SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

 

The first incarnation of this Program can be traced to the late 1980s when, in connection to the Network's involvement in the Citizens' Campaign on Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), ANGOC undertook an environmental campaign strategy that aimed to:

  • Generate increased public interest and policy support (among Banks and Governments) for direct environmental projects.
     

  • Explore and promote alternatives in dealing with issues of foreign debt (e.g., debt-for-equity and debt-for-nature swaps).
     

  • Increase the public accountability of MDBs and Governments by instituting a principle of transparency and by giving an increased role to NGOs in needs assessment, project review, environmental impact monitoring and evaluation, and direct project implementation.

However, what set apart ANGOC's approach on the environment from the purely conservationist posture adopted by many Northern NGOs was that it tried to establish a link between poverty and environmental problems, or in a manner more critically relevant to developing country settings.

 

In 1989 ANGOC formally adopted a Sustainable Development (SD) Program in response to the global call to take concerted action to address problems of environment and development. At the time, there were already a number of initiatives being undertaken in the name of SD, but these were largely disparate and needed to be documented if they were to be replicated in future. ANGOC's SD Program was intended to provide the channels and the venue to facilitate the exchange of experiences and efforts in this field. It was also designed to provide opportunities for NGOs to develop their strategic management capability in order to effectively translate their community-based initiatives in SD into national development strategies.

 

The SD Program had two core projects : the (1) Citizens Campaign on MDBs and (2) Preparations for the Network's Involvement in the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in 1992.

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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