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| Welcome note by the SN Spokesperson |
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Dear colleagues and members of the SNRD Asia and the Pacific,
A challenging but busy and insightful year is coming to an end. On behalf of the SNRD Asia-Pacific let me thank you for your contributions, thoughts and feedback throughout the year.
SNRD Asia-Pacific in 2021 took the last leg of the journey of the “Future Fit” process that started in 2020, and I think we can say, that it has been very encouraging and valuable to set us on track for 2022 and the years to come. We are excited for the new structure that would allow you to be more included in the process with our more agile format.
Last but not least, we held our Joint SNRD Asia-Pacific & TUEWAS Conference at the end of October with a mind-blowing number of participants. We hope that the active exchange that we witnessed as well as the presentation of so many useful tools and cooperation outputs inspired you as much as it inspired us. It really motivated us to continue making our best efforts to facilitate exchange with colleagues in the region and support our member to engage and collaborate so as to enhance our work in our projects across the region.
We already have much to share with you for 2022! We look forward to announcing several interesting things that will be happening in the coming year and continuing to work to make your work more impactful with our Learning and Innovation Fund, Taskforce introductions, and several onboarding and networking events!
Have a wonderful holiday season and a great start of the New Year, and enjoy our newsletter!
Best wishes,
Lisa, Donaya, Neha, Wilaiwan
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| Joint Virtual Conference SNRD Asia and the Pacific & Sector Network TUEWAS |
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We, the secretariat team would like to express our highest appreciation for your effort in preparing and organising interesting and inspiring sessions during our Joint Sector Network Virtual Conference during 25 – 29 October 2021.
Thank you very much for making the conference so lively and impactful with your contributions. We were very happy to see the active participation, engagement, and interest from our members driven by your valuable inputs!
Altogether, 486 participants from 27 countries joined our conference over the course of 5 days filled with lots of inspiring inputs and engaged exchange.
We hope you will enjoy the short conference video. Click here to watch!
You can find presentations material from each session and recordings in the SNRD AP IDA Library or TUEWAS IDA Library.
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Donaya Siamwalla - Network Manager and Public Relations Officer
SNRD Asia and the Pacific
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| Public and private partners join forces for a social and environmentally friendly supply chain |
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Country: Viet Nam
Timeframe: October 2021 – September 2024
Commissioning Agency: BMZ
Project volume: 4 Mio €
Coconut oil is an all-rounder. It is used for food and cosmetics, but also in technology and industry. Internationally, the Philippines is one of the most important coconut-growing countries, but local production conditions are often inefficient and environmentally harmful.
GIZ/develoPPP therefore joined forces with seven multinational food and cosmetics companies to improve the production conditions of coconut oil along the supply chains in two regions in the Philippines.
Barry Callebaut, Cargill, FrieslandCampina, Jacobs Douwe Egberts, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, , Unilever and GIZ are pooling their resources and expertise as part of the develoPPP programme, The Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) is partnering up as the government agency to ensure respective support on political level.
The focus of the four-year project is primarily on the smallholder families who grow and process the coconuts. The companies include suppliers of their own value chain but go well beyond that and consider the entire cultivation region. Among other support, smallholders receive training on resource-conserving agricultural practices and, in coordination with local actors such as governments, civil society or NGOs, the conditions in the region are examined using the so-called LandScale method. This considers, for example, how stressed certain areas are as per indicators regarding human well-being, biodiversity or land rights. Furthermore, it will be evaluated how well developed the local infrastructure is and whether there is potential for expanding trade relations with focus on traceability and sustainable sourcing. Depending on what the analysis reveals, joint solutions are developed and established, which, wherever possible, are to be anchored in public and private entities.
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Cornelia Skokov – Project Manager
Valeska Gruenhage – Project Manager
develoPPP
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| Get to know our new SNRD Asia and the Pacific Spokesperson: Lisa Hunsinger |
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My name is Lisa and I am currently working as Advisor in the Thai-German Climate Programme, focusing on climate change adaptation and nature-based solutions particularly in the water sector. I have been based in Bangkok for three years, and very much enjoy life, people, food and great colleagues here. Before coming to Thailand, I was seconded to BMU in Berlin for four years where I worked on diverse topics in the context of the cooperation with countries from Central Asian and South Caucasus.
