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| Welcome note by the SN Spokesperson |
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Dear SNRD Asia and the Pacific members,
We hope you are all doing well during these times! We are proud to share our latest newsletter with many updates from projects and colleagues from the region. Despite the difficult situation many of us are facing, we see that there is a lot of “activity” in our sector network – be it in Asia, at head office or even on other continents.
Just recently, the Learning and Innovation fund has generated very nice proposals and we are looking forward to interesting outcomes throughout the year. Besides several activities on working group level, the SNRD AP secretariat is currently working on interesting projects such as the planning of this year’s sector network activities, a new digital map of our projects in the region, the continuation of our “future-fit-process”, as well as trying to find feasible ways for a SNRD Asia and the Pacific conference and related events.
To keep it short and crisp: Enjoy reading and – as always – feel free to approach us should you have questions, feedback or comments.
With warm regards from your SNRD Asia and the Pacific Team
Matthias Radek (SNRD AP Spokesperson), Donaya Siamwalla (SNRD AP Network Manager and Public Relations Officer), Wilaiwan Photharam (SNRD AP Assistant), and Neha Singh (SNRD AP Assistant)
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| Best of Sector Network Event Playback |
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You can now re-watch our Best of Sector Networks showcase event 2020 where we as SNRD Asia and Pacific jointly participated with Sector Network TUEWAS. The complete live recording as well as all 10 individual inputs has been shared via IDA News: Re-experience the Best Of Sector Networks 2020 (sharepoint.com). Please feel free to share the news and/or the recordings! |
Contact Person
Johannes Kummerow - Specialist for Knowledge Management
Fach- und Methodenbereich (FMB), Portal für interne Kunden (PiK)
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| SNRD AP - Innovation and Learning Fund 2021 |
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Congratulations to the winners of SNRD AP Innovation and Learning Fund 2021! SNRD AP Innovation and Learning Fund provides financial support to our members to realise their innovative ideas and learning. We kick-start the year with a number of applications filled with great ideas. The voting process was conducted online during 8-12 February 2021 with a satisfying rate of participation. We will share further progress of this activity in our next Newsletter. If you wish to learn more about our Innovation and Learning Fund and how you can participate in or contribute to our activities, please write an e-mail to snrd-asia@giz.de.
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| New Co-Speaker of Green Education Working Group: Snigdha Kar |
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My name is Snigdha Kar and I am from India. I took up informal education as a career in 2004, soon after completing my studies. I initially started working in informal science communication for children of age group 5 to 15 years and later started working for environmental education with various non-governmental organisation working in environmental education and education for sustainable development. As part of YOUNGO, the official youth constituency of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, I have contributed in advocacy of Article 6 |
of the convention that deals with Education, Public awareness, and Participation. I am currently working as Communication Advisor for Sustainable Urban and Industrial Development cluster of GIZ India.
I dedicate myself in protecting the environment through raising awareness, capacity building and advocating for good policies and guidelines that in turn contributes to protecting the nature. I fondly call “communications” as “art of words”, for I believe in the power of words to induce change personally and globally. The capacity of words to make someone happy or sad has impressed me so much. To me, words are like maths wherein one has to master and know a workable formula to deliver the right message. I am working towards this direction and would like to contribute my bit for the same. Academically, I am a graduate from Zoology and did my masters in Geo-information Science. I am keen bird watcher and wildlife photographer.
It is my vision for all people to appreciate the importance of every life once again on earth and their interdependence with environment and work towards protecting the same, be it children, youth or adults. If you would like to know more about my work, my interest areas or anything else, please feel free to write to me at snigdha.kar@giz.de.
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| New Co-Speaker of SNRD Forest Working Group: Lena Keller-Bischoff |
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My name is Lena Keller-Bischoff, I am currently working as AMA in the Peatland Management and Rehabilitation project in Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Acting as Co-Speaker of the Forest WG and facilitating learning exchange brings me a lot of joy. I love to bring people together and I strongly believe that enhancing experience sharing among different experts is an important aspect while improving our services for our target groups, counterparts and commissioners. |
Knowledge Management can mean much more than just technical management. As a Social and Cultural Anthropologist (M.A. with focus on Critical Development Studies/Political Ecology) I am very much looking forward to creatively co-shape our SNRD Knowledge Management CULTURE.
Socioenvironmental issues such as waste and sustainability standards/certification have been my focus over the past 9 years. Before working with GIZ I among others I taught qualitative research methods at the University of Freiburg, coordinated intercultural/ interdisciplinary tandem research trainings, conducted an Analysis of Sustainability Drivers in the food sector for the Swiss Fairtrade Organization and worked independently on the development of the Beyond Design Thinking approach for making ethnographic methods available in social and environmental transformation.
Please feel free to contact me anytime at lena.keller-bischoff@giz.de.
