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Accra now:

Saturday, 26 October 2019

Accra: UTC/GMT
09:00-17:00
Youth in Landscapes Camp
Fourth AFR100 Annual Partnership Meeting

Sunday, 27 October 2019

Accra: UTC/GMT
09:00-17:00
Youth in Landscapes Camp
Fourth AFR100 Annual Partnership Meeting

Monday, 28 October 2019

Accra: UTC/GMT
09:00-18:00
hACCRAthon and Youth in Landscapes Camp
Omidyar Network
FAO Regional Office for Africa (RAF)
Fourth AFR100 Annual Partnership Meeting
FAO Regional Office for Africa (RAF)

Tuesday, 29 October 2019

Accra: UTC/GMT
08:00-12:00
Fourth AFR100 Annual Partnership Meeting
10:00-11:30
Digital Summit: Land Tenure Reform in Africa and its Implication to Landscape Restoration on the Continent

Thursday, 31 October 2019

Accra: UTC/GMT
09:00-12:00
Youth Dialogue on the UN Ecosystem Restoration
FAO Regional Office for Africa (RAF)
13:00-17:00
National Dialogue: Nothing to Waste – Seizing Agro-waste to Create Jobs and Wellbeing
FAO Regional Office for Africa (RAF)

GLF Accra 2019

Accra: UTC/GMT
07:30-08:45
Registration
09:00-19:00
AsaseFest
AsaseFest Area (Lobby)
09:00-09:30
Morning Introduction: Connecting Communities – Catalysts for Restoration RECORDED
Main Hall
As we look toward the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, now is the critical time to share knowledge, create new thinking and identify and scale innovative solutions for landscape restoration that is inclusive and ensures the rights of all stakeholders. GLF Accra will begin with an energising session that aims to inspire participants, foster networking and relationship building and gather ideas and valuable inputs on the needs of the GLF community during this critical Decade.
If you are unable to attend the briefing, you can go straight to the interactive consultations.
09:30-11:00
Interactive Consultations COMPLETED
Youth
Youth in Landscapes Initiative (YIL) with Global Landscapes Forum
Main Hall
Restoration
Global Landscapes Forum
Networking Area
Rights
Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) with COLANDEF, GLF Gender Constituency
Consultation Pavilion
Gender
Committee Hall 1
11:00-11:45
Coffee Break and Networking
11:10-11:40
Speed Networking
Networking Area
11:45-12:30
Plenary: Sparking A Mass Restoration Movement RECORDED
Main Hall
12:30-13:30
Plenary: Restoring Africa’s Landscapes – From the Ground Up RECORDED
Main Hall
13:30-15:00
Lunch and Networking
14:00-14:45
Launchpad: Landscape and Jurisdictional Approaches to Sustainable Land Management
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) with International Climate Initiative (IKI), Governing Multifunctional Landscapes (GML)
Committee Hall 2
14:20-14:50
Speed Networking
Networking Area
15:00-16:30
Interactive Session: Accelerating the Implementation of REDD+ and Results-based Payments in Africa RECORDED
(UN REDD Programme) FAO, UNDP and UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
Main Hall
Interactive Session: Peatlands Restoration, Conservation and Sustainable Management as an Effective Solution to Climate Change Challenges in Africa with a Focus on the Nile Basin RECORDED
UN Environment Programme (UNEP) with Global Peatlands Initiative
Committee Hall 1
Workshop: Understanding Rural Youth Migration and its Leading Factors
Youth in Landscapes Initiative (YIL)
Meeting Room 1
Workshop: Operationalizing Landscape Approaches for Nature, Development and Sustainability in Ghana and Zambia
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) with University of Amsterdam
Meeting Room 2
16:30-16:45
Transition to Main Hall
16:45-17:45
Afternoon Plenary: Restoring Africa’s Landscape – Connecting Efforts RECORDED
Main Hall
18:00-19:00
Interactive Session: Enhancing Natural Resource Governance in Ghana RECORDED
IUCN Ghana with A Rocha Ghana, SNV Ghana
Committee Hall 1
19:00-22:00
Reception and Evening Concert by DJ Switch and Rocky Dawuni
Outside Garden

