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Timor-Leste trials healthcare from the people, to the people

Possibly the best article I've seen on health, village health committees, popular participation, and the deep rooted complications of culture and politics. The Guardian Weekly is a tremendous…Continue

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10 Seeds From Across the World Give Communities Their Voice
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The importance of developing a community-based needs assessmentHave you ever been to a village and seen the remnants of a development project that has been abandoned? Sometimes this is due to…Continue

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Anar Bhatt left a comment for Tim Magee
Hi Tim! Thanks for the warm welcome message. I look forward to engage in informative discussion and resource sharing. Best, Anar
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Hello Anar!   Thank you for joining our development community—and welcome.   CSDi course participants had quite bit to say about what this network was about.   I’m looking forward to seeing you join some groups and enter…
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Hello Carlos Jose!   Thank you for joining our development community—and welcome.   CSDi course participants had quite bit to say about what this network was about.   I’m looking forward to seeing you join some groups and…
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CBA Climate Change News | Vulnerability-Nigeria | Climate Smart Ag.| 50 CBA Programs | Food Security-Ethiopia |

February 2012 Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change NewsletterCenter for Sustainable DevelopmentTHIS MONTH'S CBA NEWSChallenges. This past quarter CSDi has seen a number of CBA partner projects worldwide. We are seeing tremendous similarities between the projects: livelihood vulnerabilities, drought, climate variability, and extreme weather events. These challenges lead to reduced harvests, reduced income, reduced food security and malnutrition. Solutions. Here are a selection of…See More
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Hello Andrew!   Thank you for joining our development community—and welcome.   CSDi course participants had quite bit to say about what this network was about.   I’m looking forward to seeing you join some groups and enter…
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Tillem Burlace commented on Tim Magee's group 'Adapting to Climate Change'
A useful link for facilitating the organization of a community based Income Generation Committees to help address low skills levels as an climate change adaptation…
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Tillem Burlace commented on Tim Magee's group 'Community Water'
A useful link for working with communities to investigate water source alternatives to address water scarcity http://media.greennexxus.com/WASRAG/ND_PPP_Report.pdf WASRAG “Project Planning & Performance Team Report - Selected WASH Projects…
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CSDi Water News | Ethiopia | Uganda | Nigeria | New: 50 Field Programs | 1,000 H20 Solutions

February 2012—CSDi  Water NewsletterCenter for Sustainable DevelopmentTHIS MONTH'S WATER NEWS This past quarter CSDi has seen a number of water related partner projects worldwide. We are seeing tremendous similarities between the projects: not enough water, too much water—and contaminated water. These challenges lead to reduced harvests, reduced income, reduced food security and nutrition, and chronic ill health from waterborne disease. Here are solution-oriented partner projects on the African…See More
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Ethiopia | Water/Nutrition/HIV | Drip Irrigation | Urban Agriculture | Gray Water

Addis Ababa, EthiopiaGoshu Worku (Ethiopia) and James Yasona (South Sudan) are working on an urban agriculture project with 270 children from five schools and 150 women in Ethiopia. These community members are suffering from annual food shortages caused by a lack of adequate and safe irrigation water and a low awareness of urban agricultural techniques—combined with climate change related unpredictable onset and offset of the rainy season—and drought. A large percentage of these community…See More
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Lucie Rogo commented on Tim Magee's blog post 'Home Gardens for Food Security. First step: Soil Restoration with Compost'
I thought it very interesting that earthworms are being used to make compost. Something I must try in my garden which is usually not very healthy. I intend to introduce it to a woman's group in Sagam Village in Kenya where I come from. Lucie
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Hello Munir!   Thank you for joining our development community—and welcome.   CSDi course participants had quite bit to say about what this network was about.   I’m looking forward to seeing you join some groups and enter…
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What does adapting to climate change mean at the community level? What practical tools can we use in communities for adaptation? Let’s explore this theme and share discussions, blogs, scientific documents, field guides, photos, videos & case studies.See More
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Southern Uganda | Water Scarcity | Drought | Water Management Plan | Coping Strategies

Masaka District, Southwest UgandaOver the past six months Elijah Kajubi (Uganda), Siobhan Girling (UK), Jeff DeBlieu (US) and Alba Perez (Spain/Vietnam) have been developing a project with 300 families in five villages in the Masaka District of southwest Uganda. These agricultural families are suffering from widespread malnutrition caused by water scarcity due to climate variability—including extreme drought reducing crop yields, causing crop failure and negatively impacting…See More
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Lucie Rogo commented on Tim Magee's group 'Family Food Security'
Many thanks Ms. Tate-Bradish for the link to the article "Bringing Agriculture to the Table: How Agriculture and Food Can Play a Role in Preventing Chronic Disease". Certainly good information source for my proposed project.…
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Kathy Tate-Bradish commented on Tim Magee's group 'Family Food Security'
Hi Lucy, Good luck with your project. I would just urge you to be sure that someone is seeking out a local agriculture officer or the equivalent. My partner in Kenya has been incredibly successful in getting enthusiastic interest and input by…
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Lucie Rogo commented on Tim Magee's group 'Family Food Security'
 I am part of an online adaptation course OL 341 (http://www.csd-i.org/ol-341-adapting-climate-change/) facilitated by Tim Magee of the Centre for Sustainable Development. I am developing a community participatory project within the…
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I have been living and working in Guatemala for the past seven years which has given me the opportunity to see humanitarian development up close, and to work with over 100 different nonprofits and donors. My work has created intense curiosity on my part in better understanding “What works in development?” This led to the formation of the Center for Sustainable Development (http://www.csd-i.org/ ).

