Pilot Project for Community Engagement in Water Conservation at Ali Curung

Live & Learn Environmental Education was contracted by Power and Water Corporation to design a community water conservation program for a program in Ali Curung.

Annual Report 2008

Live & Learn has continued to advocate and provide support for organising and mobilising communities towards counteracting increased pressure on natural resources.

Community Water Conservation Program Guide

This guide has been developed for the agencies responsible for implementing and further developing a Community Water Ranger (CWR) program in the Northern Territory.

The Pacific Catchment Group Handbook

The Pacific Catchment Group Handbook is a guide for government officers, non-government organisation (NGO) workers, others who aim to establish a catchment group and for anyone who has a role in coordinating, facilitating or participating in a catchment group. This may include community leaders, residents, landowners, business people, and government workers and representatives.

Education for Sustainable Development - Teacher Training Manual

This Guide was developed to enable teachers colleges to deliver a basic course in Education for Sustainability to new and in-service teachers.

Snakes and Ladders Board Game

A snakes and ladders board game with facts about weather, water and sanitation, waste and sanitation, energy, conservation & biodiversity and livelihoods.

A Manual for WASH Activities in Elementary School Clubs

The WASH Activities book has been developed for Eritrean elementary schools to provide a set of hygiene related information and club activities around Water, Sanitation and Hygiene wellbeing for students and their families.

Social Studies: A Curriculum Companion

This book has been produced to support Social Studies Education as part of the Elementary Schools Environmental Education Initiative in Eritrea (ESEE Initiative). The purpose of the initiative is building the capacity of elementary students to understand and respond to the environmental issues, which confront Eritrea, so that they can appropriately contribute to a more sustainable future.

Green Club Manual

This manual is written for elementary school teachers who are leading or involved with Green Clubs. It is also a useful resource for elementary school PTA committees. The manual assumes that the school Green Clubs are made up of a mix of different-age children. You may need to adjust some of the activities to suit specific age groups – particularly the younger children. Please be flexible and adaptive in how you use the resources in this manual and you will find it most useful.

Human Rights in the Western Pacific RAP

Combating Commercial Exploitation of Children and Violence Against Women in Remote areas of the Western Pacific is a project funded for three years by the European Union. The project focuses on the impact of large scale commercial logging on human rights in remote areas of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.

Imagining Tomorrow - Games

“Learning has to be fun and where there’s fun there’s peace.” This rationale saw the birth of this Games – Imagining Tomorrow book. This book is filled with exciting energizers, relationship building games and environmental games. This book is intended to complement the other tools of this kit by adding “fun” to the process of peace building, so that peace is celebrated by all children on Earth.

A Framework for Community Engagement in the Operation & Maintenance of Infrastructure

This document intends to provide a framework for the utility companies in involving communities in operation and maintenance plans related to water, sanitation and waste.

Regional Development Project (Phase II) RAP

The research carried out in this RAP will be used to guide in the development of (i) a strategy for environmental education; (ii) a facilitators resource guide; and furthermore, to advance sound environmental management in the Maldives.

Strategic Plan - Vanuatu

The Strategic Vision 2020 was used to guide the development of the Live & Learn Vanuatu Strategic Plan. For any vision it is important that it be translated into locally relevant actions that can be realised and result in actual change. The resultant plan is a practical tool which establishes achievable actions that will guide Live & Learn Vanuatu for the next 5 years.

Strategic Plan - Maldives

The way in which the Strategic Plan has been developed is of particular importance as it is based on much more than our organisational aspirations or global development trends. The plan has been based on research and lessons we have learnt from communities with whom we have worked for the past years. We have woven this information into nine Programme Areas that will shape our work and priorities till year 2011.

Discovering Biodiversity

Discovering Biodiversity: An Educator’s Guide to Exploring Nature’s Variety provides teachers and students with an opportunity to learn about, investigate and take action to conserve the amazing variety of life in the Pacific. Biodiversity is the term that explains the natural variety on the planet, the variety of living organisms and the ecological systems in which they occur.

Waste Awareness Resource Kit: Community

This resource kit, as a part of the Nala Nala Raajje, has been designed to be used by community based facilitators. These facilitators may come from many organizations including schools, scouts/environment clubs or community based organizations. It provides information and activities to increase knowledge and awareness of waste issues for communities in the Maldives.

