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This page lists all of the future.org content related to the selected topic.  Content can be sorted according to type, such as news stories, publications, web pages, and available multi-media. Since 1992, Future Generations has played a significant role in protecting more than 46 million acres (size of Washington state) of extremely diverse Himalayan habitat at the headwaters of Asia’s great rivers. These conservation successes, including 11 protected areas, are led by community and government partnerships that ensure long-term benefits by harmonizing human wellbeing with ecosystem protection. Successes have been growing China-wide through the expanded capacity-building and advocacy role of Future Generations China and globally through partnerships with Graduate School alumni and Future Generations organizations in Canada, Afghanistan, Peru, and India. The Conservation Innovation Team specializes in community-based approaches to nature conservation that build from successes, maximize existing resources, and lead to sustainable outcomes through empowered local partnerships. We identify, cultivate, and scale-up innovations that integrate conservation goals with social change through applied research, field-based demonstrations, training programs, and learning networks. The conservation team focuses on five primary innovation themes: 1. Capacity development in community-based conservation to scale up local successes 2. Protected area design and management, focusing on strategies that engage local people and existing political structures for resilient landscapes and communities 3. Strategies for lands not under conservation management 4. Community-based strategies for climate change mitigation and adaptation 5. The integration of conservation with peace building, health, and governance Below are articles, press releases, web pages, and multi-media resources related to Future Generations work in conservation. For more information, contact Traci Hickson, Conservation Innovation Team Leader at traci@future.org.

Participatory Planning and Budgeting to Meet Local Priorities

Health care in the community of Las Moras in Huánuco, Peru consisted of a poorly equipped one-room health post staffed by an auxiliary nurse and visited by few patients.

Then in 1994, with advice from Future Generations staff, the Peruvian Ministry of Health gave more control over the management of this clinic to the community.

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Local Governance

Palin Welcome

Gandhi envisioned a village-based democratic process in India. In 1993, this vision was incorporated into the 73rd Constitutional Amendment, formalizing the Panchayati Raj system of local governance.

Village-elected leaders form a Panchayat Council (women have one-third representation), which has a budget to reinvest state funds in locally-identified projects for health, education, and infrastructure.In the last ten years, however, this system has failed in many states largely due to lack of educated, informed, and empowered village leaders.

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Local Governance for Self-Reliant Community Change

The Challenges to Peacebuilding: In the view of many Afghans, the vast majority of international assistance has been inefficient, over-priced, externally-driven, and not locally accountable. People perceive that only foreign contractors are doing well by the current system.

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Mosque-based Literacy Classes for Women

Women's Literacy Classes in Malistan DistrictWomen's Literacy Classes in Malistan DistrictAn estimated 79% of Afghan women and girls cannot read and write, but for the Hazara ethnic communities in the central highlands, literacy for women and the education of  was common before the Taliban. In early 2002, at a community meeting organized by Future Generations in Jaghori District of Ghazni Province, the local leaders chose literacy for women as one of their initial work plan projects.

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