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In 2020, I was elected speaker of the Climate Change Adaptation Working Group and I am now looking forward to bring this experience to my new role as the spokesperson of SNRD Asia-Pacific. I’m very excited to get to know, and hopefully physically meet, all the Working Groups and their members and looking forward to support the network in thriving in its new ‘future fit’ format. I think the sector networks are a great asset of GIZ and feel honored to be part of this.
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Lisa Hunsinger
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| Introducing our new Hills to Ocean Working Speaker: Rhodora May Sumaray |
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Being Filipina, I am more known to GIZ colleagues using my nickname, Sam. As a graduate of public administration, I’ve always been of the belief that public service is the highest calling that a person can take on. While this has changed throughout the years, I still believe that working for the good of our country and for sustainable development, no matter how challenging it is at times, is still something worth pursuing. Starting my career working in various Philippine
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government institutions, I discovered that I like crafting public policy and seeing how a good policy impacts the live of the people for the better. And this is how I found myself working for GIZ, traversing various topics from trade and industry to what I am now working on, biodiversity conservation and climate change adaptation, with a focus on policy analysis and policy making. Hit me up if you want to know more of the Philippines, of the work that I do, or of how I can help you. But don’t look for Sam in our corporate address book, instead look for Rhodora May or email me directly at rhodora.raras@giz.de.
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Rhodora May Sumaray
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| Introducing our new Hills to Ocean Working Group Co-Speaker: Stefan Groenewold |
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SNRD Asia and the Pacific secretariat and the Hills to Ocean Working Group are delighted to announce the new Co-Speaker of Hills to Ocean Working group, Dr. Stefan Groenewold from GIZ Bangladesh. Stefan is working in Promotion of the Management of Sunderbans-Mangrove Forest in Bangladesh.
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Stefan Groenewold
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| New Projects in SNRD Asia and the Pacific! |
| New projects aim to strengthen Viet Nam’s forestry sector |
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Country: Viet Nam
Timeframe: October 2021 – September 2024
Commissioning Agency: BMZ
Project volume: 4 Mio €
In October 2021, two new forestry projects were launched. The “Upscaling of Sustainable Forest Certification” project will support Viet Nam in its transition to sustainable,
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climate-friendly forest management. The “Support for the implementation of the FLEGT VPA” project aims to strengthen Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) by facilitating the implementation of Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) between the EU and Viet Nam. The two sister projects will contribute to achieving Vietnam's commitments on greenhouse gas emissions reduction and trade in legal timber.
The two sister projects will contribute to achieving Vietnam's greenhouse gas emissions reduction commitments under the Paris Agreement and promote green economic growth through sourcing and trade in legal timber. Viet Nam is one of the world’s largest exporters of timber products and the government has committed to maintaining its current forest cover, which stands at 42% of the country’s total land area. Both projects are commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and will be implemented jointly by GIZ and the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).
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Anja Barth - Chief Technical Advisor
Programme on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Forest Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Viet Nam
Key buzzwords
forests, FLEGT, climate change, Viet Nam
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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: New Publication on Fiscal Policies for a Green Recovery |
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Finance ministries and fiscal policies play a crucial role in shaping the green recovery. Substantial fiscal resources have been mobilised to tackle socio-economic impacts of the pandemic so far. However, recovery packages have tended to perpetuate existing trends in spending and do not close the investment gap to address the climate and biodiversity crises.
That is why we are excited to share a new report: Green Recovery for Practitioners – Fiscal Policies for a Sustainable, Inclusive and Resilient Transformation.
