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fabbricatti, katia, vincenzo tenore, michele citoni, and Lucie boissenin. "Community-led practices for triggering long term processes and sustainable resilience strategies. The case of the eastern Irpinia, inner periphery of southern Italy." In IFoU 2018: Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience. MDPI, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ifou2018-05965.
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TRAN, JENNIFER CHAU. "The Versailles Landscape Planning Organization: Landscape Planning as Advocacy." In 2021 AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference. ACSA Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.aia.inter.21.18.
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The systemic nature of environmental racism has historically led to the exclusion of racial minorities from environmental decision-making. This design research project explores New Orleans East’s history as a sacrificial landscape and proposes the creation of a more equitable community through landscape planning that incorporates environmental data and community self-determination. This proposal aims to create economic and ecological benefits through landscape planning strategies. The site of focus is the neighbourhood Versailles, which is home to the densest Vietnamese diaspora population in America. The design proposal outlines an operational framework for a community-based organization, The Versailles Landscape Planning Organization (VLPO), that allows the residents of Versailles to determine the environmental uses of community land, to monitor the health of these lands, and to bring this data to that table with regional authorities so that their voices can be directly heard in environmental decision making in the future.
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Ammar-Khodja, Brice. "Symphony of the Stones: A Research-Creation Exploration on the Animation of Heavy Metal Residues in Contaminated Urban Landscapes." In 28th International Symposium on Electronic Art. Ecole des arts decoratifs - PSL, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.69564/isea2023-40-full-ammar-khodja-symphony-of-the-stones.
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In the late 1980s, the Canadian Pacific Railway abandoned a rail yard on the outskirts of Montreal’s Mile End district. Within a few years, the return of animal and plant species encouraged the citizen community to reinvest this site known as Le Champ des Possibles. Despite community efforts to rehabilitate this site, hydrocarbon and heavy metal pollution persists in the soils and thus requires rethinking the engagement with the imperceptible mutations of ecosystems. Symphony of the Stones was created in response to this context. This research-creation project consists of several urban art installations that activate residual metals in soils by their magnetic characteristics to make these imperceptible pollutants visible. The following paper unfolds the different processes, methodologies and strategies that led to in site interventions blending art installation, collaboration with different communities and associations and leading to a rethinking of art practices in the urban environment.
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Cope, Dylan, and Peter McBurney. "Learning Translations: Emergent Communication Pretraining for Cooperative Language Acquisition." In Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-24}. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2024/5.
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In Emergent Communication (EC) agents learn to communicate with one another, but the protocols that they develop are specialised to their training community. This observation led to research into Zero-Shot Coordination (ZSC) for learning communication strategies that are robust to agents not encountered during training. However, ZSC typically assumes that no prior data is available about the agents that will be encountered in the zero-shot setting. In many cases, this presents an unnecessarily hard problem and rules out communication via preestablished conventions. We propose a novel AI challenge called a Cooperative Language Acquisition Problem (CLAP) in which the ZSC assumptions are relaxed by allowing a 'joiner' agent to learn from a dataset of interactions between agents in a target community. We propose and compare two methods for solving CLAPs: Behaviour Cloning (BC), and Emergent Communication pretraining and Translation Learning (ECTL), in which an agent is trained in self-play with EC and then learns to translate between an emergent protocol and the target community's protocol.
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Gogov, Bogdancho. "PREDICTIVE POLICING." In SECURITY HORIZONS. Faculty of Security- Skopje, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.20544/icp.8.1.23.p20.
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Crime control strategies in the past have largely been focused on reactive tactics, while the focus of policing was to respond quickly to incidents and crimes. However, as the crime and security situation changed, so did the paradigm shift from a reactive style of policing to proactive policing. Proactive work aims to prevent crime rather than just react to it. It has been shown that crime prevention is more closely related to proactive policing than to reactive policing. Crime prevention strategies such as community-oriented policing, problem-oriented policing, intelligence-led policing were introduced with having in mind proactive policing. In recent decades, a new proactive data-driven policing strategy has emerged, namely predictive policing. It uses information technology, data and analytical techniques in order to identify the most likely places and times of future criminal events or persons at high risk of committing or becoming victims of a crime. The use of predictive analytics and machine learning has attracted enormous attention, linking predictive policing with digital innovation. Although it can be argued that data collection and processing has always been an important aspect of policing, technological advances and the increased availability of police data have led to a shift from predominantly reactive policing to proactive policing. It should be emphasized that predictive policing is not intended to replace the already tried and tested proactive policing techniques such as evidence-based policing. Improvements to traditional proactive policing techniques such as machine learning and sophisticated algorithms are enabling the police to track both individuals and areas with greater accuracy in order to predict when, where and by whom a crime may be committed.
