USAID RM Portal Catalog of Web Portal Support Services 2018

CATALOG OF WEB PORTAL SUPPORT SERVICES USAID Natural Resources Management & Development Portal and Online Learning Management System

2018

Dr. Rose Hessmiller rhessmiller@fergusonlynch.com JANUARY 2018

Table of Contents USAID Natural Resources Management & Development Portal ...................................................................... 1

Learning Management Systems

RM Portal Functionality..................................................................2

USAID Learning Management System...................................... 29

Redesigned Library, Projects, and Group Access ...................... 3

Cross Mission Learning Group................................................... 30

Search Functionality (Elasticsearch) ............................................ 4

Login Tracker...................................................................................6

Managing the RMPortal YouTube Channel . ............................... 7

Multi Media Support ..................................................................... 8

RM Portal Services ........................................................................ 9

RM Portal Annotation Services ...................................................10

RM Portal Document Versioning Services .................................11

RM Portal File Management Services Exporting to RIS ........... 12

Companion Sites

USAID Biodiversity Conservation Gateway ..............................13

Biodiversity Gateway Cross Mission Learning Networks.........19

Conservation Enterprises Collaborative Learning Group ...... 20

Combatting Wildlife Trafficking Collaborative Learning Group .................................................... 21

Specialty Libraries and Document Collections

Corruption Reference Documents............................................ 22

Combating Wildlife Trafficking Document Collection.............. 23

Documents for Conservation Enterprises ................................24

Controlled Vocabulary Services for Specialty Libraries........... 25

Forest Carbon, Markets and Communities (FCMC) ................. 26

FRAMEweb Community of Practice .......................................... 27

RM Portal and Biodiversity Conservation Gateway Custom Applications IUU Interactive Inventory of International Capacity Building Initiatives for Fisheries............................................... 31

ombatting Wildlife Trafficking CWT C Case Study Compilation Competition...................................... 32

Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge. . ................................................ 33

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) .. ............. 34

Spotlight on Mission Projects (Stories).................................... 35

USAID Mission and Partner Sites

RM Portal Incubator Site with USAID Malawi and CEPA .. ............36

Greening the Grid Portal and Pending Toolkits ...................... 37

USAID Wildlife Asia Portal ...........................................................38

Productive Safety Net Program.. ................................................ 39

USAID Ethiopia Office of Asset Livelihood and Transition...............................................................................40

Partnership for the Conservation of Amazon Biodiversity............................................................... 41

MultiLingual Functionality to Portal.. ..........................................42

ROUTES Partnership. ....................................................................43

Plone Security................................................................................. 46

Visitor Statistics 2007-2017

TOTAL NUMBER OF VISITS

TOTAL PAGES VIEWED

2007 117,199

405,662

2008 334,506

1,026,114

2009 212,445

745,087

2010 181,460

1,305,335

2011 254,258

2,182,061

2012 247,127

1,332,584

2013 728,701

2,425,409

2014 812,808

2,212,659

2015 801,296

6,112,876

2016 800,983

3,758,966

2017 1,048,008

8,924,242

MONTH

NUMBER OF VISITS

PAGES

HITS

Jan 2017

72898

377745

1541675

Feb 2017

71665

788300

3416470

Mar 2017

92304

574381

2224868

Apr 2017

92265

705430

3444971

May 2017

98817

721127

3676871

Jun 2017

91307

793596

3232820

Jul 2017

84829

1283536

3432161

Aug 2017

95050

1125684

2612877

Sep 2017

94794

1153110

2171175

Oct 2017

97022

668046

2146744

Nov 2017

85573

460426

1627158

Dec 2017

71484

272861

774915

Total

1,048,008

8,924,242 30,302,705

Newly Re-designed Responsive Template USAID Natural Resources Management & Development Portal

IT Open Source Triad Solution deploying Plone (CMC), Moodle (LMS) and Access Grid (Live collaboration).

Ferguson Lynch has developed and continues to sustain, the portal for USAID EGAT/NRM Offices. The USAID portal is a cross-sectoral platform which supports information exchange among Federal Agencies and universities, national laboratories, USAID missions, and other governmental and non-governmental agencies in the areas of development and resource management, thus linking energy, nature, and human health.