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| New Co-Speaker of Sustainable Development Goals Working Group: Ansa Rabia |
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Ms. Ansa Rabia is a Sustainability Cooperation Advisor at TextILES (Improvement of labour and environmental standards in Pakistan’s textile industry) Programme of GIZ Pakistan. She has gained diverse and meaningful experience over the years in the field of public-private partnership, market systems development and capacity development in the domain of education and economic growth. In the past one year, her knowledge on environment and resource efficiency augmented by designing and executing capacity development and sustainability initiatives |
for the textiles and garment sector to make the best use of GSP plus status. She is an Atlas Corps Fellow and served in the States on Market Systems Development and Change Management & Leadership. She is also an IBM fellow and led a team of IBM experts from Australia, Brazil, Netherlands and UK on Systems Analysis and Development for stakeholder engagement. She is passionate and advocate about youth empowerment, gender mainstreaming and climate change and an ardent ally for SDGs. Her fun facts: she likes pottery painting; is a travel aficionado and a self-professed amateur baker.
Feel free to write her an e-mail if you wish to discuss further on the related topics ansa.rabia@giz.de.
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| SNRD AP Future Fit Process Update |
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After some fruitful discussions and workshops, the future fit process is under the process of forming its shape. During the past months, the secretariat solicited several feedback from different Sector Network members, Working Group leaders, as well as interviewing cluster coordinators and head of technical and regional department. The process has not yet been accomplished and is still being worked on. |
We are now under the process of clarifying on how the new Sector Network structure is going to play out and the role of the actors within the network, which will be formed as a draft "charter". We are excited for the next steps where we will work together with members on a future structure that meets the needs of the members!
SNRD Asia and the Pacific will be offering a networking event as a showcasing stage whereas we will be requesting for our members participation. It will be held on 20 May 2021. More information will be coming up soon, stay tuned!
If there are any inquiries, please contact snrd-asia@giz.de.
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| News from partner projects & initiatives from the region and from HQ |
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| Build Forward Better after COVID-19: Briefing #07 Reality Check - Trackers |
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Within less than a year, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed how countries around the world respond to national priorities and the global threats of the climate and biodiversity crises. Green Recovery has become the key term for a future-orientated and sustainable economic response to the pandemic. Until now, the Build Forward Better Briefings have featured Green Recovery news from governments and non-state actors expressing their commitment and measures taken. As we enter the second year of the pandemic, it is time to conduct a reality check on the announcements by countries to pursue a Green Recovery.
Over the next two issues, we will first take a closer look at analytical tools that provide orientation on where countries stand, before highlighting good practices that may pave the way forward. For this briefing, we have reviewed tracking tools that monitor the COVID-19 response measures by governments with special attention to their environmental impact. The briefing explains how these trackers function, how they conceptualize Green Recovery, as well as what they can offer, what they lack and how they can be used. Read More
Contact Person
David Rouhani - Communications Specialist
IKI Projects BioFrame, CDCPIII, GET, SDG-RI & SPA**
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| Conduct your own open innovation process with the lab of tomorrow |
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Are you looking to solve a development challenge? Do you wish to enable the creation of innovative and business driven solutions? The lab of tomorrow (lot) approach is |
a novel and effective way for development cooperation to engage the private sector in delivering lasting solutions to the SDGs. In lot processes, profitable and sustainable products and services are created which contribute to solving concrete challenges in developing and emerging countries. They are jointly developed and brought to market by local and European entrepreneurs supported by development cooperation, public sector, civil society and academia.
It is now possible to conduct your own lab of tomorrow innovation process with the lot manual! It is a step-by-step guide on how development partners can enable entrepreneurial actors to jointly develop SDG-oriented business models using the lab of tomorrow approach. Apply for running lot processes via our website: www.lab-of-tomorrow.com/challenges.