GLF Accra 2019

Accra: UTC/GMT
07:30-08:45
Registration
09:00-19:00
AsaseFest
AsaseFest Area (Lobby)
09:00-10:30
Launchpad: Scaling Up the High Conservation Value (HCV) Approach RECORDED
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) with HCV Resource Network
Committee Hall 2
Interactive Session: Restoring Forests, Restoring Communities: How Secure Resource Rights Help Communities in Africa Restore Forests and Build Local Economies
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) with World Agroforestry (ICRAF), CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA), CGIAR People, Institutions and Markets (PIM)
Committee Hall 1
Interactive Session: Sustainable Rangeland Management in a Changing Environment: An Introduction to Good Practices RECORDED
TerrAfrica with World Bank
Main Hall
Consultation: The Network of African Women Environmentalists
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
Meeting Room 3
09:00-11:00
Workshop: Removing the Blinders – Shifting Mindsets Through Connected Thinking for Better Landscapes RECORDED
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) with Design Thinking Ghana Hub
Meeting Room 1
10:30-11:15
Coffee Break and Networking
11:15-12:45
Plenary: The Decade to Act RECORDED
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) with Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Global Landscapes Forum
Main Hall
12:45-14:15
Lunch
14:15-15:45
Interactive Session: Third Dialogue on Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) and Bioenergy RECORDED
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), International Energy Agency Bioenergy Technology Collaboration Program (IEA Bioenergy), International Renewable Energy Agency - IRENA
Main Hall
Interactive Session: Burning Money in Landscapes? – Firefighting the Economic and Ecologic Damages of Bushfires RECORDED
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Committee Hall 2
Interactive Session: Harnessing Indigenous Knowledge to Address Climate Change – Lessons Learned from Around the World RECORDED
World Bank with Climate Investment Funds (CIF)
Committee Hall 1
Workshop: How Would You Approach Landscape Governance? Help Us Sort out Lessons from African Landscapes
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Meeting Room 1
15:45-16:20
Coffee Break and Networking
16:20-16:25
Musical Performance by Shade RECORDED
Main Hall
16:25-16:30
Inspirational Talk RECORDED
Main Hall
16:30-17:30
Plenary: African Women in Sustainable Business and Environment Management RECORDED
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
Main Hall
17:30-17:35
Inspirational Talk
17:35-18:10
Closing Plenary RECORDED
Main Hall
  • Joselyn Dumas

    Joselyn Canfor-Dumas Foundation

  • Rael Teresa Adhiambo

    Analyst in the Earth and Space Sciences Schedule, National Commission for Science and Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI)

18:10-18:15
Musical Performance by Shade RECORDED
Main Hall

Tuesday, 29 October 2019

Accra: UTC/GMT
14:00-14:45
Launchpad: Landscape and Jurisdictional Approaches to Sustainable Land Management
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) with International Climate Initiative (IKI), Governing Multifunctional Landscapes (GML)
Committee Hall 2

Wednesday, 30 October 2019

Accra: UTC/GMT
09:00-10:30
Launchpad: Scaling up the High Conservation Value (HCV) Approach
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) with HCV Resource Network
Committee Hall 2

Tuesday, 29 October 2019: Landscape Restoration On-the-ground, Examples from Ghana

Accra: UTC/GMT
09:00-09:30
Is landscape restoration a Nature-Based Solution?
Wageningen University Youth in Landscapes Forum (WUYLF)
AsaseFest Area (Lobby)
09:30-10:30
Overview of landscape restoration initiatives across Ghana
CSIR-Forest Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG)
AsaseFest Area (Lobby)
10:30-11:30
Landscape restoration as a means to mainstream biodiversity
Satoyama Initiative with Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL)
AsaseFest Area (Lobby)
13:30-14:30
Making restoration work through business
FORM International
AsaseFest Area (Lobby)
14:30-15:30
Life After Gold: Research-based Green Model for Restoration of Abandoned Mine Sites in Ghana
A Rocha with Tropenbos Ghana
AsaseFest Area (Lobby)
15:30-16:30
Building with bamboo. Combining restoration and development with bamboo and rattan
International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR)
AsaseFest Area (Lobby)
18:00-19:00
From the outside in: lessons learned from community-restoration projects
Youth in Landscapes Initiative (YIL)
AsaseFest Area (Lobby)

Wednesday, 30 October 2019: Rights Based Restoration – Radical Inclusion of All

Accra: UTC/GMT
09:00-10:00
Mobilizing the Youth to Restore Ghana’s Northern Landscapes
The Green Republic
AsaseFest Area (Lobby)
10:00-11:00
Securing Land Rights for Landscape Restoration: Context, Experiences and Lessons
COLANDEF
AsaseFest Area (Lobby)
13:00-14:00
Pastoralism: participatory rangeland mapping
World Bank
AsaseFest Area (Lobby)
14:00-15:00
The Role of Storytelling in Inclusive and gender-responsive landscape restoration
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) with Water, Land and Ecosystems CRP
AsaseFest Area (Lobby)
15:00-15:30
Restoration in Education: Knowledge Gaps and Opportunities
University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana
AsaseFest Area (Lobby)
15:30-16:15
Towards a rights-based approach to landscape restoration
Solidaridad Network with Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Securing Rights Course Participants, Global Landscapes Forum
AsaseFest Area (Lobby)
16:15-16:30
Is landscape restoration a Nature-Based Solution?
Wageningen University Youth in Landscapes Forum (WUYLF)
AsaseFest Area (Lobby)
The 6th GLF Investment Case