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Njue, Teresa, Stanely Simiyu, and Francis Murage. "Effectiveness of Open and Distance Learning Approaches in Community Based Learning for Girls and Women in Kenya - A Human Centered Approach." In Tenth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning. Commonwealth of Learning, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56059/pcf10.7900.
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Open and distance learning continue to play fundamental role in contributing to the construction of knowledge societies in a lifelong learning context. Despite educational challenges of the 21st century, and notably the Covid-19 global disruption in the education sector, open and distance learning concept has achieved notable recognition. It has had substantial impact on all education delivery systems. The objective of the research project was to assess the impact of open and distance learning approaches on education and empowerment of girls and women in Kenya’s Maasai nomadic community. The project was implemented during a fellowship program re-imagining African education in the wake of Covid-19. The research project was carried out in a formal, informal and non-formal setup. Community-led alternative learning model advocates for education practices that match and reflect the needs and circumstances of the excluded/disadvantaged populations. The model integrated open and distance learning concept in a community based learning. The project targeted six local Maasai women groups on house construction skills through purposive sampling technique. Human centered design approach was intensively employed in co-creating and co-designing the ODL-Community based learning approach. Key processes were triggering the community, ideation, prototyping, feedback, iteration and implementation. The instruction and assessment was facilitated virtually (80%), guided by a local translator and site visit by TVET instructors (20%). A community of learning was established with 10 local champions enrolled in instructor support training through blended approaches. Data was quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed. Findings underscored that open and distance learning significantly reduced the constraints of time and place, reduced educational bottlenecks experienced in the traditional face-to-face system. It has significantly shifted knowledge, attitudes and perceptions in girls and women education. There was increased demand for learning and explored flexible and blended learning opportunities in disadvantaged and hard to reach areas. The project recommended affordable technology and digital learning strategies to improve equity and inclusion in education. Strengthen partnerships between communities, public and private sector for an enabling environment that includes digital infrastructure and digital skills user.
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Schar, Cathi Ho, Karl Kim, Rebecca Denzer, and Wendy Meguro. "Preserving Resilience of Historic Properties Through Rapid Interdisciplinary Collaboration." In 2022 AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference. ACSA Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.aia.inter.22.14.
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More than 680 million people live in low-lying coastal areas susceptible to climate change and flooding (IPCC 2019). The Jean and Zohmah Charlot House is a historic residence in Honolulu, located in a flood-prone neighborhood, that provides a powerful case study on preservation, planning, hazard mitigation, retrofitting and adaptive design of historic structures. The research, learning and engagement among diverse stakeholders supports resilient placemaking and preservation of treasured community assets. The home is listed on National and State registries of historic properties. The Historic Hawaiʻi Foundation partnered with the University of Hawai‘i (UH) to identify research methods for addressing climate resilience and develop and test engagement strategies, which included virtual workshops to develop a hazard mitigation plan for the property. An interdisciplinary team of faculty members, professionals, and students: i) identified hazards; ii) documented site vulnerabilities; iii) mapped and analyzed hazards and mitigation strategies; iv) reviewed literature and evaluated mitigations; v) engaged subject matter experts to support assessment of strategies; vi) developed and shared alternatives that were compiled and disseminated among stakeholders. The research team forged new relationships by including subject matter experts from landscape architecture, planning, emergency management, engineering, insurance, law and environmental sciences.Participants joined in three 1.5 hour virtual workshops to identify hazards, mitigation strategies, and review plans. Technologies including 360 degree imagery and ArcGIS StoryMap enhanced the virtual workshop. Based on feedback from the workshops, the Disaster Mitigation Plan illustrates, annotates, and ranks strategies for risk reduction and future policy and research needs. This university-led collaboration is a model for engaging planners, architects, landscape architects, preservationists, engineers, lawyers, and insurance agents on the challenges of preservation and hazard risk reduction. The rapid, three-part planning process using all-virtual, all-volunteer participants provides a low cost approach for subject matter expert engagement and focused knowledge-sharing on resilience strategies that can be applied and implemented for other endangered properties and scaled up to address broader neighborhood, watershed, and regional impacts from climate change and extreme events.