Link to Further Information
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lab-of-tomorrow@giz.de
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| develoPPP.de Ideas Competition |
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With develoPPP.de, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) fosters the involvement of the private sector in areas where business opportunities and development policy initiatives overlap. |
German, European and local companies that want to become active in developing and emerging countries or expand their engagement there can submit their project ideas now until 31 March 2021 in the current develoPPP.de ideas competition. GIZ implements the programme alongside DEG as one of two implementing organisations on behalf of the BMZ. Read More
Contact Person
Valeska Gruenhage - Project Manager
develoPPP.de – Development Partnerships
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| GIZ Vietnam’s Energy Programme |
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| The new solar symbiosis |
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GIZ Viet Nam is combining solar energy and agriculture to tap into over 70 million hectares of new opportunities. Income for farmers, shade for animals and crops, electricity for the country: two new projects aim at identifying agricultural or aquacultural use-cases profiting from solar panel shading, while maintaining or increasing yield. The use-cases will be piloted in high-potential regions, resulting |
in the development of scalable business models for small hold farmers. Parallelly, the projects create an enabling environment for the scaling-up phase. Finally, a close scientific monitoring by several research institutes guarantees for evidence-based results, that will be disseminated over the projects lifetime and beyond. Read More
Contact Person
Thomas Krohn – Project Manager
GIZ Energy Support Programme (ESP) - Viet Nam
Key Buzzwords
AgriSolar, AgriPV, Solar Sharing, Aquaculture PV, dual land-use
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| Updates, latest development & knowledge sharing |
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| Working Group Agriculture |
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| Coffee Smallholders Must Know! |
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The Small Entrepreneurs Coffee Production System Development Project in Southeast Asia (Coffee+) recently launched a free online learning course learning course for public access. The Farmer Business School (FBS) is regarded as the project’s key components aimed at improving the business and management skills of smallholder coffee growers. Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) through the Improving Smallholder Coffee Farming Systems in Southeast Asia ( Coffee+) project, in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives’ Department of Agricultural |
Extension and the Department of Agriculture has worked together to design the curriculum and knowledge toolkit with an aim to increase entrepreneurship and farmers’ abilities to manage their farms as a small business, but also help agricultural officials to include the curriculum in the system and continue enhancing farmers’ business capacities. Read More
Contact Person
Apiradee Treerutkuarkul - Senior Communication Officer
Agriculture and Food Cluster
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| Connecting farmers to sustainable supply chains and beyond |
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It has been over 20 years since Udorn Khamwongsa has been switching her career from being an electrician in northern Thailand to become a full-time farmer in her hometown of Ubon Ratchathani’s Warin Chamrap district, for over 20 years. As the third generation of farmer in the family and representative of the community, she is interested in seeking a new method to improve rice yield and farming productivity. The 43-year old single mother will always seek |
time off her busy farming schedule to participate into trainings and seminars held by agricultural officials and other non-governmental organisations. Since late 2019, she has attended training activities in the market-oriented smallholders value chain project Thailand (MSVC TH) introduced by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in cooperation with the Department of Rice, Olam (Thailand) Limited and Crop Life. The project enhances the importance of connecting the market with farmers and fully supports market driven through capacity building among farmers and systemising sustainable rice cultivation practices. The project was piloted in Ubon Ratchathani province housing the country’s largest rice growing areas of 4.1 million rai.
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Apiradee Treerutkuarkul - Senior Communication Officer
Agriculture and Food Cluster
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| “i-PALM”, a mobile application set to boost sustainable palm oil standard |
| i-PALM web-based platform |
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A tailor-made data management mobile application called “i-PALM” is ready to help Thai oil palm smallholders boost their productivity and enhance good farming practices. Developed by the Sustainable and Climate-Friendly Palm Oil Production and Procurement (SCPOPP) in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture Extension and the Department of Agriculture, the application is aimed at enabling oil palm smallholders in Thailand to access data, which is regarded as an essential tool in farming management. Read More |
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Apiradee Treerutkuarkul - Senior Communication Officer
Agriculture and Food Cluster
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| One Important Step to Implement Sustainable Rice Production in Thailand |
| Dr. Apichart Pongsrihadulchai, Former Director-General of Rice Department and Montri Prommaluk, Field Manager of BRIA II Project |
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Thailand has been the world's leading rice exporter for many years. An important task for the country is to become one of leading sustainable rice producers. The Rice Department and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH are gearing up to promote sustainable rice production in the Central Plain and the Northeast. The origin of sustainable rice production in Thailand can be traced back to the Better Rice Initiative Asia (BRIA I) project which was implemented Ubon Ratchathani from 2013 to 2017 by GIZ and its partners from both public and private sectors. With the motto “Better Rice, Better Life”, |
the project aimed to promote sustainable rice production and at the same time, raise farmers’ income, enhance value chains and improve farmers’ capacity.
