Blog | 19 Oct, 2022
How local communities restored degraded sebeya catchment in Rwanda
It is sunrise on Monday morning in Rutsiro District, in the mountainous western edge of Rwanda. A group of men, women and youth are ready to start work carving radical terraces into the steep slopes of the Kajugujugu site of Murunda Sector, Rutsiro District.
Blog | 10 Oct, 2022
Kigali-Rwanda: Research carried out in the Eastern Province of Rwanda under the DeSIRA Research Project, funded by the European Union Delegation in Rwanda, shows that indigenous trees have the potential to deal with the problem of drought and other soil related problems that have been…
Story | 27 Sep, 2022
Gender Equality: A Strategy for Conserving Coastal Biodiversity in Central America
IUCN, with support from USAID, is implementing a conservation project in sites of high coastal biodiversity in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, with a focus on social inclusion, to strengthen community governance of natural resources in contexts free of gender-based violence.
Blog | 09 Aug, 2022
The German Minister of Environment, Hon. Steffi Lemke, conveyed her satisfactions with the way Government of Rwanda in partnership with IUCN is implementing the Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) projects.
In 2011, Rwanda became the first country in Africa to pledge to restore…
Blog | 27 Jul, 2022
IUCN Green List programme is the first global standard of the best practice for area-based conservation. The programme aims to recognize and globally increase the number of protected and conserved areas that are fairly governed, effectively managed and achieving their conservation outcomes.
Story | 27 Jul, 2022
How the DeSIRA project is set to scale up agroforestry in Rwanda
The DeSIRA project, funded by the European Union, aims to enhance farmers’ livelihoods by generating knowledge through research that will help to scale up agroforestry in Rwanda.
Story | 25 Jul, 2022
Building the knowledge and capacity on Nature-based Solutions in the Western Balkans
IUCN team of experts has delivered a set of training events in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Serbia from March to July 2022 aiming to facilitate experience sharing, strengthen knowledge, and sensitise decision-makers, planners, and practitioners on the role of Nature-based…
Press release | 23 Jul, 2022
IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress culminates in Kigali Call to Action
Kigali, Rwanda, 23 July 2022 – The inaugural IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) closed today with the adoption of the Kigali Call to Action by more than 2,400 participants from across the continent and beyond.
Story | 20 Jul, 2022
Enhancing legal and policy frameworks for Nature-based Solutions in the Western Balkans
Until now, there has been no systematic and consistent approach to legal and policy analysis that addresses the integration of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) into development strategies, sectoral policies and legal instruments to tackle climate change and disaster risks. In responding to this gap…