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Wetlands and Livelihoods Programme (WLP)
Activity Type(s):
Capacity builiding / training people,
Influencing policies,
Inventory, monitoring and research
Language(s):
English
Topics:
Livelihoods
Offices:
Africa Office (Senegal),
Headquarters (Netherlands),
Mali office,
Guinea-Bissau office,
North Asia Office (China),
Indonesia office,
Malaysia office,
Thailand office,
Oceania office,
South Asia office
Continent / Country / Region:
Global,
Africa,
Americas,
North Asia,
South-east Asia,
South-Asia,
Oceania
Project Duration: Dec 2008 Until Dec 2010
Contact person:
Marie-Jose VervestThis project focusses on the mainstreaming of sustainable wetland management principles and practice into the development of poverty reduction strategies through local and international partnerships in DAC1 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It will do this by enhancing of existing and supporting development of new policies at local, national and international levels, with specific inclusion of the water and health sectors and by ensuring due attention to the need for equitable development.
Project Description:
Why has Wetlands International developed this project?
Wetland degradation is continuing at an alarming rate. At the same time the world is facing considerable human poverty. In many developing countries there is a link between the two. Unsustainable wetland management is degrading wetland service provision and associated livelihoods as well as contributing to biodiversity loss. .
Sustainable wetland management can in many places maintain and even improve livelihoods whilst providing benefits for biodiversity. This project has been developed to contribute to resolving these issues starting from policy development and change. The proposal specifically identifies policy failure in water resource management and poverty reduction as being key drivers in wetland degradation and associated loss of livelihood.
Wetlands International strategy and programmes
The project has been designed to strongly support the delivery of the Wetlands International Strategic Intent and particularly Goals 2 and 3. The Strategy and its Goals have been developed through a bottom-up process. The close linkage of this programme to these goals means that it has been built based on our institutional priorities as identified by our partners and network.
The WLP proposal has also been designed to follow-on and build on the Wetlands and Poverty Reduction Project (WPRP) which ended in 2008. There is an expectation that there is continuity between the two, showing consolidation and further development of progress and achievement made in WPRP.
What does the Project aim to achieve?
Wetlands and livelihoods related policy change and implementation. The project must enable us to establish or change existing policy so that wetlands and livelihood issues can be addressed. Furthermore we have to be able to show evidence of implementation of these policies in planning and on the ground. This does not mean that we focus exclusively on the conservation sector; intersectoral approaches are expected that enable us to bridge the conservation-development sector divide.
What strategies does the project give us to achieve this aim?
The project is divided into three intervention strategies these relate to Demonstration, Capacity Building, Influencing Policy. Each of these three strategies are described in detail throughout the project proposal document, and so they will not be repeated here. However it is worth emphasising that these three strategies must not be implemented separately. The project’s overall objective demands that they are all integrated and focused on a few common policy goals. The end result of combining demonstration, capacity building and policy influence must be policy change and changed implementation of policy.
Project Partners:
Donor: Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS)