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USAID is proud to announce the upcoming workshop, Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM): Cutting Across Multi-Sector Divides, January 16-17, 2013 in Washington, DC.

 

In addition to NRM specialists, this workshop targets international development professionals with expertise in global climate change, food security, economic development, democracy, conflict, and humanitarian assistance to enhance learning on how CBNRM can contribute to achieving their goals. 

Proposed Agenda and Objectives

Day One - CBNRM and Multiple Development Impacts  

• Learn what CBNRM is, the types of activities included in CBNRM, and the landscapes and regions where CBNRM is found, conditions for success, how to achieve scale, etc.
• Explore how CBNRM contributes to multiple development objectives and achieves multiple development impacts, including impacts in climate change adaptation and mitigation; food security; economic development; and democracy, conflict, and humanitarian assistance
• Share CBNRM approaches, resources, information and tools
• Identify how participants can link their office/organization and their own work with CBNRM programs and activities

*Limited to 100 participants including USAID; other federal agencies; NRM sector professionals; and international development professionals from other sectors including climate change, food security, economic development, democracy, conflict, and humanitarian assistance

Day Two - CBNRM Practioners Workshop

• Obtain preliminary results and provide input for USAID’s global CBNRM assessment
• Discuss lessons learned and best practices in designing and implementing CBNRM activities and programs that result in multiple development impacts
• Learn about current state-of-the-art approaches, practices and tools for effective CBNRM activities and programs that result in multiple development impacts
• Access tools and other resources for implementing, integrating and/or evaluating CBNRM activities and programs that result in multiple development impacts

*Limited to 60 participants including CBNRM sector practitioners from USAID, other federal agencies, NGOs, etc.