Implementing Agency:
Department For International Development (PAND)

Managing Institute:
WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature)

Contractor:
Fundo Mundial para a Natureza, WWF, Brasil.

Project Code: 087-680-011	Start Date: 01-Aug-94	End Date: 01-Mar-99
Commitment: £250 000	Status: Current	Type of Funding: Bilateral - JFS

Project Background:
The Brazilian Federal Government requires environmental education (EE) to be taught at all levels in Brazilian schools. However, the situation when WWF Brazil's EE project was initiated, was that this was not happening in any systematic way. Although environmental education was not yet a widely recognised professional activity in Brazil, here was a fast growing group of professionals interested in implementing EE. Many federal, state and municipal environment and education agencies had established EE Departments, and at the community level, NGOs were developing EE activities. These growing diverse efforts, however, were largely unco-ordinated and were mostly developing in isolation resulting in duplication of effort and inefficient use of scarce resources. Curriculum material was and still is largely inappropriate or unavailable to Brazil's huge student population, and few teachers are trained to develop environmental education materials or activities to itegrate into their curriculum, although demand for in-service training programmes in EE is high.

Project Objectives:
To contribute to improving the quality of life for present and future generations in Brazil by enabling people, through the acquisition of environmental and ethical knowledge and awareness, values and attitudes, skills and behavour, to participate effectively in the sustainable management of their local environments and natural resources.

Intended Outputs:
PHASE I

Networks of trained Brazilian EE professionals to provide technical assistance, training, and demonstration in effective implementation of EE to the WWF EE Programme in formal, non-formal, and informal (media) education.

Higher quality and wider distribution of the EE newsletter to provide an interactive information service to environmental educators in all types of institutions throughout Brazil.

Training materials for the trainers of forest police and of primary school teachers to integrate EE into their regular activities and curriculum.

Trained trainers in EE within the forest police and the primary education systems., through a series of workshops (utilising the materials above).

Training of teachers and forest police in various locations and institutions in Brazil by personnel trained in workshops (above).

Evaluation of the effectiveness and impact of the above training to document lessons learned.

Summative evaluation of the effectiveness of the programme leading to the development of further EE strategies to reach these and other multipliers.

PHASE II

WWF Brazil Environmental Education Project co-ordination supported and strengthened.

Muda o Mundo, Raimundo! integrated into selected school and community practices at the local level.

Documentation of impacts and lessons learned in the process, together with its dissemination - local to national/national to local.

Sustainability - National and local partners institutions sustain the process after the phase out of WWF Brazil co-ordination.

Structure for providing technical support to EE projects within integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) established and supported.

Selected personnel from each ICDP together with WWF Brazil programme staff trained in EE project design, implementation and evaluation through annual workshops over the period of Phase 2.