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RFI and Sustainable Wetlands Management

27 July 2023
The session gives an overview on the Regional Flyway Initiative (RFI), which envisions a network of sustainable wetlands along the EAA Flyway and hosted, managed, and protected by vibrant and resilient communities. This vision shall be realized through the development of viable nature-based…

Stakeholder and Capacity Assessment

30 June 2023
The RFI aims to build a business case for sustainable wetlands through the development of project concepts in priority sites along the EAA flyway and the development of financing mechanism through which these projects may be financed. At the heart of this goal is the ability of participating…

Key Takeaways

30 June 2023
The 4-day training workshop highlighted the necessity for a comprehensive assessment of wetland ecosystem services for better informed decisions and building a strong case for wetland site interventions. The participants were presented useful tools for ecosystem services assessment including TESSA…

Nature Based Solutions An Introduction and Case Studies

28 June 2023
Nature based solutions (NBS) are interventions inspired and supported by nature and benefit biodiversity while supporting the delivery of a range of ecosystem services. They are cost-effective, builds resilience, and provide environmental, social and economic benefits. NBS are effective in…

Conservation and Management of Wetlands in the Philippines

28 June 2023
The Philippines is host to some of the world’s richest and biodiverse wetlands ecosystems. It is blessed with about 796,000 hectares of coral reefs and 303,373 hectares of mangrove forests, among other significant wetlands sites. A signatory to numerous multilateral environmental agreements…

Carbon Biomass Estimates using Remote Sensing

28 June 2023
Climate change is significantly impacting and will continue to impact all nations of the world. With emerging technologies and tools now being made available, more in-depth analysis on the value of nature is increasingly supporting decision-making. One of the most important tools now readily…

RFI Site Selection Process in the Philippines

27 June 2023
The framework for priority site selection has equipped the team in developing a priority list with 147 sites (Phase 1), which will evolve into a short list of 50 sites (Phase 2). The site prioritization criteria are aligned with the existing and widely accepted criteria used in the definition of…

Wetlands and Ecosystem Services Opportunities and Applications

27 June 2023
A deep dive session on wetland ecosystem services, this takes off from the importance of wetlands to examples of how interventions can benefit both society (human beings) and nature. Different approaches such as (i) natural infrastructure (nature-based solutions) and (ii) coastal blue carbon (…

Introduction to Ecosystem Services Assessment

27 June 2023
To guide policy- and decision-making, tools that allow economic valuation of ecosystem services (ES) are used to assess and measure ecosystem values in a way that will be useful and practical even to non-technical people. One of the tools being used to measure ES is TESSA, which is a practical step…

Introduction to the Preliminary Scoping Appraisal of the Toolkit for Ecosystem Service Sitebased Assessment TESSA

27 June 2023
TESSA typically involves six (6) steps. The Preliminary Scoping Appraisal (PSA) is the second stage and aims to derive an initial understanding of the dynamics of a site including the ecosystem services that it provides. To support the work of those who are participating in the workshop, the PSA…