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Kick-off event: Strengthening Women’s Land Rights – Crucial for SDG’s

STRENGTHENING WOMEN’S LAND RIGHTS: CRUCIAL FOR SDG’S

Kick-off event: meet female land rights champions, make your work more effective and join the festive launch of a photo exhibition

You are kindly invited to participate in an inspiring and informative event to discuss lessons learned from successful grassroots initiatives to improve land rights for women, supported by The Netherlands. What do these lessons mean for the gender ambitions in the policy note ‘Investing in Global Prospects’? How can we apply these lessons in our work on foreign trade and development cooperation?

Women and men’s equal rights to use, access and control land are crucial for the livelihoods, including income and health, of women, men and their families, as put forward in the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Land, Fisheries and Forests (VGGT). During this event, impact stories will be shared by women who are involved in different initiatives in order to generate concrete ideas for follow-up which should result in action and results on the ground.

For more information, you can find it here.

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NLandscapes learning event in Wageningen – What’s needed to scale-up landscape restoration?

Restoring our degraded landscapes is essential to meet global goals and provide a sustainable future. But prevailing systemic barriers prevent efforts reaching the necessary scale. What are these barriers and what can we do to achieve the impact that is so urgently needed?

The knowledge session aims to create a deeper understanding of the different approaches to scale-up landscape restoration, gain insight in approaches applied on the ground and identify ways forward in the cases discussed. We will investigate the dynamics of scaling and how scaling should take place. We’ll explore scaling from different angles, from scaling-out, to scaling-up and look at what scaling means for space, money and people and policy.

We will work in an interactive open setting, and bring the knowledge available in the network together around landscape restoration cases you are working on.

Therefore you are warmly invited to :

Bring your case

We will use the landscape restoration cases we are working on ourselves, address the questions and dilemmas we come across and share knowledge and expertise to identify steps forward.

Send us your landscape restoration case. For more information, please click here.

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ICIMOD learning event in Nepal – Bridging Boundaries

ICIMOD has been using river basin and transboundary landscape management approaches to work across borders and achieve shared goals. The Centre’s river basin approach takes into account a range of concerns—monitoring and assessment of water resources, water-induced risk management, and climate change adaptation and resilience building with particular focus on the poor and vulnerable. It adopts an integrated water resource management approach to improve current understanding of upstream-downstream linkages as well as the links between natural resource management and sustainable livelihoods.

The International Consultative Workshop on Strengthening Regional Cooperation across Transboundary Landscapes and River Basins in the Hindu Kush Himalaya provide a timely opportunity to envision possible mechanisms to enhance regional cooperation and to discuss priority actions for the same. It will also look into strengthening existing regional cooperation mechanisms.

For more information, please visit this link.

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Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development – Online Course

An engaging 5-week online course, which aims to equip participants with knowledge and skills to analyse and design policies that are coherent as well as mutually reinforcing across departments and agencies.

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The course will lay special emphasis on the importance of cross-organisational policy coherence between different levels of government, and on the need for collaboration and networking with regional and international actors. Highlighting the importance of the role of actors and institutions, the course will also cover review mechanisms and tools to provide a holistic approach to coherent policy making

About the course

Theoretical, practical and case study based approaches will be used to illustrate and support the concepts. There will be inputs by high-level speakers from the UN System, think tanks, academia as well as the OECD. Participants will get the opportunity to engage with the distinguished academics and leading experts through the live webinars. Assignments, exercises, quizzes and peer sharing spread across the different modules of the course will benefit the participants and add to their learning.

This course was designed by the UN System Staff College Knowledge Centre for Sustainable Development, in coordination with the National University of Singapore acting through its Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and the Hertie School of Governance based in Berlin and in collaboration with the OECD Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development Unit in Paris.

Objectives

Upon the successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

Explain the transformative nature of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and the importance of policy coherence for sustainable development in its implementation;
Demonstrate a clear understanding of the dimensions of sustainable development, identify interlinkages and interdependencies among the sustainable development goals (SDGs), and identify coherent policies that consider such interconnections;
Analyse policies that are mutually reinforcing across departments and agencies;
Cite examples of mechanisms that enhance policy coherence for sustainable development at local, national, and international level, its various challenges, and the tools to address them;
Enumerate strategies to overcome stakeholder conflict and building cooperation and trust between stakeholders.

Course Methodology

The 5-week online course will comprise of different modules. Each module will draw from case studies and examples to illustrate and support the concepts, and will include assignments and group work that prompt application. Each module will feature a quiz to enable participants to test their knowledge on the content. Learning will take place through reading materials, live webinars by distinguished academics and leading experts and through peer-sharing via discussion forums.

