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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"
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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
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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
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