Education
Projects:
- Natural Resources Management
and Rural Poverty Reduction Project (Brazil- state of Santa Catarina)
{information courtesy of World Bank}:
- Approval Date:
04/25/2002
- Closing Date:
12/31/2008
- To reduce rural poverty while improving the management of
natural resources:
- Institutional
Development and Organization (US$ 25.4 million; 23.9% of base cost)
- stakeholder training to promote economic, social, and environmental
sustainability at microcatchment level
- finance preparation
of both implementers and beneficiaries for behavioral changes and new modes
of operation that are implicit in the new technical strategy
- training of 75,000 farmers and 14,650
municipal leaders in the principles and practice of rural diagnosis, group
formation and operation, participatory planning and stakeholder monitoring
would be complemented by appropriate practical or technical courses, such
as techniques for sustainable land management, product diversification
and agro-processing
- environmental
education of farmers and fishermen that enables them to solve environmental
problems, and environmental teaching projects implemented in municipal
and state schools
- boost public awareness of, and commitment
to, solving environmental problems in general, reaching the target population
plus other stakeholders
- to allow schools within the benefiting
microcatchment areas comply with Federal laws on environmental teaching
- 1,000 environmental teaching projects
would also be financed
- Detailed
Plan:
- Environmental
education activities would be implemented at the rural school and microcatchment
levels and in close coordination with activities in other project sub-components,
in particular the Training, Rural Extension, Rural Investment and Environmental
Management sub-components. The work with rural schools would target around
1,000 schools in the project area (mostly located within or around the
project's targeted microcatchments). It would facilitate and promote awareness,
appreciation, knowledge and stewardship of natural resources. It would also
support partnerships with the departments of education at the municipal
and state levels and would provide technical assistance to build skills that
enhance the awareness and abilities of Loth teachers and students to achieve
the objectives and principles of the sub-components. Specifically, EE(Environmental
Edcucation) activities would include: (i) development and dissemination of
classroom-ready teaching aids and materials, such as the EE teacher's guide
(10,000 copies) and EE syllabus (190,000 copies); (ii) presentation of
50 "environmental awards" to schools that improve their environmental education
efforts; (iii) organization of 586 workshops with school staff (two per
municipality); organization of 130 seminars with school parents and 130
field trips and outdoor workshops for primary and high school students; (iv)
technical assistance to support the preparation of l,E projects in the target
schools; and (v) support to EE school group formation to enhance the abilities
of teachers and students in problem solving, leadership, decision-making
and cooperation.
- To achieve
the aforementioned sub-component objectives at the microcatchment level,
the project would implement a series of EE capacity building and technical
assistance activities with communities through a programmatic approach.
They would include: (i) organization of courses and workshops
that would be tailored to the needs of different stakeholder groups, distributed
over the whole disbursement period, reaching 75,000 farming or fishing
families, 11,000 members of environmental working groups (farmers' family
members and other microcatchment citizens), 14,650 local leaders, 1,000 indigenous
peoples and 1,680 technicians (EPAGRI animators, microcatchment facilitators,
municipal technicians);' (ii) establishment of partnerships with governmental
and nongovernmental institutions to undertake joint EE activities; (iii)
woik with microcatchment and watershed communities in the preparation of
EE materials; and (iv) technical assistance to communities within microcatchments
to support the preparation of EE projects. Details of course content, duration
and phasing have been reviewed at Appraisal.
- recruiting and training extension agent
- support rural extension and technical
assistance to individuals and communities
- the promotion
of the project among the rural poor by providing information, motivating
decision-making bodies about the project, assisting group formation, assisting
beneficiaries in preparing microcatchment and farm plans and assembling
the community demands for social as well as technical and financial support
- adaptive and social research as well as socioenvironmental
mapping
- respond
to specific technology adaptation and information needs arising from demand-led
participatory development programs
- To identify and carry out rural investments that increase
value of agricultural products, improve land management practices, equip
rural homes with basic sanitation, protect water sources, and dispose of
pig waste satisfactorily.
- To focus on environmental management by implementing sub-catchment
plans, establishes ecological corridors, consolidates protected areas,
and creates economic incentives.
- To finance project monitoring, and monitoring and evaluation.
Source: The above information
is from the World Bank. Retrieved October 21st, 2002, from http://www4.worldbank.org/sprojects/Project.asp?pid=P043869.
- Fire Prevention and Mobilization Project in the Amazon (PROTEGER 02)
{information courtesy of World
Bank}:
- Approval Date:
06/06/2001
- Closing Date:
09/30/2003
- Mobilization and Prevention of Forest Fires:
- to develop technical assistance and educational campaigns
for local communities and different stakeholders in high risk areas in
order to provide guidance on the risks and consequences of uncontrolled
burning
- The prevention activities, such as training in the controlled use of fire and public awareness
and education campaigns would be coordinated by GTA in partnership
with State authorities and NGOs.
- provide the risk-prone region with training and equipment
to promptly address forest fires and prevent them from burning out of
control
- Community fire prevention units at the local level would
be constituted and trained to monitor local fires and to call on State fire
companies as needed in the event of uncontrollable wildfires.
- Alternative to the Use of Fire in Agriculture:
- to disseminate information and exchange
of experience on existing models for reducing the use of fire in agriculture
- to identify existing and promising initiatives which will
be visited by community leaders to assess its success and adoption by
other communities
- regional seminar would be
carried out to present the results of these initiatives to small farmers
and community leaders.
- Project Coordination, Monitoring & Evaluation
- The proposed project would be implemented over two years
under the administrative coordination of GTA The Amazon Working Group where
the Project Coordination Unit (PCU) would be established. Executing agencies
in each state would be state chapters of FETAGRI. IBAMA would collaborate
during the training of trainers in the states and also supply dissemination
materials and fire monitoring. The project will be guided by an Advisory
Group made up of one representative from MMA, MPO, the Northern Chapter
of the Brazilian Association of Environmental Entities (ABEMA Zona Norte),
and a NGO based in the Legal Amazon. GTA, its affiliate NGOs and State FETAGRI
would help implement the community mobilization and training campaign. State
Environmental Agencies and IBAMA would participated during the training
of trainers and some of the community training on fire prevention.
Source: The above
information is from the World Bank. Retrieved October 21st, 2002, from
http://www4.worldbank.org/sprojects/Project.asp?pid=P073882
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