BALANCED

The leadership team of the Coastal Resources Center (CRC) at the University of Rhode Island (URI) in partnership with PATH Foundation Philippines Inc. (PFPI) and Conservation International (CI) is working through its "Building Actors and Leaders for Excellence in Community Development" or BALANCED Project to champion the integrated population-health-environment (PHE) approach as a transformational strategy for the 21st Century.  By advancing and supporting wider use of effective PHE worldwide, we can envision:

“Cadres of competent PHE champions and practitioners from Africa and Asia are PROMOTING the comparative advantage of approaches that simultaneously support family planning and conservation, are working collaboratively with other groups GLOBALLY to apply PHE knowledge and state-of-the-art (SOTA) practices in remote biodiversity-rich areas, and, are actively documenting and sharing evidence of the added-value and better practices of PHE using 21st century knowledge management and learning tools."