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Leadership for Facilitating Better Climate-Smart Land Use Practices in the Region
Photo: SEARCA/ Renz B Tabadero Building on last yearās success, the ASEAN Climate Leadership Programme (ACLP) 2021 aims to enhance participantsā leadership skills, while contributing to the discussion on ASEAN regional processes related to climate-smart land use. In total, there are 22 participants from eight ASEAN Member States enrolled in...
2021
Youth in Action: 50 young Thai leaders bring forward sustainable water solutions
Young leaders from across Thailand convened on 6-8 August 2021 at the āBlue-Net Campā to drive youth action to tackle water challenges. The online event was organized by the Office of the National Water Resources (ONWR) to stimulate youth-led advocacy for sustainable water management in Thailand. Thailand has adopted the...
2021
Climate Smart Agriculture in India: National Certificate Course on Weather based Agromet Advisory through ICT
Climate and weather data are of great importance to farmers which due to unpredicted changing weather conditions affects, primarily, agricultural decisions and indirectly the livelihoods of farmers, especially smallholders and marginal farmers. Thus, the emphasis on advanced weather forecasting services. Agro-meteorological Advisory Services (AAS) assists farmers in making weather-sensitive farming...
2021
#RECYCLEGIRI ā our take on making recycling a part of our daily lives!
A social media campaign was launched in July 2021 under the develoPPP project ā āDeveloping Collection Infrastructure & Recycling Platform for plastic waste & e-waste in non-urban Indiaā. The campaign aims to increase awareness of stakeholders on responsible recycling of plastic and e-waste under the theme āRecyclegiriā. The word...
2021
Conservation of Biodiversity – Mitigating Human-Wildlife-Conflicts
A proud Mahout with Elephant at the Dubare Elephant Camp in Karnataka. Kraal and Kumki elephants in the camp help to train captured wild elephants for human-elephant conflict mitigation operations. Copyright: Neeraj Khera Plantation workers in a...
2021
FAIR Forward project initiatives in India
Artificial Intelligence: Voice technologies in Indian languages The FAIR Forward project in India, global initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) implemented by GIZ, Ā supports the localisation of AI, opening up of AI trained data sets including data protection and privacy for the development of...
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Transitioning towards Green Recovery
By: Dr Geetha Nayak, Senior Advisor, GIZ Stories from Bhitarkanika, Odisha In 2020, the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic brought Devjaniās life to a standstill. Resident of Kendrapara district, Odisha, she and her husband, a daily wage labourer, began looking for alternate means of income to support their family of...
2021
Enhancing Climate Finance Capacity for Policymakers in ASEAN
Photo: GIZ/ Shofi Fauziyyah The Climate Finance Training for Sector Experts (CliFit4SE), held virtually in April 2021, enhanced the climate financing knowledge of 45 policymakers working in the food, agriculture, and forestry sectors in the ASEAN region. The training conveyed practical information on how to access climate funding for implementing...