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P3DM
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 Giacomo
contributed to successful and sustainable
projects like the
Wei Wei Integrated Development Project
in Kenya, Africa. The project has been
one of the seven recipients of the
UNEP's 1999 Saving the Drylands Certificate
Award at the Third Conference of Parties
to the Convention to Combat Desertification
COP3-CCD held in Recife, Brazil, 22-25,
November 1999. The project has been considered
as a "Success Story in Land Degradation/Desertification
Control"
about the Wei Wei project
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 Caught
by the
dilemma on "who's knowledge counts?" Giacomo has
been tailoring a series of approaches aimed at bridging the
communication gaps existing at field level when resource-poor
and illiterate communities are called upon "planning", "managing",
"monitoring" and "evaluating" outside-driven interventions.
In a nutshell he has been trying to address the growing interest
of adopting of more genuine forms of "participatory
development".
Giacomo has been
working in for the
National Integrated
Protected Area Programme (1996-2001) in the Philippines
where he promoted and implemented innovative integrated approaches
to collaborative planning, PM&E and management of natural resources.
The method, called Participatory
3-Dimensional Modeling has been extremely successful and
has raised consistent interest among NGOs, Local Governments,
International Development Agencies and development practitioners.
P3DM has been institutionalized in the Philippines in January
2001.
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2002-2003 he has been working for the
Asian Development Bank,
South Asia Department. Currently he is working for
the
Technical
Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)
in the Netherlands.
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Giacomo is conducting a research
leading to a PhD with the Communication and Innovation
Studies Group,
Communication
Science, Wageningen University, the Netherlands.
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In July 2004 Giacomo launched a new
internet based facility known as PPgis.net,
the Open Forum on Participatory Geographic Information
Systems and Technologies.
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 Giacomo
has been promoting the dissemination
of PGIS good practice for many
years. In 2007 a project he
has been managing on behalf
of CTA in Fiji has been awarded
the
World Summit Award 2007
about the project
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