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Adams, Edgar. "EQUITABLE RENEWAL: Reclamation + Repair." In 111th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.49.
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Reparations are one crucial means of acknowledging the irreparable harm done to BIPOC populations since the colonization of this country. Providence Rhode Island is one of several cities that have begun the difficult process of confronting the impacts of spatial injustice. By focusing on the Urban Renewal programs of the 50’s and 60’s, reparations programs offer an opportunity to examine the role of the planning and architecture professions in blindly perpetuating the racist policies that, coupled with discriminatory real estate and lending practices, are responsible for our current landscape of inequality. Without a clearer accounting for the lasting impacts of racism, stark disparities in outcomes will only persist. This realization, and the murder of George Floyd, prompted Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza to commit to a comprehensive Truth Telling and Reconciliation process in July of 2020 that led to the establishment of a Municipal Reparations Commission the following year.1 Working alongside this process, our urban design studio investigated two sites of past trauma. Students were asked to confront one transgressive act with another by intervening in the work of an acclaimed architect culpable in the erasure of Providence’s largest Black neighborhood. Our second site called for mending the embattled community that became home to those who were displaced. The students had access to a wide range of historical and contemporary narratives from the truth telling and reconciliation process and had regular engagement with leaders of this process.2 Our two sites represent related, but starkly different, conditions that allowed us to examine a range of social and spatial injustices and expose students to the various ways that BIPOC communities continue to be prevented from participating in the wealth and community building opportunities that are available to white families. By using design as research, we were also able to document what was lost and explore place-based strategies of repair and community-centered renewal to help shape the form of the remedies sought by the Reparations Commission.
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DK, Lau, Seebacher S, Abdi AM, Bishar S, Nur MB, and Gignoux E. "Towards an understanding of resurgent measles outbreaks in Kismayo, Somalia: A mixed method investigation of measles burden and vaccination coverage during a 2020-2021 measles outbreak." In MSF Paediatric Days 2024. MSF-USA, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.57740/eyjwvt4rop.
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Kismayo is a city in southern Somalia and the capital of Jubaland State. In 2020, the Jubaland State Ministry of Health (MoH) recorded 1094 measles cases: an 8.2-fold increase from 2019. This study sought to estimate measles disease burden and measles vaccination coverage during the 2020-2021 outbreak, while further identifying key barriers and facilitators to measles vaccination and care. METHODS We utilised a sequential mixed-method approach with two phases of data collection. Phase one involved a cross-sectional household survey with a standard questionnaire while phase two included key informant interviews and focus group discussions with community members, health care workers and vaccination program administrators. RESULTS Of 6664 individuals, 338 measles cases were recorded during the two-year recall period, giving an attack rate of 5% (95%CI:4-5). 17 measles deaths were reported, giving a case fatality ratio of 4% (95%CI:2-6). Measles-specific mortality was 0.04 deaths/day/10000 population (95%CI:0.02-0.05). Initially, 50% of vaccine-eligible children had one or more doses of measles containing vaccine (MCV) and this rose to 69% by the end of the recall period. Thematic analysis led to the grouping of qualitative data into two overarching themes: sociocultural factors and health system factors. Regarding sociocultural factors, respondents gave insights on community measles knowledge and care practices, social responsibility for prevention, security challenges and measles-related rumours. Regarding health system factors, respondents spoke about challenges with health service management and shortcomings in the implementation of the expanded programme on immunisation (EPI) and mass vaccination campaigns. CONCLUSIONS Our results show that measles represents a serious health burden for the Kismayo population and that MCV coverage is well below the 95% target for herd immunity. We recommend developing a population-specific approach to risk communication and community engagement, expanding measles care, increasing accessibility for EPI services in health facilities and mobile clinics, and developing improved programmatic strategies for mass vaccination campaigns.
