Population, Health and Environment (PHE) Toolkit

Below are links to a variety of full-text resources for planning, implementing and monitoring PHE projects and activities.

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A – Design/Planning Tools

1 — Guidelines and Frameworks

2 — Lessons Learned/Best Practices

3 — Scaling Up

B – Implementation Tools

1 — Implementation – Training Modules

2 — Information Education and Communication (IEC) and Behavior Change

3 — Job Descriptions/Job Aids

C – Monitoring and Evaluation Tools

D – Advocacy and Networking Tools

A – Design/Planning Tools

A1 – Guidelines and Frameworks

• Foundations for Success – — Measures of Success: Designing, Managing and Monitoring Conservation and Development Projects, 1998 by R. Margoluis, et al. (only certain chapters are available online)

• Population Action International – — What You Need to Know to Apply for US Government Funding for Community-Based Projects Linking Reproductive Health and Natural Resource Management. An Unofficial Guide. 2005.

• PATH Foundation Philippines Inc. – — Philippines CRM Framework and Entry Points for Population and Health Interventions.
• USAID
  • Opportunities in population and health for community forest user groups in Nepal. 2006. Environmental Health IQC.
  • PHE Indicator Matrix. 2006. || — PHE Strategic Framework.  2006.
• World Wildlife Fund
  • Conservation on a Crowded Planet: A Population Sourcebook for Conservation Practitioners. 2002.
  • Mapping the Connections: Population-Environment Lessons from Madagascar. 2002.

A2 – Lessons Learned/Best Practices

• Conservation International – — Combining Conservation and Care: Lessons Learned from Population Environment Initiatives. 2006. (pdf, 11.6MB)
• Packard Foundation
  • Lessons Learned: First Generation of Population-Health-Environment Field Projects. (pdf, 630KB)
  • Program Results and Likely Long-Term Impact of Packard Foundation Funding. (pdf, 192KB)
  • Review of Population-Health-Environment Programs Supported by the Packard Foundation and USAID, 2005.
• PATH Foundation Philippines Inc.
  • Impacts of a Population-Environment Program on Coastal Ecosystem Health, Livelihood and Human Well-being: The Case of IPOPCORM in Culion, Palawan. 2006.
  • The Rewards of Innovation: A Review of Successful Piloting of the Integrated Population and Coastal Resource Management Project, 2004. (pdf , 1.42 MB)
• USAID – Madagascar: PHE Lessons Learned. Environmental Health Project. 2004. (pdf, 27.2KB)

A3 – Scaling up

• PATH Foundation Philippines Inc – Bringing IPOPCORM to Scale in Coastal Philippines. 2006.

B -Implementation Tools

B1 – Training Modules

• PATH Philippines – IPOPCORM
  • Community Based Distributors (CBD) Training Curriculum. 2004.
  • Community Health Outreach Workers (CHOW) Training of Trainers Manual. 2005.
  • Couple Peer Educators’ Training Curriculum, 2004. (pdf, 6.41MB)
  • Couple Peer Educators’ Refresher Course: Training Manual, 2004. (pdf, 741KB)
  • Environment Friendly Enterprise Development: Project Implementing Guidelines. (pdf, 55KB)
  • Male Peer Educators’ Training Curriculum, 2003. (pdf, 926KB)
  • Male Peer Educators’ Refresher Course: Training Manual, 2004. (pdf, 510KB)
  • Youth Peer Educators’ Refresher Training I: Training Manual, 2003. (pdf, 524KB)
  • Youth Sexuality, Reproductive Health and Environmental Education Peer Educator’s Training: Training Manual, 2003. (pdf, 120KB)
• Save the Children – Family Planning Session Guide
  • Report Cover (pdf, 99KB) || Introduction (pdf, 35KB)
  • Task I: Anatomy of Human Reproduction and Task II: Couples’ Perception of Family Planning and the Different Risk Groups (pdf, 1.44MB)
  • Task III: Population and Environment Links || Task IV: Family Planning Methods || Task V: Family Planning Methods

B2 -IEC and Behavior Change Communication (BCC) Tools

• PATH Foundation Philippines Inc.
  • Awareness of Self: IPOPCORM Youth Camp Module. 2004.
  • Balancing Act: Role-playing Exercise on Family Planning and Economic Enterprise for Male Peer Educators. 2003.
  • Media for Development Activities: Tools for Assessment. 2005.

B3 – Implementation – Job Descriptions/Job Aids

• PATH Foundation Philippines Inc – IPOPCORM
  • Talking about Reproductive Health and Family Planning in Your Community: Job Aid for Couple Peer Educators and Male Peer Educators.
  • Talking to Peers about Sex, Pregnancy and STDs: Job Aid.

C – Monitoring and Evaluation Tools

• Carolina Population Center – — Compendium on Indicators for Evaluating Reproductive Health Programs, Vol 1 and 2.  2002.
• Conservation International  – — Healthy Families, Healthy Forests: Combining Reproductive Health with Biodiversity Protection for Effective Programming. 2005.
• Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) – Evaluation of the Alternative Advocacy Project in the Visayas Region of the Philippines. Report on the Results of a Baseline PHE Survey among Policymakers. 2006.
• Foundations of Success – — Measures of Success: Designing, Managing and Monitoring Conservation and Development Projects. 1998. (only certain chapters are available online)
• John Snow Incorporated (JSI) – Performance Monitoring Plan 2002-2005 Madagascar Green Healthy Communities Project , 2005. (pdf, 221KB)
• PATH Foundation Philippines Inc. – IPOPCORM
  • Behavioral Monitoring Surveys. 2004. (pdf, 732KB)
  • Evaluation Design for the IPOPCORM Initiative. 2005.
  • Integrated Indicators for Measuring Impact and Synergy. 2006.
  • Mid-Term Evaluation: The Rewards of Innovation – A Review of the Successful Piloting of the Integrated Population and Coastal Resource Management Project, 2004. (pdf, 1.41MB)
• Population Reference Bureau – A Framework To Identify Gender Indicators For Reproductive Health and Nutrition Programming, 2002.
• Woodrow Wilson Center, Environmental Change and Security Project – When the Whole is Greater than the Sum of it Parts: Integrated Indicators for Population-Environment Programs. 2003. 
• World Bank
  • Environmental Performance Indicators, 1999.
  • Monitoring and Evaluation: Some Tools, Methods & Approaches, 2004.
  • Poverty-Environment Indicators, 2002.

D – Advocacy and Networking Tools

• PATH Foundation Phillippines Inc.  – IPOPCORM
  • Bohol: a Priority Marine Conservation Area. (pdf, 253KB)
  • Why Population Matters – Linking Contraceptives and Coastal  Conservation in the Philippines. 2006.
• Population Action International – – What You Need to Know to Apply for US Government Funding for Community-Based Projects Linking Reproductive Health and Natural Resource Management. An Unofficial Guide.
• Population Reference Bureau – — Reporting on Population, Health, and the Environment: A Media Guide for Central American Journalists., 2007. (pdf, full-text). Spanish version (pdf, full-text).