Published jointly by CARE, the International Gorilla Conservation Programme, and Oxfam in December 2011 is a manual to strengthen internal governance of community-based enterprise organizations.
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The empowerment of local actors and institutions is a cornerstone of social and economic development.
Decades of experience have taught us solid lessons. One of these is that if development agendas and initiatives are not owned locally, they will not be sustainable and will have little.....
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January 11, 2012 | 
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The EEEGL Project has intervened in a number of areas in Uganda and Rwanda, working at multiple levels and sectors to improve enterprise, environment and equity in areas around the mountain gorilla parks. The following technical briefs have been developed and can be viewed or downloaded from this page. Also view the EEEGL Documents page for all learning documents produced from this project.
EEEGL Technical Brief No. 1: Honey Enterprise
EEEGL Technical Brief No. 2: Mushroom Enterprise
December 16, 2011 |
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“To be marginalized” in a Rwandan society means that you don’t have access to opportunities as other members of your community, and that lack of equal opportunity persists from generation to generation. What it feels like, day-to-day, is that your children are not able to freely play with your neighbor’s children, or that you are not allowed to share meals with neighbors, or that your neighbors don’t call you ‘neighbor’ in the first place. In brief, a marginalized person is socially, culturally,.....
October 24, 2011 |
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Water is one of the most basic necessities of life, but something that many people struggle to find within the Virunga Landscape. Annual rainfall is plentiful but water sources are rare due to the volcanic geology that either forces rainwater to quickly runoff or infiltrate deeply.
The International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP), as part of the EEEGL project has facilitated the construction of five communal rainwater harvesting systems and 30,000 liter tanks around Mgahinga Gorilla National Park in Uganda in order to bring that basic.....
October 10, 2011 |
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