Through teaching online courses at the Center, I've had the honor of working with students from over 60 different countries. What immediately struck me while working with this many different cultures, is that most of the students were working on projects that had very similar themes.

I have learned an incredible amount from these course participants; they've had excellent ideas for their projects and they've had access to information that I had not seen before. These students are of all different ages and different professions: donors, executive directors, field staff, business owners with a conscience, students, scientists, consultants and people who would like to transition into development work.

I began to realize that since such knowledgeable, talented (yet widely scattered) people were working on common problems -- that we should consider pooling our resources and begin collaborating with each other online to develop tools and solutions to the challenges we find in development.

Practical, simple tools and solutions that have shown evidence of having worked and that can be understood, implemented and maintained by a range of people types. These tools and solutions should be sustainable and impact-oriented. This led to the formation of this online development community http://developmentcommunity-csd-i.com/ .

We encourage people to visit our community seeking these types of solutions to development challenges. My hope is that they will be able to access information not only on their own, but also through the generosity of community members who reach out to help them.

Another goal of this development community is to share and collaborate with other members that have similar interests. Please join groups, connect us to your friends and colleagues, participate in discussions, post blogs, and upload documents, photographs, and videos. But most of all let's work together to fine tune the answers to “What works in development?”

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 Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change Newsletter

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CSDi Water News | Ethiopia | Uganda | Nigeria | New: 50 Field Programs | 1,000 H20 Solutions

February 2012—CSDi  Water Newsletter

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Posted on February 19, 2012 at 12:00pm

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Ethiopia | Water/Nutrition/HIV | Drip Irrigation | Urban Agriculture | Gray Water

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Goshu Worku (Ethiopia) and James Yasona (South Sudan) are working on an urban agriculture project with 270 children from five schools and 150 women in Ethiopia. These community members are suffering from annual food shortages caused by a lack of adequate and safe irrigation water and a low awareness of urban agricultural techniques—combined with climate change related unpredictable onset and offset of the rainy season—and drought. A large percentage…

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Posted on February 17, 2012 at 6:16pm

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Southern Uganda | Water Scarcity | Drought | Water Management Plan | Coping Strategies

Masaka District, Southwest Uganda

Over the past six months Elijah Kajubi (Uganda), Siobhan Girling (UK), Jeff DeBlieu (US) and Alba Perez (Spain/Vietnam) have been developing a project with 300 families in five villages in the Masaka District of southwest Uganda. These agricultural families are suffering from widespread malnutrition caused by water scarcity due to climate variability—including extreme drought reducing crop yields, causing crop failure and negatively…

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At 2:12am on February 24, 2012, Anar BhattAnar Bhatt said…

Hi Tim! Thanks for the warm welcome message. I look forward to engage in informative discussion and resource sharing. Best, Anar

At 12:39pm on February 6, 2012, Robin Joseph AbrahamRobin Joseph Abraham said…

Thanks Tim for the welcome note. I  thought welcome message was an automated message, but your comment on kerala food made me realise that it isn't. I am exited about the concept behind this website and I hope I can make  good use of it.

regards,

Robin Abraham 

At 11:49am on January 5, 2012, Joseph Opio-OdongoJoseph Opio-Odongo said…

Dear Tim,

I appreciate the welcome note. I will join some groups and engage in the discussions. I look forward to sharing with members of the community.

Regards.

At 2:02am on November 29, 2011, Reny JuitaReny Juita said…

Thank you Tim for the warm welcoming note. When I noticed that you are in Guatemala, I remember that I had a chance to visit the country back in 1996 to attend conservation enterprise workshop in Flores island (?) with Conservation International. It was such a great opportunity to me that I had a chance to visit Tikal and joint with the eco-tourism program there. It gave me a lot of lesson. Hope I can contribute more for this community. 

Regards,

Reny

At 9:14am on October 6, 2011, Mathias JohnMathias John said…
Mr. Tim M., I am all heart happy with the welcome note I personally received from you, and I am assuring you that I will not just join groups to work together but to contribute my best as a professional practitioner of my field. I come from a very disadvantageous country (third world country) and I want to see how I can contribute professional to my country, Africa, and the world to an extend. I am readily avialable for any Town Planning Practice. Thanks. Long live CSDi Development Community and another Community. Thanks once more.
At 8:01am on October 3, 2011, Willy Vidal AlanguiWilly Vidal Alangui said…
Thanks for the welcome Tim. This early, I notice that marginalized communities all over the world share a lot of common problems: access to clean water, health issues, food security, vulnerability to climate change. The strength of this course is that people from different cultures and experiences are able to share possible solutions to common problems! I'm learning so much.
At 5:21pm on September 30, 2011, Samuel Scarpato MejutoSamuel Scarpato Mejuto said…
Hola Tim, ¿pudiste leer el mensaje que te mandé hace dos semanas? (información sobre la restauración de suelos y programas de agroecología de altos rendimientos)
At 9:36pm on September 19, 2011, Samuel Scarpato MejutoSamuel Scarpato Mejuto said…

Hello Tim,

Thank yours for so nice reception.- I expect to make good friends and good scientific & communities relationship.-

I find complete my PhD research with yours help...

Can i express my forum and comments in spanish? Which moment is necessary to do it in english? Thanks for your answer.-

At 4:21pm on September 19, 2011, Siobhan GirlingSiobhan Girling said…
Hi Tim - Just wanted to say thanks for making these opportunities available!  Will be sure to let you know if I'm heading back to Guatemala any time soon.
At 1:23am on September 7, 2011, Alba Saray Perez TeranAlba Saray Perez Teran said…
Hola Tim! I just joined one of the courses and I have been looking around the website a bit. There is such an amazing amount of useful information!! Can't wait to start! Thanks for this great opportunity! :)

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