VISIT WEBSITE: https://rmportal.net

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RM Portal Functionality

RESPONSIVE DESIGN FOR MOBILE DEVICES

NEW CONTENT TYPES DEVELOPED: BLOGS, SECURE VIDEO, AUDIO (PODCASTS), PROJECT, PRODUCT, ORGANIZATION, AND SPATIAL DATA CONTENT TYPES

NEW INTEGRATED ADVANCED SEARCH (ELASTICSEARCH)

CUSTOM LIBRARIES AND CONTROLLED VOCABULARIES

Secure SSL Added to RMP and Companion Sites in response to USAID security assessments.

RM Portal and Companion sites achieve consistent Zero to minimum Harm Scores.

CUSTOM SEARCH MAPPING BY THE BIODIVERSITY OFFICE TO MEET BIODIVERSITY CATEGORIES, KEYWORDS, FILTERS AND RMPORTAL LEGACY COLLECTIONS

INTERACTIVE PROJECT AND ORGANIZATION DATABASE SEARCH

NEW GOOGLE MAP OVERLAYS FOR ALL RM PORTAL AND COMPANION SITE CONTENT GEO-REFERENCING

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MULTILINGUAL TRANSLATION SOFTWARE

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CUSTOM LOGIN TRACKER SEARCHABLE

BY INDIVIDUAL AND GROUPS

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RM Portal: Redesigned Library, Projects, and Group Access

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New RM Portal Search Functionality (Elasticsearch) Elasticsearch is an open-source, distributed search and analytics engine built on Apache Lucene. Since the first release in 2010, it has quickly become the most globally used search engine, is commonly used for log analytics, full-text search, and operational intelligence use cases. It can be used to provide near-real time analytics using large volumes of log data and its easy-to-use search APIs allow us to easily add powerful search capabilities to our portal.

RMP Library Search

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Partner Search

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New RM Portal Search Functionality (Elasticsearch) Elasticsearch Is Fast.

Really, Really Fast.

When you get answers instantly, your relationship with your data changes. You can afford to iterate and cover more ground.

Being this fast isn’t easy. Elaticsearch implements inverted indices with finite state transducers for full-text querying, BKD trees for storing numeric and geo data, and a column store for analytics.

And since everything is indexed, you’re never left with index envy.

You can leverage and access all of your data at ludicrously awesome speeds.

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RM Portal Login Tracker Search for user logins by individual or by group.

Search logins by Group name Search logins by user name

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Managing the RMPortal YouTube Channel Ferguson Lynch manages a USAID RMP You Tube Channel for USAID and Partners to add secure videos to sites.

Following USAID Harm Management Policies FL has build a secure Video content type that allows us to add secure play in place videos from You Tube and Vimeo without introducing vulnerabilities to our sites.

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Multi Media Support Biodiversity Conservation Gateway Cross-Mission Learning Program Video The concept for this video was a winning submission from the 2015 CLA Case Competition. The video highlights CLA in action through the Conservation Enterprises Cross-Mission Learning Program launched in 2015 by USAID/E3 Forestry and Biodiversity Office (FAB).

 W ATCH VIDEO: https://rmportal.net/biodiversityconservation-gateway/resources/ videos-webinars/biodiversity-cross-mission-learning-program-video

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USAID/E3/FAB’s Biodiversity Cross-Mission Learning Program works to increase the effectiveness of USAID biodiversity conservation programming by finding out what works, what doesn’t, and why. This Learning Program connects USAID staff in different Missions who are implementing the same strategic approach to address a development challenge; facilitates the sharing of knowledge and experience about when and

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under what conditions the theory of change holds; and helps foster collaboration to answer a set of shared learning questions (a Learning Agenda) that can help improve the effectiveness of USAID programs. Learning Groups collaborate through email discussions, virtual meetings, and an online wiki knowledge base. Learning Groups may also choose to collaborate on data or information collection to address.

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RM Portal Services The Portal provides an open access communications bridge between organizations, communities, consortia and global partners working on an integrated approach to natural resource management linking nature, energy, and human health. The Portal is designed to foster the evolution of a diverse community willing to share their expertise, social and professional networks and work together across time and physical boundaries on the ground as well as inside virtual teams.

We invite USAID Missions and Partners to share their digital media through this Portal, either privately, collaboratively within a group, or publicly to a global audience.

