Community Livelihood and Resilience

Creating community leadership, ownership and stewardship

This programme continues the Foundation’s ongoing process of working with communities, wherein lies the potential to create leadership, ownership and stewardship. These are necessary qualities for enhancing community-led initiatives in general and in fact, stronger communities are a prerequisite for sustainable development. They become even more significant when the intention is to maximize potential for livelihoods while ensuring sustainable use of environmental assets.

Ultimate Impact

Local communities are more resilient to environmental, social and economic shocks, and are able to effectively influence and direct their development.

Intermediate Outcomes

Enhanced ability of local communities to develop resilient economic sectors that maximise their competitive advantage, while enhancing natural and social community capital/participate in the green & blue economies;

Local communities are able to effectively communicate and advocate for their own needs and desires in local and national policy and decision-making.

Projects within this Programme Area

Facilitating Finance for Biodiversity in Agriculture through Biotokens

Placing the right finance with the right farmers Rapid adoption of sustainable agriculture requires the strategic…
- Community Livelihoods and Resilience
- Sustainability Financing
BIOREACH

Building sustainable nature-positive businesses that strengthen livelihoods, conserve biodiversity, and connect…
- Community Livelihoods and Resilience
- Sustainability Financing
ScopeTT

SCOPE TT (System for Civic Observation, Protection & Engagement – Trinidad & Tobago) SCOPE TT is a national initiative…
- Community Livelihoods and Resilience
- Civil Society Leadership
IGNITE CSOs

TCF CEO Cherisse Braithwaite-Joseph with former EU Ambassador Peter Cavendish at IGNITE CSOs Financial Institutions…
- Community Livelihoods and Resilience
- Civil Society Leadership
Data for Local SDG Action

The SDGs rely on data collected for each of the 17 Goals to assess how much progress has been made—and what remains to…
- Community Livelihoods and Resilience
- Civil Society Leadership
- Data for Development
- Natural Capital
Making Agriculture Profitable and Sustainable (MAPS)

The objective of this three-year, Inter-American Development Bank funded project is to mitigate the environmental…
- Community Livelihoods and Resilience
- Natural Capital
- Sustainability Financing
Eco-Agriculture 2 (2013-2014)

This project was designed to address the issue of land degradation and seeks to build capacity of small-scale…
- Community Livelihoods and Resilience
- Natural Capital
Eco-Agriculture (2009 – 2011)

In 2009, The Cropper Foundation, with the financial support of the Inter-American Development Bank, engaged in a…
- Community Livelihoods and Resilience
- Natural Capital
Bon Air Sustainable Living Project (2005 – 2007)

The Bon Air North project gave us the opportunity to apply the soundness and relevance of our ideas. More than that, it…
- Community Livelihoods and Resilience
- Civil Society Leadership
Cari-Bois Environmental News Network

With the Caribbean being one of the world’s most biodiverse regions with sensitive ecosystems and a high vulnerability…
- Community Livelihoods and Resilience

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Priority Areas

Short-Term Outcomes

1.1 Increased livelihood incentives for products and services that are environmentally and socially sustainable.

2.1 Local & community-generated data is used for local to national decision making on development priorities, as well as reporting on development progress.

2.2 Enhanced confidence and ability of local communities to self-assess and communicate their local needs and priorities to local and national government/decision-makers, and the enhanced ability to evaluate their inclusion.