ICAM launches Positive Cities Pledge at the World Urban Forum November 6th, 2024
At ‘Paws for Progress’, we were thrilled to launch our Positive Cities Pledge, with pioneering leadership from Bangkok, Cape Town, and Ilfov County, Romania, in humane dog and cat population management. The turnout was incredible – standing room only, showing just how much interest and enthusiasm there is for creating safer, healthier communities for everyone.
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Case studies of humane dog population management
Creating an enabling environment for DPM in Costa Rica
The Costa Rican government appointed a National Animal Welfare Coordinator and funded a national pilot project to provide training to municipalities in DPM related skills and knowledge. The networks and capacity built through the pilot project inspired various DPM actions tailored by municipalities to suit to their local communities, which persisted after the pilot ended. Read More
Manu Mitra: an example of community engagement in Kathmandu, Nepal
Manu Mitra creates ward-based committees and team of volunteers to assess, monitor and implement DPM within each ward. Creating engaged and informed communities that are part of local government structures and therefore likely to be sustained.Read More
Humane Community Development process for designing and managing DPM in Kljuc, Bosnia
The Humane Community Development process gave Kljuc community the structure and mentoring they needed to come together to solve their dog problems themselves. Local stakeholders worked together to analyse their own data and appreciation of dog problems and dynamics. From this they developed a realistic plan they could resource locally and continue to develop with improved communication and leadership of DPM.Read More
“Vets Beyond Borders and other NGOs collaborating in the Dog Population Management sector are grateful to ICAM for supporting the Indicator project and producing an evidence-based guidelines to help with monitoring and evaluating our programs.”
