Land-Use Planning Training Methodology Conservation Event at APAC in Kigali, Rwanda

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The Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group (ABCG) is a consortium of seven international conservation organizations with extensive field programs in Africa: African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), Conservation International (CI), The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), World Resources Institute (WRI) and World Wildlife Fund (WWF). ABCG is supported by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to advance understanding of critical biodiversity conservation challenges and their solutions in sub-Saharan Africa.

The ABCG creates innovative conservation solutions by fostering collaborative and adaptive learning opportunities that help practitioners improve, scale and replicate, while generating valuable user-driven knowledge that can be disseminated globally. Together, ABCG members share their experiences and generate knowledge in the form of practical tools to address conservation challenges, inform policy, and integrate biodiversity conservation into international development agendas.

Land-use planning is critical for identifying sustainable, climate-smart, win-win development strategies that minimize encroachment on high conservation or ecological value land while meeting multiple land-use objectives. However, knowledge and capacity for land-use planning is insufficient to meet needs across Africa. To meet this challenge, ABCG developed a Land-Use Planning Training Methodology, combining expert presentations with interactive group exercises to provide a comprehensive introduction into the theory and practical starting points of biodiversity sensitive land-use planning.

Please join us for in-person/ virtual training about our Land Use Planning Training Methodology at IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) and  Learn how to apply this methodology, build connections and promote the course to improve land-use planning skills across Africa.

Speakers

Kendall Jones is a Conservation Planning Specialist at the Wildlife Conservation Society. He works to develop and apply conservation planning techniques that incorporate key drivers of biodiversity decline (e.g. climate change, economic development) to develop spatially explicit scenarios for biodiversity conservation.

David Williams is a Sr. Director, Conservation Geography, African Wildlife Foundation. David has over 25 years of experience as an ecologist applying spatial tools to benefit ecological and conservation programs across two continents.  He has led the African Wildlife Foundation’s Spatial Analysis Laboratory for over a decade to support conservation planning and monitoring under the aegis of AWF’s landscape conservation approach.