Side event details

Aim and Objectives:

The side event aims to share lessons from wetland and catchment area restoration and management for people and nature initiatives with Contracting Parties, especially from Regional Initiatives (RRIs) in Africa, including RAMCEA, Nigerwet, SenegalWet and WACOWet.

Specific objectives:

1. Share experiences on the opportunities and challenges of writing and winning a GCF proposal;
2. To showcase how this initiative is promoting the restoration of degraded wetlands and associated catchments to enhance their ecosystem services through targeted management plans for the degraded wetlands and catchments ;
3. share experiences on how this initiative is building the resilience of local communities by reducing climate-related risks to agriculture and introducing alternative livelihood options;
4. showcase how the initiative is combining context-specific early warning practices and climate information to facilitate climate change adaptation planning for farmers and other wetland users; and
5. present an advanced draft of RAMCEA’s ten-year strategic plan to Contracting Parties; other RRI’s, donor organizations; International Organisation Partners (IOPs) for oral comments

Expected outcomes

At the end of this side event, we expect participants to;

• Understand what it takes for a Contracting Party to initiate and win a GCF grant to build resilient wetlands for local communities and their governments.
• Understand that the restoration of degraded wetlands is possible, and there is no one-size fit approach to deliver this outcome; if adequately executed, their ecosystem services will return and increase in the long term;
• Experience approaches used by the Government of Uganda and her partners to reduce climate-related risks that are affecting livelihoods and their diversification; and
• Learn how context-specific early warning practices and being associated with climate information to facilitate climate change adaptation planning in Uganda
• Provide oral feedback on how to improve/strengthen RAMCEA’s ten-year draft strategic plan.

Nature of Side Event: Presentation and discussion session

Speakers

• Opening Remarks – Secretary General/Deputy Secretary-General, Permanent Secretary from the Ministry of the Environment of the Government of Uganda;
• Presentations: project staff and partners

Target audiences

• All Contracting Parties, particularly from the RAMCEA region
• Ramsar Regional Initiative Representatives, Particularly Nigerwet, SenegalWet and WACOWet
• International Organisation Partners
• Diplomatic missions in Geneva and donors’ organizations