GLF AFRICA 2022 DIGITAL CONFERENCE
Here’s how you can get involved in the upcoming GLF Africa Digital Conference
Get involved at GLF
GLF Africa Postcard
Solidarity Session
Storytelling Contest
Suggest a Speaker
Attract Top Talent at the Africa Job Fair
Volunteer
Sponsor the Conference
Host a Digital Session
Host a Digital Launchpad
Photo Competition
Newsroom
GLF Africa Postcard
Solidarity Session
Storytelling Contest
Suggest a Speaker
Attract Top Talent at the Africa Job Fair
Volunteer
Sponsor the Conference
Host a Digital Session
Host a Digital Launchpad
Photo Competition
Social Media Toolkit
Newsroom
GLF Africa Postcard
Make your postcard
African landscapes are the birthplace of some of the world’s most extraordinary civilizations and species. Join us for a visual journey across African landscapes!
How do I make a postcard?
- Upload your photo of an African landscape.
- Add the location.
- Select a style for your postcard.
- Share your postcard with the world!
Find out more here.
The GLF Africa 2022 Digital Conference will take place on 15 September 2022.
Host a Digital Session
Thank you for your interest in hosting a session at the GLF Africa 2022 Digital Conference. The deadline for submissions has now passed.
Lead a conversation, demonstrate that climate-smart landscape action works, help scale solutions, connect with stakeholders, showcase bankable projects to accelerate the adoption of nature-based solutions and boost your organization’s engagement and reach.
Why host a session at GLF Africa?
Promote your organization, brand and message in English and French, reaching millions of stakeholders in 185 countries
Engage with the GLF’s youth network of more than 60,000 young professionals from 156 countries
Connect and engage with key players from across Africa and the globe in agriculture, climate, restoration, and land-use agenda
Inform recommendations for the strategic design and implementation of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and relevant policy frameworks in Africa
Host Benefits
You and your organization will receive the full support of the Global Landscapes Forum’s knowledge, learning, communications, digital, event and youth teams, as well as the GLF’s partners, in creating and delivering a session, including:
- Continuous support in developing, planning and delivering the session, including guidance on team roles, script, and format. The GLF team will help you optimize participatory engagements from upwards of 900 “in-room” participants.
- Help with engaging your target audience through pre-event online activities and interactive components within sessions.
- A dedicated session page, session webcard design, marketing toolkits, free tickets, logo placement, support in producing a white paper (optional), and much more.
- Full technical support including pre-conference run throughs, post-conference analytics, platform integration, Zoom background advice from a TV producer, and more.
About the Session
The GLF Africa Digital Conference 2022 will take place on 15 September 2022.
Price: 8,500 Euros per session*
Session Length: 60 minutes
Deadline: 12 June 2022
The GLF Knowledge Team will be in touch to share further details and answer any questions you have. If you can’t host a session at this time, there are many other ways to participate.
*To sign up for two slots, please fill out the form twice. Your session fee will include an automatic contribution of solidarity sessions which are given to organizations that could not otherwise afford to participate at GLF Africa 2022.
The GLF Africa 2022 Digital Conference will take place on 15 September 2022.
See for yourself!
Our last Africa event, the GLF Africa 2021 Digital Conference, reached over 32 million people on social media, and provided a crucial platform for 223 speakers – including 108 women and 35 youth – to share knowledge, shape policy and galvanize global support for Africa’s drylands ahead of the launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030.
Host a Digital Launchpad
Thank you for your interest in hosting a launchpad at the GLF Africa 2022 Digital Conference. The deadline for submissions has now passed.
The GLF is calling for applications to host a digital launchpad at the GLF Africa 2022 Digital Conference.
What is a launchpad?
It’s our version of a press conference. GLF Africa 2022 Digital Conference could be your report or campaign’s jumping-off point. Reach a global audience of over 50 million on social and global media by launching your initiative, book or report, new technology, alliance or pledge to the world and to the media, following in the footsteps of the International Partnership for Blue Carbon, AFR100, the 20×20 Initiative, the Indonesian National Carbon Accounting System (INCAS), South Pole, the GEF-7 Dryland Sustainable Landscapes Impact Program, the Luxembourg-GLF Finance for Nature Platform and more.
Host Benefits
You and your organization will receive the full support of the Global Landscapes Forum’s knowledge, learning, communications, digital, event and youth teams, as well as the GLF’s partners, in creating and delivering a session, including:
- Social media and global media support from the GLF
- A 45-minute digital press conference (launchpad) in the agenda with promotion support from the GLF communications team
- Digital logo placement on event communication and website materials
- Social and traditional media, communications and outreach support
- Complimentary tickets to the conference
About the Launchpad
The GLF Africa Digital Conference 2022 will take place on 15 September 2022. What will you launch to the world?