Reports on the topic "Community-led strategies"
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Petrunoff, Nick, Bess Jackson, Samuel Harley, et al. Non-clinical interventions and services for individuals with suicide distress or crisis: an Accelerated Evidence Snapshot. The Sax Institute, 2025. https://doi.org/10.57022/fknj4927.
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The NSW Suicide Monitoring System recorded 933 suspected or confirmed suicide deaths in 2023, highlighting the need for effective prevention strategies. The Towards Zero Suicides (TZS) initiative funds non-clinical crisis services like Safe Havens and Suicide Prevention Outreach Teams (SPOTs), providing peer-led, community-based support to individuals in distress. This Evidence Check aimed to evaluate the effectiveness and acceptability of such interventions for people aged 16 and over, informing potential refinements or new approaches in NSW. Fifteen studies from Australia, the US, Canada, Denmark, Belgium, and the UK were reviewed. Digital interventions, including self-help tools, social media campaigns, and crisis text lines, were accessible and well-received, especially among young people. Community-led programs like Wesley LifeForce Networks and Deadly Thinking improved local suicide prevention capacity. Crisis support services, such as Lifeline’s follow-up calls, were linked to reduced suicide risk. Workplace programs, like MATES in Energy, enhanced suicide literacy but showed mixed results for improving mental health. Peer-led and co-designed interventions were generally more engaging and relevant to service users. However, most studies had short-term follow-up, limiting assessments of long-term impact. Research gaps exist for Indigenous and LGBTQIA+ communities, and many studies lacked control groups, making causal links difficult to establish. Moving forward, a combination of digital, community-based, and workplace interventions is recommended. Sustained funding, long-term evaluation, and targeted research are essential to improving non-clinical suicide prevention strategies and ensuring their effectiveness for diverse populations.
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Niederberger, Eva, and Ginger Johnson. Cholera Questions Bank: Quantitative Questions for Community Level Data Collection. Institute of Development Studies, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/sshap.2023.023.
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This questions bank resource is a menu of quantitative questions related to socio-behavioural factors and Cholera. This resource seeks to facilitate the collection of quality data on community’s capacity, behaviours, practices and perceptions in relation to cholera prevention and management. It can be used by field teams and / or local research teams working in communities with cholera transmission and those at risk adhering to safety and protection protocols. Gathering and using high quality data on social, behavioural and community dynamics in relation to cholera prevention and management is vital to: 1. Understand people’s ability, capacity and behaviour in relation to prevent and/or reduce cholera infection risks. 2. Support evidence-based decision-making on communication and engagement strategies that address people’s needs and priorities in an evolving context. 3. Provide data that decision-makers can use to adapt cholera response and preparedness strategies and activities. 4. Support public health promoters and outreach workers in engaging with local populations to strengthen community-led actions. 5. Enhance the knowledge of public health promoters and outreach workers and support them in clearly communicating on cholera prevention and control. 6. Inform the design and adaptation of information content / messages shared and discussed with the local population.
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Niederberger, Eva, and Ginger Johnson. Cholera Questions Bank: Quantitative Questions for Community Level Data Collection. Institute of Development Studies, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/sshap.2023.004.
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This questions bank resource is a menu of quantitative questions related to socio-behavioural factors and Cholera. This resource seeks to facilitate the collection of quality data on community’s capacity, behaviours, practices and perceptions in relation to cholera prevention and management. It can be used by field teams and / or local research teams working in communities with cholera transmission and those at risk adhering to safety and protection protocols. Gathering and using high quality data on social, behavioural and community dynamics in relation to cholera prevention and management is vital to: 1. Understand people’s ability, capacity and behaviour in relation to prevent and/or reduce cholera infection risks. 2. Support evidence-based decision-making on communication and engagement strategies that address people’s needs and priorities in an evolving context. 3. Provide data that decision-makers can use to adapt cholera response and preparedness strategies and activities. 4. Support public health promoters and outreach workers in engaging with local populations to strengthen community-led actions. 5. Enhance the knowledge of public health promoters and outreach workers and support them in clearly communicating on cholera prevention and control. 6. Inform the design and adaptation of information content / messages shared and discussed with the local population.
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Birch, Izzy, Becky Carter, and Hassan-Alattar Satti. Effective Social Protection in Conflict: Findings from Sudan. Institute of Development Studies, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ids.2024.011.