Better Rice Initiative Asia (BRIA) carries on to phase II in Ubon Ratchathani and Surin provinces, Northeastern Thailand and successfully became the world’s first fully certified programme which produced sustainable rice with the premium Thai Hom mali Paddy Rice certified under the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) Standard. Read More
Contact Person
Apiradee Treerutkuarkul - Senior Communication Officer
Agriculture and Food Cluster
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| Regenerative Coconuts Agriculture Project |
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Aromatic coconuts from Thailand are known for their exceptionally fragrant water. The demand for these fruits from across the world has surged over the past few years. To keep up the supply, farmers have turned to monoculture and the use of heavy chemical inputs to boost their yields. The short-term focus of these practices is harming the environment and putting farmers and farm workers’ |
livelihoods at risk. In order to develop and incentivise more sustainable practices of coconut farming, the idea of the Regenerative Coconuts Agriculture Project (ReCAP) was born. Read More
Contact Person
Apiradee Treerutkuarkul - Senior Communication Officer
Agriculture and Food Cluster
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| TOPSA trainers ready to take sustainable palm oil in action |
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It is undeniable that trainers are the key people who can drive forward the knowledge on the standard of growing sustainable oil palm among smallholders in southern Thailand. This is why the Sustainable and Climate-Friendly Palm Oil Production and Procurement (SCPOPP) project gives importance to train the trainers of the Thailand Oil Palm Smallholder Academy (TOPSA). |
Its curriculum has been designed to meet the global sustainability standard particularly the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which unites stakeholders of the palm oil industry comprising oil palm producers, processors or traders, consumer goods manufacturers, retailers, banks/investors, and environmental and social non-governmental organisations (NGOs), to develop and implement global standards for sustainable palm oil. Read More
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Apiradee Treerutkuarkul - Senior Communication Officer
Agriculture and Food Cluster
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| Toward a transition to a CO2 neutral and circular economy, Thailand's big step is to turn biowaste into resources. |
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Thailand produces over 5,000-6,000 tons of waste per day, with more than 60% of them are bio-waste. It poses a significant challenge in sustainable waste disposal vs. is an opportunity of recycling a massive pile of biowaste for new products. A researcher from Khon Kaen University, Kasetsart University, and a social enterprise like Thaiprotien |
are starting a black soldier fly (BSF) farming and utilizing it to converse biowaste into insect protein for livestock feed. Also, biomass from this process can turn back to the soil for improving soil health.
This technology is available now for everyone; check it out in this video!
For Further Information:
Khon Kaen University Wesbite
Kasetsart University
Contact Person
Ngamnet Aektasaeng - Rice Value Chain Advisor
Agriculture and Food Cluster
Key buzzwords
Circular economy, CO2neutral, Blacksoldierfly, insectprotien, animalfeed, biomass
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| Working Group Biodiversity |
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| GIZ Guiding Framework “Human rights in biodiversity conservation” |
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The aim of this guiding framework is to present principles that define professional standards and describe our scope of action as regards the realisation of human rights in the context of biodiversity conservation projects. It is primarily aimed at GIZ employees, but will also provide guidance to sub-contractors (consultants and consulting companies) and the recipients of financial contributions. It will guide GIZ employees and third parties in designing and implementing GIZ projects and will assist them in conducting a more focused assessment of the risks to human rights.
Link to the Guiding Framework
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Dr. Kirsten Probst - Senior Advisor
Section „Forests, Biodiversity and Agriculture”
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| Green recovery measures as COVID response in Bhitarkanika, Odisha |
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India has been severely affected by the COVID-19 crisis which led to the imposition of strict economic and social lockdown. India’s unemployment rate surged to over 27% during the lockdown months and the worst affected population is the over 40 million migrant workers from rural areas. Having lost their jobs and income, large number of |
them returned to rural areas, including areas around the project’s pilot Ramsar sites, creating a labour surplus in these areas. With little opportunities in the rural areas, a large number of people are likely to fall back on extraction of already stressed natural resources – forests, wetlands and rivers – exacerbating the future resilience of agriculture and other natural resources-based production systems to climate change. As a response to COVID-19 and the lockdown, green recovery measures offer employment opportunities for communities around the project sites in the short-term while building long-term resilience through healthy wetland ecosystems. Read More
Contact Person
Neha Owaisy - Junior Communication Officer
Indo-German Biodiversity Programme
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| ‘Nature-based solutions for global challenges’ - opportunities in Asia and Pacific |
| Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in Asia Pacific. ©GIZ / Carolin Frisch |
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In February 2021, an online training on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in Asia Pacific took place. 24 participants from GIZ and partners in 7 countries learned and exchanged about mainstreaming, financing, monitoring and governance of NbS. Key opportunities for investment and scaling of NbS were identified, including the increasing awareness about |
the links of biodiversity loss and rising risks. The initiative was co-organised by the Biodiversity WG of SNRD AP, the Sector Programme Conservation of Biodiversity on Land (BMZ), and the BfN. Up next: our support to NbS will be extended across continents.
