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Date: April 29, 2024 Mon
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3 results foundAuthor: Tomberg, Kathleen A. Title: Youth Development Through Service: A Quality Assessment of the YouthBuild AmeriCorps Program Summary: The YouthBuild AmeriCorps program serves youth facing a multitude of challenges, including a lack of education and job skills, community disengagement, and economic disadvantage. This assessment of the program found that after engaging with the YouthBuild AmeriCorps model, participants made significant, positive changes in their outlook on service, personal responsibility, and community orientation. More specifically, after participating in the program, they deepened their personal commitments to service, began to develop a sense of personal worth and reliability, became more connected with their communities, and started to develop more trust in larger social institutions. These encouraging findings suggest that YouthBuild AmeriCorps is succeeding in the development of service commitment, a sense of community engagement, and personal satisfaction within students who participate in their construction service, education, and leadership development program. Details: New York: Research and Evaluation Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, 2013. 55p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 14, 2013 at: http://johnjayresearch.org/rec/2013/01/31/ybac2013/ Year: 2013 Country: United States URL: http://johnjayresearch.org/rec/2013/01/31/ybac2013/ Shelf Number: 127937 Keywords: At-risk YouthCommunity EngagementDelinquency Prevention (U.S.) |
Author: Booker, Francesca Title: First line of defence? A review of evidence on the effectiveness of engaging communities to tackle illegal wildlife trade Summary: Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) in wild species and products is at the top of the international conservation agenda. But it is not just a concern for conservationists - it also has implications for economic and social development, and security. The level of international concern about IWT is reflected by the level of investment that has been made in tackling it - more than US$1.3 billion since 2010 (Wright et al. 2016). It is well recognised that tackling IWT requires a multi-pronged approach and that, beyond reducing demand for illegal products and increasing anti IWT law enforcement along the entire wildlife value chain, a third critical strategy is engaging local communities in conservation. By virtue of their proximity to and knowledge of wildlife, local people are well placed to participate in or support poaching and IWT. The same characteristics mean, however, that they are equally well placed to detect, report on, and help prevent it - if the appropriate incentives are in place. But community engagement has received far less attention and investment than law enforcement or demand reduction to date. Only about 15 per cent of the US$1.3 billion has been allocated to initiatives intended to support sustainable use and alternative livelihoods. Part of the problem is that there is no blueprint approach. While global and regional policy commitments to engaging communities abound, details of how these should be implemented and how they impact IWT remain vague. This report attempts to take a first step in addressing that vagueness. It does so by reviewing existing evidence on the effectiveness of different approaches to engaging communities in efforts to tackle IWT. Through a literature review and through submissions to IIED's Conservation, Crime and Communities (CCC) database (www.communitiesforwildlife.iied.org), we identified 49 different examples of community-based initiatives for tackling illegal wildlife trade from Africa (25 initiatives), Asia (18 initiatives) and Latin America (6 initiatives). The most common approach to community engagement in the 49 initiatives was direct involvement in anti-poaching activities - as guards/rangers or informants. Another common approach was the introduction of alternative livelihoods (both wildlife and non-wildlife based). Wildlife tourism development was the most common form of livelihood support activities deployed specifically to engage poachers in one case, but more commonly used to generate conservation incentives for the broader community. Human wildlife conflict mitigation was also employed in over 20 per cent of the initiatives. Very few (four) initiatives involved community members benefiting from sustainable harvesting and legal trade as a conservation incentive. Of the 49 initiatives identified, only 26 (53 per cent) reported on their effectiveness (either in terms of reducing poaching or maintaining or increasing wildlife populations), although a further six noted that the initiatives were at too early a stage in their development to report on effectiveness. For the 26 that reported on effectiveness, 19 (73 per cent) reported that they were effective - although in four cases effectiveness was partial (it varied over time or was site specific); two were not effective; and five were unclear (either they did not provide an assessment of the community engagement component of a broader anti-IWT initiative, or they showed contradictory results). Of the 26 initiatives with a reported impact on poaching/wildlife numbers, only seven (8 per cent of the total dataset) provided details of how this impact had been assessed - including through interviews with local community members, through analysis of records on reported poaching incidents, and through visual assessments. Of these seven, four found that illegal activities (poaching, logging, illegal plant collection) had declined and one found no change; one found that target populations had increased and one found no change. Details: London: IIED, 2017. 60p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 8, 2017 at: http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/17591IIED.pdf Year: 2017 Country: International URL: http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/17591IIED.pdf Shelf Number: 145348 Keywords: Community EngagementCrime PreventionIllegal Wildlife TradeNatural Resource ManagementNatural ResourcesWildlife ConservationWildlife CrimeWildlife Management |
Author: KPMG Title: Unlocking the future: Maranguka justice reinvestment project in Bourke. preliminary assessment Summary: The Maranguka Justice Reinvestment Project, also known as the Bourke Justice Reinvestment Project, is a grass-roots justice reinvestment project that aims to empower the Aboriginal community in Bourke, New South Wales (NSW). The Maranguka project (which can be translated as 'caring for others') was an initiative of the Bourke Aboriginal Community Working Party; a grassroots coalition of concerned local Aboriginal residents who wanted to see positive change in their community. Since 2013, JustReinvest NSW has worked in partnerhsip with local community groups in Bourke to develop and implement a framework for justice reinvestment in Bourke. The intention of the initiative is to redirect resources that would usually be spent on prison back into the community, to address the underlying causes of imprisonment, and provide support to vulnerable children and families.The Maranguka Justice Reinvestment Project is the first major justice reinvestment project in Australia. The initial part of the project has focused on building trust between community and service providers (including police and government agencies), identifying community priorities and developing Circuit Breaker programs to reduce offending and make the community safe. Community leaders have identified 11 key areas to be addressed through Circuit Breaker programs. These are: justice; employment; education; service delivery; youth engagement; drugs and alcohol; mental health; early childhood; out of home care; housing; family violence. Within each of these areas, results from the Circuit Breaker programs will be fed back to the community and will provide baseline data from which outcomes can be monitored and evaluated, providing valuable guidance for future planning. Details: Sydney: KPMG, 2016. 109p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 4, 2019 at: http://www.justreinvest.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/KPMG-Preliminary-Assessment-Maranguka-Justice-Reinvestment-Project.pdf Year: 2016 Country: Australia URL: http://www.justreinvest.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/KPMG-Preliminary-Assessment-Maranguka-Justice-Reinvestment-Project.pdf Shelf Number: 154475 Keywords: Aboriginal Peoples Community EngagementJustice Reinvestment |