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East Europe

Una tourism cluster - Raising awareness on the importance of preserving natural resources, by linking them to people’s livelihood

Kasandra-Zorica

Ivanić

East Europe

Una tourism cluster - Raising awareness on the importance of preserving natural resources, by linking them to people’s livelihood

Kasandra-Zorica

Ivanić

West Asia, Middle East

Community-based Landscape Conservation in Georgia

Carmen

Kuntz

Identify priority conservation areas using habitat suitability models for key animal species.

Financial Participatory Approach (FPA) tool

Establishment of community-based organizations (CBOs)

Securing long term land-use rights for the community and conservation objectives

Creation of a local ranger program

Commitment to explicit, attainable conservation objectives through long-term Conservation Agreements

West Asia, Middle East

Community-based Landscape Conservation in Georgia

Carmen

Kuntz

Identify priority conservation areas using habitat suitability models for key animal species.

Financial Participatory Approach (FPA) tool

Establishment of community-based organizations (CBOs)

Securing long term land-use rights for the community and conservation objectives

Creation of a local ranger program

Commitment to explicit, attainable conservation objectives through long-term Conservation Agreements

Partnerships and collaboration around nutritional security

Working together with other stakeholders for synergy helps in ensuring success.

Pooling human, technical and financial resources helps in achieving more for less time and money, and also helps curb replication of solutions.

All partners and the community are actively involved in the entire process thus each party takes ownership resulting to success.

Cordial relations among all stakeholders
Timely communication and coordiantion to enable participation
Resource allocation by each participating partner to ensure smooth operations hence no gaps/delays in service delivery

Stakeholder collaboration is essential for successful problem diagnosis, identification, planning and implemetation of any interventions in the community

Designing Community Action Plans

Community led initiatives have a higher chance of success. Working with the community for the community is one of the best ways of ensuring process and results ownership.

In our reference case of Vihiga County, after desseminating results of the baseline survey to the intevention community, with the guidance of all participating partners the locals were allowed to brainstorm and come up with possible feasible interventions.

This largely contributed to the success of the project as the participants enthusiastically made effort to ensure successful implementation and continuity. Some members voluntered their land and other resources towards the project, it beng their very own.

Partners offered some financial support to kick start the project, and also agri nutrition knowledge and skills.

Inclusivity

Collaboration

Community active participation

For an intervention to work best, let it be community owned and actioned from inception, with the guidance of other participating partners like the government and donors.

Inception phase

Monitoring

Documentation and dissemination of results

Multi-national

Collecting Agirnutrition and Konwledge, Attitude and Practice Data

Reliable and recent data about the study community is a key contributor to the success of an intervention.

Data provides prior knowledge of the community and possible areas of collaboration with other exisiting projects, if any exist.

In our Vihiga project, results of the baseline survey informed us of the current situation (exisiting nutritional gaps). The results were also shared with the communities and it is from these findings that the communties based their deliberations and came up with possible ways of tackling the problems found.

For scaling up of the project in Turkana and Ethiopia, we will utilize agrinutrition data collected earlier in both areas.

Data collection in the mid and end will help determine the effectiveness or otherwise of the intervention

Selection of a representative sample
Accuracy in data collection, entry and analysis
Simplified dissemination of research findings to enable uderstanding by the community hence relevant intervention.

It is important to carry out a diagnostic study before any intervention plans in order to establish exisiting gaps
Our use of mixed methods in data collection helped in data verification
It is important to invest in the whole research process-data collection, cleaning and analysis for accurate representative results.

Inception phase

Monitoring

Documentation and dissemination of results

Subnational

National

Multi-national

A publication on some of the findings of the baseline survey.

Caregivers' nutritional knowledge and attitudes mediate seasonal shifts in chil…

East and South Africa

Integrated participatory approach to improving dietary diversity

Irene

Induli

Collecting Agirnutrition and Konwledge, Attitude and Practice Data

Designing Community Action Plans

Partnerships and collaboration around nutritional security

East and South Africa

Integrated participatory approach to improving dietary diversity

Irene

Induli

Collecting Agirnutrition and Konwledge, Attitude and Practice Data

Designing Community Action Plans

Partnerships and collaboration around nutritional security

Nature Trust Alliance: a partnership for shared services to save on administrative costs

Nature Trust Alliance

NTA

PONT is part of a unique cooperation between four funds called the Nature Trust Alliance (NTA), to share operational services. NTA was established between the Caucasus Nature Fund (CNF) and PONT in June 2016. In March 2017, Blue Action Fund joined the working partnership followed by the Legacy Landscapes Fund in 2020. The mission of NTA is to “provide operational support to our partners to allow them to focus on their core missions in nature conservation”. The NTA office is in Frankfurt as all four partner funds of NTA are registered foundations in Germany. NTA enabled PONT to establish its Regional Programme Office in Tirana, Albania from which the grant programme is managed. Through this partnership for shared services, PONT is saving costs for administrative purposes (payments; accounting; reporting; audits; investment support; communication).

Strengthened negotiating position with external service providers (banks, auditors, etc.)

Economies of scale by pooling certain services

Efficiencies in developing and implementing new procedures, systems and legislation compliance (1 time developing/4 times used)

Shared Investment Committee and investment policies

It is important to analyse, define and agree on potential shared services. If there are no expected economies of scale it is not advisable to make it a shared service as the level of complexity increases in a shared services set-up. Identical type of services fit better in a shared services concept. In the case of NTA this means that administrative and investment related services in Germany are shared services. As the grant programmes and the site-specific administrative services are different for the four funds these are not included under the shared services.

Expectations, procedures and a management / governance structure should be discussed and agreed from the start. Clear and easy communication and decision making tools should be established. Regular knowledge sharing enables continuous improvement through learning from each other. An existing shared service office can be very beneficial for new funds in their start-up phase enabling a quick start. However, the entry of new partner fund should be carefully considered and there should be enough common elements to be beneficial.

Implementation

Multi-national