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This paper explores the conflict sensitivity of social protection in Sudan in its various forms since the present war started in April 2023, from locally led mutual aid to the social assistance programming of international agencies. It considers how these various interventions are both responding to, and being changed by, the conflict and associated humanitarian crisis, as well as how they interrelate. Provision of social assistance leans heavily on humanitarian actors for now, and lessons from their practice may inform and enrich a future state-led social protection system when this is rebuilt. Conflict sensitivity principles can be introduced through a number of entry points, then woven through the project cycle and the social protection delivery chain; they include systems of analysis, monitoring, and accountability to affected people, as well as capacity for adaptive management. Donors can reinforce this through their partnership, financing, and risk management strategies. Above all, external actors should recognise the fundamental importance of community-led crisis response and deepen their understanding of how it functions, and of the concerns and priorities of those involved.
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Saluja, Ridhi, Satish Prasad, Win Maung, and Thanapon Piman. Promoting locally inclusive wetlands conservation -- experience from Myanmar. Stockholm Environment Institute, 2025. https://doi.org/10.51414/sei2025.028.
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This brief outlines key concerns, policy gaps and recommendations on how Myanmar's wetland conservation efforts can benefit from inclusion of community-led approaches, which have been proven to achieve more sustainable livelihood outcomes, based on research in the Upper Chindwin River basin. Local communities in the Upper Chindwin basin in Myanmar are highly dependent on wetland ecosystems and their resources for sustenance and livelihoods. The research reported here is focused on wetland conservation in the Hkamti region of the Upper Chindwin basin. Promoting locally inclusive wetland conservation and management can lead to triple benefits: ensuring wetlands' wise use, achievement of biodiversity and climate targets, and livelihood security for dependent communities. It is therefore essential to integrate and enhance avenues for community stewardship in wetland conservation and management. Key messages: In the Upper Chindwin River basin, the authors observed a 25% loss in wetland area between 2000 and 2020, with implications for this key biodiversity area. Based on insights from SEI's initiative in the Upper Chindwin basin, community inclusion can strengthen wetland conservation efforts while ensuring livelihood security for local communities. The authors suggest a national framework for wetlands conservation or management that ensures local communities are integrated into such efforts. Inclusion of locally led wetland management within Myanmar's national directives, such as the National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plan (NBSAP) and National Adaptation Plan (NAP), is key to safeguarding these critical ecosystems, supporting local livelihoods, and achieving climate and biodiversity targets.
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Misiolek, Brayden A., Peter Batra, Lance Hicks, Cailtlin A. Tupper, and Nancy J. W. Lewis. Engaging Black and Latine Transgender and Gender Diverse Persons in Research: Advice from a Community-Based Focus Group. RTI Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.3768/rtipress.2024.rb.0039.2410.
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Black and Latine transgender and gender diverse (trans/gender diverse) individuals are often underrepresented in general population studies as well as those specific to the LGBTQIA+ community. This study sought to identify effective means of engaging Black and Latine trans/gender diverse persons into research studies. A community-led process enhanced the likelihood of successfully meeting this objective. We gathered qualitative data via a virtual focus group of adults who self-identified as trans/gender diverse and Black and/or Latine. To stimulate discussion about effective recruitment strategies, barriers, and incentives for research participation, we developed a semi-structured guide. The focus group processes incorporated trauma-informed practices. We conducted qualitative analysis using thematic analysis. Four Black, three Latine, and one multiracial trans/gender diverse individuals participated in the focus group. Participant comments indicated that trust in research staff and sponsors and trans/gender diverse persons’ leadership in study processes increased interest in participation. Recruitment materials that encouraged participation portrayed Black and Latine trans/gender diverse persons, specified how barriers to participation will be overcome, assured a safe study environment, and detailed financial compensation commensurate with topic sensitivity. Previous negative experiences were a barrier to future study enrollment. Participants weighed the anticipated emotional burden of participation against the perceived community benefits of the research.
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Maubert, Camille, Jeremy Allouche, Irene Hamuli, et al. Women’s Agency and Humanitarian Protection in North and South Kivu, DRC. Institute of Development Studies, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ids.2022.076.
