Conservation, environment & livelihoods

Some recent assignments undertaken by Acacia in this area include:

• Production of a study that assessed conservation-development linkages around two national parks in south-western Uganda, known as important gorilla habitats (in partnership with CARE, International Gorilla Conservation Programme and Uganda Wildlife Authority).
  Client – International Institute for Environment and Development
  

• Facilitated an Africa-wide symposium on best practices on integrating livelihoods and poverty concerns into conservation programmes working with Great Apes
  Client – International Institute for Environment and Development
  

• Preparation of a policy brief / issues note on the linkages between sustainable forest management and food security
  Client – Food and Agricultural Organisation)
  

• Identified opportunities for improving co-ordination, collaboration and communication among NGOs working on bonobo conservation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and linking these organisations with national and regional initiatives related to environment and development
  Client – Arcus Foundation, USA)
  

• Team leader for design of five-year Natural Resources Management Programme in Cambodia
  Client – Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  

• Team member for Appraisal of Environmental / Natural Resources Sector Programme in Zambia
  Client – Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  

• Team member for review of Natural Resources Management Programme in Kenya
  Client – Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark
  

• Strategic and thematic review of IUCN’s Forest Conservation Programme and its links with renewable energy
  Client – IUCN, Gland (Switzerland)
  

• Final evaluation of the Participatory Environmental Management Project implemented by World Wide Fund for Nature and Nature Uganda
  Client – Worldwide Fund for Nature – Denmark
  

• Mid term review of the Allanblackia II project, supported by the development of a supply chain of Allanblackia tree seed oil for export to European markets
  Client – Unilever & IUCN

• Review of lessons learned in the implementation of the Equitable Payments for Watershed Services Project
  Client – WWF Tanzania and CARE Tanzania

• Final evaluation of the Equitable Payments for Watershed Services Project implemented by CARE and WWF in Morogoro Tanzania
  Client – CARE Denmark
  

• Mid Term evaluation of the Securing Livelihoods from Watershed Payments project implemented by Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania
  Client – Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, UK
  

• Developed a (successful) full proposal submission to the European Union involving biodiversity conservation and sustainable livelihoods, with a particular emphasis on participatory forest management
  Client – Tanzania Forest Conservation Group
  

• Annual reviews (in 2014 and 2015) of the Indonesia Environment Programme (Phase III), with particular focus on forests, natural resource management and climate change adaptation
  Client – Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  

• Appraisal of the IUCN-implemented “Mangroves For the Future programme” (Phase III) that works across Tsunami-affected coastal communities in SE Asia
  Client – Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  

• Final evaluation – IRDNC Sustainable Land and Natural Resource Use in Namibia / WWF-UK Big Lottery Project.
  Client – IRDNC, Namibia & WWF-UK