Portal members are encouraged to recommend media to be included in our Portal and partner search.

VISIT THIS PAGE: https://rmportal.net/join-us

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RM Portal Annotation Services How to Add Annotations to a File Annotation can be added to any file on the portal, including XML files imported from the USAID DEC. To add annotation to a file: 1. Click the blue Add annotation button at the bottom of the file page.

2. The Annotated Resource and Annotation Title will be automatically populated and should be left alone. However, you may add an annotation summary.

3. Add the Reviewer, Reviewer Affiliation, and Review Date. The Reviewer is the person that you are adding the annotation for. If this is you, add your name.

4. Add Journal name and Publisher.

5. Click the check boxes next to the Type(s) of Documents. If the type of document is not shown, check other and fill in the other field.

6. Add a Rating. The rating criteria is based on stars: one star being the poorest; two stars being the best.

7. Check the boxes next to the remaining criteria that apply: Regions; Natural Resources; Ecosystem Services; NWP Principles - Nature: NWP Principles - Wealth; NWP Principles - Power; Tools used; Constraints; Solutions; Impacts; and Additional Discussion Topics.

8. Click Save.

9. To return to the file that you annotated, click the Annotated Resource link.

SEE DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS ONLINE: https://rmportal.net/help/portal-help-and-how-to/how-to-add-annotations-to-a-file tations-to-a-file

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RM Portal Document Versioning Services Versioning Pages, News Items, Events, and Links How to view the version history of an item, compare versions, preview previous versions and revert to previous versions.

Tracking the version history of Files is unique to other content types. Files are opaque to Plone’s version history, so the only thing that the history will show is that the file has been replaced. You won’t get line-by-line history like you do on HTML body fields.

However, each version of a file can be downloaded even after the file is replaced. The following tutorial details how to track the version history of files by using the Change note field and the Revision preview feature.

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RM Portal File Management Services Exporting to RIS How to Export content from the RM Portal into EndNotes in RIS format Instructions for exporting Research Information Systems (RIS) references from the RM Portal into EndNote reference management software.

1. Download a RIS file from the RM Portal using the steps described in this tutorial.

2. Open the EndNote program. Your “EndNote library” should open automatically. Usually this has a default name like “My EndNote Library”. If you’re using EndNote for the first time, you will be prompted to create your library when opening the program.

3. Once you’ve opened your EndNote library, highlight the left column item called “All References”.

4. Next, open the “File” menu at the top of the screen and select “Import”.

5. In the resulting dialog window, you will be able to select form a field called “Import Options” In that drop-down, select “Reference Manager (RIS)”.

6. Next, browse your computer for the RIS file you downloaded fromm the RM Portal and click “Import”.

7. Your references are now imported into your EndNote library.

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Companion Sites Companion Sites Share All RM Portal resources, programming, functionality, content, and member Database organization.

USAID Biodiversity Conservation Gateway USAID has a long and rich history in global biodiversity conservation. This site showcases the most recent products and projects supported by USAID’s Office of Forestry and Biodiversity and also links to legacy content. As it matures, the Gateway will increasingly integrate news and information from USAID Mission programs.

The Forestry and Biodiversity Office designed the Gateway to communicate with conservation and development stakeholders about implementation of the USAID Biodiversity Policy and the Agency’s work supporting other key U.S. Government initiatives and polices.

VISIT WEBSITE: rmportal.net/biodiversityconservationgateway

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CO M PA N I O N S I T E S

Biodiversity Conservation Gateway: Thematic Areas USAID and U.S. Government Policy USAID policies, strategies, frameworks and visions are intended to convey the thinking of the agency’s leadership and, in some cases, make agency commitments to key stakeholders. They are designed in a collaborative, evidence-based process that engages expertise from throughout the agency and from external resources.

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Biodiversity Conservation Gateway: Thematic Areas Legality and Sustainability A rapidly escalating focus in international conservation is the trafficking and overexploitation of valuable species from forests, savannas and oceans. Consequences range from collapse of wildlife populations to widespread graft and corruption, which affect all development sectors. USAID is working on many fronts as part of U.S. Government efforts to attack wildlife, fisheries and forestry crime while promoting legal and sustainable solutions.

