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  • Healthy People, Healthy Environment: Integrated Development in Tanzania


    The first film in the “Healthy People, Healthy Environment” series

    SYNOPSIS

    Along the northern coast of Tanzania, an innovative approach to development combines efforts to conserve natural resources with reproductive health services and sustainable economic opportunities. In Healthy People, Healthy Environment, three women from the Pangani and Bagamoyo districts – Rukia, Mahija, and Fidea – show how these integrated population, health, and environment (PHE) projects empower them to help their families, their communities, and their environment.

     

    CREDITS

    Executive Producer: Sean Peoples
    Director of Photography/Editor: Michael T. Miller
    Supervising Producer: Meaghan Parker
    Narrator: Miriam Nasieku
    Music: Pump Audio
    Animation: Julie Tinker

    A co-production of the Woodrow Wilson Center and Think Out Loud Productions. Filmed on location in Pangani and Bagamoyo Districts, Tanzania.

    CONTACT

    Lauren Risi, Environmental Change and Security Program, Woodrow Wilson Center
    Phone: 202.691.4182
    Email: Lauren.Risi@wilsoncenter.org 



     

    SCREENINGS

    Environmental Film Festival, Washington, DC (3/2013)
    American University, Washington, DC (3/2013)
    Wilson Center, Washington, DC (4/2013)
    IPPF/WHR, New York City (5/2013)
    Best Practices Forum, Arusha, Tanzania (8/2013)
    Boston University, Boston (9/2013)
    Sierra Club, Washington, DC (9/2013)
    Resilience Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh (9/2013)
    Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development, Bangkok, Thailand (9/2013)
    Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand (9/2013)
    UN General Assembly Side Event, New York City (9/2013)
    Duke University, Durham (9/2013)
    International PHE Conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (11/2013)
    International Conference on Family Planning, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (11/2013)
    University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (11/2013)
    Conservation International, Arlington (1/2014)

     

    CLEAN COOKSTOVES

    Each village we visited reinforced the complex nature of the challenges in Pangani and Bagamoyo. Although consumption is miniscule compared to Western standards, the rapidly growing number of people dependent on the extraction of local natural resources – trees for fuel, fish for subsistence – is unsustainable in the long term, both economically and ecologically.

    Clean cookstoves – one component of this PHE project – have clear benefits: They reduce household exposure to indoor air toxins, help lower reliance on firewood from the surrounding forests via better efficiency, and provide an income-generating tool for women and families.

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    INTERVIEW WITH THE FILMMAKERS

    “We need dynamic approaches. We can’t just keep going with the single sector approach and hoping that a conservation project will do really more than it’s intended to do,” said Executive Producer Sean Peoples in an interview with the Wilson Center’s Dialogue program alongside Director of Photography and Editor Michael T. Miller. “These people are living integrated lives. How can we have integrated solutions for them?”

    “The challenge is trying to share that ‘A-ha!’ moment with people who aren’t familiar with the work and aren’t familiar with the area,” Miller said. “It’s something that you don’t really understand until you get there on the ground.”

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    INTEGRATION ADVANTAGE

    In 2011, Leona D’Agnes, Heather D’Agnes, and Joan Castro authored one of the only time-series data and regression analyses of a population, health, and environment project. Focusing on programs in the Philippines, they found different disciplines working together produced synergies not obtainable by any one of the disciplines alone.

    “This research allows those of us who believe strongly in integrating population, health, and environment programming to point to quantitative proof that the approach works,” they wrote.

    Read more.

    Healthy People, Healthy Environment is the recipient of a 2013 Silver Telly Award for outstanding film/video. With nearly 11,000 entries from all 50 states and numerous countries, this is truly an honor.

    The Telly Awards were founded in 1978 and honor excellence in local, regional, cable, and non-broadcast video and TV. Read more about the Telly Awards here.

     

    Photos: Sean Peoples and Michael Miller/Wilson Center. Designer: Schuyler Null.

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