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This Working Paper analyses the role and practices of women’s groups in relation to women’s protection in the provinces of North and South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Contrasting qualitative materials from communities in Congo with the literature on women’s agency, we explore the spaces, strategies, and repertoires used by women to increase their participation in community protection structures. Using case studies from North and South Kivu, including protection projects supported by ActionAid and Oxfam, we show how women’s leadership groups can constitute an empowering space and vehicle for women’s collective negotiation for protection which spans across several interrelated spheres: domestic, community, and professional, as well as legal, religious, and customary. Through our analysis of how women’s groups shape protection discourses and progressively change practices, we aim to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of what a women-led approach to protection means in practice as well as the challenges and opportunities that women face in order to expand their agency in a conflict-affected and patriarchal context.
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Schuurman, Gregor, Christopher Hoving, Anna Hess, et al. Blue snowflakes in a warming world: Karner blue butterfly climate change vulnerability synthesis and best practices for adaptation. National Park Service, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/2301333.
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This report?developed at the request of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service-led Karner Blue Butterfly Recovery Team by Recovery Team members and partners?provides a Karner blue butterfly climate change vulnerability synthesis, explores a range of potential responses, and presents best practices for climate change-informed conservation of the species. The three decades since the Karner blue butterfly?s (Lycaeides [Plebejus] melissa samuelis Nabokov) listing as federally endangered in the United States have seen a diverse and dedicated research and management community coalesce around the species? recovery. This geographically expansive conservation collaboration has broken new ground for threatened and endangered species recovery. Many Karner blue recovery areas are making steady progress towards recovery goals, but some are not. An extremely hot and dry 2012, perhaps aided by adverse longer-term climate trends such as declining snow cover, extirpated the Karner blue from Indiana Dunes National Park and the surrounding Indiana Dunes Karner Blue Butterfly Recovery Unit?the southernmost recovery unit and once host to one of the species? largest populations?as well as from northwest Ohio. Because of the fundamental challenge that climate change represents to Karner blue butterfly recovery and of the general need for endangered species conservation plans to better address climate change, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service-led Karner Blue Butterfly Recovery Team tasked a subset of the team to: Explore the species? climate change sensitivity and adaptive capacity, review ongoing and projected climate change across the Karner blue range and associated uncertainties, and develop and suggest best practices concerning long-term adaptation strategies. Consistent with that mandate, this report synthesizes what is known about Karner blue climate change vulnerability and applies current thinking in climate change adaptation to help foster strategic, long-term, climate change-informed Karner blue recovery and conservation. It develops and explores a range of potential climate change-informed butterfly- and habitat-stewardship responses, using the resist-accept-direct (RAD) framework to foster a broad range of approaches, and provides guidance regarding how they may be pursued. The report also provides suggestions for improving the climate change-exposure component of Karner blue vulnerability assessment.
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Hickling, Sophie. Tackling Slippage. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/slh.2020.004.
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This issue of Frontiers of CLTS explores current thinking and practice on the topic of tackling slippage of open defecation free (ODF) status. It looks at how slippage is defined and identified, and at different patterns of slippage that are seen after ODF is declared. Although a considerable amount has been written on how to establish strong Community-Led Total sanitation (CLTS) programmes that prevent slippage from happening, this issue looks at how to reverse slippage that has already taken place. Note however, that at a certain level, strategies used to reverse slippage and those used in advance to set a programme up for success to prevent slippage occurring overlap. From the literature, there is little documented evidence on how slippage can be reversed; evidence and guidance tend to focus on prevention. This review begins to address this gap. Implementers are encouraged to use the proposed patterns of slippage framework and slippage factors section to understand the type and extent of slippage experienced, then use the examples in the section on tackling slippage to identify potential slippage responses. In addition to a review of current literature,1 in depth interviews were carried out with key informants at global, regional and country level. Key informants were selected purposively to identify experiences and innovations in tackling slippage from across the sector.
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Sy, Ibrahima. Community Resilience: Integrating Local Approaches into Senegal's Climate Change Adaptation Agenda. APRI - Africa Policy Research Private Institute gUG (haftungsbeschränkt)., 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.59184/pb023.08.
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Explore the vital role of locally-led adaptation in Senegal's climate response, as highlighted in the research project 'Climate Change Adaptation: Strategies, Initiatives, and Practices,' urging national and global recognition and support for effective and transformative local climate action.