Learning Circle Facilitator Manual

Population & Environment for Sustainable Livelihoods - Making the Links 

This module was developed to support NGOs, Community Based Centres, and schools promote environmental and human sustainability. The broad objectives of the module are to enable communities and schools to explore the links between environmental and population issues, their social and economic impacts and to support community learning centres and rural training centres implement outreach activities on population, environmental and livelihood themes and topics.

Environmental themes for community and school education awareness programs for the past years has been very much focused on issues of unsustainable logging practices, managing water scarcity and advocacy skills. However, they put little emphasis on helping communities realise the links that increasing population has on the sustainability of the environment and the human race. This missing link, if not addressed, will affect the social, health, environmental and economic stability of countries with a high birth rate, such as the Solomon Islands.