Tofino – PAPR Workshop

The Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction Research Alliance [PAPR] is into it s final year now.  The project has supported considerable research into the relationships between protected area conservation and the challenges of neighbouring communities under the four...

Perspective on Poverty – A response

Bruce’s recent jouranl entry raises some very significant observations around poverty which I would like to build on. As I think you rightly highlight, poverty is multi-dimensional and often subjective which is why coming up with generalised definitions and...

WEC Conceptual Design Report Released

Our volunteer Brent Liddle, who traveled to Tanzania at the end of last year, has completed the conceptual design report for the World Elephant Centre initiative.  It is an important step forward in this major undertaking and we appreciate Brent’s significant...

Perspective on Poverty – Saadani

“I don’t consider myself poor as long as I have something to eat.” [village interviewee]   One of the problems our PAPR research program has had is to understand and address poverty in the context of conservation. Typically, approaches to poverty reduction have been...

Another new project!! ICAAD

ICAAD -Improving Community Awareness and Advocacy on Disability is an initiative to address the rights of disabled people to be part of development projects and programs AND it is an opportunity  for the Kesho Trust to develop our capacity to embrace those rights....