{"id":59912,"date":"2012-04-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-coastal-resources-center-provides-key-support-to-two-groups-awarded-2012-un-equator-prize\/"},"modified":"2012-04-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T00:00:00","slug":"uri-coastal-resources-center-provides-key-support-to-two-groups-awarded-2012-un-equator-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2012\/04\/uri-coastal-resources-center-provides-key-support-to-two-groups-awarded-2012-un-equator-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Coastal Resources Center provides key support to two groups awarded 2012 UN Equator Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tNARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 April 9, 2012 \u2013 Two international organizations that have been recognized with the 2012 United Nations Equator Prize for best practices in sustainable development have received training, business planning, and other institutional support from the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Coastal Resources Center (CRC).<\/p>\n


\n\tThe TRY Oyster Women\u2019s Association in The Gambia and the Namdrik Atoll Local Resources Committee in the Republic of the Marshall Islands are among 25 community organizations in developing nations to be recognized by the United Nations Development Program. The awards will be presented at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil in June.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cOur role has been to support these groups in achieving their goals,\u201d said Brian Crawford, CRC director of international programs. \u201cThe work we have undertaken with these groups has been a combined effort of many individuals here at 溏心vlog免费B站, both at the Graduate School of Oceanography and the College of Environment and Life Sciences.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe TRY Association brings together 500 female oyster harvesters from 15 villages in the West Africa nation of The Gambia to promote sustainable harvesting techniques and small-scale enterprise development. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThese women are the poorest of the poor, and they\u2019re doing some phenomenal work,\u201d Crawford said. \u201cWhen we started working with them, there were just 50 women, they were disempowered, no one was paying them any attention, and in a period of several years, they\u2019ve grown as an organization and their impact is huge.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tBeginning in 2009, the Coastal Resources Center has provided the Association with guidance in organizational development, resource management, product development, and training for their children in skills to diversify their income sources. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe Namdrik Atoll Local Resources Committee promotes a model of community self-sufficiency and local food security for the Marshall Islands and other island nations in the Asia-Pacific region. Because the low-lying nation is among the most vulnerable in the world to the impacts of climate change, CRC has provided training for national agencies and non-profit organizations on incorporating climate change adaptation into their national strategy for resource conservation.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe used Namdrik as a pilot example of how to incorporate climate change into local resource management plans,\u201d said Pam Rubinoff, the CRC coastal manager working most closely with the group. \u201cI helped the Marshall Islands Coastal Management Advisory Council assess vulnerability and provided input as to what they could do to address climate change impacts.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tBased at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography, the Coastal Resources Center has worked with numerous developing nations on coastal management and sustainable fisheries initiatives for three decades. Its international work is primarily funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 April 9, 2012 \u2013 Two international organizations that have been recognized with the 2012 United Nations Equator Prize for best practices in sustainable development have received training, business planning, and other institutional support from the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Coastal Resources Center (CRC). The TRY Oyster Women\u2019s Association in The Gambia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}