MEV-CAM and InsightShare's Journey to PV: the trainings conclude!
19/01/2023
The ‘Making Every Voice Count for Adaptive Management’ Initiative has been collaborating with InsightShare over the course of 2022 to train and mentor carefully selected participants on participatory video (PV),...
MEV-CAM and DSL-IP make progress in Malawi
04/01/2023
The "Making Every Voice Count for Adaptive Management" (MEV-CAM) Initiative alters the way South-South knowledge management is approached by using local and indigenous knowledge to restore degraded drylands with more...
Update: WeCaN and MEV-CAM collaborate to further South-South knowledge exchange
23/12/2022
The last three months have been busy for the WeCaN Nurturing Community of Knowledge Practice for Women in dryland forests and agrosilvopastoral systems! We have held several training sessions and...
Looking at MEV-CAM through a Gender Lens
23/12/2022
The “Making Every Voice Count for Adaptive Management” initiative is an innovative approach that uses participatory methods of engagement to give a voice to community members and stakeholders alike, while...
Update: The COFO WG on Dryland Forests and Agrosilvopastoral Systems and DSL-IP strengthen collaboration
22/12/2022
Focal points from the Working Group on Dryland Forests and Agrosilvopastoral Systems of the Committee on Forestry (COFO WG) and the Sustainable Forest Management Impact Program on Dryland Sustainable Landscapes...
Urban greenery helps avert multiple crises for dryland cities, FAO report shows
21/12/2022
Rome – Rapidly expanding cities in very dry parts of the world must be turned into "green urban oases" to ensure they become both healthier places to live in and more...
MEV-CAM’s Forestry Technical Network webinar: A deep dive into Process Documentation and Participatory Video
19/12/2022
It has been a busy year for the Making Every Voice Count for Adaptive Management initiative: the last 12 months have seen the initiative expand its participatory approach to process...
WeCaN’s Forestry Technical Network webinar: celebrating achievements and discussing challenges after COP 27
05/12/2022
The UNFCCC 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27), held in Sharm el-Sheik in November, was a source of great pride for FAO’s WeCaN team, as we saw so many of...
Full steam ahead for the COFO Working Group
30/11/2022
As the end of the year draws close, the COFO Working Group on Dryland Forests and Agrosilvopastoral Systems are certainly not slowing down! Plans for 2023 are proceeding full steam...
Together, We Can raise our voices at COP 27!
10/11/2022
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 27th Conference of the Parties (COP 27) is well underway in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, where world leaders, ministers, civil society organisations...
This Rural Women’s Day, let’s fight for improved education for rural women globally
14/10/2022
The United Nations has designated October 15th every year as Rural Women’s Day.
This year, we want to highlight the importance of education for rural women, enabling them to safeguard biodiversity...
WeCaN trainees put negotiation skills into practice ahead of UNFCCC
30/09/2022
WeCaN’s members have benefited from an informative and useful training session conducted by Angela Ebeleke, one of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s National Gender & Climate Change Focal Points, designed...
La championne du WeCaN, Fernanda Monteiro : Les changements au Brésil, le point de vue d'une militant
23/09/2022
Rencontrez Fernanda Monteiro, agronome, géographe et militante de la société civile basée au Brésil, qui travaille depuis dix ans dans les régions arides de Serra do Espinhaço.
Les montagnes de la...
Summer School to target and accelerate the work of champions in local dryland forests and production systems
01/09/2022
The FAO Committee of Forestry Working Group on Dryland Forests and Agrosilvopastoral Systems is working on the launch of its first summer school, which will train champions on a transformative...
Environmental sustainability is a key part of humanitarian work in dryland regions
19/08/2022
Produced jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), CGIAR and CARE, Doing no harm while doing good: Climate and conflict sensitivity in dryland humanitarian projects follows on the heels of...
Rencontrez Angela Nyanchama, avocate à la Haute Cour du Kenya, et la championne WeCaN de ce mois-ci.
16/08/2022
Angela travaille actuellement avec des acteurs non étatiques à Nakuru, au Kenya, et entreprend son LLM à distance à l'université de Nairobi. Elle a obtenu son LLB à l'université Moi...
The Making Every Voice Count for Adaptive Management (MEV-CAM) Initiative's Module C What is the key message?
09/08/2022
“Scaling Out, Scaling Up and Scaling Deep” consists of a series of strategies directed at helping brilliant initiatives aimed at solving the most pressing and complex social and ecological problems...
Effectiveness and failures of gender responsive climate policy in action
29/07/2022
Third WeCaN enrichment session equips members with insights to advocate at UNFCCC CoP27
WeCaN members completed their third virtual enrichment session on "Gender justice at the centre of the UNFCCC CoP27....
New FAO e-learning course on building climate-resilient dryland forests and agrosilvopastoral systems is in the works
08/07/2022
FAO is set to launch a new e-learning course, designed to raise awareness of the impacts, and causes of forest degradation in drylands areas, and increase knowledge on the management...
MEV-CAM and the power of sharing experiences
30/06/2022
The ‘Making Every Voice Count for Adaptive Management’ (MEV-CAM) initiative has kicked off the next part of its training, a series of sessions known as “Case Clinics” and “Peer-to-Peer Sharing...