Villagers in Viet Nam’s Lam Dong Province are seeing their incomes rise under a new initiative that enhances families’ livelihoods while protecting the surrounding forests. The project is part of ADB’s Poverty and Environment Program.
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As part of Living Earth’s Urban Livelihoods Project, the community of Lira (Kampala, Uganda) recognise the challenge they face of trying to derive a livelihood from the environment whilst ensuring that the environment is used in a sustainable manner. Successful initiatives include ‘The Tin Man of Lira’ who turns scrap metal into saucepans, school bells, scales….
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The Naulu, a group of indigenous mountain people, live in Seram Island, Maluku, Indonesia.
They are isolated and typically rely on hunting and farming to meet their basic food needs. Historically they have had little interaction with communities outside their villages.
Mercy Corps has been working with the Naulu to help them develop economic opportunities. This story is about an economic development project to help women earn an income so they can help to provide for their families.
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The video is part of the Global Nature Fund’s project to restore mangrove forests and livelihoods in Sri Lanka after the Tsunami of 2004.
The project aims at the re-establishment of livelihoods of affected communities, restoration of Tsunami affected areas and long-term environmental education. The main target groups are about 1,000 families from poor communities in the lake areas of Bolgoda, Maduganga and Madampe in Sri Lanka. A central goal is to improve the peoples self-reliance, mitigate poverty effects, increase long-term access of people to sustainable use of natural resources and protect the local communities against potential disasters by the implementation of precautionary measures.
Among the main activities are the installation of mangrove nurseries, the re-plantation of damaged mangrove forests and the establishment and operation of regional education centres. The latter serves to educate and inform the local people of negative impacts from logging in forested areas and coral reef harvesting in order to reduce or avoid them as far as possible. The project results will be transferred to the Tsunami affected Pulicat region in India.
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A documentary film on Japanese aid effectiveness in Bangladesh. The films show how Jamuna Bridge has created obstruction to development in the Shirajgonj area, who is getting the profit and who is losing their livelihood. It visualizes the development disaster in the area where it was suppose to bring prosper. The film was directed by Shakil Ahmed and produce by New Vista Ltd for Unnayan Onneshan.
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Agriculture is crucially important for most people in rural Africa. This video shows a number of the farming steps taken to grow yams, cassava and maize in northern Ghana. You can even watch EWB volunteer Nick Jiminez struggle to be a farmer. This is the second video of a similar theme.
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Agriculture is crucially important for most people in rural Africa. This video shows a number of the farming steps taken to grow yams, cassava and maize in northern Ghana. You can even watch EWB volunteer Nick Jiminez struggle to be a farmer.
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Most people in the world live in rural areas. Many of these people make less than $1 each day. This short video tells the story of one program that is helping such rural people find a sustainable income and better care for their families.
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Kate Conroy, one of the facilitators at the May 2009 sustainable livelihoods workshop ‘Making it Happen in Asia’, explains what she feels the workshop achieved and just why it was so successful.
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This video illustrates how companies operating in developing countries can act as positive agents of change and contribute to creating better livelihoods.
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