LEAD Brazil - Activities Update
2009 Activities
1. Leadership for Climate Security (LEAD Cohort 14)
The second edition of the Programme Leadership for Climate Security has just started in LEAD Brazil, with 15 associates from different sectors and regions, who already develop projects within the theme of climate change.
The Programme Leadership for Climate Security aims to promote the training of leadership combining approaches, methodologies and disciplines that address the dimensions: personal (subjective), interpersonal (inter-subjective) and systemic. This integrative perspective stimulates changes in individuals, organizations and networks.
The methodology "training for action" creates a differentiated learning environment that combines meetings and training activities for participants to develop practical projects and actions.
For full article in Portuguese: http://www.abdl.org.br/article/fix/3679
2. Next Generation Development Programme - HSBC
Since 2007, LEAD works with HSBC International in a training programme in sustainability, called Next Generation Development Programme (NGDP). The NGDP lasts for six months and is aimed at managers of HSBC Group, which go through days of learning and collaborative creation.
The program gives attention to individual and organizational development and training of staff, addressing topics such as leadership, sustainability, cultural diversity, networking and project development.
In the first phase of the program participants are divided into groups of approximately 15 participants, which visit social projects with the aim to collaborate with the organizations that implement them. In the second phase, these groups work on developing a project for the bank taking into account the learning they have had about sustainability.
For the third time, NGDP will take place in Brazil. This year’s programme will be held in the first week of August, and will be attended by 80 executives from 22 countries, divided into five teams.
PROJECTS VISITED
1. Cooperilha
Location: Guarujá, São Paulo.
Topic: Assist Cooperilha to grow its recycled products business and help them to access national and international markets.
2. Network Cananéia Association.
Location: Cananéia, São Paulo.
Topic: Strengthen the financial sustainability of Cananeia Network Association
3. Fazenda São Luiz.
Location: Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo.
Topic: Assist Mutirao Agroecology to promote and disseminate Agroforestry principles and practices in Brazil
4. Instituto Floresta Viva.
Location: Itacare, Bahia.
Topic: Improve financial sustainability of Institito Floresta Viva
5. SPVS – de Pesquisa em Vida Selvagem e Educação Ambiental
Location: Guaraqueçaba, Paraná.
Topic: To assist your clients to develop a business plan of honey products for Local Communities and help them finding ways to access regional, national and international markets.
For full article in Portuguese: http://www.abdl.org.br/article/view/3885
3. Initiative aims at identifying best practices on Environment and Development
LEAD, in partnership with IIED - International Institute for Environment and Development - is identifying, within its network, successful stories in which the environment was been integrated into development policies at local, regional and national levels. The goal is to produce a publication that will highlight these cases and which were most effective in different countries, so they can be replicated.
This is the first project of the Environment and Livelihoods Network - EAL, which is part of LEAD’s mobilization strategy focused on thematic networks within the Fellows Community. The objective is to facilitate the information exchange and to stimulate interaction among the fellows interested in certain subjects. The 4 thematic networks are:
· Sustainable Cities
· Business & Sustainability
· Climate Change
· Environment and Livelihoods
LEAD Brazil, in partnership with the LEAD International and some fellows, is the facilitator of the Network Environment and Livelihoods. The brazilian fellows facilitating this network are Antônio Carlos Carneiro de Albuquerque (Tato) - cohort 9 and Mariana Paal Fernandes - cohort 12.
For full article in Portuguese: http://www.abdl.org.br/article/static/3879
4. ABDL starts training program geared to local development in the Campos Basin
LEAD Brazil/ ABDL finished the selection process to the Programa de Apoio à Agenda Peregrino de Cooperação com a Pesca Artesanal – capacity building to fisheries communities in the Campos Basin (Rio de Janeiro State). The programme is implemented by SOMA - Development and Environment and LEAD Brazil/ ABDL, sponsored by StatoilHydro. The groups were selected after a field trip, in which the coordination team interviewed participants and helped them improve the project proposals to be developed during the programme focused on artisanal fisheries.
The detailed selection process allowed the setting of a strong class, with full conditions to take the program to leverage its local initiatives, as well as their political articulation and fund raising to support projects. The criteria were well attended, in addition to ensuring the presence of 3 cities and a strong connection with Cooperation Agenda that is already being implemented.
5. Program Companies For Climate (Empresas pelo Clima – EPC)
Released October 8, 2009, the Center for Sustainability of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (GVCes), the EPC is the first national platform aimed at building the regulatory foundations in the process of economic adaptation to climate change. The Climate for Business program gives participants guidance and tools for the management practices of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) and sustainability for business.