Price: 6,500 Euros per launchpad
Launchpad length: 45 minutes
Deadline: 12 June 2022
See for yourself!
Our last African event, GLF Africa 2021: Restoring Africa’s Drylands, reached over 32 million people on social media and provided a crucial platform for 223 speakers – including 108 women and 35 youth – to share knowledge, shape policy and galvanize global support for Africa’s drylands ahead of the launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030).
Volunteer at GLF Africa 2022
When you volunteer with the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), you’ll work with other inspiring young leaders to promote a message that’s essential for our time – and for the next generation. We’ll be counting on you and your skills to make sure it all shakes out in the best way possible. All volunteers will receive a certificate.
Volunteer roles:
- Rapporteur: help the GLF knowledge team in taking notes during sessions
- Quote and Moment catchers: help the communications team catch the most inspiring quotes and moments (screenshots) during each session you join
- Translator: support the GLF Team with translations between English and French
- Chat and Q&A moderator: sharpen your facilitation skills by moderating online discussions or chats (for English and French)
- Live interviewer: Interview our special guests and speakers live on stream
Deadline: 27 August, 23:59 CEST
The GLF Africa 2022 Digital Conference will take place on 15 September 2022.
See for yourself!
Our last African event, GLF Africa 2021: Restoring Africa’s Drylands, reached over 32 million people on social media and provided a crucial platform for 223 speakers – including 108 women and 35 youth – to share knowledge, shape policy and galvanize global support for Africa’s drylands ahead of the launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030).
Photo Competition: GLF Africa 2022
Photographers from all over the world, prepare your cameras. We’re now accepting applications for the GLF Africa 2022 Photo Competition.
We want you to send us your best photographs of the African continent – from Algeria's Sahara desert to South Africa’s busy urban skylines, from local communities restoring their land to youth and women creating local solutions and opportunities.
Entries will be accepted until 10 May. Finalists will be announced on 20 May, with the winners announced in June.
Deadline: 10 May 2022
See for yourself!
Our last African event, GLF Africa 2021: Restoring Africa’s Drylands, reached over 32 million people on social media and provided a crucial platform for 223 speakers – including 108 women and 35 youth – to share knowledge, shape policy and galvanize global support for Africa’s drylands ahead of the launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030).
Suggest a Speaker
Do you know of someone who belongs on the Global Landscapes Forum digital stage? Do you belong there yourself? We want to hear from you! Please use our speaker suggestion form and suggest speakers for the GLF Africa 2022 Digital Conference on 15 September.
See for yourself!
Our last African event, GLF Africa 2021: Restoring Africa’s Drylands, reached over 32 million people on social media and provided a crucial platform for 223 speakers – including 108 women and 35 youth – to share knowledge, shape policy and galvanize global support for Africa’s drylands ahead of the launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030).
Sponsor the Conference
The GLF Africa 2022 Digital Conference will gather thousands of frontline leaders who are tackling the climate crisis head on. Featuring leading changemakers, voices, and thinkers from across Africa and the rest of the world, GLF Africa 2022 will demonstrate the power of community-led action for food security, drought management, and healthy ecosystems. Your sponsorship will help us make the conference even more inclusive and accessible and enhance its long-term impact.
Sponsorships allow us to run special youth programs, organize watch parties (in accordance with COVID-19 safety protocols) in areas with little internet access, and offer additional solidarity booths and sessions to voices (especially those of Indigenous Peoples) that should be heard but do not have the means to cover the associated fees. After the conference, your support will help us maintain the material online and create a community-led conservation alliance in the region. Your sponsorship allows us to go the extra mile and make a difference!
Why sponsor GLF Africa?
- Most importantly, because Africa and its people matter – and local communities and Indigenous Peoples are some of the world’s best environmental stewards.
- Highlight your thought leadership in sustainability and inspire others to follow suit.
- Support and become part of an active global community of changemakers.
- Foster brand association with a powerful and fast-growing environmental movement: past sponsors received more than 1 million impressions on their logos during and after our conferences.
How to become a sponsor?
Here are some of the many ways you can partner with GLF Africa and support the region. Please contact Nina Haase to discuss customized sponsorship packages for the event and beyond.
See for yourself!
Our last African event, GLF Africa 2021: Restoring Africa’s Drylands, reached over 32 million people on social media and provided a crucial platform for 223 speakers – including 108 women and 35 youth – to share knowledge, shape policy and galvanize global support for Africa’s drylands ahead of the launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030).
Attract Top Talent at the Africa Job Fair
Thank you for being so interested in involving your organizing at the Africa Job Fair 2022. The deadline for submissions has now passed.
