Blue Solutions – Implementing the CBD Strategic Plan in the field of marine and coastal biodiversity

OBJECTIVE The national and regional partner institutions enhance their capacities to improve and better contribute to the implementation of the CBD Strategic Plan targets on the conserbvation, sustainable use and restoration of marine and coastal biodiversity. COUNTRYSupra-Regional DURATION01 Jan 2013 - 30 Sep 2021 Commission Agency BMUV CONTACT PERSON Mr. Jan Kleine Buening jan.kleine@giz.de

Sustainable fisheries und aquaculture

OBJECTIVE Advice to the development policy in the fisheries sector and in the context of small-scale fishers and farmers to support sustainable forms of fisheries and aquaculture, and thereby contribute to food security, income generation and resource protection. COUNTRYGlobal DURATION01 Oct 2020 - 30 Sep 2022 Commission AgencyBMZ CONTACT PERSON Dr. Mark Prein mark.prein@giz.de

Fund to promote innovation in agriculture

OBJECTIVES Employment opportunities and income are being created as more gender-sensitive innovations in agriculture are put in place which ensure food security, climate change adaptation for smallholders, and protection of natural resources such as soil, water, and biodiversity. DESCRIPTION Agricultural innovations being developed in Germanyā€™s development policy partner countries have a huge...

Forests and Climate Change II (FORCLIME)

OBJECTIVE The legal and institutional conditions in the areas of forestry, biodiversity protection and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from the forst sector have improved. COUNTRYIndonesia DURATION01 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2023 CONTACT PERSON Mr.Georg Buchholz georg.buchholz@giz.de

Support Project Conservation of Biodiversity on Land

German Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development Dr. Gerd MĆ¼ller, Vera Scholz (GIZ), Dr. Matthias Vey (International Fragrance Association) und Eberhard Brandes (WWF) launching two initiatives (ā€œBioinnovationā€, ā€œReducing the demand for ivory in Chinaā€) during a festive event (ā€œSafeguarding the future ā€“ preserving biodiversityā€) in Berlin in December...

Climate Policy Support Project

OBJECTIVE The integration of transformative approaches for emission-neutral and climate-proof development in line with the Paris Climate Agreement into German and international development cooperation is improved. COUNTRYGlobal DURATION01 Mar 2019 - 31 Aug 2023 Commission AgencyBMZ CONTACT PERSON Ms.Maria-Jose Poddey maria-jose.poddey@giz.de

Forest Landscape Restoration

OBJECTIVE Forest landscape restoration measures have been prepared with the Ministry of Agriculture and its provincial departments COUNTRYAfghanistan DURATION01 Feb 2019 - 31 Dec 2022 Commission AgencyBMZ CONTACT PERSON Dr. Karin Janz karin.janz@giz.de

Promotion of the Management of Sunderbans-Mangrove Forest in Bangladesh

OBJECTIVES The Bangladesh Forest Department (BFD) under the Ministry for Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) is enabled to manage the Sundarbans in a sustainable manner through co-management by involving local resource users, efficient and standardised patrolling (SMART), and a proper ecological monitoring. DESCRIPTION The ā€œSundarbans Reserved Forestā€ is declared a UNESCO...