Blog | 16 Jan, 2023
IUCN Rwanda hosted the 15th National Forest Landscape Restoration Cross-Sectoral Task Force Meeting
The Government of Rwanda continues its efforts to protect forests, enhance biodiversity, and transform the livelihoods of Rwandans.
Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) is a process for designing and implementing landscape-level interventions to restore ecological functionality…
Blog | 13 Jan, 2023
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Rwanda Forestry Authority (RFA), and other partners was awarded by the Board of Director of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) a funding for implementing the “Transforming Eastern Province…
Blog | 06 Jan, 2023
List of knowledge products produced under the EWMR Project
INTRODUCTION
The Embedding Integrated Water Resource Management in Rwanda (EWMR) Project is a four-year project (May 2019 to June 2023), funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in Rwanda, with a total funding envelop of app. 24 million Euro.
The overall goal of…
Story | 22 Dec, 2022
Indigenous Women’s Insights – Stewarding the Earth
In November, all along the busy maze of pavilion buildings in Sharm el Sheik, an estimated 45,000 people snaked along corridors hoping to inform crucial discussions surrounding climate policy at the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention’s 27th Conference of Parties (UNFCCC COP 27).…
Story | 29 Nov, 2022
A thousand hills turn green: How Rwanda became a leader in forest landscape restoration
Rwanda is the Land of a Thousand Hills, but are these hills still healthy and productive? This is the story of how a small east African country took the unprecedented initiative to restore the functionality of lands that had lost the ability to support people and biodiversity.
Artículo | 24 Nov, 2022
Fortaleciendo el liderazgo y participación de las mujeres en las cuencas hidrográficas en Guatemala
La UICN (Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza), impartió un diplomado para formación de capacitadoras de grupos de mujeres de las comunidades rurales de las cuencas de los ríos Coyolate, Motagua, Samalá, Chixoy y Xayá Pixcayá en el altiplano central guatemalteco.
IUCN event
Biodiversity: Nature based solutions for climate resilience in Rwanda
This COP27 side event will showcase Rwanda’s achievements in using Nature-based Solutions for climate resilience. It will provide an opportunity for different partners, including the private sector, NGOs and CSOs, to understand how far Rwanda is in implementing the best practices for Nature-…
Artículo | 03 Nov, 2022
De cara a las Conferencias de las Partes (COP) sobre cambio climático y biodiversidad, a llevarse a cabo en Sharm El-Sheik y Montreal próximamente, la UICN (Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza), con el apoyo de la Fundación IKEA, presentaron en Guatemala el proyecto “…
Artículo | 02 Nov, 2022
En el contexto del desarrollo de capacidades locales para la acción climática, y el manejo de las cuencas hidrográficas e incentivos forestales y agroforestales para apoyar la recarga y producción de agua, la UICN (Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza) en el marco del…
Artículo | 28 Oct, 2022
Pescadores artesanales inauguran tienda de pesca responsable con el apoyo de USAID
Caribe Pesca se posiciona como la primera tienda en ofrecer las artes y accesorios adecuados para una pesca artesanal, selectiva, sostenible y segura.