Course Contents

Week 1 will provide an introduction to the concept and evolution of policy coherence for sustainable development, explain vertical and horizontal coherence as well as the different mechanisms that enhance policy coherence across the policy cycle
Week 2 will discuss the need and ways to align policies to achieve sustainable development and how the concept has evolved in the post-2015 era
Week 3 will focus on the importance of policy coherence at national, regional, and international level and examples of policy coherence for sustainable development
Week 4 will look at tools and review mechanisms to assess integration of the 2030 Agenda at national level and tracking progress on policy coherence
Week 5 will focus on actors, institutions and stakeholders. A part of this module will also elaborate on the importance of political will for policy coherence

Target Audience

UN staff from headquarters, country teams or regional offices, government representatives, development practitioners as well as members of civil society, academia and foundations.

Cost of participation

The course fee of 500 USD will cover the following:

Unlimited access to course materials (video and key readings), recording of webinars and speakers’ presentations.
Participation in live webinars with renowned subject matter experts on sustainable development.
Exclusive access to UNSSC online social learning environment with training and supporting background materials, and the opportunity to stay connected with colleagues.
Certificates of Participation will be awarded to participants subject to the completion of all modules and quizzes, successful submission of exercises and assignments, and full participation in all live online sessions and discussion forums for each topic covered in the course.

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Think climate smart landscapes

Climate Change is impacting our landscapes, action is needed now! During this international short course, you will learn about the landscape approach, climate trends and adaptation actions to increase the resilience of your landscapes and its people.

We will provide you with practical and participatory tools, which allow you to assess the vulnerabilities of your landscapes and develop climate smart strategies. This way, you will look for synergies between various SDG goals!

Apply here

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GLF Climate Action in the Landscape at COP24

Read Concept Note

The Climate Action in the Landscape GLF will be second thematic forum to specifically focus on climate change and the interactive solutions that can be found within sustainable landscapes. The event will feature 4 sessions held throughout half a day at COP24 in Katowice and will align with the Five Pillars of the GLF: Livelihoods, Rights, Restoration, Finance, and Measuring Progress.

The event will bring together stakeholders from science and academia, civil society, indigenous peoples, practitioners and government representatives and will focus on climate action at the international and national level.
Climate Action in the Landscape will open with a High Level Plenary session reflecting on the role of land use and forests in the context of the IPCC Special Report on 1.5 degrees, to be followed by 3 consecutive Discussion Forums on topics related to:

Climate Action at scale through Forest Landscape Restoration: lessons learnt;
The role of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples (LCIP) Platform to Climate Actions in landscapes;
Putting into practice Article 5 of the Paris Agreement and the special role of ecosystems

For details of the GLF activities at COP24, read the Concept Note here.

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Food security in an urbanising society

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Geography of Governance: Landscape and Resource Management

A national environmental dialogue on landscape governance

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International Summer Course on Forest Landscape Restoration

Worldwide, landscapes are changing rapidly due to social-economic development and globalization. While such modifications have often brought prosperity for humans and societies, many adverse effects can be observed. Diverse ecological and cultural landscapes are disappearing at a rapid pace around the world, while local cultures and biodiversity have become threatened. Yet, we do know that affected landscapes can be restored. Many landscapes around the world – including in China, Brazil and the Netherlands – have successfully been restored. This restoration has however not been realised without facing governance challenges, particularly related to stakeholder involvement, multi-sector collaboration, choosing the right instruments, project implementation, and the development of landscape governance capacities at all levels and scales.

This Summer course is the second in a series of Summer courses exploring the contours of landscape governance, organised by Beijing Forestry University, Renmin University of China, Yunnan Forestry University and Wageningen University. This summer we will address the landscape governance challenges faced by China. China has experienced dramatic landscape changes over last a century, leading to large-scale deforestation, water and soil erosion, and lose of biodiversity. But over the past few decades, the country has been able to successfully reforest and restore landscapes at an impressive scale. In order to learn most effectively from China’s experience, the Summer course will deploy a combination of learning methods including lectures, academic reflections, practical games, field visits. and case studies. This combination of activities will allow the participants to not only acquire novel knowledge, but also the practical skills and new attitudes to successfully address landscape restoration and its governance in China.

for more information, contact Dr. Lingchao (ytlilingchao@126.com) and Prof. Dr. Liu Jinlong (liujinlong_jl@hotmail.com)

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Towards zero hunger: Partnerships for impact

We would like to invite you to the international SDG-conference ‘Towards zero hunger: Partnerships for impact’, on
30-31 August 2018 in Wageningen, The Netherlands. The conference is part of the many activities that are being organized during the 100 year anniversary of Wageningen University & Research (WUR).

SDG 2 (to end hunger, to achieve food security and improved nutrition, and to promote sustainable agriculture) and SDG 17 (creating partnerships) are the focus of the conference. Paul Polman (CEO Unilever), Akinwumi Adesina (President African Development Bank), Ertharin Cousin (former President World Food Programme) and Louise O. Fresco (President Wageningen University & Research) and many more speakers will lead the way in multiple actor participation and engagement, to discuss innovative transformative pathways. To tackle the challenges of the SDGs, various stakeholders from governments, science, industry and civil society will discuss issues as governance, balancing synergies and trade-offs, evidence base for sustainable food systems, and future collaboration. As the leading institute in food and agriculture, WUR feels committed to contribute to the SDGs in general and Zero Hunger in particular.

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