CBD Capacity Development tools and resources

Esta solución integra la gestión de la biodiversidad a nivel municipal y la educación virtual, con el propósito de que los actores locales y sus administraciones municipales conozcan las competencias y las herramientas con las que cuentan para ser grandes aliados en el cuidado de la biodiversidad que está en sus territorios.

El cuidado de la biodiversidad es una tarea de todos los habitantes de un territorio. Las administraciones en especial tienen un rol importante en esta tarea, pero ¿saben cómo hacerlo? ¿Conocen las estrategias que pueden aplicar? En efecto, estas preguntas motivaron a diez (10) entidades a diseñar e implementar en Colombia el curso virtual “herramientas de conservación de la biodiversidad en municipios”.

We set up a plantotheque-school project in a 4,000 m² space in the heart of Fort-de-France’s urban district (Quartier de Tivoli).

Over a twelve-month period, CCPYPM selected and planted 150 medicinal plants and 20 species of nutritional plants. This “medicinal plant library” enables visitors to learn more about the virtues of these plants thanks to educational panels positioned opposite each species. The various species are grouped by therapeutic indication (e.g. dermatological, gastrointestinal, nervous, cardio-circulatory, accessory, respiratory…). A book of over 300 pages has also been produced to bring together the information gathered on each plant (photo, botanical description, therapeutic indications, preparation method – source: TRAMIL, Ribeiro University Brazil…).

Finally, 25 new referents have been trained in the recognition, care and use of medicinal plants.

Watershed management is, at its root, a human behavior challenge. But where humans are often the source of such problems, they are also the solution. Rare trains local leaders to implement behavior change campaigns that inspire communities to adopt new norms for how they interact with nature. Rare empowers communities in Colombia’s most water dependent geographies to participate in the management of their watershed ecosystems so that they benefit from higher water quality and flow and reduce the risk of droughts and floods due to extreme weather changes.

Since 2013, Rare has built the capacity of 14 officials of one of the largest regional environmental authorities of Colombia, Corporación Valle del Cauca, to engage local stakeholders in protecting riparian areas and improving land use practices using the Pride for ARA approach. These farmers are inspired by the Pride campaigns and the offer of technical assistance to protect critical ecosystems for watershed resilience.

AFC scaled up a model for communities to participate in protected area management developed with GIZ between 2013-2016 in the Hin Nam No NPA. AFC supported three civil society organizations to implement the model elsewhere, including through co-management training modules, national-level awareness raising, exchange visits to Hin Nam No, local capacity building and policy advocacy. There are now 21 officially approved village co-management agreements, covering 204,747 ha of village forests.

From May 2017 to September 2019, 72 young people from 23 different countries paid to participate in Nature Seychelles’ Conservation Boot Camp program. Designed to equip young people with real-life conservation skills, the program uses Cousin Island Special Reserve, Seychelles – a 50 year old conservation success – as a training laboratory. At the same time, the program acts as another sustainable funding mechanism for the protected area. It has been financially supported by GOS-UNDP-GEF Protected Area finance project from April 2016 to December 2019. The GEF project pays for a full time CBC Coordinator, some equipment and materials among other things.

The MAR Fund is a regional financial mechanism established to provide long-term dependable funding, collaborative planning and priority setting for conservation, recovery and sustainable use of natural resources in the Mesoamerican Reef. It raises and allocates funding for a network of priority coastal and marine protected areas. It also focuses on issues that affect the integrity of the MPAs, such as overfishing, through the design, establishment, management and monitoring of fish replenishment zones.