Story | 13 Feb, 2024
IUCN Rwanda Country Office knowledge products
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature - IUCN opened an office in Rwanda in 2016, in order to support the Government of Rwanda in achieving its overall conservation and development objectives. Since then, it has implemented various projects that have contributed to Rwanda’s…
News | 23 May, 2023
SUSTAIN Eco, a new project aiming to balance sustainability with growth in Tanzania, launched
The Vice President’s Office of the United Republic of Tanzania, the Embassy of Sweden in Tanzania, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have today launched a new project ‘SUSTAIN Eco’ to support ecosystem management across government, businesses, and with local…
Blog | 31 Jan, 2023
TREPA project steering committee meets to review progress and plan for the quarter ahead
31-01-2023- Kigali, Rwanda – The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the accredited entity of TREPA project to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment have today hosted the second project steering committee meeting of Transforming…
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 | 04 Sep, 2020
Three landscape conservation projects converge in the Kilombero Valley
Kilombero Valley in Tanzania is an area of high biodiversity – including a Ramsar listed wetland – that is under ever-increasing human pressure. It is also part of the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT), a public-private partnership initiated through…
Story | 19 Sep, 2018
CEESP News- Catherine Sayer, IUCN Program Officer, and Cory Whitney, University of Bonn
A recent assessment of the livelihoods value of freshwater biodiversity in the Lake Victoria Basin in Eastern Africa has demonstrated that freshwater plants and fishes are key to supporting the…