CERC and the Earth Institute as Leaders in Promoting Transformation: Linking Natural Resources, Economic Growth, and Good Governance (Translinks)

CERC, member departments of the Earth Institute, and several project partners have recently been awarded a grant of $4 million by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This award, entitled Promoting Transformation: Linking Natural Resources, Economic Growth, and Good Governance (Translinks), will help participating organizations exchange and share expertise in the areas of natural resource conservation, poverty reduction, and governance. Partners in the project include the Earth Institute, Enterprise Works/VITA, Forest Trends, the Land Tenure Center at the University of Wisconsin, and the Wildlife Conservation Society, the leading partner of the project. The Translinks project will be carried out over a five-year period.

By exchanging knowledge, skills, and tools, the Translinks partners will better understand under what conditions conservation, governance, and poverty alleviation efforts can be mutually reinforcing, thus greatly enhancing their individual and collective capacities to achieve conservation and development objectives. The project will also identify best practices and generate lessons learned in natural resource conservation, poverty reduction, and governance that can be used by partner organizations and shared with the wider conservation and development communities.

CERC, http://www.cerc.columbia.edu
Earth Institute, http://www.earth.columbia.edu/
Enterprise Works Vita, http://www.vita.org
Forest Trends, http://www.forest-trends.org/index.php
Land Tenure Center at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, http://www.ies.wisc.edu/ltc/
Wildlife Conservation Society, http://www.wcs.org