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Connect - mainstreaming biodiversity information into the heart of government decision making

Biodiversity and ecosystem services are essential components of a healthy economy, relevant across all sectors of society. However, the continued loss of the world's biodiversity is having significant consequences across a range of sectors including poverty reduction and development.

In order to achieve truly sustainable development, governments must integrate biodiversity and ecosystems services information into their decision making processes.

Connect will work with the governments of Ghana, Mozambique and Uganda to provide a showcase of how biodiversity information can be made more credible, salient and legitimate for decision-makers.

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Using an innovative demand, supply and sustain model the project will:

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1Understand Demand

Clearly understand the in-country demands for, and the barriers to using, biodiversity information within government decision making including clarifying the format, timing and packaging required

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2Ensure Supply

Mobilise and repackage existing biodiversity data and information from a range of sources (national and international) to meet a number of the above demands

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3Sustain the flow of information

Strengthen the connection between government decision makers and biodiversity and ecosystem services data providers in order to sustainably provide policy-relevant, spatially explicit information to meet ongoing national needs

News & Documents

Data missions to Ghana and Uganda

Data missions to Ghana and Uganda
​The Connect project conducted data missions to Ghana and Uganda in the first half of March 2020.
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2019 All-Hands Meeting

2019 All-Hands Meeting
The 2019 All-Hands Meeting for the Connect project was held this past 7th and 8th November in Durban, South Africa. The Mozambique, Uganda and Ghana country teams, project partners and the UNEP-WCMC Secretariat convened for this annual meeting to discuss project progress and next steps.
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Global Up-Scaling Strategy

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The aim of the Global Up-Scaling Strategy is to provide an overarching up-scaling approach through which the project will share experiences, lessons, good practices, tools, among others, between countries and globally
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Connect Project Monitoring and Evaluation Plan

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The Connect project Monitoring and Evaluation Plan is designed to provide the basis for ongoing monitoring of project activities and implementation, and as a guide to the evaluation activities of the project in terms of project impact and effectiveness.
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Connect Project Coordinator for Uganda receives Presidential Award

Connect Project Coordinator for Uganda receives Presidential Award
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The Seventh Special Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment

The Seventh Special Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment
UNEP-WCMC was present at AMCEN to provide support on the positioning of mainstreaming in general including the Connect project.
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