APFED Booklet on Good Practices and Innovative Activities 2005 ...

Programme Operations and Achievements
Measuring Impacts
Measuring the impacts will become increasingly important in order to mobilise public support for
the project activities, particularly to link activities with international programmes. Technical skills
need to improved to ensure effective measuring, reporting and verifying of project impacts.
Creating Constructive Interaction and Partnerships
Gradual confidence building is essential for external facilitators to operate effectively in assisting
local communities to develop and implement sustainability projects. Training is required to develop
community leaders and external facilitators who can create such constructive partnerships,
particularly for promoting innovative approaches.
Linking Field Action with Macro policy Transformation
To scale up and replicate good practices, the creation of macro policy and institutional enabling
mechanisms are essential. In this respect there are still many gaps, thus multi-stakeholder
partnerships need to be catalysed to drive field action movements towards transforming macro
policy and institutional frameworks.
Good Practice, Local Knowledge and Technology Sharing
Upgrading knowledge centres and strengthening features of the <strong>APFED</strong> Good Practice Database are
both beneficial.
Replication of good practices requires concrete enabling mechanisms that can be built upon.
Designing an Architecture for Regional and International Cooperation
<strong>APFED</strong> Award and Showcase projects provide useful empirical studies and materials to foster a variety
of activities, including capacity development, and the Rio Earth Summit 2012 process to promote
policy dialogue on green economy and institutional frameworks for sustainable development.
<strong>APFED</strong> frameworks provide a useful prototype to link policy, science and field action, and such a
framework needs to be sustained and expanded.
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