Recently, GWP projects let us know they were ready for more in-person events again, as a complement to the annual conference and virtual events. So, the GWP coordination team has been busy this year planning regional events that also bring together smaller groups of project teams for informal networking and knowledge sharing.

In September, project representatives from GWP and Amazon Sustainable Landscapes projects in Latin America met in Panama to learn strategies for engaging with media on human-wildlife conflict. An upcoming workshop in Cambodia will bring together GWP projects in Asia to discuss inclusive livelihood approaches and successful experiences for bringing women into the value chain. These events promote deep knowledge sharing and help GEF-8 projects integrate useful information while in their planning stage. There was great coverage of the event in Panama, which you can read more about below. 

The GWP will also be active during the Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16) this October in Cali, Colombia. At the Global Environment Facility pavilion, GWP is contributing to two events: evolving challenges for wildlife and financing for the conservation of tiger landscapes. GWP will also be part of an event on conservation technology at the pavilion for multilateral development banks. For friends and partners attending COP 16, we hope to see you there.

This quarter, our newsletter includes the winners of our twinning pilot, updates from projects and partners, and a preview of upcoming events. 

Warm regards,

The GWP Coordination Team

World Bank

Nearly 100 GWP project sites have strengthened anti-poaching measures, with 20 already recording declines in poaching of key species. This progress is echoed in results achieved by other governments and partners outside the GWP, too. We want to learn more about how this progress is being made. 

This survey is designed to capture lessons learned, successes, challenges, and recommendations from GWP projects, partners and anyone involved in site-based anti-poaching. Survey results will be discussed in an online event in November and findings will be published on the GWP website. 

The survey is open until October 6th and takes 15 minutes to complete:

English | Spanish | French 

Twinning pilot has begun! 

GWP Twinning pairs up projects working on similar objectives to promote collaboration, learning, and innovation. Selected projects pursue in-depth learning from one another through an in-person visit. The initiative aims to enhance the documentation of best practices and lessons learned, strengthen team capacity and collaboration across and within regions, and facilitate the replication of successes among GWP projects. 

The four twins, chosen from nine submissions, receive funding to cover airfares and interpretation and receive agenda preparation support from the GWP coordination project. Over the next few months, projects will conduct in-person visits, allowing delegations to learn about successes, lessons, and approaches from their hosts that can be applied to their own work. GEF-8 projects will be learning from earlier GWP projects and using those lessons to inform their design.

Beginning mid-October, an exciting Biodiversity Data Hackathon organized by The World Bank, GWP and several partners will take place to unearth your creativity! It will have three windows for competition on topics related to biodiversity – ePackaging (e.g. making interactive graphs/maps/infographics/dashboards, storymaps, eBooks), Policy Memo (e.g. a data-driven memo on a biodiversity-related policy), and Coding (e.g. scripts leveraging open data). A range of amazing data/knowledge resources will be provided to help teams get started!

Join this celebration of moving to more open biodiversity data and analytics! Stay tuned and find out more here. Get the word out, collaborate, and apply! Let’s put our minds together for a more livable planet!

Biodiversity Data Hackathon launch:

October 15, 9-10 AM EDT (Time zone converter)

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Meeting ID: 935 3618 2273

Passcode: dpHTc7s.6u

Gender mainstreaming in Tanzania

The GWP Tanzania project to combat poaching and illegal wildlife trade held a workshop: “Catalyzing gender mainstreaming in wildlife conservation”. The two-day event delved into topics that support the project’s priorities for applying a gender lens to planning and implementation of conservation activities.

Protecting the future of tigers in Peninsular Malaysia

See how GWP Malaysia is securing the future of the endangered Malayan tiger, an iconic symbol of Malaysia's rich biodiversity whose numbers have dwindled from 3,000 wild tigers in the 1950s to fewer than 150 today. 







The Legacy Webinar Series showcases the impact of recently closed GWP projects across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean in combating illegal wildlife trade and promoting wildlife-based economies. 

At the end of October, we will be hearing how the Zambia and Malawi projects brought benefits to targeted rural communities through improved landscape management, human-wildlife conflict mitigation and conservation of key biodiversity areas.

In this webinar, we will see new research about the economic impact of nature-based tourism for local communities. 



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The week of September 16th, the Global Wildlife Program, in partnership with the Panama Ministry of Environment and Yaguara Panama Foundation as executing agencies of the GWP Panama project, hosted a regional technical workshop on “Media Engagement for Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence”. The workshop brought together 40 participants from 10 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (Belize, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, and Paraguay from the GWP; Brazil, Guyana, Peru, and Suriname from the Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program), as well as United Nations and non-governmental organization technical partners.

The workshop agenda included government representatives presenting the challenges and activities related to media’s participation in communicating human-wildlife conflict and training sessions by the lead trainer, Virat Singh, GWP consultant, journalist and member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Species Survival Commission Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence Specialist Group. Tomás Fernández, Director of Protected Areas and Biodiversity, Ministry of the Environment; and Joelle Dehasse, Operations Manager, World Bank, opened the workshop. 

The GWP team also supported a national workshop with the GWP Panama project team to build a roadmap towards effective human-wildlife conflict communications. The Panama-only workshop brought together the GWP Panama project team along with its partners and journalists to enable dialogue and find areas in need of support.  

Participants from 10 Latin American countries met in Panama for a workshop on "Media engagement for human-wildlife conflict and coexistence".

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