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298 News items found
Small Grants, but hidden, large gains
Colombo, Sri Lanka 30 Mar 2014
Country: Sri Lanka
Topic: Capacity Building
The MFF Small Grant Facility (SGF) is a window for financing sustainable, local level initiatives in coastal areas, through small grants. The main objectives of the SGF are to finance small projects to support local community action for the restorati...
Hai Phong moves towards becoming Viet Nam's first "Green Port" city
Hai Phong City, Viet Nam 27 Mar 2014
Country: Asia Region, Viet Nam
Topic: Civil Society Engagement, Integrated Coastal Planning, Private sector partnerships
The Hai Phong Peoples Committee, Viet Nam in collaboration with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) under Mangroves for the Future (MFF) initiative, co-organized a National Workshop on ”Green Growth – Green Port City”. During th...
New manual on mangroves promotes community-based restoration
Iloilo, Philippines 21 Feb 2014
Country: Asia Region
Topic: Capacity development, Strategies for Management
The Manual on Community-Based Mangrove Rehabilitation provides practical recommendations on how to greatly increase the probability of success of a mangrove restoration project. Published by the Zoological Society of London, United Kingdom, the manua...
Wetlands in Seychelles proves successful against flooding
Mahe, Seychelles 06 Feb 2014
Country: Seychelles
Topic: Community Resilence, Strategies for Management
The Roche Caiman Sanctuary in Mahe, Seychelles, focus area of recently-completed MFF project "Mangroves for Mankind", reports how a well-functioning wetlands system successfully prevented floods in surrounding areas. Through the MFF project, mangrove...
MFF-UNEP regional project Green Fins goes digital
Asia Region 03 Feb 2014
Topic: Marine Protected Areas
MFF regional project in Maldives and Viet Nam get spotlight as Green Fins launches www.greenfins.net, a new digital platform featuring best practice in diving industry, and the Top 10 best dive operators applying the Green Fins approach.
Strengthening the Resilience of Coastal Communities, Ecosystems, and Economies to Sea-Level Riseand Coastal Erosion
Karachi, Pakistan 15 Jan 2014
Country: Pakistan
A national consultative workshop debated and discussed findings of a national assessment report on Coastal Erosion in Pakistan, and brought experts and stakeholders up to date about the urgency of managing of coastal zones of Pakistan in a more scien...
Project Cycle Management Training- Small Grants Facility
Karachi, Pakistan 23 Dec 2013
Country: Pakistan
Topic: Capacity Building
A two-day Training Workshop on the Project Management and Proposal Writing by the Mangroves for the Future Programme was held on December 23-24, 2013, in Karachi. The purpose of the workshop was to equip the applicants to the MFF Small Grants Facilit...
MFF’s resilience approach goes mainstream
Asia Region 12 Dec 2013
Country: Asia Region
Topic: Community Resilence
Recognizing that many coastal communities are critically dependant on well functioning ecosystems and their services (e.g. mangroves or coral reefs) MFF has since 2012 developed a resilience framework to guide its support and interventions in the mem...
Learning about Marine and Coastal Resources at Camp!
Palk Bay, Tamil Nadu 27 Nov 2013
Country: India
Topic: Knowledge management and communications
MFF India, in partnership with IUCN member, OMCAR Foundation, brought together 50 students and 7 teachers for a two-day awareness camp on marine and coastal ecosystems! Held on 27 and 28 November 2013 at OMCAR’s Palk Bay Center, the students (between...
Bizarre Baobabs
Colombo, Sri Lanka 26 Nov 2013
Country: Sri Lanka
Topic: Capacity Building
This article has been previously published in Sunday Times on 17 November 2013. The author is Dr Sriyanie Miththapala, Consultant to IUCN Sri Lanka.