This program has the participation of 30 different Companies from different sectors: agribusiness, energy, forestry, industry, services and transportation.
ABDL is responsible for the program’s training. The objective is to build participants capacity to lead internal processes to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
For more information: http://www.empresaspeloclima.com.br/
2008 Activities
Participatory Governance in Conservation Units
Throughout 2008, ABDL/ LEAD Brazil and the Atlantic Forest Biosphere Reserve (RBMA) executed a Capacity Building Programme on Participatory Governance in Conservation Units (CUs) of the Atlantic Forest.
The project was intended to support the implementation of participatory governance envisaged in the National System of Conservation Units (SNUC), strengthening the collective dimension of learning and finding shared solutions to recurring problems in the management of CUs of the Atlantic Forest.
The programme aimed to articulate the various actors of CUs of the Atlantic Forest with the purpose of establishing an exchange of knowledge and experience on participatory governance, to further improve the social environmental management of CUs and the public awareness on the importance of collaborative work in promoting sustainable development.
In total, 118 managers from Conservation Units (CUs) from six states were part of the training. They represented 55 CUs in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo, Goias and Bahia
The expected results of this project are the promotion of virtuous cycles of cooperation between the CUs, enabling the transformation of the conservation and governance strategies of these units through the articulation and narrowing between different actors and fronts of support.
Full article in Portuguese.
Capacity Building Programme on Participatory Governance in Conservation Units of the Atlantic Forest: Description of the Programme in Portuguese.
Seminar Networks and Development 30 July-1 August 2008, São Paulo
What are the advantages and challenges of networking for promoting sustainable development? How can people and organizations take off advantage on collaborative work in their actions promoting development? Which are the main issues addressed to networking? Those were the nuclear questions of the debates of Networks and Development Seminar 2008, promoted by ABDL/LEAD Brazil and Senac São Paulo, between July 30th and August 1st in São Paulo.
The seminar congregated about 200 people, from civil society organizations and also from both public and private sectors. Researchers and activists of networks, from Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Canada, United Kingdom and Holland, were also between the public and speakers. They worked together over the main issues of networking articulation for sustainable development.
The content and the results of the debates are published in: http://www.redesedesenvolvimento.org.br/article/static/3706
The Network and Development
2008 had the sponsorship of Fundação Telefonica (Telefonica Foundation), Instituto HSBC Solidariedade (HSBC Institute) and Instituto C&A (C&A Institute). Also, the seminar could count on the support of LEAD International; CEATS/FIA (Centro de Empreendedorismo Social e Administração em Terceiro Setor/Fundação Instituto de Administração); ODI (Overseas Development Intitute); da RITS (Rede de Informações para o Terceiro Setor); Tetra Pak; Ashoka; and Tzedaká Project.
Leadership for Climate Safety- Cohort 13 National Training Session
The overcoming of climate crises represents huge challenges for all and requires an adaptation process of people, culture and forms of articulating knowledge in more integrated and systemic ways.
With the purpose of training social actors interested on enlarge their comprehension and develop practical actions in the field of sustainability, ABDL/LEAD Brazil launches the Leadership Programme for Climate Safety. This is the 13th cohort of LEAD Programme in Brazil, and it’s developed in partnership with LEAD International and GLN – Global Leadership Network.
The programme contributes for the development of personal, inter-personal and organizational resources. It’ll be done by capacity-building process of formation of leaderships from different sectors, in an environment of learning and collaboration that contributes to the integration between theory and practice.
The methodology of training for action, developed by ABDL/LEAD Brazil during the last years, associates intensive seminars with activities addressed to developing projects and practical actions by the participants.
The programme counts on professors with recognized experiences in the knowledge areas that combine the fields of leadership, climate safety and systemic thinking, such as: Ricardo Abramovay Mille Bojer, Thais Corral , Samyra Crespo , Fábio Feldmann, Isaura Frondizi, Sandra Guimarães , Emilio La Rovere, Jacques Marcovich, Cristina Carvalho Pinto, Marcio Schiavo, Eduardo Viola.
LEAD Brazil launched the last session of Cohort 12, called Redesenvolvimento 2007- May 2008, São Paulo
Eighteen participants, from different sectors and regions of Brazil attended this edition which focused on networks and development. The graduation session was held in Sao Paulo and a second Open Seminar called Redes e Desenvolvimento, is going to be organized in partnership with Fellows.
More information about the program in http://www.lead.org.br/article/view/2910
Release date: Thursday, September 25, 2008