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LEADERSHIP 101: Step-by-step guide to sparking action

In starting a new initiative, step 1 is often the hardest to take. This session brings together six incredible community leaders who have not only taken the first step toward creating the change they want to see in the world, but who have also gone on and achieved it. Bringing leading speakers from the ‘Voices of the Landscape’ Plenary and the ‘Creating our Shared Future’ Youth Plenary, this 1-hour interactive session is your chance to hear them share their recipes for success and answer questions on how you can do the same.

Part 1: Voices from the Landscapes (30 min)

Janene Yazzie, Co-founder, Sixth World Solutions
Katherine Mana-Galido, Advocacy Program Coordinator, NTFP-EP Philippines
Nana Yaw Osei-Darkwa, Convener & Team Lead, The Green Republic Project

Part 2: Creating our Shared Future (30 min)

Fe Cortez, Founder Menos 1-Lixo
Lawrence Afere, Founder Springboard Nigeria
Sarah Dickson-Hoyle, Founding Member Youth in Landscapes Initiative

Join in on this intimate conversation with leading speakers of GLF Bonn 2018.

Looking for a deeper dive? Sign up now for a free, month-long course on landscape leadership with the GLF Landscape Academy.

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GLF at COP24

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.

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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Amplifying grassroots movements

Building a movement – rallying thousands of people towards collective action – is an undeniably exciting concept, but what does it actually mean to create a movement? And how does one movement build?

In an era of buzzwords, this GLF Digital Summit will break down how any project, organization, or idea can systematically build a ground swell of community support and action. This interactive conversation will provide participants with both innovative outreach tactics and a framework to amplify grassroots movements. By answering key questions on movement building, as it relates to sustainable landscapes, and the use of digital and social media tools, participants will learn how to light a flame to spark a movement and maintain the fire.

Expert speakers will analyze real-life case studies from the GLF community and projects showcased at GLF Bonn 2018 while providing advice on how to mobilize community support and raise awareness. Featuring experts from digital strategies and the landscapes approach, participants to this digital summit will learn to:

Un-pack the idea of a movement and define their own, project-specific movement
Apply the framework of a landscape approach to engage all stakeholders and ensure sustainability
Understand an array of communication tools to amplify your message
Utilize digital strategies to amplify messages and mobilize communities towards action

Speakers: Pooja Munshi, Cora van Oosten, Yusuf Yahya

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Telling stories about landscapes – GLF Bonn 2018 Media Workshop

Telling stories about landscapes – Insights from media and science

Join our first GLF online Media workshop, pitch stories and win reporting prizes and reporting grants

Are you a journalist or a media specialist interested in sustainable development and the role that landscapes play in environmental and human wellbeing? There are many, many stories out there waiting to be told and we have all the tools to help you. Please join us at our upcoming GLF Media Workshop.

Our proposal?

Join our digital summit to discuss environmental and human stories related to landscapes and explore some of the best tools and techniques you can use for reporting in a way that speaks to both your editor and to a global audience. Experts from media and science will host an online conversation to share their experiences and tips on how to bring your reporting to the next level; get the scoop on where and how you can dig out overlooked, but critical issues around landscapes. Pick our experts’ brains with your questions and use this first-time GLF session for the media to enrich your work.
Register for and attend the GLF Bonn digital edition – watch the livestream, check the agenda, request interviews and more.
Write or produce stories from the GLF Bonn digital edition and win prizes. Prizes will be awarded for the following categories:

outstanding feature story
video
radio report/podcast
photo essay

Write your stories based on the discussions at GLF Bonn 2018 and publish them on your respective media platforms.
Send us the link to your story by Thursday, 6 December at a.popescu@cgiar.org.
Should you require expert sources or have requests for online interviews with participants at the GLF Bonn, do get in touch with us at a.popescu@cgiar.org.
A specialist panel (to be announced) will judge the entries. The top entrant in each category will win a prize of $500.
Have in mind a local story that’s relevant for the GLF? Pitch it to us!
Many times great local stories remain uncovered as reporting can face financial difficulties. We want to see more of those stories come to light, so we are starting by offering three reporting grants of USD 1,000 each for the best pitches.Your pitch should contain:
- proposed story title
- a 300-400 word outline of your story idea and reporting approach
- how your story is connected to the themes and issues discussed at GLF Bonn 2018
- a provisional list of sources: who are you planning to interview, etc
- article budget: list and detail the story-associated costs

Terms and conditions:

By submitting a nomination, the media assets provided can be used by the GLF in its communication products and platforms.
By submitting media materials, those submitting agree to a creative commons, attribution, non-commercial share-alike license (BY-NC-SA). Competition organizers will use these materials for relevant GLF products. Those submitting media are not permitted to use these materials for commercial purposes.
Media professionals are required to attach an authorization signed by a representative of the media company employing them. This authorization should state that the organizers of the contest have permission to publish the author’s work.

Submit your story pitch by Wednesday, 13 December here.

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Take a Quiz

Setting ambitious goals for sustainability has been going on for decades through a range of commitments, declarations and agendas. How much do you know about some of these pledges? Take the quiz and invite your friends and family to test their knowledge.

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Engaging the Private Sector in Integrated Landscape Approaches: More examples from across Africa

Building on the engaging discussion forum 12 at GLF Nairobi, “Engaging the Private Sector in Integrated Landscape Approaches: Cases from the African Landscapes Action Plan”, this digital summit will provide bring additional examples from new geographies, new voices, and new insights to this important topic. Panelists will react to the key messages of the GLF Nairobi discussion forum:

Value chain approaches not sufficient to address sustainability issues, we need integrated landscape approaches.
Landscape management can be a de-risking strategy for financing development.
Private sector players and financial institutions can become interested in investing in the landscape if you make a clear business case. Most of them, however, don’t speak the language of landscape yet.

Engaging the private sector is a key action area within the African Landscapes Action Plan (ALAP), which, like AFR100, contributes to the African Resilient Landscapes Initiative (ARLI). Our digital summit panelists will provide insight from both the landscape partnership convener perspective, and from the private sector already engaged in landscape management initiatives.

By sharing cases from both perspectives, we can help both groups see the benefits, and acknowledge and address the challenges, of working together. Through these stories we hope to help more landscape initiatives reach out successfully to private sector partners, and to motivate more private sector actors, of all sizes, to actively seek out opportunities to be engaged and supportive partners in integrated landscape management in the landscapes where they operate. We believe that those working to advance sustainable land and resource use and forest and landscape restoration in Africa can benefit from the collective experience (both successes and failures/obstacles) in engaging with the private sector in the process of collaborative landscape management.

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GLF Climate Action in the Landscape at COP24

Read Concept Note

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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