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Samyra Hachmann – Junior Advisor
IKI Projects BioFrame, CDCPIII, GET, SDG-RI & SPA |
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| Updates, latest development & knowledge sharing |
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| Working Group Agriculture |
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| Integrated Development Partnership with Olam Food Ingredients (OFI) |
| GIZ-assisted women cocoa farmer from Lore Lindu Biosphere Reserve area. ©Ismet Khaeruddin\GIZ |
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With an official launch on December 1, 2021 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and Olam Food Ingredients (ofi) in an integrated Development Partnership (iDPP). The project aims to establish a sustainable, transparent, and deforestation-free cocoa supply chain near the Lore Lindu Biosphere Reserve and National Park in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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Jonas Dallinger - Principal Advisor
Sustainable Agricultural Value Chains (SASCI+)
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Palm oil, biodiversity, high conservation value
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| New innovation for agriculture component launched with a focus on soil organic carbon monitoring using remote sensing technology in India and Kenya |
| Satellite-based digital solutions for the valorisation of climate-friendly agriculture, I4Ag Soilify ESTI |
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Under the Innovation in Agriculture (i4Ag) fund by the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), GIZ has recently launched a Soilify-ESTI project in India and Kenya to devise methods for monitoring and measuring regenerative agricultural practices through remote sensing technology. The objective is to ensure that digital approaches tested for capturing soil carbon build up and soil conservation measures for climate |
change mitigation, respectively, are available for replication and scaling. As a main partners Earth Analytics India and Partners in Prosperity (PnP) will support in developing the algorithm to measure soil organic carbon based on satellite data assets in India. Read More
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Jonas Kjetil Bartholomay – DV (Advisor)
i4Ag - Satellite-based digital solutions for the valorisation of climate-friendly agriculture (Soilify-ESTI)
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Regenerative agricultural, remote sensing, capturing soil carbon
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| This is My Story – Coffee+ Project Farmers Stories from the Field |
| Budi Wardoyo, one of the Coffee+ Project demo plots owner. Cr. @Coffee+ Project /GIZ |
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| Budianto from Rejosari Village with his chili plants. Cr. @Coffee+ Project /GIZ |
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Storytelling as a concept offers a framework that allows transferring information, and at the same time, sparks intimacy and empathy. The strength of storytelling which combines narrative elements with different media (text, photos, graphics, map, etc) makes the stories easy to understand also conveys authenticity and credibility.
Therefore, the Coffee+ Project Indonesia has developed five stories from smallholder coffee farmers in Tanggamus, Lampung who joined the project activities and have excelled impacts to be shared and serve as an example.
How these coffee farmers have improved their farming to be more efficient and sustainable, through Agripreneur Development Program that fosters their efficient business and agricultural management skills; and fosters profitable
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and sustainable integrated agriculture to improve the economy and livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers and have a regenerative impact on the environment. Growing and changing the mindset of smallholder coffee farmers to cultivate their lands and farm yields is like managing a business because Farming is Business.
These farmers stories both on videos and the publication also communicate the project’s approaches and results which illustrate how the project's contribution to the improvements in people’s living conditions.
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Contact Person
Mike Bartels – Head
Business Hub, GIZ Indonesia
Key buzzwords
Coffee, agriculture, coffee farmers, public private partnership |
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| Regenerative Coconut Agriculture – Beyond Organic Video |
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Regenerative organic agriculture has been gaining much attention recently. It is a way of farming, which restores soil health, reverses its impact on climate change, and increases the resiliency of farmers. The "Regenerative Coconuts Agriculture Project" (ReCAP) is a project that was launched by the Danone Ecosystem Fund, Harmless Harvest and
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the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in June 2020 to support coconut farmers in Thailand to farm regeneratively: From monocrop farms to growing cover crops and intercrops, rearing bees and fish, and making compost from their own farm waste. Not only are these practices environmentally friendly, they also help farmers to save costs and diversify their income sources. To learn more about this journey and listen to what coconut farmers have to say about this way of farming, check out this video!
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Lisa Faust – Speaker
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| Working Group Biodiversity |
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| ASEAN calls to place biodiversity at the centre of decision-making processes (ASEAN Joint Statement for CBD COP 15) |
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The ASEAN Member States (AMS) took part in the sessions of the first part of the 15th meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP 15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), joining the global call to scale up efforts in mainstreaming biodiversity in the decision-making processes across sectors.
In a joint statement delivered by Brunei Darussalam in an intervention at the High-Level Segment of the COP 15 on 13 October 2021, the AMS have agreed to, among other, “intensify regional efforts on protected areas, in particular, to improve the management effectiveness of ASEAN Heritage Parks, through research, technology transfer, innovation, capacity enhancement, and the adoption of sustainable financing strategies.” Read More
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Agnes Binky R. Pantastico - Professional
Institutional Strengthening of the Biodiversity Sectorin ASEAN (ISB II) Project
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| ASEAN Green Initiative (AGI): A Different kind of 10-10-10 Starts! |
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The road to at least 10 million trees across 10 ASEAN Member States over a span of 10 years starts!
In response to the UN’s declaration of 2021-2030 being the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, ASEAN launched the ASEAN Green Initiative (AGI) on 8 August 2021, to recognize and promote grassroots initiatives in restoring the region’s rich biodiversity.
