10,181 research outputs found
Applegate fire plan
No full textItem contains 20 files. The Plan file contains 193 pages, including several area-wide maps. There are 19 other files, each of which contains a map and a description of one of the Strategic Planning Areas, by number within the filename. Bookmarks supplied by UO. Published in ring binder format August, 2002. Captured from a CD-ROM supplied by Applegate Partnership, May 16, 2006.The Applegate Fire Plan is a collaborative effort, hatched from an idea that was
developed jointly by local citizens and federal agency folks in the Spring of 2001.
Due to wide-spread participation throughout the Applegate Valley, general project
coordination was organized by the Applegate Partnership, a non-profit communitybased
group founded in 1992. Initial funding for this project was awarded via the
National Fire Plan to the Applegate Partnership in October, 2001. [From the Plan]Initial funding for this project was awarded via the
National Fire Plan to the Applegate Partnership in October, 2001
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Applegate Community Wildfire Protection Plan
No full textThe Applegate Fire Plan is a collaborative effort, hatched from an idea that was developed jointly by local citizens and federal agency folks in the Spring of 2001. Due to wide-spread participation throughout the Applegate Valley, general project coordination was organized by the Applegate Partnership, a non-profit communitybased group founded in 1992. Initial funding for this project was awarded via the National Fire Plan to the Applegate Partnership in October, 2001. This written plan is the result
An Impact Study of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) in the Six ACP Regions
No full textThis article intends to present a very detailed analysis of the trade-related aspects of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) negotiations. We use a dynamic partial equilibrium model – focusing on the demand side – at the HS6 level (covering 5,113 HS6 products). Two alternative lists of sensitive products are constructed, one giving priority to the agricultural sectors, the other focusing on tariff revenue preservation. In order to be WTO compatible, EPAs must translate into 90 percent of bilateral trade fully liberalised. We use this criterion to simulate EPAs for each negotiating regional block. ACP exports to the EU are forecast to be 10 percent higher with the EPAs than under the GSP/EBA option. On average ACP countries are forecast to lose 70 percent of tariff revenues on EU imports in the long run. Yet imports from other regions of the world will continue to provide tariff revenues. Thus when tariff revenue losses are computed on total ACP imports, losses are limited to 26 percent on average in the long run and even 19 percent when the product lists are optimised. The final impact on the economy depends on the importance of tariffs in government revenue and on potential compensatory effects. However this long term and less visible effect will mainly depend on the capacity of each ACP country to reorganise its fiscal base.Preferential Trade Agreements, Africa, EPAs, Partial Equilibrium Simulations, International Relations/Trade,
Community-based approach to forest management in the Pacific Northwest: A profile of the Applegate Partnership
No full textVaried interest groups joined together as the Applegate Partnership to attempt a collaborative process of forming an ecologically-based forest management plan for the Applegate Watershed, and ecologically unique area. A history of this area shows how the land was used for mining, then the subsistence ranching, federally-owned and managed areas, and most recently people settling in the area during the back-to-the-land movement of 20 to 30 years ago. Out of these constituencies has come the Partnership. The three major task areas for such a community-based plan to develop are ecosystem assessment; community assessment, inventory, involvement, and monitoring; and, locally-based implementation. Comprehensive ecosystem-management planning requires the consideration of both ecological and social/economic issues and consequently, assessments of both are essential. Based on the Partnership experience, five elements emerge as important considerations: (1) mixed interests necessitate building partnerships among stakeholder groups; (2) there is a substantial commitment needed to build and maintain broad-based community support; (3) comprehensive ecological and community inventories, involving scientists and community development practitioners, are essential to develop a full view of the dynamics of forests and communities under consideration; (4) mechanisms for implementation of activities need to direct work to local workers, to maintain quality and consistency of work, and to ensure that economic and social benefits are retained in the community; and, (5) long-term success depends on a broad base of support, otherwise political entropy will favor external, centralized control of local resources
Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnership (RIEP) Community Cohesion and Prevent Pilot. A report prepared for: Local Government Yorkshire & Humber
No full textThe Centre for Research in the Social Sciences at the University of Huddersfield is pleased to present the findings from the Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnership (RIEP) Pilot Community Cohesion and Prevent Evaluation, funded by Local Government Yorkshire and Humber.
This research addresses the challenges of implementing the community cohesion and Prevent policy agendas, and building strong and positive partnerships across agencies and communities to support that implementation, in two local authority areas, Kirklees and Bradford.