Link to Innovation Fund Application Form
Link to Further Information
Contact Person
Carina van Weelden - Co-Speaker
Working Group Biodiversity, SNRD AP
Carolin Frisch - Advisor
Sector Programme Conservation of Biodiversity on Land
Key buzzwords
NbS, post-2020 global biodiversity framework, training
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| Project Commences Pilot Implementation of Advance Zero Draft of Guidelines on HWC Mitigation |
| Forests of North Bengal ©GIZ/Neeraj Khera |
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The online workshop on 21 December 2020 focused on the plan and toolkit for pilot implementation from Jan 2021 with all key stakeholders. The workshop aimed at receiving inputs on the plan and toolkit for pilot implementation of the advance copy of zero draft of guidelines on species and issues in human-wildlife conflict mitigation at selected divisions in India, and to discuss the modalities of pilot implementation process. Read More |
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Ravindra Singh - Programme Director
Indo-German Biodiversity Programme
Dr. Neeraj Khera - Senior Advisor
‘Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation in India’ project (BMZ) |
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| Students express their thoughts on COVID-19 and conservation of the Sundarbans |
| @SMPII-GIZ BD/BEDS/Md. Nurul Amin. “School going children participated in drawing and story writing competition and won prizes.” |
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Life of students around the Sundarbans Reserved Forests has been significantly disrupted by the ongoing Covid-19. GIZ on behalf of the German Government collaborated with Bangladesh Forest Department (BFD) and Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS) to organise a drawing and story writing competition, where 100 students including 56 girls participated. The objective was to encourage the students to express their thoughts about the forest and its conservation. |
Link to Project
Link to Further Materials
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Dr. Stefan Alfred Groenewold - Principal Advisor
Project- Support to the Management of the Sundarbans Reserved Forest (SMP II)
Key buzzwords
Students, COVID-19, conservations, sundarbans
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| Partnerships for Access and Benefit-Sharing in India |
| L-R Dignitaries Dr V.B. Methur, Dr Sujit Vajpayee, Ms B.V. Umadevi at the closing workshop |
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The virtual closing event of the Indo-German ‘Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) Partnership’ project on 15 December 2020 presented the achievements of the project and experiences of the partners and beneficiaries. The four-year project was commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), implemented in partnership with the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and |
the National Biodiversity Authority in 2016. The event witnessed participation of representatives from MoEFCC, National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), State Biodiversity Boards (SBBs) and Biodiversity Management Committees (BMCs) of Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand, private sector, GIZ Germany and India and civil society organisations. Read More
Contact Person
Dr Geetha Nayak - Advisor
Indo-German Biodiversity Programme
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| New develoPPP.de project on Sustainable Spice Farming in India |
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About 85 per cent of the spice production in India is by small-scale farmers, who typically farm on less than two hectares of land and seasonally rotate spices with other crops. The new project ‘Enhancement of Smallholder Spice Farmer’s Capacities in Sustainable Farming’ aims to strengthen the production of cardamom, cumin, and turmeric in four states of India (Kerala Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Rajasthan), to increase the capacities of spice farmers to make production practices more economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable. The project is part of the develoPPP.de Programme implemented by GIZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The lead executing agency for this project is AVT McCormick. |
Link to Further Information
Contact Person
Ravindra Singh - Programme Director
Indo-German Biodiversity Programme
Dr. Poonam Pande - Advisor
‘Enhancement of Smallholder Spice Farmers’ Capacities in Sustainable Farming’ project (developPPP.de project/BMZ)
Key buzzwords
Biodiversity, spices, farmers, private sector, India, sustainable farming
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| Sustainable Management of Forest Ecosystem Services in the Western Himalayas |
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One of India's most important ecoregions are the forest ecosystems of the Western Himalayas. They act as life support systems for millions of people residing in the uplands and lowlands of the Indo-Gangetic plains. The ‘Sustainable Management of Forest Ecosystem Services in the Western Himalayas’ project aims at forest management in the western Himalayan states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand towards forest ecosystem services (FES) with |
a focus on water availability. It strengthens the resilience of forests against the impacts of climate change by providing the sustainable flow of ecosystem services.
Link to Further Information
Contact Person
Ravindra Singh - Programme Director
Indo-German Biodiversity Programme
Dr. Sanjay Tomar - Senior Advisor
‘Sustainable Management of Forest Ecosystem Services in the Western Himalayas’ project (BMZ)
Key buzzwords
Biodiversity, forest, water, ecosystem services, Himalayas, India
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| Working Group Climate Change Adaptation |
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| Facilitating User-Centred Experiential Learning on Climate Change – Elements of Effective Learning Space |
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A flexible learning classroom and an interactive learning lab has been designed in India under the ongoing cooperation between NABARD and GIZ with a focus on not only to respond to learners’ needs, but also to nudge them towards critical self-reflection on issues related to climate change within the influence of their personal and professional spheres. Read More |
Link to Further Information
Contact Person
Anindya Das - Junior Advisor GIZ India
Climate Adaptation and Financing in Rural India (CAFRI-NABARD)
Key buzzwords
Climate finance, capacity development, innovative learning environment, India, experiential learning
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| REDD+ Community Exchange in Fiji: At the end of 10 years of REDD+ support by GIZ in the Pacific Island Countries |
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The BMU-funded IKI project “REDD+ Conservation in Pacific Island Countries” will end in March, 2021, looking back on more than 10 years of REDD+ readiness support provided to four Melanesian Island Countries. In Fiji, on the local level, several communities were significantly involved in both REDD+ forest conservation as well as sustainable forest management practices. The REDD+ communities came |
together for the first time for a facilitated, intense exchange on experiences and lessons learned, elaborating useful hints and recommendations for the German Development Cooperation for a continued support of the forest sector with active community involvement in the future.
