• Successful communities from ridge to reef, World Wildlife Fund, Final Report, 30 September 2003 – 28 September 2008. by Judy Oglethorpe. (pdf, 290KB).
  This is the final report for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)’s five-year project Successful Communities from Ridge to Reef, funded under cooperative agreement GPO-A-00-03-00008-00 by the Office of Population and Reproductive Health in USAID’s Global Health Bureau. The goal of the project was to improve voluntary family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH) in key areas where population growth has serious impacts on natural resources and find more sustainable solutions for local livelihoods, so as to reduce pressure on biodiversity.
  
  
• USAID’s Office of Population-Reproductive Health is pleased to announce the availability of a set of training materials for developing the capacity of field practitioners to design, implement and monitor integrated approaches to Population-Health-Environment (PHE).  These materials were developed under a task order by CDM International under the Environmental Health IQC.  The materials aim to build country capacity to implement the steps and models outlined in the Integrating Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) Projects: A Programming Manual developed in 2007. 

The training materials consist of the following:

• Trainer’s guide that include all the instructions for the trainers to conduct the workshop. (pdf, 1.2MB)
  
  
• Participant manual that includes all the technical materials and activities. (pdf, 1.4MB)
  
  
• PowerPoint Presentations (All presentations are in ppt format)
  • Program Design in Population, Health and Environment, Session 1 (ppt, 309KB)
  • Commonalities, Conditions and Characteristics of PHE Projects, Session 2 (ppt, 4.5MB)
  • Conceptual Model, Session 3 (ppt, 727KB)
  • Setting Project Goals, Objectives and Strategies, Session 4 (ppt, 4.6MB)
  • Selecting PHE Interventions, Session 5 (ppt, 533KB)
  • Identifying Indicators, Session 6 (ppt, 588KB)
  • PHE Implementation Models and Mechanisms, Session 7 (ppt, 833KB)
  • Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), Session 8 (ppt, 898KB)
  • Back Home Application, Session 9 (ppt, 271KB)
    
    
• Four reference documents
  • Population, Health Environment Basics: E-Learning Course: This e-learning course is available through USAID’s Global Health Learning website http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm.  There is no charge for the course but registration is required. The link to the website should be sent to the participants 4-6 weeks before the training so that they can complete the course before attending the workshop as this curriculum assumes a basic level of knowledge about PHE.  This should be considered a “must complete” course for acceptance into the workshop.
    
    
  • Overview of the Philippines Integrated Population and Coastal Resource Management (IPOPCORM) Approach. (pdf, full-text). The IPOPCORM Overview describes in detail the “gold standard” IPOPCORM Project, the primary case example used to illustrate the design and field execution of PHE approaches that are conceptually and operationally coordinated.  The IPOPCORM Overview is the “must-read” document for this course and should be distributed in both electronic and hard-copy form to participants 4-6 weeks before the scheduled date of the workshop.  
    
    
  • Integrating Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) Projects: A Programming Manual. (pdf, 1.8MB) Described earlier in the Background section of this introduction, the PHE programming manual is the primary source document for the content of this workshop. On the cover page for each session, specific sections of the programming manual are cited as “homework” to be reviewed in advance by participants.  As a foundational reading, the programming manual should be distributed to participants 4-6 weeks beforehand.
    
    
  • Finn, T. 2007. A Guide for Monitoring and Evaluating Population-Health-Environment Programs (pdf, full-text). MEASURE Evaluation/USAID: Chapel Hill, NC. Developed by the USAID-funded MEASURE Evaluation Project, this guide is used as a key reference during Sessions 6 and 8 of the workshop. 

The four-day workshop is designed for a participant group of approximately 20-24 participants consisting primarily of senior-level staff members of organizations implementing conservation, family planning/health or rural development activities who are interested in developing integrated approaches to PHE. These organizations are expected to be mostly NGOs although it is possible other types of organizations involved in PHE activities might also participate.  

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