Reducing Poverty and Sustaining the Environment

Introduction * The focus of this book * The case studies: Political change in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean * Mapping power relationships * What do we mean by poverty? * How political change can support pro-poor environmental outcomes * Part I, Creating Space for Civil Society in an Impoverished Environment in Pakistan * AKRSP's approach: 'Social organization' tackles poverty and natural resource degradation * Improving governance: AKRSP as a complement to government, not a substitute * Maturing institutions get to grips with environmental issues and influence policy * Influencing national policy on rural development * Part II, The Bioplan: Decreasing Poverty in Manizales, Colombia, through Shared Environmental Management * The context: Urban and rural poverty in Colombia and Manizales * The Bioplan in action * Experiences * Part III, Environment-Poverty Linkages: Managing Natural Resources in China * Improving environment-poverty projects * Participatory assessments * Poverty reduction, environment and participation * Part IV, The Evolving Roles of Environmental Management Institutions in East Africa: From Conservation to Poverty Reduction * Some reflections on governance in the context of the East African Community * Current trends in governance * National environmental governance in the context of poverty eradication * Looking to the future * Part V, Stories on the Environment and Conflict from Northern Nigeria * The Hadejia-Nguru Wetlands * Bringing the stories together * Part VI, The Sea is our Garden: Coastal Resource Management and Local Governance in the Caribbean * A small island and its internal politics * The case study: Context and stakeholders * Promoting sustainable coastal livelihoods * Lessons learned: Local governance and institutional arrangements for coastal conservation and management * Part VII'Working for Water' in a Democratic South Africa * What is 'Working for Water'? * The political environment: Time for action * Is everything rosy? * Outcomes * Part VIII, People, Perspectives and Reality: Usangu Myths and Other Stories, Tanzania * Prologue: The stage is set, the actors announced * Act 1: The players reveal their agendas; international, national and local stages are revealed * Act 2: A circle of blame in Usangu benefits a collusion of interests *
Act 3: Misleading answers in a climate of self-interest * Finale * Part IX, Community-designed, built and managed Toilet Blocks in Indian Cities * The inadequacies in providing sanitation * What people wanted and what they could do themselves * The community toilet programme in Pune * New opportunities for community toilets in Mumbai * Innovations in community toilets * Why did the alliance take on community toilet blocks? * The art of gentle negotiation * Community toilets add to the poor's repertoire * Part X, Concertaci�n (Reaching Agreement) and Planning for Sustainable Development in Ilo, Peru * The birth of the experience * The achievements, 1980-2003 * The coordinating agency and stages in the process * Tangible results * The current situation * Factors that favour the process of reaching agreement * Limitations of the experience * Conclusions * Context: The political underpinnings of poverty and environmental degradation * How political changes have achieved pro-poor environmental outcomes * How donors must change the way they do