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Dr. Oliver Schlein - Project Director
REDD+ - Forest Conservation in Pacific Island Countries II
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| Workstream Green and Climate Finance |
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| EU-Programming 2021-2027 |
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Presentation by the Workstream "Green and Climate Finance" - highly interesting slides for those interested in EU-Cofinancing and relevant background information.
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Iris Müller - Key Account Manager
OE 2100, 2200, 2300, 2600, Eschborn
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| Working Group Agriculture |
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| Innovation Accelerator “Building resilient smallholder supply chains – How to enable transformation for farmers institutions and supply chains” |
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The study illustrates the initial findings of Innovation Forum’s research project on durable smallholder supply chains. It identifies systemic factors that lead to the predominant challenges in supply chains by looking at the general “ecosystem” in which they operate. Based on those findings it formulates recommendations on next steps for the local and international policy level.
Link to Publication
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Thilo Lidlbauer - Advisor
Programme Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains and Standards
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Smallholder, agriculture, supply chains, policy, agenda-setting, transport
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| Making Better Policies for Food Systems |
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Food systems around the world face a triple challenge: providing food security and nutrition for a growing global population; supporting livelihoods for those working along the food supply chain; and contributing to environmental sustainability. Better policies hold tremendous promise for making progress in these domains. This report focuses on three questions. What has been the performance of food systems to date, and what role did policies play? How can policy makers design coherent policies across the triple challenge? And how can policy makers deal with frictions related to facts, interests, and values, which often complicate the task of achieving better policies? Better policies will require breaking down silos between agriculture, health, and environmental policies, and overcoming knowledge gaps, resistance from interest groups, and |
differing values. Robust, inclusive, evidence-based processes are thus essential to making better policies for food systems. Find more in the book “Making Better Policies for Food Systems”.
Link to Publication
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Matthias Radek - Fachplaner
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| Working Group Biodiversity |
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| Strenghthening Spice Farmers in Sustainable Farming |
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The publication gives a glimpse at the new developPPP.de project on ‘Enhancement of Smallholder Spice Farmers’ Capacities in Sustainable Farming’ aims to strengthen the production of Cardamom, Cumin and Turmeric in four states of India, by increasing the capacities of spice farmers and making the production practices economically, socially and environmentally more sustainable.
Link to Publication
Contact Person
Ravindra Singh - Programme Director
Indo-German Biodiversity Programme
Key buzzwords
India, spices, private sector, farmers, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, sustainable farming, cumin, cardamom, turmeric
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| The Economics of Biodiversity: the Dasgupta Review |
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The Economics of Biodiversity: the Dasgupta Review’, commissioned by the UK Treasury, has been published. Highlighting the transformative change required for a sustainable path, it analyses the consequences of farming subsidies and food production, the need to address population growth, and the inadequacy of common economic indicators such as GDP.
Link to Report Presentation
Link to Publication
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Oscar Fast - Project Assistant
Emerging Markets Sustainability Dialogues (EMSD)
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| Working Group Hills to Ocean |
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| Protected area governance and management – A resource book for practitioners in development cooperation |
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Supporting protected area governance and management is a multifaceted task in often complex framework conditions. The book provides orientation in the wealth of existing tools and guidance and aims to inspire with examples from technical cooperation projects including from SNRD Asia Biodiversity Working Group members from the Sundarbans in Bangladesh, the Hin Nam No region in Lao PDR, the Philippines, Vietnam and an ASEAN-based project. We hope that the book will be useful for established professionals and newcomers alike in supporting our partners in their efforts to achieve their national and international protected area targets both quantitatively and qualitatively. |
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Oscar Fast - Project Assistant
Emerging Markets Sustainability Dialogues (EMSD)
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| Interesting External Publications |
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| The Value of Coffee: Sustainability, Inclusiveness, and Resilience of the Coffee Global Value Chain |
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This report analyzes the coffee sector through the lens of global value chains (GVCs). It provides insights into the coffee Global Value Chain (C-GVC) based on sound empirical analysis. It considers only the international trade dimension and does not cover local value chain and patterns of consumption. It is inspired by and aims, with its specific focus on the coffee sector, to complement the World Bank’s seminal publication ‘World Development Report 2020: Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains’.
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| What works to improve farmer income? |
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Improving incomes of smallholder farmers is a goal of many GIZ projects. But do we know what really what works to improve the income situation of farmers and their families? The Living Income Team of the Programme Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains and Standards conducted qualitative interviews with 19 GIZ projects around the world to understand the approaches and challenges projects face when improving incomes. We would like to present the results, discuss long standing GIZ experiences vs. new emerging approaches; and how we can foster internal collaboration and learning around improving incomes in supply chain projects and beyond. The Webinar will be held in English.