Interactive Inventory of International Capacity Building Initiatives for Fisheries

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Biodiversity Conservation Gateway: Thematic Areas Conservation Effectiveness Biodiversity programming should be based on sound science to achieve tangible and sustainable results. Understanding both the current condition and changing trends in biodiversity is an essential foundation for designing conservation strategies and measuring their effectiveness. USAID works with experts across academia, the private sector, and within USAID and other U.S. Government agencies to strengthen development impacts.

HOW TO GUIDES for USAID biodiversity programming are a key complement to the Handbook and walk practitioners through the steps of designing, monitoring and evaluating conservation projects.

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Biodiversity Conservation Gateway: Thematic Areas Conservation is Development The USAID Biodiversity Policy’s vision is for biodiversity and its conservation to be seen as foundational components of human well being and thus sustainable development. While the bottom line is that functioning natural systems are critical to human survival, USAID and partners are exploring many critical intersections and entry points for integration.

WHAT IS CONSERVATION? Conservation is Wildlife Conservation is Fisheries Conservation is People Conservation is Science & Technology Conservation is Partnerships

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Biodiversity Conservation Gateway: Projects

Environmental Communication, Learning and Outreach (ECO) VISIT WEBSITE: https://rmportal.net/ biodiversityconservation-gateway/resources/ projects/projects-page/ eco

Measuring Impact VISIT WEBSITE: https://rmportal.net/ biodiversityconservation-gateway/resources/ projects/projects-page/ measuring-impact

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B I O D I V E R S I T Y G AT E WAY P R OJ E C T S

Biodiversity Gateway Cross Mission Learning Networks The Cross Mission Learning Program will: • Connect USAID staff that are implementing the same strategic approach to address a development challenge; • Facilitate the sharing of knowledge and experience about when and under what conditions the theory of change holds; • Help foster collaboration to answer a set of shared learning questions (a Learning Agenda) that can help improve the effectiveness of USAID programs.

• Learning Groups will collaborate through email discussions, virtual meetings, and an online wiki knowledge base. Learning Groups may also choose to collaborate on data or information collection to address priority learning questions.

VISIT WEBSITE: https://rmportal.net/biodiversityconservation-gateway/learning-networks/cross-mission-learning-program

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Conservation Enterprises Collaborative Learning Group Conservation enterprises approaches are defined by a development hypothesis (theory of change) that if income is increased through conservation enterprises, then participants will discontinue environmentally unsustainable activities, leading to reductions to threats to the environment.

VISIT WEBSITE: rmportal.net/conservation-enterprises/

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Combatting Wildlife Trafficking (CWT) Collaborative Learning Group Although USAID has a long history of support for efforts to combat wildlife trafficking. These efforts are currently being prioritized due to a dramatic increase in the volume and scope of the threat in recent years and a 2014 Executive Order strengthening the Agency’s mandate to increase programing in this area.

Among the many strategic approaches employed by USAID to combat wildlife trafficking and outlined in the Agency’s Measuring Efforts to Combat Wildlife Crime Toolkit, USAID’s Forestry and Biodiversity Office chose three for special attention for the CWT Learning Group: (a) reducing consumer demand through behavior change methodologies, (b) building capacity for effective enforcement and prosecution, and (c) increasing community conservation action and support to combat wildlife trafficking. These three approaches are defined by individual development hypotheses (theories of change), as well as a combined hypothesis that, if implemented, these strategies will increase the risks for wildlife criminals and reduce profits from wildlife trafficking, which then will reduce overall wildlife crime, resulting in greater protection of species.

VISIT WEBSITE: rmportal.net/combating-wildlife-trafficking

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Specialty Libraries and Document Collections Corruption Reference Documents

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S P E C I A L T Y L I B R A R I E S A N D DOC U M E N T CO L L E C T I O N S

Combating Wildlife Trafficking Document Collection VISIT WEBSITE: https://www.rmportal.net/combatingwildlife-trafficking/documents

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Documents for Conservation Enterprises VISIT WEBSITE: https://rmportal.net/ conservation-enterprises/ce-documents

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S P E C I A L T Y L I B R A R I E S A N D DOC U M E N T CO L L E C T I O N S

Controlled Vocabulary Services for Specialty Libraries

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S P E C I A L T Y L I B R A R I E S A N D DOC U M E N T CO L L E C T I O N S

Forest Carbon, Markets and Communities (FCMC) In the context of United States Government (USG) commitment to support fast-start financing for activities that reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+), Tetra Tech ARD implemented the Forest Carbon, Markets and Communities (FCMC) project, a USAID/Washington, DC-based PLACE IQC Task Order to supply technical services on forest carbon to USAID/Washington, as well as bilateral and regional missions, particularly in the Andean Amazon.

