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The Positive Environmental

Impact of Poverty Reduction

B069N Marine Conservation Masterplan India engages local women
and other community members to take the lead in reducing waste
and provides an ongoing source of income.

Global Development Group recognises that equitable In November 2019, Jordan Brayley and Kelley Chisholm
environmental management is critical towards people in monitored the project and heard how the waste management
developing countries lifting themselves out of poverty. This program is now reaching 91 households and stopping
philosophy has underpinned many projects, with particular thousands of pieces of plastic reaching the ocean each
relevance in arid and environmentally degraded regions. month, along with education and empowerment initiatives. A
successful lobbying campaign has led to a state-wide ban on
We’ve utilised strategies including community tree planting
single-use plastic taking effect from January 2020.
campaigns with the J833 MCF Capacity Building and
Community Empowerment, Kenya project’s tree nursery that
produces 1 million seedlings a year towards land reclamation.
In a very different environment, Project J812N Living
In Thailand, J684N Northern Thailand Village Water Project
Water Myanmar focuses on water security in the dry zone
implements water conservation, flood mitigation and river
of Myanmar, installing water tanks, pumps and piping
bank erosion protection activities towards reducing hardship
in villages and schools. Since 2011, 324 water tanks (each
and improving livelihoods. We’ve reduced pollution, use of
with a 5,000-gallon capacity) have been installed reaching
firewood and improved family health with the installation of
approximately 36,798 beneficiaries. The management of water
household biogas systems in the J239 Tanzanian School Milk
supply and maintenance of tanks is entrusted to the village
Project, and elsewhere.
or school leadership and in every village where a water tank is
installed ten trees are planted to enhance the project’s impact
in the community.
This year in Kerala, B069N Marine Conservation Masterplan
India targeted two communities reliant on a healthy marine
ecosystem for survival of their fishing and tourism industries.

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