When? March 17th 10:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. CET
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Friederike Martin - Advisor
Programme Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains and Standards
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| Impacts on and Opportunities for Blue and Green Sectors from the Covid19 pandemic: A 2-part Webinar Series |
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The H2O Working Group will be holding two webinars in March 2021 where results of a study commissioned in the context of the SNRD Asia and Pacific Innovation and Learning Fund 2020 will be presented. The study documented and assessed the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on GIZ projects linked to green and blue value chains. It also looked into the prospects and opportunities for green recovery. The first webinar session will be on 18 March 2020, 1300-1400 PH (0600 - 0700 CET) and will focus on the outcome of the desk study and interviews with GIZ colleagues and partner organizations. Selected case studies will be presented on the second webinar session on 25 March 2021, 1300-1430 PH (0600 - 0730 CET) detailing how the pandemic affected individual projects, sites, and partners; what their responses were and their current recovery efforts.
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Rhodora May Sumaray-Raras - Policy Advisor
Sustainable Coastal Protection through Biodiversity Conservation in Coastal Ecosystems Affected by Typhoons in the Philippines (ProCoast) Project
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| Understanding Your Project Strategy and Result Models Training |
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AIZ Bangkok is currently launching an online training called “Understanding Your Project Strategy and Result Models” during 22 – 29 March 2021.
It is a course suitable for colleagues, who are new to project management and wish to understand more how project come to being and implemented. During the course they will learn project management concepts and apply them in analyzing their own projects.
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Nalina Hiranprueck - Project Coordinator
Academy for International Cooperation, Bangkok
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| Guardians of the Coast: Upscaling good practices pertaining to Direct incentives for Coastal and Marine management in the Asia-Pacific by Consultant – Dr. Aaron Savio Lobo, GIZ SNRD AP Innovation and Learning Fund 2020 |
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This short study carried out as part of the SNRD AP Innovation and Learning fund scanned solutions in the GIZ regional projects landscape and beyond. It identified innovations particularly in the realm of direct incentives (“Direktleistungen”) to coastal populations who sustainably manage their resources – the “Guardians of the Coast”. What incentives work in the long-term? What does not? Can any of these innovations be scaled up? This scanning exercise particularly comes in the light of BMZ phasing out future funding by 2030 in many of these countries and the need to secure future options for GIZ to continue it’s work in this region. The webinar will be held on 23 March 2021, 14:00 – 16:00 (Indian Standard Time) on MS Teams.
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Dr. Uwe Scholz - Project Manager
GIZ India
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| Call for ideas and interests: SNRD Africa’s new Working Group on gender-transformative approaches in Rural Development |
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“To achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.” Agenda 2030 is a guiding principle for our daily work, and this ambitious aim is set out under Sustainable Development Goal 5.
Though gender plays a central role in the African and Asian green sector, little focus has been placed on this crucial |
driver of success. Undoubtedly, without a heavy emphasis on women, the green sector development agenda for economic growth is unlikely to succeed.
For you, as an expert in the field, this is no new topic and after 25 years of on the ground work, observation and discussion through a vibrant GIZ Sector Network for Rural Development (SNRD), we are excited to initiate a Working Group dedicated to Gender-Transformative Approaches in Rural Development (GTA-RD), open for colleagues working in Africa and Asia. It’s about time, don’t you agree? Let’s work together and do things differently. Let’s ask ourselves: do our green sector projects reach, benefit AND empower women? How can we go from “gender-sensitive” to “gender-transformative”? This is a call for ideas and interest. If you want to get involved, please MS Teams or IDA. You can also use the MS Teams code: 682dx8f. Our second meeting is planned for Wednesday, 24th of March from 11h00-12h30 UTC+1. Further information will be announced via our MS Teams channel.
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Miriam Heidtmann - Co-speaker
Felix Schilling - Co-Speaker
Gender-transformative approaches in Rural Development
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| ICT4Ag Session on “Digital by Default – Toolkits for IT Project Management”, Thursday 25 March 2021, 1-2:30 p.m. CET. |
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Development cooperation is increasingly trying to incorporate IT-based solutions into its projects, ranging from simple platforms, software or apps to more complex structures, such as blockchain-based traceability tools. In this ICT4Ag session, we will explore the GIZ approach “Digital by Default” in our service delivery - when working with target groups or other partners in development cooperation, kindly introduced by GIZ expert Lena Lazaro Ruether (Digital Societies, Division ‘Methods, Digital |
Transformation, Innovation’). Frederik Caselitz, our colleague from GloBe IT, will further speak about the brand new GloBe Digital Strategy, aiming to help shape and use digitalization in the sense of sustainable development together with our partners and clients.
The session is also dedicated to the GIZ IT Project Management Toolkit, kindly presented by GIZ expert Pascal Del Giudice (Digital Societies, Division ‘Methods, Digital Transformation, Innovation’), and discusses how to implement "Digital by Default" in German development cooperation, particularly looking at the successful planning, support, implementation, control and handover of IT projects. Of course, this also includes the Principles for Digital Development, which we will also present briefly. Click here to join the session.
