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    <title>Field Actions Science Reports</title>
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    <title>Introduction</title>
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      <p class="titreillustration" dir="ltr">Bernard Giraud, Co-Founder and President of Livelihoods Venture</p>
      <p class="texte" dir="ltr"><strong><img src="docannexe/image/2673/img-1-small200.jpg"  /></strong></p>
      <p class="texte" dir="ltr"><a id="Image17Cgraphics"></a>One of the most appalling paradoxes of our times is that more than three-quarters of the one billion human beings suffering from malnutrition are small farmers: those who are supposed to be feeding their fellow men haven’t enough to feed their own families. These small farmers, herders or fishermen are for the most part terribly dependent on natural resources, from which they draw the majority of their own resources. In many cases, they have only their own bodily strength to rely on, occasionally supported by working animals. When the mangrove forests from which they catch the fish are destroyed, when the soil loses its fertility as a result of erosion, when deforestation leads to groundwater sources drying up, and when hurricanes ravage the dikes erected to protect their crops, the rural poor are impacted immediately and directly. For them, the deterioration of their ecosystem is a lot more than a conference discussion ...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Bernard Giraud</dc:creator>
    <link>http://factsreports.revues.org/2673</link>
    <dc:date>2013-05-16</dc:date>
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    <title>Scaling of mangrove afforestation with carbon finance to create significant impact on the biodiversity – a new paradigm in biodiversity conservation models</title>
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      <p class="abstract" dir="ltr">Sunderbans has undergone a huge loss of forest cover in the past century. Population pressure ever increasing, the administration is more intent on developing economic activities in the area. However no economic activities will sustain if the environmental vulnerability of the region is not properly addressed. Mangroves form the basis of the ecosystem and large scale restoration of this mangrove cover on a scientific basis can create the necessary impact on the biodiversity and mitigate climate change. The carbon finance approach adopted by “Livelihoods” is a tool to create biodiversity-core social business models. This writing reviews into the theory and practices of such a model implemented in Sunderbans and identifies the prospects and challenges.</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Ajanta Dey</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Animesh Kar</dc:creator>
    <link>http://factsreports.revues.org/2674</link>
    <dc:date>2013-04-19</dc:date>
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    <title>Oceanium Dakar: The daily struggle for the integrated community-based protection of West Africa’s marine and coastal ecosystems</title>
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      <p class="abstract" dir="ltr">The coastlines and deltas of West Africa have suffered—and continue to suffer—significant environmental damage. Although they fulfill crucial functions, their mangroves have been subjected to widespread destruction. The Senegalese NGO Oceanium has been combatting this phenomenon since 2006 by sensitizing and involving the surrounding populations. The “Plante ton arbre” (Plant Your Tree) project is a rare example of the large-scale participatory restoration of a severely threatened coastal ecosystem. Its results deserve to be analyzed in greater detail, but it has already demonstrated that a proactive initiative designed to be friendly to people, as well as to the environment, really can make the difference.</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Ismaïla Sall</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Guillaume Durin</dc:creator>
    <link>http://factsreports.revues.org/2564</link>
    <dc:date>2013-04-19</dc:date>
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    <title>HIV Viral Load Testing in Laos</title>
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      <p class="abstract" dir="ltr">The number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos (also known as Laos PDR) is estimated at 13,600 and the number of people in need of antiretroviral therapy at 8,000. Today, around 3,200 HIV infected individuals receive treatment in seven centres throughout the country. Until recently, antiretroviral treated patients were followed-up only on the basis of clinical and immunological criteria.</p>
      <p class="abstract" dir="ltr">In 2009 the Centre d'Infectiologie Christophe Mérieux in Laos PDR (CICML) signed a collaboration agreement with the national Centre of HIV/AIDS/STI (CHAS) for the implementation of HIV viral load testing (VLT) in the country, leading to the technological transfer of the ANRS generic assay (HIV Generic charge virale, Biocentric, Bandol, France). The introduction of HIV VLT has been accompanied through national HIV workshops every 6 months. From June 2009 to December 2011, HIV viral load has been measured in 1,782 antiretoviral-treated patients. Of these, 97% were...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Phimpha Paboriboune</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>S. Ngin</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>A. Kieffer</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>C. Phimphachanh</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>B. Bouchard</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>P. Ho Fan</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>N. Steenkeste</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>G. Viretto</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>M Fernandez</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>C. Longuet</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>F.X. Babin</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>E. Nerrienet</dc:creator>
    <link>http://factsreports.revues.org/2628</link>
    <dc:date>2013-04-19</dc:date>
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    <title>Gender and the environment: Increasing enterprise productivity and improving occupational safety and health conditions</title>
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      <p class="abstract" dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0.0cm; margin-bottom:0.0cm;">This paper tries to establish linkages between gender and the environment. The approach which has been chosen is that of occupational safety and health (OSH) and environmental protection. An attempt is made to shed light on the conditions of female employees as compared to their male colleagues in terms of environmental tasks assigned, injuries suffered and accidents linked to machines which may be hard to use particularly for female workers. A survey of 100 employees from 10 firms from the manufacturing of machine-parts sector in China and Indonesia was conducted to investigate the issues. In Indonesian surveyed enterprises, women experience more injuries than men. Both in China and in Indonesia, accidents due to machines which are hard to use for a worker concern men more than women. Findings from China reveal that even if women are better than men in the implementation of environmental protection measures, they are simply denied a chance to show it, because they are under-represe...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Maria Sabrina De Gobbi</dc:creator>
