Implementation Guidelines for Poverty and Environment Work in Southwest China : Guidelines for Poverty Reduction Staff Including Checklists for Managers and Staff

These guidelines have three sections.
Section one provides food for thought, regarding poverty and
environment, and how the two are linked. Section two
provides practical tools to incorporate the environment into
a village-level action plan for the environment. Section
three provides ideas for innovative activities relating to
the environment in poverty reduction programs. Finally two
practical checklists are provided: one for poverty reduction
managers who wish to monitor progress in incorporating
environment into staff work; and one for poverty reduction
staff involved into village poverty reduction plans. The
guidelines focus on Southwest China where poor areas are
mostly mountainous areas. In other parts of China where poor
areas are also arid areas, poverty reduction staff may use
these guidelines as a reference but will need to adjust
specific contents in section 2 to the different
environmental issues of the region they work in.