Amyaz Moledina's List: Capitals Measure Project

• to build effective feedback and accountability in agricultural development programs. We are looking for tools that enable constituent voices to be consistently heard in all project phase
• • ystems to evaluate existing feedback practices used by your organization. This evaluation should provide evidence of how your organization learns from constituent feedback and shares these practices with others;
   
  • Systems that enhance your existing feedback practices,
• Proposals must (i) demonstrate that farmers’ needs and perspectives were integral in the design of the solution; (ii) show how constituent voice will impact project implementation; and (iii) demonstrate how constituents will assess the effectiveness of the implementing organization. Proposals must include a basic plan that describes how the donor – implementing organization – constituent relationship will be framed in a learning process that reflects not only standard measurements of material/economic metrics for project success, including technology transfer, but also qualitative metrics for how the project contributes to human wellbeing. Proposal should include a paragraph on what Phase 2 would potentially look like and what is needed for sustainability.
• Applied research applicable to NGOs or for-profit organizations that enhances constituent voice, promotes a culture of learning, and ensures downward accountability practices.

  • November 12, 2013 at 11:30 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.

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• Sustainable Measures offers a wide variety of consulting services to help governments, businesses and non-profits find appropriate, practical ways to contribute to the overall sustainability of their communities. The firm brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the field of sustainability. On this site can be found:

   
   
  • Free training materials 
  • A searchable database of indicators 
  • Explanations of indicators and sustainability 
  • lists of online, print, and other resources 
  • Answers to frequently asked questions about indicators and Sustainability.
   

  Through services such as interactive workshops, consulting, lectures and publications, Sustainable Measures educates, activates and helps groups create effective indicators.

• In October 2012, five countries Bhutan, Ecuador, Liberia, Philippines and Tanzania, expressed interest to undertake TEEB country studies under the umbrella project Reflecting the Value of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Policy-making. This pilot project is financially supported by the European Commission and will be implemented over a period of three years until 2015.

   

• Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) are trying to find ways to value ecosystem services to account for the loss of biodiversity in economic terms, in order to allow people to make more sustainable choices.

• The goal of the NASCap program is to improve planning and management for ecosystems and communities, while ensuring that the processes for doing so are inclusive, adaptive and integrative.
• Lake Winnipeg Basin, learning all the while from its other regional, national and international research on integrated water resources management and ecosystem goods and services.
• three core areas: (i) scenario planning and foresight, (ii) sustainability indicator systems and (iii) adaptive governance. The group works closely with communities, watershed agencies, government departments and businesses in Canada and internationally.
• an incubating space for

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• The report argues that in Sub-Saharan Africa, where almost three-quarters of the labor force still works in agriculture, agricultural value chains may have the greatest potential to diversify rural economies, raise household incomes, and thereby contribute to stability. The core of value chain development involves strengthening relationships a critical task in fragile and post- conflict environments, where trust and social cohesion have been shattered.