    <link>http://factsreports.revues.org/2388</link>
    <dc:date>2013-04-05</dc:date>
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    <title>Forging a Template for Sustainable Rural Development: The Araku Way</title>
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      <p class="abstract" style="margin-top:0.0in; margin-bottom:0.0in;" dir="ltr">India, as in most parts of the world, suffers from forest depletion.  The marginalised communities dependent on these forests for their sustenance and well-being are the most affected.  The Forestry Department's post-colonial regulations further exacerbate the plight of these people – they have long since lost their sense of shared custodianship of forest and as consequently their nutrition and livelihoods are severely challenged.  Under these stressful circumstances there is no incentive to preserve or restore the remaining forest cover. </p>
      <p class="abstract" style="margin-top:0.0in; margin-bottom:0.0in;" dir="ltr">This trend needs to be reversed.  This programme outlined is designed to facilitate bringing forests and forest ecosystems to these communities within their own lands.  It is this template that is designed to be implemented as the livelihoods and nutritional security panacea.  The Adivasi community in Araku already has a robust food cropping rhythm that is subsistence by nature.   However the realities of modern life mandate that there is sufficien...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>David Hogg</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Diana Joseph</dc:creator>
    <link>http://factsreports.revues.org/2424</link>
    <dc:date>2013-04-05</dc:date>
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    <title>Culture and Development, an Experiment with Empowerment</title>
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      <p class="abstract" dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0.0cm; margin-bottom:0.0cm;">The Adivasi Academy has been implementing a comprehensive cultural approach promoting the Adivisi community's empowerment in different fields such as culture, education, healthcare, agriculture and economy. The Adivasi community had been facing lack of access and marginalization partly due to the British colonialism; during which many cultural misunderstandings related to communities’ and tribes’ costumes occurred. Through notably active campaigns, trainings for local people and highlighting cultural conservation, the Adivasi Academy has achieved many positive outcomes namely major policy debates and community's self-reliance. All these show that cultural parameters can play a key role in development. Such comprehensive cultural approach could be replicated in other community contexts in order to foster development and to fight against social exclusions.</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Ganesh N. Devy</dc:creator>
    <link>http://factsreports.revues.org/2404</link>
    <dc:date>2013-04-03</dc:date>
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    <title>The simultaneous introduction of the district health system and performance-based funding: the Burundi experience</title>
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      <p class="abstract" dir="ltr">Burundi recently introduced two fundamental reforms to its health system: a district health system (DHS) and performance-based financing (PBF) of the healthcare facilities.</p>
      <p class="abstract" dir="ltr">The authors of this article set out the salient points of a trial simultaneous implementation of DHS and PBF.</p>
      <p class="abstract" dir="ltr">The assessment refers to the six building blocks of health systems proposed by the WHO, and demonstrates that PBF can either have a leverage effect or hinder the following functional elements of the DHS: the group dynamics of the District Health Management Team (DHMT), the way the district hospital functions in relation to the primary health care level , the curative and preventive health services provided by health centers to provide health cover for a target population, the provision of essential medication by a fully-functional district pharmacy, the action-focused on the health management information system (HMIS) and funding that ensures fair provision and guaranteed resupply, supported by a transparen...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Georges Nsengiyumva</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Laurent Musango</dc:creator>
    <link>http://factsreports.revues.org/2351</link>
    <dc:date>2013-02-13</dc:date>
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    <title>Aliniha: women leaders at the heart of sustainable development in west Africa</title>
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      <p class="abstract" dir="ltr">Born of an original association between tree southern partners in 2007, Aliniha is a methodology to link up women, the pillars of african society, for the sustainable development of their region, through their work and for their benefit. The Aliniha methodology combines the various areas of expertise of the three social entrepreneurs who created it, namely microfinance, improving women's skills, and management and protection of natural resources. The underlying principle is that every woman signing the “Aliniha Charter” benefits from a microcredit allowing her to undertaken an economic activity; in return, she undertakes to plant and look after three trees given to her with the money, and to follow the training courses offered by the Aliniha partner structures. The aim is to teach women sustainable management of their resources, be they human (knowledge), financial (money) or natural (trees).</p>
      <p class="abstract" dir="ltr">In order to make the project sustainable and ensure that the methodology spreads, the three ...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Jean Goepp</dc:creator>
    <link>http://factsreports.revues.org/2365</link>
    <dc:date>2013-02-13</dc:date>
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    <title>Call for proposals on Local Democratic Innovations</title>
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      <h1 dir="ltr" id="heading1"><a href="http://factsreports.revues.org/1313#tocto1n1">Guidelines for authors</a></h1>
      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">The FACTS Initiative and CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation are pleased to announce a call for proposals on local democratic innovations for publication in a special issue of the <em>FACTS Reports</em>, on the 2013 website of the journal, and on the CIVICUS website.</p>
      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">This special issue of the FACTS Report, in partnership with CIVICUS, is to promote, publish and publicize new projects and ideas on participatory and accountable governance of public institutions at local and national levels. This call for proposals is not limited to field actors working on governance, but also includes observers – individuals or institutions, public or private – who wish to make contributions in the form of publications on democratisation processes. In addition, it also aims to promote innovative actions conducted by civil society actors.  </p>
      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">The proposals should focus on presenting, reflecting and/or doing a monograph of key projects or initiatives on local democratic innovation...</p>]]></description>
    <link>http://factsreports.revues.org/2344</link>
    <dc:date>2013-01-16</dc:date>
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