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Project’s Official Name: Regional Climate Change Program (RCCP) (2013-2018)
Cooperating partner: USAID
Central America is one of the tropical regions most affected by climate change. It is...
CEESP generates and disseminates knowledge, mobilizes influence, and promotes actions to harmonize the conservation of nature with the critical...
Specialist Group on Gender Chair
Meher Marker NoshirwaniBio
Main Areas of Work
The SSG’s main areas of work include; Biodiversity, Climate Change, Access and...
Project AVE (Adaptation, Vulnerability and Ecosystems(2015-2018)
The project’s main objective is to collect, synthesize and use existing evidence on the benefits derived from ecosystem-based...
Office location
IUCN Regional Office for West Asia (ROWA) is located in Amman, Sweifiyeh Area, next to Ukraine Embassy
Abdel Latif Salah Street, building # 29, Sweifiyeh
P. O. Box 942230
Amman...
CEESP News - by Lydia Cardona, Conflict Resolution and Peace Manager, Conservation International
“We work arduously,” Mrs. Betty tells me over the...
Mrs. Betty is a leader among a cohort of indigenous women taking part in a sustainable livelihoods project Conservation International is leading in her community, a town 12,500 feet high in Bolivia’s...
On 24th to 27th September IUCN conducted field investigations at the Xe Champhone Ramsar wetlands in Champhone District, Savannakhet Province. The...
The landscape of the Xe Champhone Ramsar site has been severely modified due to expansion and encroachment of agricultural land around the wetlands. Increasing rice cultivation on wetland edges has...
COP 24 in Katowice faced many challenges that threatened the agreement on the Paris Rulebook including the lack of acceptance by some Parties to...
On the Paris Rulebook
When the results from Katowice are seen from a gender and social inclusion perspective, they are somewhat encouraging. For example, the Paris Rulebook continues to acknowledge...
A Regional Gender Study completed in 2018 has shown that many countries in Southeast Asia are not adequately integrating gender considerations into...
The workshop convened 60 policymakers and practitioners from national fisheries, forestry, women’s affairs and development agencies; international and regional organisations; and academia to reflect...
Project title: Identification of intervention areas, establishment of baseline information and development of a set of pilot projects in Kaluthara and Rathnapura flood-affected areas
Location: ...
IUCN Issues Briefs provide an accessible overview of the often complex issues related to nature conservation and climate change mitigation and...
Disasters and climate change
Nature-based solutions to disasters
Ecosystem-based adaptation
Building climate change resilience through ecosystem management
Forests and climate change...
CEESP News
The Chair of CEESP seeks nominations/expressions of interest for the position of TGER Chair. Candidates for the Chair should preferably...
The CEESP Theme on Governance, Equity and Rights (TGER) works to advance approaches to the conservation of nature that are grounded in and promote good governance, social equity and human rights....
Every year, for 16 days, from the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November to Human Rights Day on 10 December,...
For the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the campaign takes deeper meaning this year, as the Global Gender Office (GGO) – a part of IUCN’s Global Programme on Governance and...