Project | 28 Jul, 2021 - 31 Oct, 2022
Key basins and aquifers for biodiversity and ecological services - Vjosa River
Story | 09 Jul, 2024
BRIDGE 5 - IUCN launches the first series of dialogues in the Medjerda catchment area
This June, Tunisia hosted the first series of dialogues on "water diplomacy", bringing together stakeholders from the Medjerda catchment area. These dialogues follow the recommendations of the official launch in 2023 of the BRIDGE programme, which now includes the Medjerda in its fifth phase of…
Story | 10 Jun, 2024
Nairobi, Kenya: In April 2024, senior government officials from the Ministries and Agencies responsible for Water, Energy, Agriculture, Legal Affairs and Finance from Kenya and Uganda, in addition to staff from NELSAP-CU and IUCN met to action the next steps in the Sio-Malaba-Malakisi (SMM)…
Story | 10 Jun, 2024
Step into serenity: Unveiling new ecotourism sites in northern Pakistan
This year, the World Environment Day 2024 was marked by significant global efforts to promote environmental restoration and sustainability. IUCN Pakistan celebrated this day by inaugurating two ecotourism sites in Gilgit-Baltistan, located in northern Pakistan. Aiming to blend conservation with…
Story | 31 May, 2024
New training facility to boost capacity for wildlife conservation in SADC Region
IUCN ESARO launched a new Training Facility for Wildlife Rangers and TFCA Managers at the KAZA Summit, aiming to enhance conservation efforts across the SADC region through the SADC TFCA Financing Facility.
Other brief | 2024
The global community has developed a wide array of frameworks, tools, reporting systems, and guidance materials to help protected area and OECM managers assess the effectiveness of their areas and systems. These resources have been developed over time in response to CBD commitments and work has…
Story | 01 May, 2024
Empowering local communities for sustainable-use of natural resources through the Kiwa Initiative
In a bid to promote sustainable natural resource management, KGWan Eco-Habitat Inc. Kiwa Initiative project aimed at educating local communities has made progress in the Bismarck Forest Corridor in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Despite facing challenges, the project has achieved significant…
News | 04 Apr, 2024
National consultation on OECMs in Viet Nam
In December 2023, MONRE’s Nature Biodiversity Conservation Agency (NBCA), GIZ, IUCN, and WWF organized a national OECM workshop in Hanoi with participants from government agencies, researchers, non-state agencies, and development partners. This was a follow up workshop to a technical workshop in…
News | 21 Mar, 2024
Eighteen months into the fifth phase of IUCN’s Building River Dialogue and Governance programme (BRIDGE-5), regional coordinators and technical experts from ten IUCN offices met in Nairobi between 4 and 8 March 2024, to take stock of achievements until now and accelerate implementation. The full…
Blog | 22 Mar, 2024
Finite Flow, Infinite Impact - Uniting Borders for Peaceful Cooperation
Every year 22 March is marked as World Water Day, an international day to put water in the spotlight. For good or for bad. The good is, as we all know, water is still the most valuable resource in the world. Water sustains life, ecosystems, and economies. The bad, water is increasingly polluted…