"Healthy People, Healthy Ecosystems: A Manual on Integrating Health and Family Planning into Conservation Projects"

In a sign of the times, silos are breaking down and projects and interventions are exploring ways of integrating vital work within communities:

Please find the link below to access "Healthy People, Healthy Ecosystems: A Manual on Integrating Health and Family Planning into Conservation Projects"
produced by World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

This manual outlines the population-health-environment (PHE) approach where conservation organizations partner with the health sector to integrate health and voluntary family planning into conservation projects. Taking advantage of synergies between human and ecosystem health, the approach improves maternal and child health; enables couples to have the number of children they want, when they want them; reduces unsustainable pressures on the environment; and promotes sustainable ecosystem services such as reliable water supplies. It often also improves community food security and livelihoods.

The manual draws on the experiences, successes and lessons from last five years of PHE work in WWF and other organizations. Its main target audience is conservation field project practitioners, aiming to help them develop new PHE projects and refine existing ones.

If you would like to order copies, please contact Dana Bouchard at dana.bouchard@wwfus.org. You can also down load the manual by visiting www.worldwildlife.org/phe.