Original content published by People Not Poaching - The Communities and IWT Learning Platform
Between September and December 2020, IUCN East and Southern Africa Regional Office (IUCN ESARO) alongside the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the IUCN Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group (IUCN SULi) held seven online learning events on the application of the ‘Local Communities: First Line of Defence against Illegal Wildlife Trade’ (FLoD) initiative. The FLoD initiative aims to support designers and implementers of anti-poaching and anti-wildlife trafficking strategies and projects to effectively engage local communities as partners.
The series aimed to conduct virtual familiarisation, awareness raising and training on different approaches to engaging communities to tackle IWT. It was designed to support wildlife conservation and management authorities in the East African Community partner states, as well as relevant non-governmental and community-based organisations of the region.
The series was supported by USAID Kenya and East Africa through the Conserving Natural Capital and Enhancing Collaborative Management of Transboundary Resources (CONNECT) project, and aimed to supplement the comprehensive training course on FLoD, which is currently under development with support from the BIOPAMA programme supported by the European Union and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States.
Links to the learning event sessions:
Session 1 - 15th September 2020: This introductory session gave participants an overview of community engagement in tackling illegal wildlife trade and explored the FLoD initiative and the People not Poaching
platform.
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Session 2 - 30th September: The session gave an introduction, overview and lessons learned on the FLoD initiative, including experiences from implementing FLoD in Kenya.
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Session 3 - 15th October: This session took participations through the first two steps of the FLoD methodology: (1)Screening and Scoping; (2) Inception Workshop
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Session 4 - 30th October: This session took participations through the third step of the FLoD methodology - Developing the Implementer / Designer Theory of Change
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Session 5 - 13th November: This session took participations through the fourth step of the FLoD methodology - Developing the Community Theory of Change
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Session 6 - 27th November: This session took participations through the final steps of the FLoD methodology: (1)Feedback ; (2) Communication
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Session 7 - 11th December: This session discussed the future of FLoD.
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