Summary of Impact
With an approach that engages community and government partnerships, Future Generations has been instrumental in raising the capacity of people to create locally-appropriate solutions that last.
- Mobilized the Green Long March, a Chinese youth movement for the environment involving thousands of students from 32 universities.
- Helped protect 40 percent of the land area of Tibet, China through a community-based approach to nature conservation.
- Enabled more than 300 village councils to establish literacy and health classes for 21,000 women and girls in homes and mosques
- Enrolled Afghanistan's Community-Health Director, within the Afghan Ministry of Health, in Future Generations Master's Degree in Applied Community Change and Conservation to build long-term local capacity.
- Piloted a new empowerment-based approach to training Afghan women as volunteer community-health workers.
- Partnered with a growing network of more than 800 volunteers, 150 women’s groups and farmer’s clubs to realize Gandhi's dream of governance at the village level at the headwaters of the Brahmaputra river.
- Established two new biosphere reserves (the Dihang Dibang, and Tsangyang Gyatso World Peace Park) and a community forest reserve in one of the world's largest remaining intact subtropical forests.
- Advised the Peruvian Ministry of Health in the design and implementation of a natonal system of community co-managed health care that reaches more than one-third of the population.
- Transformed 55 primary care clinics into centers of outreach to improve health in the poorest, remotest homes, reducing chronic child malnutrition from 46% to 18% in pilot sites.
- Demonstrated an approach to local planning that engages communities, health personnel, and municipalities in workplan implemenation and participatory budgeting to meet local priorities.
- Graduated two classes of student practitioners from 12 countries, with a third class to graduate in September 2009, working for such organizations as: Afghanistan Ministry of Health, Bhutan Society for the Royal Protection of Nature, BRAC, Heiltsuk Nation, West Virginia Partnership of African American Churches, and World Relief.
- Conducted applied research into the role of communities in building and sustaining peace
- Facilited (by Future Generations faculty) a global task force review of the effectiveness of community-based approaches in reducing child mortality