CARE-WWF Learning Briefs
In 2008, the CARE-WWF Alliance embarked on a unique strategic partnership that seeks to realize coequal conservation and development objectives. The CARE-WWF Alliance seeks to ensure that communities, including poor women, have the knowledge, capacities and will to hold local leaders and government agency duty-bearers accountable for implementing policies and enforcing laws that contribute to livelihood security and ecosystem health.
Below are a series of seven learning briefs detailing different aspects of the CARE-WWF Alliance’s work in Mozambique, Tanzania, and Nepal.
This learning brief details the CARE-WWF Alliance’s work in Mozambique, Tanzania, and Nepal and demonstrates that integrating community and ecosystem approaches enhances resilience to climate change for both people and nature, and adds value by bridging development and conservation objectives at different levels to reduce trade-offs and capture synergies.
This learning brief details successful strategies that have built poor, vulnerable and socially-excluded leadership capacity and confidence alongside government capacity to monitor and enforce enabling policies.
Drawing on experience in agriculture, this learning brief highlights successful approaches for promoting community adoption of best practices in CBNRM and beyond.
This learning brief details how, through joint advocacy, the Alliance contributed to the Government of Mozambique’s decision to designate a new protected area in 2012. The P&S Environmental Protection Area (PSEPA) is the first nature reserve in Mozambique to permit local use and to formalize co-management with communities.
This learning brief shares strategies that have proven effective in improving good governance around resource management and use in the Alliance’s Nachingwea pilot project in southern Tanzania.
This learning brief distills early lessons from Alliance strategies to date and draws out implications for how to approach influencing private sector actors in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) moving forward.
This brief describes the evaluation, research, and learning approaches the Alliance has used to advance evidence, lessons, and impacts across its integrated conservation and development portfolio.
The CARE-WWF Alliance worked with communities in 21 villages in Mufundi and Iringa districts from 2015 through 2023 to address these environmental, social, and economic challenges through initiatives that promote financial independence, community-led resource management, and climate awareness, and programming that teaches financial literacy, women’s leadership, and sustainable farming practices.
This brief covers phase 2 of the project, which ran from 2021 through 2023 with the objectives of financial stability, sustainable production, resilient ecosystems, and stronger public and private partnerships.
The CARE-WWF Alliance designed a Collective and Sustainable Investment (CSI) model to accelerate the access of small-scale farmers and community-based conservation groups –particularly the women and youth members – to finance and scale economic activities that sustain or improve ecosystems critical to their livelihoods. This learning brief outlines the method, findings, and recommended next steps.
Since 1990, the Great Ruaha River’s decreasing flow has threatened livelihoods and wildlife in Tanzania. Unsustainable farming and lack of land use plans in the SAGCOT region exacerbate this, disproportionately impacting women and small-scale farmers. The CARE-WWF Alliance is addressing this through an integrated land and water management (ILWM) program, innovating the government’s Village Land Use Planning (VLUP) process. This paper examines how collectivizing VLUP improves environmental justice by integrating participatory processes with capacity building, land titling, and collective action for watershed restoration, also aligning with Ostrom’s principles for common pool resource management.
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