Category: REGIONAL

Power in Enterprise: A Manual to Strengthen the Internal Governance of Community-Based Enterprise Organizations

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. Foreward: 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 [...]

Wednesday January 11th, 2012 in Civil Society Empowerment, ENTERPRISES, Organization strengthening, REGIONAL | No Comments »

Enterprises at the grassroots: dealing with internal governance

The EEEGL programme supports community-based organizations or enterprises (we call them often enterprise CBOs or ECBOs) to deliver social, economic and environmental goods. Our strategy relies on identifying development opportunities, nurturing local actors and linking these enterprises to local, regional and national markets. The impact of these initiatives depends on a number of factors, including [...]

Friday November 26th, 2010 in Agriculture value chains, Civil Society Empowerment, Ecotourism, ENTERPRISES, Learning and Policy Analysis, Organization strengthening, REGIONAL | No Comments »

Revisiting our last annual team retreat

The whole EEEGL team meets once a year to reflect on the progress of implementation and to discuss the continued relevance and efficacy of our strategies. Our latest reflection was on the quality of our work with regard to conflict sensitivity, partnership building and equity.

Wednesday October 13th, 2010 in Learning and Policy Analysis, REGIONAL | No Comments »

Launch of the EEEGL website

I am excited and very pleased to launch the EEEGL website ! This website has three purposes: (a) To document what we do, in plain language; (b) To share information about the work we are engaged in with our partners, among concerned stakeholders and others working on similar issues; (c) To discuss about the successes and challenges we experience and to identify options and ideas to move forward.

Tuesday May 4th, 2010 in Learning and Policy Analysis, REGIONAL | No Comments »