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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...
MFF and Wetlands International renew Indonesia programme
Jakarta, Indonesia 31 Oct 2013
Country: Asia Region, Indonesia
Topic: Community Resilence, Financing Coastal Conservation, Sustainable Livelihoods
Mangroves for the Future, with the National Coordinating Body of Indonesia, witnessed the signing of a new agreement with Wetlands International (WI) - Indonesia Programme that kicks off new small grant facility projects in the country.
Coastal erosion, small islands, and responsible diving on regional MFF spotlight
Bangkok, Thailand 24 Oct 2013
Country: Maldives, Pakistan, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Viet Nam
Topic: Coastal Governance, Community Resilence, Marine Protected Areas
Regional Grant Facility projects being implemented by MFF institutional partner United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to produce a new set of information material to shed more light about ecosystem-based approaches related to small islands gove...
From "Climate Proof" to Coastal Community Resilience
19 Jul 2013
Country: Asia Region, Bangladesh, Viet Nam, Indonesia
Topic: Community Resilence, Integrated Coastal Planning, Climate change
Mangroves for the Future (MFF) has included Climate Change as a cross-cutting theme since 2008. In 2010, jointly with UNEP, UNDP and IUCN, MFF published 'Climate Proof', a four-step guide to assist proponents in considering the potential impacts of ...
Planting, protecting, and sharing: three indispensable links in mangroves conservation
Ha Noi, Viet Nam 17 Jul 2013
Country: Viet Nam
Topic: Sustainable Livelihoods, Community Resilence, Sustainable Business Practices ...
Training and raising awareness for local community will not be enough to make them protect mangroves and environment. The story below has shown that only when the local people are benefited from nature conservation, they will be willing to protect en...
Stopping charcoal production in Mui Ca Mau National Park: work without end
Ha Noi, Viet Nam 11 Jul 2013
Country: Viet Nam
Topic: Community Resilence, Sustainable Livelihoods
How to protect mangrove conservation from charcoal production if we cannot secure alternative livelihoods for the landless local households ?
MFF and Red Cross Society in Seychelles assists three districts in disaster risk reduction and resilience
Mahe, Seychelles (Roche Caiman, Ile Perseverance, Anse Boileau) 01 Jul 2013
Country: Seychelles
Topic: Community Resilence
A small grant facility (SGF) project of MFF responds to the need of improving local awareness about disaster risk management and reduction. Its primary aim is to strengthen community resilience through a disaster risk reduction approach at community ...
Shyamnagar community sees its future through resilience lens
Shyamnagar, Satkhira, Bangladesh 30 Apr 2013
Country: Bangladesh
Topic: Community Resilence
Citizens of the southwest upazilla of Bangladesh- Shyamnagar, framed its possible future scenarios and one desired vision as MFF team introduced them to the concept of social-ecological thinking to understand the state of resilience. They developed s...
Working with fisherwomen in Xuan Thuy National Park
Bangkok, Thailand 01 Apr 2013
Country: Viet Nam
Topic: Capacity Building, Coastal Governance, Community Resilence ...
Every day, hundreds of local fisherwomen enter the mangrove forest in Xuan Thuy National Park to collect shells, mollusks, crabs, and other aquatic products. Although the law prohibits any kind of resource extraction in the core zone, the poor women ...
Women in Bhitarkanika join the crusade to save mangroves!
Orissa, India 22 Mar 2013
Country: India
Topic: Knowledge for Management, Civil Society Engagement, Capacity Building ...
The Bhitarkanika mangrove sanctuary is the life force for the majority of coastal communities living in the Kendrapara district of Orissa, India. Although the sanctuary serves to protect fundamental ecosystem services and diversity, several communiti...