Sitting on a ramshackle assortment of wooden benches in the shade of a mango tree, we hear the story of the widow Mary Gargar. A Liberian woman with an older and more weathered look of determination, despite scarce, says Mrs. Gargar us of how they bought land from a man falsely representing himself as its rightful owner. Now that the war is over, a venerable confirmed that the government is the rightful owner has returned and wants to build. While it contains a certificate for the land in their name, and would depend on their crops to survive, he needs the land for his livelihood. How are they going to resolve the dispute and meet the competing needs? Land disputes are a recurring theme in the developing world and are the cause of many violent conflicts. For the majority of the world's poor, poverty is primarily a rural problem. More than three quarters of those who live might live on only one or two U.S. dollars per day or in the country. Living next to shopping centers, schools and health facilities and out of reach of many governmental and social services, the rural poor lack access to inputs and infrastructure necessary for development. Residence in rural areas, exacerbated poverty in almost every Ebene.In Liberia is almost 60 percent of the population of rural areas. Fourteen years of civil war devastated the physical infrastructure and destroyed what little access to systems and services to more poor rural Liberia once enjoyed. Slowly but President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Government can work with partners for the reconstruction, access to essential inputs Entwicklung.Welche for the role of philanthropists play in creating the necessary conditions for the general economic growth in rural areas? While the challenges are for the poor in rural areas, huge, there are three key areas where strategic giving by private donors can make a difference: agriculture, education and legal systems leisten.In the time to Liberia after the war, is in agriculture More than half of the GDP accounted for. To ensure that agriculture continues to grow, it must philanthropist targeted assistance directly to the rural areas. Projects that improve access to agricultural inputs, including high-yield rice and other new technologies, and those that agricultural institutions strengthen and build supply chains should be from rural to urban areas is a priority. In addition to direct agricultural skills training and education, donors can design financial services for small farmers, which they invest for the future and plan for the future with confidence permit. In a country like Liberia, where the war devastated country would purchase livestock, the introduction of something as simple as gifts or loans, and to insure animals have a dramatic impact on the capacity for rural development haben.Aber for investment in agriculture and develop on a piece of land, one must first be sure that he or she is the rightful owner, as we learned with the history of women's Gargar. Land and property rights are essential for poverty reduction efforts – for the stability, food security, income generation and status within their own community. However, should the legal system for the registration and protection of these rights, a number of hurdles, especially in poor, post-conflict settings. As part of its Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS), the Liberian Government is committed to promoting effective land administration and management. Toward this goal, the government has a commission and is working with several key NGO partners, including the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and the Carter Center. The NRC is working with the government to collect land deeds and records, the number of trained surveyors and national level, a system of land registration. Through publicity, the NRC is spreading information about rights and facilitate the resolution of community conflicts over land, such as women's Gargar's. In addition, they provide an important new tool in the surveyor "(and landowners' hands): Global Positioning System. The procedures followed for determining includes the community and is seen as fair – and the results are unbestritten.Ergänzend to this work, organizations like the Carter Center supports small programs in underserved rural areas to educate people about new laws and legal remedies for resolving disputes. In a country where the illiteracy rate is high, and limited access to information, the Carter Center sends troops to local travel agents to the villages to an entertaining and instructive sketches make, followed by Q & A session with the villagers. On Saturday, I was 20 and are philanthropists who are members of the Global Philanthropy Forum, a UN helicopter to visit the most isolated and rural area in Liberia, the South East to participate in one of these village meetings and the robust Q & A session The observed spielen.Wir also viewed the reopening of the University of Tubman Harper City, the first and only university in the region during the war had already been closed. It is almost impossible to emphasize the importance of education for the repeal, the rural poor out of poverty. Despite preventing the government to free and compulsory primary education initiative, unofficial fees are still too many children in Liberia to school. About 70 percent of schools destroyed or were damaged during the war, and those who are still working with so few supplies and pay for poorly trained teachers with poor attendance by contradiction. But through efforts such as underwriting teachers' salaries and provides books and supplies, financing the construction of new schools and providing the safe transport of students in schools can, philanthropists have an enormously positive impact on rural education, and thus the economic Entwicklung.Am last day of our trip, we visited a safe house and rehabilitation center for at-risk girls by touching humanity in Need of Kindness (THINK run). Many of the girls in the program were fighters during the war, or were traded from Monrovia under false promises of education in the capital. Families send their children like to Monrovia, believe it to obtain an education and a chance for a better life. Too often, however, these children are close to slave labor conditions, as market vendors, maids or prostitutes. The stories of these young women, although they are now made on a positive path, an ugly relationship between rural and urban poverty. The poor in rural areas are the city because of the desperation of the poor trading in the cities. If affordable education is provided in rural areas, and reliable means for families made their living through agricultural development and property rights 'protection' to be strengthened so women can out of these dangerous decisions about how to educate their children spared werden.Das all sounds a tall order, and many of these goals require the investment of governments, but anyone can be driven mainly by small grants, especially to organizations such as THINK, NRC and the Carter Center, each with strong effects on the lives of many who have too much – even the strong-willed woman Gargar suffered. Otjiwarongo, Namibia – Scientists saw cheetahs in southern Angola for the first time in three decades now since the end of civil war devastated the animals habitat, a conservation group on Mittwoch.Nach a three-day survey in the dry Iona Circle Angola bordering Namibia, says Laurie Marker Cheetah specialist for the sighting of the fast, spotted, leopard-like wild cheetahs Raubkatze.Männlich leave their droppings on the trees as territorial markers, reported Marker Cheetah Conservation Fund, an international research organization based in this northern Namibian town. "We have nine different marking trees," he said. In one, he saw cheetahs manure. Then, "two male cheetahs ran out. It was very exciting – there is a cheetah in Angola, "said er.de cheetahs prey on deer and elk, have returned for the 3.8 million hectares (1.6 million hectares) Iona wilderness will designated Natur.Die conservation group said that marker a Global Positioning System used to record locations where they probably cheetah prey, including an inventory of about 1,000 springbok, a gazelle in Southern Africa known for jumping and running at the speed said, as recent erschrocken.Die Group prompted unconfirmed sightings of cheetah Alvaro Baptista, the Angolan bush owner of one of the few camps near Iona, where roads and infrastructure were destroyed during the war to help in developing a plan for the survival of cheetahs once abundant bitten.Der civil war ended in Angola You are in 2002.Holen HuffPost Green OnTwitter, Facebook, Google and Buzz! You know not what we know? E-mail to Huffpostgreen@huffingtonpost.com
