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  • Sand is the world's most consumed raw material after water and an essential ingredient in our everyday lives. It is central for the construction of roads, bridges, and buildings. The material is also fundamental in the manufacturing of glass and silicon computer chips.

    Yet the world is facing a growing sand shortage without readily available alternative materials. As infrastructure construction booms, the dramatic increase in demand for sand has led to rising tensions, violent conflict, and degraded ecosystems.

    As global demand continues to rise faster than natural sources can sustain, it is crucial to manage sand sustainably. WWF and partners are exploring the issue and working to advance policy and practice related to this growing global challenge.

    In recognition of the growing social, economic, and environmental impacts of the global sand crisis, WWF, and Northwestern University (ISEN) organized a series of seminars, convening global experts from across disciplines and sectors to explore solutions. The Call to Action Report distills key recommended action items focused on research, practice, and policy based upon the seminar series presentations and discussions.

  • To affect positive change for climate, nature, and people, NRCS should leverage IRA resources to prioritize and enable a significant step forward for robust, regenerative, and resilient food systems. WWF offers recommendations in response to the agency‚'s questions to ensure and enable NRCS programs to address climate change, sustain biodiversity and nature, and support rural communities.

  • This document is a printable version of the introductory guide on the Situation Analysis topic page of the Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) Knowledge Hub. It provides corruption-relevant guidance for practitioners to strengthen their context-specific programming responses.

  • This practice note is based on interviews with 18 people who worked in or with justice systems in Africa, Asia, and South America, to understand their perception of the effect case monitoring can have on corruption in the justice system. Monitoring cases can help identify and highlight weaknesses in the justice system and reduce corruption vulnerabilities related to wildlife crime cases. But projects must be designed with appropriate scope and resources, as impact takes time and is difficult to measure. Monitoring is likely most effective when monitors use multiple cases to identify patterns of red flags that indicate systematic failures. This note recommends several good practices, based on the interviewees' and authors' experiences. However, these practices must always be tailored to a specific context.

    For more resources and tools, visit TNRCproject.org .

  • WWF GEF ETPS Project TE

  • The Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) project is a five-year USAID-funded project that brings together a consortium of conservation and anti-corruption experts to harness knowledge, generate evidence, and support more effective anti-corruption programming in conservation and natural resource management. The TNRC consortium is led by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) with the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, TRAFFIC, and the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at George Mason University.

  • Associate Awards under the Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) project offer a unique opportunity to implement a variety of anti-corruption approaches tailored to specific contexts and conservation and natural resource management challenges. Associate Awards are non-competitive stand-alone agreements between a USAID mission or operating unit and World Wildlife Fund (WWF-US). These awards are separate from the TNRC Leader Award, whose mandate is to improve biodiversity outcomes by building knowledge among global conservation and natural resource management practitioners to better address the threats posed by corruption to wildlife, fisheries and forests.

  • This document is a printable version of the introductory guide on the Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice topic page of the Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) Knowledge Hub. It outlines the impact of corruption in law enforcement or the criminal justice system on conservation goals and approaches that can help conservation and natural resource management practitioners to strengthen their programming and related responses.

  • The rhino horn trade represents one of the four largest illegal wildlife trade flows by value and corruption is a key facilitator. Visualizing how corruption manifests along the supply chain can help conservation practitioners and wildlife management agencies better understand both the specific risks and the potential responses to combat illegal rhino horn and other illicit wildlife trades. This guide includes an infographic and accompanying text that maps the areas along the rhino horn supply chain that are most vulnerable to corruption and identifies feasible entry points for different anti-corruption approaches.

    For more resources and tools, visit TNRCproject.org .

  • Nature-Positive Infrastructure: Mainstreaming Biodiversity to Safeguard People and the Planet full program