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Integrating biodiversity & livelihoods

Biodiversity conservation and the sustainable management of natural resources are inextricably linked to people’s rights to secure their livelihoods and live in dignity. FFI is committed to ensuring that our conservation activities at the very least do not further disadvantage poor, vulnerable or marginalised natural resource-dependent people, and that, wherever possible, our activities contribute to improving human well-being.

To help fulfil these commitments, the Conservation, Livelihoods and Governance programme (formerly Biodiversity and Human Needs) supports regional and thematic conservation teams to take a holistic, people-centred approach to biodiversity conservation through facilitating a better understanding in order to address the needs and rights of local communities in their conservation programmes.

This is achieved through providing briefing notes, guidelines, tools, training and mentoring to ensure that these issues are taken into account in the contextual analysis, planning and review of our programmes. We also facilitate the sharing of lessons learnt and good practice between FFI projects and in external fora, as well as bringing external lessons and thinking into FFI, for example through our participation in the Conservation Initiative on Human Rights (CIHR).

Supported by USAID, the programme has also been learning from and enhancing our partnerships with humanitarian and development agencies, government bodies, community groups and the private sector in areas afflicted by conflict or natural disasters.

The following documents produced by the programme are available as downloadable PDFs:

The Case for Integrating Conservation and Human Needs. Livelihoods and Conservation in Partnership Series No. 1.

Addressing Human Needs in Conservation. Livelihoods and Conservation in Partnership Series No. 2.

Livelihoods and Conservation in Post-conflict and Post-disaster Situations: Learning in Partnership. Livelihoods and Conservation in Partnership Series No. 3.

Addressing Livelihoods Issues in Conservation: How Do We Measure Success? Livelihoods and Conservation in Partnership Series No. 4.

The Role of Enterprise Development in Conservation. Livelihoods and Conservation in Partnership Series No. 5.