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Update from the field: Zambia May 2024

By Kaala B. Moombe, Freddie S. Siangulube and Sandra Cordon In Zambia in March 2024, COLANDs celebrated as team member Freddie S. Siangulube completed his PhD defence at the University of Amsterdam. Dr Siangulube’s thesis, Towards Inclusive and Negotiated Environmental Governance: The Potential of Multistakeholder Platforms for Landscape Approaches in Southern Zambia, examines some assumptions […]

Update from the field: Ghana May 2024

By Mathurin Zida and Eric R.C. Bayala Since the beginning of 2024, the COLANDS team in Ghana has been conducting validation workshops on the theory of change (ToC) in the Western Wildlife Corridor (WWC). These have been conducted at the community level within six Community Resource Management Areas (CREMAs) to ensure greater inclusion of perspectives […]

Update from the field: Indonesia May 2024

By Moira Moeliono Work by theCOLANDs team in the Kapuas Hulu Regency has continued to focus on collaborative planning with the Danau Sentarum Catchment Area (DTA-DS) group. As part of this work, CIFOR-ICRAF had organized three workshops in 2022 and 2023: the first, to develop a vision; the second, to develop a Theory of Change […]

Update from the field: Zambia November 2023

By Kaala B. Moombe, Esnelly Katongo, and Sandra Cordon Between March and September 2023, the COLANDS Zambia team, in collaboration with their CIFOR-ICRAF partners, organized participatory mapping events, presented research and project results to stakeholders at district, village and community levels for further discussion, and facilitated workshops on writing manuscripts for academic journals. The team […]

Update from the field: Ghana November 2023

By Mathurin Zida Research and data collection that will culminate in journal articles, plus discussions with partners towards effecting both a community-based citizen science initiative and a locally developed theory of change (ToC) for the Western Wildlife Corridor (WWC), have all been conducted in the past seven months by the COLANDS Ghana team. Between March […]

Forestry meets fish: training in water quality and fish population monitoring 

Learning new disciplines in Indonesia’s Danau Sentarum Catchment Areas

By: Elizabeth Linda Yuliani, Desy Leo Ariesta, Moira Moeliono Figure 1. Left: Sepandan Island, Danau Sentarum National Park. Right: training participants and resource persons. Photos by Rifky/CIFOR. The wall clock in the Betung Kerihun – Danau Sentarum National Park meeting room on the remote Sepandan Island was pointing at 20:30. Outside, strong winds were blowing […]

COLANDS at Landscapes for Our Future Summit 2023

COLANDS at FLARE 2023