The FCMC program focuses on four tasks: 1. Social and Environmental Soundness; 2. Finance and Carbon Markets; 3. Low Emissions Development Strategies; 4. Monitoring, Reporting, and Inventories

VISIT WEBSITE: https://rmportal.net/library/content/fcmc/

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S P E C I A L T Y L I B R A R I E S A N D DOC U M E N T CO L L E C T I O N S

FRAMEweb Community of Practice VISIT WEBSITE: https://rmportal.net/frame/communities

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FRAMEweb Community of Practice FRAME is an online community where more than 3,000 global members share knowledge, learn about upcoming events and connect with other professionals dedicated to the fields of environment and natural resource management.

For more than 12 years, FRAME has facilitated knowledge sharing among its members through online discussion and the sharing of documents and other resources to improve environment and natural resource management practice.

VISIT WEBSITE: https://rmportal.net/frame

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Learning Management Systems USAID Learning Management System New Responsive, Mobile RM Portal Online Learning Center This Online Learning Management System provides a web-based environment for delivering online courses, and managing virtual learning communities.

The courseware in this learning system is designed using sound constructivist pedagogical principles and has the ability to create syllabi, objectives, content modules, assignments, tests, and social course activities like blogs, wikis, forums, chats, news and calendars. It can also be used for group collaboration and project working groups.The Online Learning Management System is available to USAID Missions and Partners by request.

VISIT WEBSITE: lms.rmportal.net/

LMS, STI, STP and SCALE Total Users January 23, 2018

LMS STI STP SCALE 1599 597 147

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Cross Mission Learning Group Stand Alone Collaboration Wiki Space A shared space to build knowledge organized around key questions from each group’s Learning Agendas. Increasing the effectiveness of USAID biodiversity conservation programming by finding out what works, what doesn’t, and why.

VISIT WEBSITE: https://clg.rmportal.net/

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RM Portal and Biodiversity Conservation Gateway Custom Applications IUU Interactive Inventory of International Capacity Building Initiatives for Fisheries A secure, searchable database of Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) Fishing.

VISIT WEBSITE: https://rmportal.net/biodiversityconservation-gateway/legality-sustainability/fisheries-development/project-search

Project and Activities custom designed for private and public sharing with government, military, and partner organizations

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Combatting Wildlife Trafficking CWT Case Study Compilation Competition To organize and focus the CWT Learning Group’s efforts, USAID’s Office of Forestry and Biodiversity and its Measuring Impact activity developed the CWT Learning Agenda. This Agenda is framed around a common theory of change and seeks to answer learning questions to improve program effectiveness.

VISIT WEBSITE: https://rmportal.net/cwt-case-study-compilation

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Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge Now managed on the RM Portal with ability to post and share upcoming news and reports on the winning projects.

VISIT WEBSITES: https://rmportal.net/biodiversityconservation-gateway/resources/projects/wctc-project/ wildlife-crime-tech-challenge-wctc and https://www.wildlifecrimetech.org/winners

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Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) USAID’s Forestry and Biodiversity Office (FAB) supports a suite of research activities within the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).

VISIT WEBSITE: https://rmportal.net/biodiversityconservation- gateway/ resources/research/cifor

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Spotlight on Mission Projects (Stories) Our recent Knowledge Management Survey indicated that many USAID missions would like to learn more about building partnerships with host countries to enhance biodiversity conservation. To address this question, this article illustrates how USAID/ Brazil is working with the government, public and private sectors and nonprofit organizations to conserve biodiversity in the Amazon. The robust partnership between USAID and the Government of Brazil may inspire other missions and USAID projects and provide practical examples to adapt to their own host country environments.

VISIT WEBSITE: https://rmportal.net/biodiversityconservation-gateway/resources/projects/ spotlight-on-mission-projects/biodiversity-conservation-program-in-the-amazon

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USAID Mission and Partner Sites RM Portal Incubator Site with USAID Malawi and CEPA Centre for Environmental Policy and Advocacy (CEPA) CEPA seeks to contribute to the development of environment and natural resources management best practices in Malawi and the Southern Africa Region.

