Read for Relevance
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Faith and Environment in the Africa Region In 2004, the Africa Region, together with the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC), commenced a major program to involve faith communities on issues related to environment and development. ... The main objective of the program is to develop systematic approaches and structures to enable faith communities in Africa—both Christian and Muslim—to develop conservation activities relevant to sustainable development and thereby to enter into partnership with secular bodies. ... Major activities in the early stages of the program included African leaders from Christian and Muslim traditions. ... The progress made by these initial engagements with the Christian and Muslim leaders of Africa will be reinforced through the Worlds of Difference process. ... The Worlds of Difference process is needed because—although governments and faiths have already worked together on development issues—the potential has never been fully developed and the faiths have been largely excluded from decision-making processes. ... The Region has also worked to open up dialogues with national governments of countries that have Community Driven Development (CDD) programs in order to showcase partnerships and enable them to develop further, and to help financing to flow to faith-based organizations from World Bank-financed CDD programs. ... |
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