Across the region, there are a number of biodiversity heroes and
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champions who painstakingly work in greening ASEAN one native tree at a time. It is about time we recognize these outstanding initiatives by groups and individuals and hope to inspire more to do the same. Read More
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#ASEANGreenInitiative #ASEANBiodiversity #OneASEAN
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| Environment department, Government of Uttar Pradesh partners with GIZ India for first ever state conclave on Climate Change |
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Ahead of COP26 in Glasgow, the Department of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (DoEFCC), Government of Uttar Pradesh organised a two-day ‘Uttar Pradesh Climate Change Conclave 2021 (UPCCC 2021)’ in collaboration with GIZ India (Technical Partner) at the Indira Gandhi Pratisthan, Lucknow on October 28-29, 2021. |
The conclave was supported by the Indo-German project Climate Adaptation and Finance in Rural India (CAFRI) with the objective of enhancing coordination and cooperation for climate action between stakeholders at subnational and state level. Inaugurated by the Hon’ble Chief Minister of the state of Uttar Pradesh, Shri. Yogi Adityanath, the conclave deliberated topical issues with special focus on India in general, and Uttar Pradesh in particular. The event was aimed to successfully respond to the challenges of climate change via multi-stakeholder engagement, building upon on the response to these changes by process of integration, adaptation, collaboration, and mitigation at local levels. UPCCC 2021 brought together researchers, scientists, policymakers and practitioners from the State, India and abroad, and played host to a physical Exhibition on Climate Change & Clean Environment which provided an excellent platform for B2B, B2C interactions and opportunity to view latest advancements in the field. Read More
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Rohit Sharma - Junior Advisor
Climate Adaptation and Finance in Rural India
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| Green Recovery in Bhitarkanika |
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A field visit to Bhitarkanika was undertaken by the project from 1- 4 September 2021. During this visit a meeting was organised to discuss results and seek inputs on the two assessments related to hydro-ecology and ecosystem services-livelihood interlinkages. |
Visit to the green recovery sites was another major part of the visit. Implementation of green recovery measures at this Ramsar site was initiated in January 2021. It has supported and guided vegetable cultivation in backyard of 72 beneficiaries in three villages. The mangrove rehabilitation activities have been initiated through development of a nursery site raising nearly 9000 saplings. The third part of the visit was to conduct management effectiveness evaluation for Bhitarkanika Ramsar site.
Link to full article
Contact Person
Ravindra Singh - Programme Director
Indo-German Biodiversity Programme
Dr. Geetha Nayak - Team Leader and Advisor
Wetlands Management for Biodiversity and Climate Protection project (IKI-BMU)
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| Knowledge products on biodiversity and forests in Viet Nam |
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After four years of implementation, the “Programme on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Forest Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Viet Nam” is closing in December 2021. To foster long-term impacts beyond the project lifetime, a wealth of knowledge products is available on our website. How about viewing a video on conservation finance in Viet Nam? Or are you rather interested how we |
standardised the SMART data model for protected areas? Check out the publications in the spirit of institutional learning. Want to know more? Reach out!
Link to further information
Contact Person
Anja Barth - Chief Technical Advisor
Programme on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Forest Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Viet Nam
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Biodiversity, knowledge management, Viet Nam
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| Launch of Wetlands of India Portal |
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On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, the Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Mr Bhupender Yadav launched the ‘Wetlands of India Portal’ - a single point access system for information relating to wetlands in India. The portal is a dynamic knowledge repository for wetlands in India, making information available as provided by |
various users via their management information system (MIS) dashboard. The users include wetland authorities of states and union territories (SWAs), MoEFCC, wetland site managers, knowledge partners and even citizens. SWAs play a key role in populating further information of wetlands in their administration. Knowledge partners and wetland site managers contribute by providing information on wetlands marked to them by SWAs. The portal provides a platform for citizens to learn more about wetlands and get involved in their conservation and management.
Link to portal
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Contact Person
Ravindra Singh - Programme Director
Indo-German Biodiversity Programme
Dr. Geetha Nayak - Team Leader and Advisor
Wetlands Management for Biodiversity and Climate Protection project (IKI-BMU)
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Biodiversity, wetlands, ecosystem services, digital tools, MIS, citizen science
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| National Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation Strategy and Action Plan Released |
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India's National Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation Strategy and Action Plan (HWC-NAP) and 4 supplementary frameworks developed under Indo-German partnership were released by Hon’ble Minister of State, Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Mr Ashwini Kumar Choubey along with Mr Soumitra Dasgupta Additional Director |
General of Forest (Wildlife) as part of the closing ceremony of India’s Wildlife Week 2021. HWC-NAP was developed using a participatory approach under the bilateral Indo-German project on ‘Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation in India’, over a four-year period, to bring a common understanding and consensus among key actors, on the key approaches and possible solutions for mitigating HWC in India.