Present your organization’s work and relevant professional development opportunities to the brightest young minds on the continent.
An avenue for job-seeking young people to network, communicate and learn more about employers, organizations and companies in the Africa region.
If you represent an organization and would like to introduce your work and related job opportunities, write an email to e.omoit@cgiar.org, subject “Africa job fair”.
Deadline: 17 July 2022
Solidarity Session
Host a digital solidarity session
Thank you for your interest in hosting a solidarity session at the GLF Africa 2022 Digital Conference. The deadline for submissions has now passed.
If you’re an African grassroots organization, a women’s, youth or farmer’s group, or an African innovator, we’d like to welcome you to host a digital solidarity session at GLF Africa 2022. Build a conversation, share your solutions, and connect with new stakeholders to boost your impact.
Why host a session at GLF Africa?
- Promote your work, mission and message among millions of stakeholders in 185 countries in English and French.
- Connect and engage with key players and new stakeholders across Africa and the globe in the agriculture, climate, restoration, and land use agenda.
You can apply to host a solidarity session if:
- You are a digital innovator, farmers’ group, local leader, organization and initiative dedicated to building a holistic, sustainable food future for Africa.
- You want to promote a new narrative for achieving food security, sovereignty and climate-resilient agriculture that works with nature and for communities.
- You want to showcase best practices and successful models for accelerating youth and women leadership.
- You want to identify effective policies, investments, and new social norms that ensure equitable governance of land access, ownership, or other key rights.
What’s in it for you?
You and your organization will receive the full support of the GLF team to create and deliver your session, including:
- Continuous support to develop, plan and deliver the session, including guidance on your team roles, script, and format ideas. The GLF team will help you optimize participatory engagements of at least 300 in-person participants.
- Help in engaging your target audience through pre-event online activities and interactive components within sessions. The GLF team will provide a dedicated session page, session webcard design, marketing toolkits, free tickets, logo placement, support in producing a white paper (optional), and much more.
- Full technical support, including pre-conference run-throughs, post-conference analytics, platform integration, Zoom background advice from a TV producer, and more.
About the Session
Use this form to apply for a 45-minute digital solidarity session, completely free of charge. You will be notified in the third week of July if your session has been selected for the GLF Africa 2022 Digital Conference.
Length of solidarity digital session: 45 minutes
Price: Free
Deadline: 15 July 2022
The GLF Africa 2022 Digital Conference will take place on 15 September 2022.
Storytelling Contest
African Youth Storytelling Contest
This year, we’re challenging the dominant narratives on Africa – and we need your help to make it happen.
The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) and the Youth in Landscapes Initiative (YIL) are hosting The Stories of Africa, a youth storytelling contest that aims to amplify critical voices from across the African continent.
We’re looking for perspectives from Indigenous Peoples, local communities, pastoralists, women leaders, farmers, and community leaders on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
- Food systems and livelihoods
- Land tenure and rights
- Land degradation and restoration
- Youth initiatives
- Women’s leadership
What’s in it for you?
The three best stories will receive prizes of EUR 500, 300 and 200 respectively. We will also be showcasing the best 10 to 15 stories and announcing the winner stories at the GLF Africa 2022 Digital Conference on 15 September 2022, which will be attended by thousands and reach millions via social media and the press.
Deadline: 14 August 2022
The GLF Africa 2022 Digital Conference will take place on 15 September 2022.
Social Media Toolkit
A growing restoration movement across Africa is working to restore the continent’s degraded landscapes and feed its people sustainably. Join us at GLF Africa 2022 and spread the news!
Make your own #GLFAfrica postcard now and share it with the world here.
Newsroom
Make the most of GLF Africa 2022, where frontline African and global leaders will convene to transform the future of food and build climate resilience. Apply for a press pass to attend the conference, request interviews, read our media advisories, access visuals to enrich your content, connect with the GLF communications team, and much more.
Would you like to be a GLF Africa media partner? We want to hear from you!
For any questions, send us an email at media@globallandscapesforum.org.
EVENT BENEFITS
- Promotion of your organization, brand and message in two languages (English and French) to millions of stakeholders in 185 countries
- Connect with key players working towards sustainable landscapes, finance, and agriculture in Africa
- Learn about cutting-edge innovation and engagement with thought leaders and economic experts on key issues
- Speaking opportunities in a network of leading international organizations across sectors
- Engage in bilateral and multilateral dialogues on pressing topics
- Increase opportunities for achieving cross-sector partnerships
- Contribute to the paradigm shift required to achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, Sustainable Development Goals and the global biodiversity framework.
Social Media Toolkit