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LTS International Ltd.
An international development consultancy committed to improving the livelihoods of rural poor by supporting the sustainable management of natural resources. Programme design and development, feasibility studies, development and application of best practice. Research, market analysis, technical consultancies, process support, training, and monitoring and evaluation.
Some of LTSi's latest projects
Tanzania, Serengeti-North Luangwa Ecosystem Project, 2006-2007, Frankfurt Zoological Society
Implementing Africa's Science and Technology Consolidated Plan of Action, 2006
Asia, Capacity Building Programme for Stakeholder Participation in National Forest Programmes
Ghana, Protected Areas Development Programme: Phase II
Malawi, Improved Forest Management for Sustainable Livelihoods Programme
Sudan, Forestry Policy and Strategy Development, 2006
Africa, Forest Governance Learning Group
Other LTS Projects
Tanzania, Serengeti-North Luangwa Ecosystem Project, 2006-2007, Frankfurt Zoological Society
The Serengeti-North Luangwa Ecosystem Management Project is a 5-year integrated conservation, development and landscape management initiative being jointly implemented by Frankfurt Zoological Society, with co-financing from the European Commission. LTS’ newest team-member Rob Wild is providing process support to the project in terms of technical direction, strategic and operational planning, and monitoring and evaluation. The action will help strengthen policy and practice that builds a central role for local communities in ecosystem management and, ultimately, will help ensure that key African ecosystems provide lasting conservation and livelihood benefits.
Africa, Implementing Africa's Science and Technology Consolidated Plan of Action, 2006, UK Department for International Development
The DFID is supporting the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) Office of Science and Technology to support the design of institutional arrangements and strengthen capacity for implementing 'Africa's Science and Technology Consolidated Plan of Action'. Anna Karp lead LTS’ support (in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh) to the process (based in Pretoria) by preparing two high-level policy papers on instruments and institutions for financing research and development based on global trends in Asia; and conducting an international survey of donors funding science and technology in developing countries.
Asia, Capacity Building Programme for Stakeholder Participation in National Forest Programmes, 2006-2007, Food and Agriculture Organisation
In 2005, LTS was selected to draft guidelines founded on global best practice for participation in national forest programmes (NFPs). Although participatory approaches have been well developed and documented for local use in villages there is yet to be sufficient materials developed with clear principles and practical guidelines on methods and skills for how to make national forest policy processes more participatory. Peter O’Hara of LTS is now leading LTS delivery of a capacity building programme to motivate and assist facilitators / mentors who are linked to NFPs in 6 different Asian countries to make these processes more participatory. Lessons from these Asian pilot countries are expected to be harnessed for application of materials and capacity building services in other countries.
Ghana, Protected Areas Development Programme: Phase II , 2006 - 2009, European Commission
The prime objective of the Protected Areas Development Programme (Phase II) is to enhance the conservation of biodiversity heritage designated Globally Significant Biodiversity Area. This second phase is primarily an institutional strengthening intervention, with emphasis on building the capacity of existing local institutions and personnel, and enhancing the effectiveness of existing infrastructure. The approach involves the project playing a catalytic role to enable the Wildlife Division and other sectoral stakeholders to build sustainable management capacity. LTS is responsible for overall project management, and provision of all technical support.
Malawi, Improved Forest Management for Sustainable Livelihoods Programme, 2006-2009, European Commission
This national-level sector programme contributes towards improving decentralised forestry governance through building capacity of district-level service delivery, and promoting multi-stakeholder involvement in the management of forest areas. In collaboration with the Department of Forestry of the Malawi Ministry of Natural Resources & Environmental Affairs, LTS International is providing the international technical expertise, the management of the technical expertise and backstopping of the project.
Sudan, Forestry Policy and Strategy Development, 2006, US Department of Agriculture
After more than 20 years of civil war, Southern Sudan’s diverse and extensive forestry resource base has become degraded and the new government is having to rebuild its structures from effectively a zero base. LTS was hired by the US Department of Agriculture to assist the new Southern Sudanese Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry develop a forestry policy and strategy. Pat Hardcastle proposed an overall strategy, with more detailed treatment of commercial scale plantations and forest industries, natural forests and woodlands and trees in support of agriculture.
Africa, Forest Governance Learning Group, 2005-2009, International Institute for Environment and Development/European Commission
As a key founding member of the Forest Governance Learning Group (FGLG) LTS continues to focus its efforts on improving national forest programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa, linking forestry's contribution in poverty reduction strategies, tackling the effects on livelihoods of illegal logging and corruption in forestry, and ensuring sustainability and equity in forest privatisation and decentralisation. LTS has contributed to the FGLG process through overseeing new policy research conducted on illegal/corrupt forestry and poor people, facilitation of learning between countries promoted in two regions - West and Southern Africa, and developing specific practical governance guidance materials and tools.