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Kenza Podieh - Project Staff
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| SLE TRAINING Knowledge Teamwork Skills for Sustainable Development |
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SLE TRAINING is a training programme for international professionals in development cooperation. We understand international cooperation as a global responsibility and therefore train experts from the “South and East – West and North”. As part of the Humboldt-Universität of Berlin, SLE TRAINING combines first-class scientific standards with experience-driven practical approaches. We do not only develop capacities, we also provide a network consisting of the growing number of our alumni worldwide. |
SLE TRAINING pursues an intercultural and interdisciplinary approach. Bringing participants from various cultural backgrounds and with different professions together, we consider mutual learning a prerequisite for successful international cooperation. The training series will start from April 14 2021 onwards. Read More
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Rural Development Department |
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| Online seminars on nature conservation in German development cooperation |
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Biodiversity conservation for human wellbeing (20-23 and 27-28 September 2021) and Nature-based Solutions: The contribution of biodiversity to address societal challenges (21-23 and 28-30 June 2021) are a series of seminars on nature conservation in development cooperation has been held at the International Academy for Nature Conservation Isle of Vilm since 1999. It is jointly |
organised by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and KfW on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the International Academy for Nature Conservation, Isle of Vilm, of the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN). The first seminar “Biodiversity conservation for human wellbeing” presents an overview and update of the most relevant concepts. Based on a combination of practical examples, tools and trends in biodiversity conservation for human wellbeing and development, it provides a good platform for exchanging experiences and updating. The second seminar is devoted to the in-depth consideration of a specific topic identified as being of particular interest. Based on on-going discussions in international biodiversity policy fora, the topic “Nature-based solutions” was chosen for 2021.
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| Other Newsletters, Useful Links & Platforms |
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AdaptationCommunity.net - The Global Programme Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change (HMCCC) have launched a global website, a subpage on Climate Change and Migration under the AdaptationCommunity.net. Please click the link for an introduction to the topic of climate change-induced human mobility, publications, and other resources. The global programme operates in the Pacific Islands, the Philippines and the Caribbean, and is supported by a team in Bonn.
GIZ International Forestry Policy Newsletter - Subscribe now to get news and updates on GIZ International Forest Policy. If you would like to receive the GIZ International Forest Policy Newsletter, please send a message to forests@giz.de
GIZ Philippines - Get updated on GIZ Philippines and Pacific
GIZ Thailand - Learn about GIZ Thailand activities and other updates
Indo-German Biodiversity Programme - Indo-German Biodiversity Programme Newsletter, Issue 8, July 2020
Sector Network TUEWAS - Sector Network Transport, Environment, Energy, and Water in Asia
SNRD Africa - Stay informed what is happening with our sister network
Subscribe to Indo-German Biodiversity Programme Newsletter - The newsletter features project updates from across India and interesting thematic articles on the challenges of biodiversity conservation and management from the IGBP projects.
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Job Opening: Agriculture Sector Project
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The Sector Project “Agricultural Trade, Agribusiness, Agricultural Finance” is looking for reinforcement for the team of the new sector project agriculture - for the topic of "Sustainable agricultural production (crop production and animal husbandry)". Agile leadership, challenging content-related tasks, a good team spirit awaits you! The offer only exists in German, as the official working language requested for these offers.
Stellenanzeige Berater*in für das Thema nachhaltige landwirtschaftliche Produktion im Sektorvorhaben Landwirtschaft, Job-ID P1533V6007 ist ausgeschrieben bis 17.03.2021. Link to Job Announcement
Stellenanzeige Berater*in für die Themen Klimawandel und landwirtschaftliche Produktion im Sektorvorhaben Landwirtschaft, Job-ID P1533V6005 ist ausgeschrieben bis 17.03.2021. Link to Job Announcement
Stellenanzeige Berater*in für Ökolandbau im Sektorvorhaben Landwirtschaft, Job-ID P1533V6024 ist ausgeschrieben bis 22.03.2021. Link to Job Announcement
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Corinna Peters - Junior-Advisor
Sector Project “Agricultural Trade, Agribusiness, Agricultural Finance”
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Job Opening: Head of Programme "Support to Agroecological Transformation Processes in India" (Band 6)
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The job post is in the field of agriculture and rural development, agroecology/agroecological transformation and was requested by the Indian Ministry of Agriculture. Agroecology has been declared the 'lighthouse project' for the planned and upcoming Modi/Merkel cabinet consultations. The job involves working once in India of course, but then a lot with BMZ and KfW in Germany to flesh out the lighthouse concept and its implementation
Please see the attached job description here
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M. El-Khawad - Environment, Climate Change & Natural Resource Management
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