Here at ACENet, we've noticed a gap in understanding between those doing good things on the ground, and those working to encourage development activity.
We've seen grassroots community environmental projects that are focused on local need and doing great stuff. Inevitably they desire, and would benefit from, greater political support and funding, but find it hard to see, or express the relevance of their work to the broad agendas that appear to interest funders, policy-makers and those who implement policy.
Similarly we see, particularly at more local policy implementation level, situations where there is a desire to promote action that supports broad, sometimes global, agenda, but no clear image of how this can be done.
There is an Understanding Gap - we've set out to bridge it.
We've identified four broad agenda points of significant interest at the moment - our Themes...
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Sustainable Land-Use
- Improved Health and Well-being
- Good Governance
...and we've taken a set of case studies from across Africa (and one frome the UK!) and interpreted each in the context of the Themes. In addition, we've identified how each contributes to the UN Millenium Development Goals.
In doing this, we hope that we can support others to look at their own work and plans in a creative way and see how positive local action is helping to address global needs.
This is a dynamic project - we invite comment and contribution from anyone interested and see this as the foundation of a broader network.
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