The research took place from November 2009 – March 2010, and used a multi-method approach involving the following:
Interviews with Local Authority and key partner policy makers, officers, and front line staff (20 interviews)
Research by people working in the communities, including youth workers, housing workers, and community workers, with community members (33 interviews and 7 focus groups
Analysis of Local Authority strategies (13 strategies)
Community cohesion emerged as a governmental policy priority in the wake of the violent disturbances in Oldham, Burnley and Bradford in the summer of 2001. Prevent is a key component of CONTEST, the government’s counter-terrorism strategy
Problem solving or social change?: the Applegate and Grand Canyon Forest Partnerships
No full text9 pagesNatural resource conflicts have resulted in attempts at
better collaboration between public and private sectors. The resulting
partnerships approach collaboration either by problem solving
through better information and management, or by requiring substantial
social change. The Applegate Partnership in Oregon and
the Grand Canyon Forest Partnership in Arizona illustrate each
approach. These approaches show the formative influences that
shape the evolution and activities of a partnership, and show the
need for multistakeholder participation
Inter-agency Cooperation and New Approaches to Employability
No full textThis article examines the role of inter-agency cooperation, which is one form of ‘partnership’, in new approaches to employability in the UK. The article articulates a ‘model for effective partnership working’ on employability. This model is applied first in a general review of employability policy and then to discuss case study research on the recent ‘Pathways to Work’ and ‘Working Neighbourhoods’ pilots. It is argued that successful partnerships need a clear strategic focus based on a necessity for inter-agency cooperation and institutional arrangements that allow for shared ownership, trust and mutualism, and flexibility in resource-sharing. While some of these factors are apparent in UK employability services, an over-reliance on contractualism and centralized organizational structures may undermine partnership-based approaches. Many of the success factors associated with effective partnership working appeared to be in place, even though the role of the Public Employment Service was fundamentally different in each case (as a key actor in implementing the first pilot, but largely withdrawing from the implementation role in the second). The article concludes by outlining the relevance of this model and the case study findings to discussions of the future development of employability policies and related partnership working
The Solomon Islands School of Education Partnership: Aspirations, context and design in educational change.
No full textThis article provides a background and context for a project that linked the School of Education in Solomon Islands College of Higher Education (SOE) with an external partner to work together on institutional and educational change. The four and a half year Partnership was funded by the New Zealand Aid Programmei. Pre-service teacher education in Solomon Islands is mainly provided by the School of Education. For a number of years the school has faced many challenges in its attempt to offer quality pre-service teacher education. Some challenges were external, such as political instability and ethnic unrest, and some were internal, such as a need to address the school's aims, design of programmes, quality of teaching, learning and assessment and the professional development of academic staff. We explain how the partnership responded to challenges and evolved in a way that recognised the input of the School of Education staff and avoided the imposition of solutions by the external partner. The major aspirations and intentions of the Partnership are described along with indications of positive changes that led to an extension of the project. A major change in the school was the inclusion of a teacher education programme for some of the many untrained practising teachers in the Solomon Islands. It is pointed out, however, that there were risks and challenges that faced the Partnership over its duration. Some were outside the control of the partners and others could be addressed and improvements made, especially within the school using a collaborative approach. It is argued that issues remain and further impetus is needed to effect more lasting change
The practice of local partnership in rural development: the cases of Newent (UK) and Sault (France)
No full textThis research is concerned with the practice of local partnerships in the promotion of
rural development with particular reference to two case study areas, Newent in the UK
and Sault in France.
In recent years, local partnership working has become increasingly common in the
promotion of rural development. It is presented by academics, politicians, policy makers
and practitioners as `inherent' and `imperative' to the preparation and implementation of
rural development programmes today. However, there still exists limited understanding
and knowledge about local partnership working in practice and the validity and
importance of such statements. To advance this understanding the present research had
four main objectives organised around the identification and the exploration of four main
issues: the reasons, the processes, the outcomes and the implications of the local
partnership practice in rural development.
The author has sought to elucidate the subject by means of a detailed exploratory study
involving the longitudinal observation of two particular examples of local partnerships.
Two case study areas were selected, both with an active history of rural development
initiatives and partnership working at parish or commune level. Newent is a small town
in the Forest of Dean, which has sought to address growing socio-economic decline in
recent years by preparing and implementing a regeneration strategy through local
partnership working. Sault is a village in Provence, which has had to respond to
depopulation and various economic difficulties as well as the closure in 1996-98 of the
military base of Albion. Qualitative data on local partnership evolution and operation,
collected in both areas between 1998 and 2001, was assembled from documentary
research, semi structured interviews and direct observation at meetings.
This investigation has allowed the identification of various explanations for the recent
increase in the practice of local partnership in rural development, explanations which are
mainly associated with the underlying context of the rural development process today
and with the meaning of the partnership concept itself. From this investigation local
partnership working in rural development has emerged as a long-term, progressive,
comprehensive and pragmatic process that is organised over time. Its existence and
longevity depend primarily on the local context, the existence of opportunities, the issues
to be addressed, a broad mobilisation of local/rural actors, a flexible local space, some
local re-organisation as well as regular and concrete achievements. In this respect, the
most commonly reported outcomes of local partnership working pertain to the process of
partnership working more than to the tangible outputs that may have resulted from it.
These meet the initial expected benefits from such a practice as for example broader
participation, greater reciprocity between rural development actors and territories, and an
increase in local capacity for development action
From wheelchair users around the state
No full textEvita Rush, lead author ; Barton Robinson, co-author.Title from PDF caption (viewed on January 6, 2021)."This guide was created in partnership between Oregon Spinal Cord Injury Connection, Adventures Without Limits, and Willamette Partnership"--Page 1.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.This project has been funded in part by a grant from Travel Oregon.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
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