Link to further information
Contact Person
Ravindra Singh - Programme Director
Indo-German Biodiversity Programme
Dr. Neeraj Khera - Project Manager and Senior Advisor
Indo-German Biodiversity Programme
Key buzzwords
Biodiversity, forest, human-wildlife conflict, mitigation, coexistence
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| Renuka Lake: Nature's Mythical treasure |
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Nestled in the foothills of the Western Himalayas Renuka Lake in Himachal Pradesh is a natural wetland of immense cultural significance and a Ramsar site. Many livelihoods depend on the lake which is also home to a variety of animals, fishes, and birds. In the last few decades, the lake has experienced increased pressure on the lake ecosystem |
and the wildlife living close by. This film is a short story of what makes the lake a natural and cultural treasure, and was released during the 75th Anniversary of Indian Independence, Azadi ka Amrut Mahotsav.
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Ravindra Singh - Programme Director
Indo-German Biodiversity Programme
Dr. Geetha Nayak - Team Leader and Advisor
Wetlands Management for Biodiversity and Climate Protection project (IKI-BMU)
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Wetlands, biodiversity, Ramsar
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| Supporting Sundarbans Resources Dependent Households during Pandemic- special focus on women and children |
| School students are oriented with biodiversity by teachers during observing ‘World Mangrove Biodiversity Day’. Photo credit- © GIZ BD/BEDS |
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“COVID-19 mitigation measures for the Sundarbans” under the umbrella of Sundarbans Management Project (SMP II) oriented women to menstrual hygiene management supplying non-disposable sanitary pads as part of WASH supplies to 7000 extreme poor Sundarbans dependent households. It also supported same households with cash and commodities including rice, cooking oil, lentils, salt, soap, face masks etc. during COVID-19 pandemic. Project also organized number of biodiversity immersion events in the Sundarbans with 1500 students (boys-651, girls-849) with a view to ease their stresses and revitalize, encourage to be conservation frontiers. |
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Dr. Stefan Alfred Groenewold - Principal Advisor
Support to the Management of the Sundarbans Reserved Forest (SMP II)
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COVID-19, women, students, WASH, dependent households, biodiversity, conservations, Sundarbans
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| Sustainable Management of Forest Ecosystem Services Project launched in Himachal Pradesh |
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The ‘Sustainable Management of Forest Ecosystem Services (FES)’ project was successfully launched by the Hon’ble Forest Minister of Himachal Pradesh (H.P.), Mr Rakesh Pathania on 1 September 2021 at Shimla. The FES project is a follow-on module of the Himachal Pradesh Forest Ecosystem Services (HP-FES) Project (2016-2020), focusing on managing forests for water availability. It is jointly being implemented by the Ministry of Environment, |
Forest, and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), State Forest Departments of Himachal Pradesh (HPFD), Uttarakhand (UKFD), and GIZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
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Contact Person
Ravindra Singh - Programme Director
Indo-German Biodiversity Programme
Dr. Sanjay Tomar - Senior Advisor
Sustainable Management of Forest Ecosystem Services project
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Forests, biodiversity, ecosystem services, India, Himachal Pradesh
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| Sustainable Turmeric Cultivation in Tamil Nadu |
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A series of training sessions on ‘Sustainable Turmeric Cultivation Practices’ were organised from 18 – 23 October 2021 with the farmers from Thalavadi, Gobichattepalaym and Erode (Tamil Nadu) under the developPPP.de project. All training sessions were accompanied by an exposure visit to help the farmers gain practical knowledge on practicing sustainable turmeric cultivation while interacting with farmers who are leading in the area of sustainable cultivation locally. |
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Ravindra Singh - Programme Director
Indo-German Biodiversity Programme
Dr. Poonam Pande – Advisor
Enhancement of Smallholder Spice Farmer’s Capacities in Sustainable Farming project
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| Transitioning towards Green Recovery: Mangrove Rehabilitation in Tamil Nadu |
| Fishing canal prior to restoration. © DHAN Foundation |
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As a response to COVID-19 and the lockdown, green recovery measures are being implemented at the Point Calimere Ramsar site in India. These measures offer employment opportunities to communities around the site in the short-term while building long-term resilience through management of healthy wetland ecosystems. The measures are focused on the implementation of livelihood-oriented training, conservation, and restoration activities. |
Communities living around the Ramsar site are dependent on Muthupet mangroves for canal and lagoon fishing. In the western part of Muthupet mangroves, a traditional method of fishing locally called vaaikkal meenpidippu (canal fishing) is practiced, which integrates fishery development with mangrove regeneration. These fishing canals exhibit the ingenuity of the local communities based on the symbiotic relationship between mangroves and their fishing-dependent livelihood.
