REDAA hosted two online regional webinars on how power and politics are shaped to support, scale and sustain locally led action for nature restoration.
The global degradation of ecosystems is undermining climate resilience, threatening biodiversity, putting human wellbeing at risk and hindering sustainable development.
2021 - 2030 marks the UN's Decade for Ecosystem Restoration and worldwide countries have pledged to restore up to 1 billion hectares of land by 2030. Locally led restoration is key to achieving this ambition – driving ecological recovery while also strengthening climate resilience to ensure both people and nature can thrive.
REDAA hosted two online regional conversations on how power and politics are – and are not – shaped to support, scale and sustain locally led action.
Led by REDAA project leaders, the event brought together discussants, including researchers and practitioners, to examine how governance, and policy and power dynamics influence local restoration efforts. They also highlighted strategies that locally led initiatives are using to navigate these challenges.
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Full recordings of the events are available below and on IIED's YouTube channel.
- Anita Varghese (conversation lead), director, Keystone Foundation; chair of the Western Ghats plant specialist group and member of steering Committee-Ecological Restoration Alliance (India). Anita leads a project on tackling invasive species through community-based restoration in the Western Ghats.
- Lila Nath Sharma, biodiversity and restoration team leader, ForestAction Nepal (Nepal). Lila leads a project on reorienting forest restoration with local knowledge and inclusion in Nepal
- Tanzil Shafique, lecturer of urban design, The University of Sheffield (Bangladesh/UK). Tanzil leads a project on urban wetland agroecology restoration in Bangladesh.
- Ritha Tarimo (conversation lead), regional director, Trias East Africa (Tanzania). Ritha leads a project on strengthening locally led restoration among farmer and pastoralist communities in Tanzania.
- Lassana Koné, lawyer, Forest Peoples Programme (DRC). Lassana leads a project on advancing Indigenous Peoples’ rights in the forests of Congo.
- Awdenegest Moges Banjaw, associate professor, Hawassa University (Ethiopia). Awdenegest leads a project on community-based research and action for sustainable land use in the Ethiopian Rift Valley
- Related reads: This report by Rachael Knight emphasises the critical importance of Indigenous and non-Indigenous local communities being involved in the design and implementation of governance arrangements for ecosystem restoration projects.
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