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Environmental Health
In its environmental health programs, USAID aims to provide global leadership in the development of new and improved interventions to prevent illness and death associated with environmental factors, and to use innovative approaches to take these interventions to scale within the context of USAID's field activities.
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Integrating Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) Projects: A Programming Manual
Achieving environmentally-sustainable development in situations of surging population growth, declining biodiversity, and chronic poverty requires strategic planning, multi-disciplinary interventions and crosssector linked approaches that mirror the livelihood strategies of poor households and communities. This manual was designed with such a need in mind using evidence from programs in Madagascar, the Philippines, and other countries where integrated approaches to development have been explored and brought to scale over the past decade.
Good Practice Guidance on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
Aimed at managers and health practitioners, this toolkit seeks to increase their understanding of the individual diseases.
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A Community Guide to Environmental Health
Drawing the connections between people’s health and the environments in which we live, this groundbreaking book empowers health promoters, development workers, educators, activists, community leaders and ordinary people to take charge of their communities’ health.
Managing HIV/AIDS in your Workplace: Protecting People and Profitability (Facilitator’s Manual)
This training manual focuses on SMEs and is designed to discredit myths about HIV/AIDS; foster understanding of its multiple impacts on businesses, employees, and communities; and impart skills to create and implement workplace programs. It is hoped that businesses will use this manual to establish and implement a Roadmap for Action to stem the tide of HIV/AIDS in their workplace, and by extension, in their communities.
HIV/AIDS Guide for the Mining Sector: A Resource for Developing Stakeholder Competency and Compliance in Mining Communities in Southern Africa
The HIV/AIDS Guide for the mining sector, referred to throughout as the Guide, is a compendium of resources – information, tools and case studies – that can be used individually or collectively by stakeholders and organisations working within mining communities in Southern Africa, to initiate or strengthen their responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Partnership Defined Quality: A toolbook for Community and Health Provider Collaboration for Quality Improvement
Partnership Defined Quality is a methodology to improve the quality and accessibility of services with community involvement in defining, implementing, and monitoring the quality improvement process. This manual offers tools that can be used by project managers, health service managers, or facilitating agencies. It can also be used by health workers or community advocates, who would like to work to make a difference in the quality of health services available in their area. The tools in this manual can help the users to plan programs that will mobilize both health workers, and communities to work toward better service quality and availability.
Oil and Gas Industry Guidance on Voluntary Sustainability Reporting: Using Environmental, Health & Safety, Social and Economic Performance Indicators
The purpose of the Oil and Gas Industry Guidance on Voluntary Sustainability Reporting is to assist current and future oil and gas companies in improving the quality and consistency of voluntary reporting on their environmental, health and safety, social and economic performance.
Environmental and Social Guidelines for Occupational Health and Safety
This guideline applies to places of work associated with IFC projects. The place of work may be a building, an installation or an outdoor area. The guidelines also apply to temporary places of work. IFC project sponsors should ensure that suppliers, service providers, contractors, and subcontractors are required to follow comparable practices.
Safety and health in small-scale surface mines: A handbook
Education, training, demonstration and surveillance are the keys to improving Occupational safety and health (OSH) in smallscale mining. But this is well known. The purpose of this handbook is to make a practical contribution to this process.
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Lighting Africa is a World Bank Group initiative aimed at providing up to 250 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa with access to non-fossil fuel based, low cost, safe, and reliable lighting products with associated basic energy services by the year 2030.
Social Change Assistance Trust
The Social Change Assistance Trust (SCAT) is an independent fund-raising and grant-making development agency. Its vision is vibrant and sustainable communities in rural South Africa.
Impact Alliance
The Impact Alliance is a global action network committed to strengthening the capacity of individuals and organizations to generate deep impact within the communities they serve.
World NGO Resource Page
In order for NGO's to connect on a worldwide basis www.nonprofitexpert.com has developed the following resource pages listed below. Please follow links for countries and donors.
IFC-Lonmin Partnership Wins Nedbank Green Mining Award
A joint IFC-Lonmin supplier development program that supports sustainable growth in mining communities in South Africa has taken top prize in the socio-economic category at the Nedbank Green Mining Awards, which celebrates responsible mining.
Anglo American ties safety to managers promotions
Anglo American has ramped up its programme to achieve zero deaths in accidents at its mines with an initiative to tie manager's promotion to the accomplishment of health and safety targets.
UC RUSAL launches large-scale social investment programme in Nigeria
Ikot Abasi, Nigeria September 18, 2007 – UC RUSAL, the world’s largest producer of aluminium and alumina, launched an extensive social investment programme designed to support development of the local communities of UC RUSAL ALSCON, the aluminium smelter in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State which was acquired by UC RUSAL in February 2007.
New Sectoral Work in Governance and Anticorruption at the Local Level
Mining Projects Need Stiffer Standards - Report
Less than one month after a devastating mining incident rocked the United States, a coalition of some of the world’s leading environmental and humanitarian aid groups is calling for tighter environmental and safety rules for the global mining projects financed by the World Bank.
Safeguarding Workplace and Community Health
This is a report on how gold mining companies are fighting HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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Community Risks and Opportunities: A Site Level Tool
This working paper by the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining Sustainable Minerals Institute outlines tools, procedures, and resources in community risks and opportunities.
Towards Sustainable Mining
This paper presents five factors of sustainable development which impact shareholder value. These factors take into account broader factors including commodity and country exposure as well as mine development and corporate responsibility factors of sustainable governance and HSEE (health, safety, employment and environment) in operations.
A Guide for Monitoring and Evaluating Population-Health-Environment Programs
This guide can serve as a reference document for the entire international PHE community. Although funded by USAID, A Guide for Monitoring and Evaluating Population-Health-Environment Programs applies to PHE programs sponsored by other funding agencies, governments, or NGOs. Specifically, the guide provides a menu of indicators to be used selectively as part of the M&E of regional programs and country projects, reflecting the locally based nature of PHE programs. The indicator descriptions presented herein are designed to promote standardization of definitions and concepts among the international PHE community. However, even though standardization is useful, organizations should adapt indicators to their specific circumstances. This approach ensures that indicators are relevant to specific organizations and promotes ownership of the M&E proA Guide for Monitoring and Evaluating Population-Health-Environment Programs 15 cess. That said, organizations that choose to adapt indicators should clearly state the modified definitions and methods in their M&E plans.
Integrating Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) Projects: A Programming Manual
Achieving environmentally-sustainable development in situations of surging population growth, declining biodiversity, and chronic poverty requires strategic planning, multi-disciplinary interventions and crosssector linked approaches that mirror the livelihood strategies of poor households and communities. This manual was designed with such a need in mind using evidence from programs in Madagascar, the Philippines, and other countries where integrated approaches to development have been explored and brought to scale over the past decade.
Sharing Experiences: Enhancing the Benefits to Communities from Extractive Industry Projects Workshop
The objective of the workshop was to share experiences, training, and raise awareness of the community development work that is taking place. The focus was on sharing practical examples of helping communities benefit from extractive industry, highlighting the diversity of community development activities (supply chain, social, environmental issues), and discussing successes and lessons.
