Series Overview
Do your activities and strategic plans cross over into the areas of improving livelihoods and protecting the natural resources that sustain those livelihoods?
Have you thought about the critical links between poverty and natural
resources conflicts and degradation?
EGAT’s Offices of Poverty Reduction and Natural Resources Management hosted a cross-sectoral seminar series that addressed these multidimensional issues and concerns. The series explored the links between natural resource management and poverty reduction in developing and transitional countries. Experts from both within and outside USAID shared knowledge and tools for understanding the complex role that wise natural resource management plays in reducing poverty. The seminars explored the conflicts and barriers to improving the livelihoods of the poor, and ways of assisting them with both improving their immediate standard of living and ensuring a sustainable future. USAID’s ultimate goal is to build strong and successful Agency programs that alleviate poverty while maintaining the natural resource base so critical to sustaining wealth.
The eight-part seminar series was sequential, with each session building on the discussions and knowledge base of those that preceded it. Each seminar consisted of an invited presentation followed by a panel discussion to share complementary viewpoints and approaches. Supplementary readings provided opportunity for further exploration of each seminar’s topic.
The poverty-natural resources management thematic area was developed further in EGAT’s competency-based training course held in the summer of 2005.
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