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Ravindra Singh - Programme Director
Indo-German Biodiversity Programme
Dr. Geetha Nayak – Team Leader and Advisor
Wetlands Management for Biodiversity and Climate Protection project (IKI-BMU)
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Biodiversity, wetlands, communities, green recovery, mangroves, canal, fishing, India
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| Training potential members of Community Primary Response teams in Uttarakhand |
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Local communities are at the direct helm of human-wildlife conflicts. Forming and empowering the Primary Response Team (PRT) at the village level with community members of the panchayats through participatory approaches will institutionalise a dedicated cadre of village level response team of youth and women at the project pilot sites. To facilitate the process of forming the PRTs and building understanding and competency of the community response teams, 11 one-day consultations and sensitisation workshops were organised in selected villages of Haridwar-Rajaji Landscape by GIZ in association with Centre for Environment Communication and Uttarakhand State Forest Department.
Link to further information
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Ravindra Singh - Programme Director
Indo-German Biodiversity Programme
Dr. Neeraj Khera - Project Manager and Senior Advisor
‘Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation in India’ project
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Biodiversity, forest, human-wildlife conflict, mitigation, coexistence
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| Workshop for Field Staff at Renuka Wetland |
| Fishing canal prior to restoration. © DHAN Foundation |
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As a response to COVID-19 and the lockdown, green recovery measures are being implemented at the Point Calimere Ramsar site in India. These measures offer employment opportunities to communities around the site in the short-term while building long-term resilience through management of healthy wetland ecosystems. The measures are focused on the implementation of livelihood-oriented training, conservation, and restoration activities. |
Link to full article
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Ravindra Singh - Programme Director
Indo-German Biodiversity Programme
Dr. Geetha Nayak – Team Leader and Advisor
Wetlands Management for Biodiversity and Climate Protection project (IKI-BMU)
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| Workshop Series on Nature-based Solutions |
| Workshop Series on Nature-based Solutions (NbS). © GIZ / Lea Habitz |
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Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are innovative actions providing benefits for human well-being and biodiversity. Their strength is their intersectoral character. To enhance capacities on NbS, the Biodiversity WG of SNRD AP and the Sector Programme Conservation of Biodiversity on Land organised a workshop series on NbS and… I) Ecosystem-based Adaptation, II) Gender transformative |
approaches, III) Agriculture and IV) the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. Missed an event? Recordings and documentation are available. Since we received such positive feedback, stay tuned for a continuation in 2022.
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Contact Person
Carina van Weelden – Co-Speaker
Biodiversity Working Group, SNRD Asia and the Pacific
Carolin Frisch - Advisor
Sector Programme Conservation of Biodiversity on Land
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NbS, post-2020 global biodiversity framework, agriculture, gender
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| Working Group Climate Change Adaptation |
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| A new data-driven tool helps identify ‘Adaptation Actions’ in Thailand’s water sector |
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Projected future scenarios of intensifying impacts of climate change entail a great urgency for intensified adaptation efforts to help humans and nature cope with the adverse climate impacts. As the water sector is one of the key areas in climate adaptation, the Thai-German Climate Programme-Water (TGCP-Water) has been supporting Thailand’s Office of National Water Resources (ONWR) and water-related |
agencies on developing the ‘Adaptation Project Checklist’ which helps identify projects that qualify as adaptation in the water sector. This will contribute to national and international reporting of climate adaptation by the water sector in line with Thailand’s National Adaptation Plan and the recently finalized agreements under the Enhanced Transparency Framework of the Paris Agreement.