As a think tank organization, CEPA provides advice and conducts research in environment and natural resources management policies and legislation with a view to designing appropriate interventions for promoting sustainable environment and natural resources management.

VISIT WEBSITE: http://cepa.rmportal.net/

Searchable Podcast Directory Development.

Pulling current and legacy Radio Programming into the CEPA Library

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Greening the Grid Portal and Pending Toolkits USAID/NREL Partnership Greening the Grid offers a toolkit of information, guidance materials, and technical assistance to support developing countries in significantly scaling up the amount of variable renewable energy connected to the electricity grid.

VISIT WEBSITE: gtg.rmportal.net

TOOLKIT INTEGRATION

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USAID Wildlife Asia Portal The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), working closely with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), addresses wildlife trafficking as a transnational crime through the USAID Wildlife Asia activity. The activity works to reduce consumer demand for wildlife parts and products, strengthen law enforcement skills, enhance policy, legislation and jurisprudence and improve regional action to reduce wildlife crime in Southeast Asia and China.

VISIT WEBSITE: http://www.usaidwildlifeasia.org/

USAID PCAB provides collaborative online workspaces to build networks, identify good practices, and find solutions to problems.

GROUP SERVICES Services available to a group: Group Home Page Group Email Private News Private Calendar Forums Private Folders Public Folders Webpage Editor Collections

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INNOVATIONS WildScan is a comprehensive species identification and response mobile application designed to combat wildlife trafficking. The application is designed to help frontline wildlife law enforcement agencies correctly identify, report and handle marine, freshwater and terrestrial animals caught in the illegal wildlife trade.

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Productive Safety Net Program (Private World Bank portal) The Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) aims to relieve families of the short-term effects of their destitution. It ensures that there is food in the household and frees up parents to make investments in the future.

It does this through giving cash or food payments to very poor households. Most of these payments go to people in return for their work on improving their communities.

These activities, known as a “public works� include working on soil and water conservation, road building, and construction of schools and clinics. The Household Assets Building Programs HABP aims to provide longer term solutions for the same families.

It helps families to diversity and increase their incomes. It supports them to come up with a plan to improve their livelihoods, trains them in the skills they need to make these improvements, and provides them with information on where they can borrow money to fund these changes.

VISIT WEBSITE: psnp.rmportal.net/ (login required)

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USAID Ethiopia Office of Asset Livelihood and Transition (Private USAID Ethiopian Mission Portal)

MISSION STATEMENT: To save lives, build resiliency, and enhance the livelihoods and adaptability of the most vulnerable populations in Ethiopia.

VISION STATEMENT: A food secure and disaster resilient Ethiopian population is protected by effective and efficient public and private systems.

VISIT WEBSITE: alt.rmportal.net/

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Partnership for the Conservation of Amazon Biodiversity (PCAB) English and Portuguese Language Multilingual Site with custom backend Translation service software on the CMS.

Multilingual Partnership Success Stories

VISIT WEBSITE: http://www.pcabhub.org

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MultiLingual Functionality to Portal The translation tool is intuitive and easy to use.

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ROUTES Partnership: Reducing Opportunities for Unlawful Transport of Endangered Species USAID and TRAFFIC Partnership Reducing Opportunities for Unlawful Transport of Endangered Species (ROUTES) brings together government agencies, transportation and logistics industry companies and representatives, international conservation, development and law enforcement organizations and donors in order to disrupt wildlife trafficking activities, and forms a key element of the concerted international response to addressing wildlife poaching and associated criminal activities worldwide.

VISIT WEBSITE: http://routespartnership.org

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ROUTES Promotional Materials

ROUTES Video

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Plone Security Plone consistently has fewer vulnerabilities reported on databases than other content management systems. As our security team diligently reports any vulnerabilities found and works with vendors such as Red Hat to ensure our reports are complete and accurate this is strong evidence for Plone’s security.

MORE INFORMATION: https://plone.org/security

CONTACT Dr. Rose Hessmiller, PhD. Ferguson Lynch Consulting Albuquerque, NM 87199 rhessmiller@fergusonlynch.com mobile: 505.228.8806 www.fergusonlynch.com

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