Learning Circle Facilitator Manual

Population & Environment for Sustainable Livelihoods - Making the Links 

Forest and Natural Resources Learning Circle Module

"Talking about Forests and Natural Resources in Vanuatu" is part of the Forest Toolkit developed by Live & Learn. It includes a DVD, poster, brochure and manual.

Rapid Assessment of Perceptions (RAP) Eritrea

Rapid Assessment of Perceptions to inform the Elementary Schools Environmental Education Initiative in Eritrea

Research of Aspirations and Perceptions

This research sought to provide an understanding of the perceptions held by community members regarding their needs, problems, opportunities and capacity to undertake projects associated with sustainable development.

Environmental Education in Grades 4-6, Timor-Leste

This RAP reports on the current status of environmental education in the elementary education in Timor-Leste.

Clean Communities Toolkit

This toolkit is a training program intended to guide staff from Government Ministries or Community  Based Organizations (CBO’s) to deliver the ‘Clean Communities’ training program to Islands communities in the Atolls of the Maldives.

Community Mural Toolkit

A facilitator's guide to mobilising community environmental action.

Save Electricity, Save Money Poster

A poster promoting energy conservation for Nauru.

Clean Communities - A practical guide to building and maintaining toilets in the Pacific

This manual is a simple, easy-to-use guide that can assist in the construction and maintenance of toilets in Pacific communities. The information in this manual can help build demand for improved sanitation in communities, while also raising awareness of other key hygiene behaviours such as handwashing  with soap. 

Pacific WASH Handwashing Posters

A set of 3 posters designed to inform children and communities about handwashing.

Building Strong and Healthy Communities Flipchart

This flipchart is designed to support the establishment and development of any community enterprise that seeks to improve access to, or the quality of, sanitation services in the Pacific.

Germ-Buster Student Workbook

Through fun activities and games, kids will discover facts about germs and learn how to ‘knock them out’ of their life for good!

Students can work through this book at their own pace, or with guidance from a teacher.

Putting Your Waste in the Right Place Flipchart

A Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach for the Pacific Islands

This flipchart is a simple ‘tool’ that can be used to improve sanitation and hygiene practices and reduce the prevalence of water-borne diseases. It can be used by NGO workers, government extension officers or health workers in Pacific communities.

WASH Handwashing Stickers

A range of stickers that can be used as rewards or for promotion of handwashing.

You Are What You Eat! Poster

A poster to promote healthy habits in schools and communities in the Solomon Islands.

Leadership Manual

The purpose of the Leadership Manual is to assist leaders in the community to strengthen local agriculture for climate change. Leaders will be equipped with information and lessons to raise awareness, identify vulnerabilities and plan actions at the community level.

Crop Fact Sheets

This set of 10 fact sheets promotes simple, innovative and low-cost technologies that encourage diversifying food crops and strengthening soil fertility to support food security. They can be distributed as a set or individually, depending on farmers’ needs.

Best Practice Guidelines

for Teaching Environmental Studies in Maldivian Primary Schools

This guideline is based on a vision of education that promotes teaching and learning approaches that contribute to a sustainable future.

Module 2: Earth

This Module has been developed to complement the theme ‘Earth’ in the Environmental Studies curriculum. The Module addresses the changing world, in particular its climate and places the earth in the solar system. It provides students basic facts and information on these areas. It then leads students to appreciate the pull of gravity and the influence the Moon and Sun have on tides.

Module 4: Resources from the Environment

This Module has been developed to complement the theme ‘Resources from the Environment’ in the Environmental Studies curriculum. The Module mainly looks at the availability and sustainability of resources available from the environment. Students will need to find out more about these resources and build up practical and investigative skills.

Module 6: Science and Technology

This Module is developed to complement the theme ‘Science and Technology’ in the Environmental Studies curriculum. ‘Science and Technology’ deals with tools, equipment, materials and components to make quality products. The students would evaluate processes and products. They would also develop, plan and communicate ideas by using a variety of methods, including drawing and making models.

Governing Communities Guide

The Governing Communities Guide can be used to mobilise community actions to improve good governance and leadership in communities. Through Learning Circles, participants provide the content for learning and action based on their views, experiences, ideas, and skills. This forms the basis for making decisions and developing plans to address governance issues.