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Phoossarapha Thongjumrool – Junior Professional
Thai-German Climate Program- Water (TGCP-Water)
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Climate change adaptation, water resilience, data-driven, adaptation action
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| Macroeconomic Modelling Trainings for Climate Resilient Economic Development in Vietnam |
| DGE-CRED training participants in CIEM, Hanoi. Source: GIZ - CRED project in Vietnam |
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The global programme Policy Advice for Climate Resilient Economic Development (CRED) supports Vietnam in integrating climate risk into macroeconomic modelling to enhance climate resilient economic development. This autumn, the project conducted training sessions in Vietnam to enhance capacities for working with the Dynamic General Equilibrium Model for Climate Resilient Economic Development (DGE-CRED). The DGE-CRED model was developed by the programme to assess future climate change impacts on Vietnam’s national economy and identify |
effective adaptation options. The training course included sessions on climate change scenarios in different sectors. The modelling course was preceded by a preparatory software training (MATLAB and Dynare). Read More
Link to further Information
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Chi Kim Dang - National Advisor
Global Programme “Policy Advice for a Climate Resilient Economic Development” (CRED), GIZ Vietnam
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Climate change adaptation, climate resilience, macroeconomic modelling, Vietnam
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The topic of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) has attracted growing attention and is often discussed in the international community. NbS are considered to be a promising way of tackling socio-environmental challenges such as climate change, food security, human health and biodiversity loss. Read More |
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Zahra Mutiara - Advisor
Climate Smart Land Use (CSLU) in ASEAN
Key buzzwords
Nature-based Solutions, ASEAN, climate smart agriculture practice, climate smart land use
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| Promoting a systemic approach for better climate-smart land use practices in ASEAN |
| Illustration Reflection of the ASEAN Conference on Policy and Governance for Climate-Smart Land Use, held virtually on 16 – 18 November 2021. Graphic: GIZ/Tikka Hun. |
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‘We need to outsmart climate change.’ This important message was highlighted during the virtual ASEAN Conference on Policy and Governance for Climate-Smart Land Use between 16-18 November 2021. The event promoted a systemic view to the interlinkages between policy, governance, climate change and land use in food, agriculture and forestry. Read More
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Hanna Reuter - Principal Advisor
Climate Smart Land Use (CSLU) in ASEAN
Key buzzwords
ClimateSmartASEAN, climate change, land use, conference
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| Climate-Smart Land Use Insight Brief Series |
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The series consists of six papers which aim to raise awareness for the climate change mitigation and adaptation potentials of selected climate-smart land use practices and to promote their application in Southeast Asia. The papers have been published between May and October 2021 and cover the following approaches:
- Integrated agriculture-aquaculture
- Alternate wetting and drying
- Climate services
- Silvopastoral systems
- Sustainable soil management
- Forest landscape restoration (coming up)
Link to Publication
Contact Person
Diella Dachlan - Communication Advisor
Climate-Smart Land Use (CSLU) in ASEAN
Key buzzwords
Climate smart land use, climate, agriculture, mitigation
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| Leadership for Responsive Climate Actions in Agriculture, Forestry and Food systems: Insights from the ASEAN Climate Leadership Programme |
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This brief discusses the role of systemic leadership in addressing climate change-related land use challenges in Southeast Asia. It reflects on the role of leadership in promoting transformational change towards a low-carbon, resilient and food secure economy and society, both globally and regionally. It builds upon insights from the ASEAN Climate Leadership Programme (ACLP) as a contribution to the work of the ASEAN Climate Resilience Network (ASEAN-CRN). It outlines the ACLP’s underlying theory, discusses experiences from the programme and provides inspiration as to how systemic leadership for climate-smart land use can be further promoted in the context of ASEAN.
Link to Publication
Contact Person
Diella Dachlan - Communication Advisor
Climate-Smart Land Use (CSLU) in ASEAN
Key buzzwords
Climate smart land use, climate action, leadership |
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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
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INA Newsletter - Read news from the Initiative for Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains (INA), an association of players from within the private sector, civil society, and politics.
Indo-German Biodiversity Programme Issue no. 16, November 2021 - This bi-monthly newsletter is a service by the Indo-German Biodiversity Programme (IGBP). The newsletter features project updates from across India and interesting thematic articles on the challenges of biodiversity conservation and management from the IGBP projects. Subscribe here.
Sector Network TUEWAS - Sector Network Transport, Environment, Energy, and Water in Asia. Click here to subscribe to TUEWAS Newsletter!
SNRD Africa - Stay informed what is happening with our sister network
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