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H&S challenges and opportunities in Bhutan (BHU) & Solutions

28 August 2024
»Understand challenges and prepare measures and actions.

Monitoring and Performance Evaluation: Case Study on the Bhutan Road Network Project-II

27 April 2022
Improvements and innovation in design of linear infrastructure such as roads and bridges are observed to be beneficial to wildlife crossings. This is among the findings of a 2-phased monitoring study in Bhutan particularly in a 183-kilometer highway and feeder road constructed under RNP II with the…

Economics of Transportation Infrastructure: Balancing Needs of Biodiversity Conservation and Costs

27 April 2022
Economic analysis tools are important instruments that support decision making for infrastructure development including rural roads. The use of these tools such as economic valuation, cost-benefit analysis and multi-criteria analysis help identify potential impacts and their costs, which could be…

Introduction on Baseline Biodiversity Assessment (BBA) and Data Needs (Case Studies from Bhutan and Bangladesh)

29 June 2021
In this presentation, Anthony Clevenger gave an introduction of Baseline Biodiversity Assessment (BBA) and Data Needs and discussed case studies from the Road Network Project II and Phipsoo Wildlife Sanctuary in Bhutan

Presentation: Disinfection and Waste Management in the ETU

6 April 2020
A lecture on disinfection and waste management in the ETU to prepare healthcare workers to work in Ebola Treatment Units (ETUs) in Africa.

EFlows Case Studies and Review

22 November 2018
With a decision tree as guide, this presentation cites EFlows case studies and assessments, including a proposed inlet array design, hydropower plants, and river zoning.

Practical Experiences in Combining Poverty and Environment at the National Level: The Experience of South Africa

24 November 2016
Poverty in South Africa is seen as one of the major challenges facing the young democracy. This is compounded by the high and continually increasing unemployment figures, with the youth and women being the most vulnerable groups. Such problems forced the population to overutilize the country’s…

Enabling Conditions to Foster Success in National Programmes: Conditional Transfers—Experiences, Lessons and Challenges

24 November 2016
Ina Porras, senior researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development, shared experiences between poverty and environmental experts, policy makers and researchers, and across geographies on how conditional transfers are used to protect or restore fragile ecosystems and…

Behavior Change and the Principles of Pride

10 November 2016
Many schools of thought and theories exist on how behaviors change. Effecting change will require behavior shifts from a collective level across a group of people. Rare uses what it calls a “pride” campaign as behavioral change approach inspiring communities to change social norms around how their…

Social Marketing and Behavior Change for Environmental Protection

10 November 2016
By following a set of customized sequential actions, Rare integrates behavior change communication early in its project design. This report discusses in detail Rare’s behavioral change approaches and the elements of its “pride” campaign that resulted in effective behavior adoption.