The Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG)

Alessandra Giuliani

5 November 2015Author name

DateAlessandra Giuliani

5 November 2015

Alessandra Giuliani, IIED5 November 2015

The Poverty and Conservation

Learning Group (PCLG)

The Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG)

Alessandra Giuliani

5 November 2015

Poverty and Conservation

Learning Group

• An international network of organisations and individuals with a shared interest in integrated approaches to conservation and development.

• Established by IIED in 2005

• Currently comprises more than 120 organisations and 600 individuals

• IIED acts as a secretariat to the Group, organising and facilitating its activities.

• Funded over the years by Ford Foundation and Arcus Foundation, with co-funding from SIDA, Danida and UK aid from the UK Government.

The Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG)

Alessandra Giuliani

5 November 2015PCLG’s missionPromote better understanding of the linkages between biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation in order to improve both development and conservation policy and

practice

When PCLG started in 2005, the group was meant to address the following perceived problems:

An ongoing divide between conservation and development practitioners and policy makers on how - and whether - to link biodiversity conservation with poverty reduction so that poverty reduction policy better reflects biodiversity concerns and conservation policy pays greater attention to issues of poverty and social justice;

The potential duplication of effort by a number of different organisations that are trying to strengthen this linkage but are currently grappling independently with the issues and not learning from each other;

The lack of an established forum through which participants from a range of backgrounds can participate on an equal footing to share and analyse emerging experience in conservation-poverty linkages and identify knowledge gaps and research needs.

The Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG)

Alessandra Giuliani

5 November 2015PCLG’s main activities:

• Knowledge sharing: The PCLG carries out a range of knowledge sharing activities to ensure that our members are always up to date with the latest developments on the links between conservation and poverty reduction.

• Research and advocacy: Where possible the Learning Group will support - or engage in - research and advocacy initiatives that are in line with our core mission of better understanding and fostering learning on poverty-conservation linkages. The PCLG's current research has a thematic focus on the links between great ape conservation and poverty.

• Events and meetings: The PCLG organises or supports learning events that tackles key issues of relevance to our Learning Group members.

• Publications: The PCLG periodically publishes discussion papers – usually outputs of research that we have been involved in. Our site also includes other publications related to our work and/or supported by the PCLG (all PCLG’s publication are on the USB pen given at registration).

The Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG)

Alessandra Giuliani

5 November 2015

http://povertyandconservation.info

Uganda PCLG: How did we get here?

Alessandra Giuliani

Kampala

10 July 2015

Uganda PCLG: How did we get here?

Alessandra Giuliani

Kampala

10 July 2015

The Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG)

Alessandra Giuliani

5 November 2015

How to access PCLG

information services?

• Join us page on the PCLG

website

http://povertyandconservation.in

fo/en/pages/join-us

• Sign up for our e-bulletins

• ...and finally look for us on

Facebook and LinkedIn!

Uganda PCLG: How did we get here?

Alessandra Giuliani

Kampala

10 July 2015National PCLG groups

• PCLG workshop in November 2010 held in Masindi, Uganda

• Brought together conservation organisations from different

African ape range states to share experience on what works

(and what doesn’t) in linking conservation and poverty

alleviation

• Participants agreed that it would be useful to establish national

chapters of the PCLG network

• Uganda PCLG and Cameroon PCLG started in 2011, DRC

PCLG in 2014 and currently discussing the opportunities for

setting up a PCLG group in Rwanda

• Second round of funding from Arcus foundation from 2013 to

2015

Uganda PCLG: How did we get here?

Alessandra Giuliani

Kampala

10 July 2015

Uganda PCLG: How did we get here?

Alessandra Giuliani

Kampala

10 July 2015Going forward…

• PCLG evaluation

A an evaluation of the PCLG initiative is currently under way. The main purpose of this evaluation is to understand what PCLG has achieved so far and if/how PCLG should be taken forward.

In particular we would like to know: Is PCLG useful and for whom?

Should PCLG continue and, if so, what should it do?

What lessons have we learnt from running PCLG for 10 years?

• Fundraising