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Online workshops series on NbS Building on existing capacity development on NbS (such as the training on “NbS for global challenges” in February 2021, and the annual “Vilm seminar” in June 2021), a series of online workshops will be organized. The workshops will support participants to design, implement and...
The Environmental Education and Awareness (EEA) output of the GIZ ProFEB program in Loas has re-established links to a manual on environmental education and communication, originally published by GIZ ProCEEd. The manual incorporates results from environmental education and communication tours and events (Vol. 1), human capacity development efforts (Vol....
Turtle Rock in the Gorkhi Terelj National Protected Area. Credit : Caroline Bollrich. Source/Copyright : SPACES project The GIZ SPACES project completed a national environmental education and communication strategy (EECS) for the system of protected areas (PAs) in Mongolia. It is the conceptual cornerstone of the project’s outreach output to...
Mass media in a remote Lao village. Credit : Manfred Oepen. Source/Copyright : ProCEEd project In a rare long-term assessment of environmental communication in development assistance, the 2021 summer edition of the Global Media Journal (GMJ) analyzes a Lao-German GIZ project over a 10-year period. What started as ProCEEd in...
Field inspection. Credit: Bee Aphaiso OLDM is a forest monitoring system that enables Lao authorities to detect changes in forest cover on individual tree level fast enough for field teams to interdict illegal logging activities, seize logs before transport and processing, and apprehend the offenders. The system undergoes a second...
It was a sunny day in Gunung Megang Village when a group of females gathered in front yard of a house. Their laughter and voices could be heard from afar. But in between the atmosphere was silenced when they were listening to the explanations from one of the females...
Sungai Lesan Protected Forest, Lesan Dayak Village, Kelay Subdistrict With the technical support from the BMU project Low-emissions oil palm development in Berau District (LEOPALD), Berau District Government, Indonesia, continue improving its land-use governance capacity. It aims for net-zero deforestation in 2021-2026, applying the risk-based approach in district-wide HCV area...
Vietnam ranks second in Asia and fifth in the world for the value of its timber product exports, which the Vietnamese Government aims to increase to 20 USD billion by 2025 Although Vietnam's timber industry has grown rapidly, it faces supply challenges. Viet Nam imports around 2.5 million cubic...
GHG emission data is collected from pilot rice paddies in central provinces of Thailand. Story and Photos: Chotika Thamsuwan and Patcharin Sae-heng, Agriculture and Food Cluster The Thai Rice Department and The Thai German Climate Programme – Agriculture (TGCP-Agriculture) hosted online trainings for rice researchers nationwide to enhance their...
Story: Apiradee Treerutkuarkul, Agriculture and Food Cluster Photos: Sanpetch Kitphaibuntawee, Kodchakorn Jitsopa, Wanwisa Panit All three students from Prince of Songkla University travelled to Ranong and Chumphon provinces to meet and learn directly from robusta coffee smallholders how to become agricultural business entrepreneurs. Born to a farming family in the southern province...