Community Water Monitoring Guide

This Guide will be useful in motivating communities to monitor drinking water sources and promote better sanitation, hygiene and access to safe drinking water.Water monitoring can alert a community to contaminants in time to prevent health problems! Community water monitoring can help increase awareness and promote community actions for “healthy water and healthy people”.

Green Schools Guide

The Green Schools Initiative is a joint project between Live & Learn Environmental Education and the Ministry of Education. The need to conserve natural resources and the environmental issues has received increasing attention in the last decade. Many schools have tried to implement environmental education strategies to promote environmental knowledge, skills and values among their students and community members. This guide will build on some of these strategies and will help schools to use resources more wisely.

Field Guide to Malidivian Plants

In the Maldives we have 583 recorded plant species, although there may be many more that are yet to be studied and identified. From this field guide you can see that every plant is special in its own way. In fact they are so special that we could not live on this planet without them! This guide gives basic information for children about various plants and how to identify them.

Helping Our Planet Earth (HOPE) Teachers Guide

The first edition of the HOPE Teachers Guide. This guide has practical classroom activities for teachers to help promote student awareness on environmental and development issues! The purpose of the HOPE Teachers Guide is to provide teachers with classroom resources to address education for sustainability for the students of Fiji, that is linked to existing curriculum.

Community Environmental Awareness Flipchart

Good People, Good Environment

The flipchart contains 18 picture slides to stimulate community discussion on a variety of themes including:
sustainable villages, water & sanitation, pollution, environmental laws, and protected areas.

Each picture slide has notes for the facilitator on the opposite side of the flipchart. The approach is to utilize the flipchart as a catalyst for discussion on environmental issues within the community. 

The flipchart is designed to be used in conjunction with the Community Environmental Awareness Flipchart Facilitation Guide.

Community Environmental Awareness Flipchart Facilitation Guide

The facilitation guide has been produced to be used in conjunction with the community environmental awareness flipchart.

The flipchart contains 18 picture slides to stimulate community discussion on a variety of themes including:
sustainable villages, water & sanitation, pollution, environmental laws, and protected areas. 

Each picture slide has notes for the facilitator on the opposite side of the flipchart. The approach is to utilize the flipchart as a catalyst for discussion on environmental issues within the community. 

The facilitation guide accompanies the flipchart to give more details on the process for setting up, organising and holding an effective group meeting.

Practical Tools for Schools Flipchart - NEEAC

The Practical Tools for Schools Flipchart formed part of a toolkit aimed at teaching school children about Weather, Water, Waste and Energy through a variety of hands on activities and discussion points that are designed to engage young people into talking about their environment.

Food for our Future Poster

A poster promoting the resources produced for the Protecting Food Security Project.

This program provides a range of traditional and innovative technologies to strengthen food security in Melanesia in response to climate change.

Common Birds of the Maldives

Common Birds of the Maldives is an introduction to the Maldivian environment and the avifauna within it. For each bird species you will find information about its habitat, distribution, how to identify it and population status.

Annual Report 2011

Forests are home to 300 million people across the globe and 1.6 billion people rely on healthy forest ecosystems for their livelihoods and survival. Yet, forests are disappearing at an alarming rate. Every year 13 million hectares of forests are lost to deforestation, compromising community health, food security, water safety, livelihoods and the global climate.

Forests and their interconnectedness to people’s well-being is a key priority of Live & Learn and a strong influence on many of our programs.

Training Manual

Good Water, Sanitation & Environmental Hygiene Practices for Primary Schools

This manual has been developed as part of the Health Promoting Schools Initiative, and is intended to be used in primary schools. The aim of this manual is to inculcate good water, sanitation and hygiene practices in our children.

Supporting human rights and social participation of women in remote areas in Fiji

The 'Supporting human rights and social participation of women in remote areas in Fiji' project seeks to build broad-based public demand for democracy and human rights by strengthening women’s groups and organizations and in turn creating more effective forums through which women can voice their opinions. The Rapid Assessment of Perceptions (RAP) is the initial phase of the project. The RAP is facilitated to ensure that the project design is drawn from ‘where target groups are’ and responds to the needs, values and aspirations of those groups. The focus of this report is on social participation of women in remote communities in Fiji and draws on initial perceptions of human rights and democracy within the communities.