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Societies in Harmony with Nature: Locally-led landscape approaches - The Community Development and Knowledge Management for the Satoyama Initiative Programme Phase 4

2025.04.11

GEF Small Grants Programme

Time: 22 April 2025, 10:00-11:30 am JST, Tokyo/UTC+9

Format: Online

The Community Development and Knowledge Management for the Satoyama Initiative Programme (COMDEKS) was launched in 2011 as a flagship programme of the Satoyama Initiative, a global effort to promote the sustainable use of natural resources in landscapes and seascapes with local communities. Known as socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS), these landscapes and seascapes include many uses, from farming and fishing to forestry. Their productivity and resilience are central to the economic well-being and cultural identity of communities who depend on them throughout the world.

The Keidanren Nature Conservation Council (KNCC) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will be hosting online seminar entitled “societies in harmony with nature: locally-led landscape approaches” in collaboration with the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ) and the International Partnership for Satoyama Initiative (IPSI) Secretariat. The seminar will provide updates on COMDEKS implementation to date, featuring phase 4 launched in 2022, and will present case studies from 3 participating countries. 

Perticipation 

Register for online participation here.

Language 

Japanese and English (with simultaneous interpretation)

rogramme 

  1. Opening remarks

    Mr. Keiji Nishizawa, Chairperson, KNCC
    Mr. Yutaka Matsuzawa, Vice-Minister for Global Environmental Affairs, MOEJ

  2. Overview and progress of COMDEKS Phase 4
    Ms. Rissa Edoo, Partnership Specialist, GEF SGP, UNDP

  3. Panel discussion: Sharing experiences from the field
    IPSI Secretariat / UNU-IAS

    Suneetha Subramanian, Research Fellow, United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS); Overview of the resilience indicators toolkit as a participatory community-based tool

    SGP Costa Rica
    Ms. Ariana Araujo Resenterra, SGP National Coordinator in Costa Rica; Sharing SGP Costa Rica’s seascape approach on the islands in the Gulf of Nicoya

    SGP Türkiye
    Ms. Gokmen Argun, SGP National Coordinator in Türkiye; Sharing SGP Turkey COMDEKS Phase 4 experience in the Samsung wetland landscape

    SGP Cameroon
    Mr. Aime Kamga, SGP National Coordinator in Cameroon; Sharing Cameron’s progress in the Bogo Sahelian landscape

    Moderator: Ms. Rissa Edoo

  4. Q and A
  5. Closing remarks
    Ms. Hideko Hadzialic, Director, UNDP Tokyo Representation Office

Organizers 

Principal organisers: Keidanren Nature Conservation Council and the GEF Small Grants Programme, UNDP; Co-organised with: Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOEJ); In cooperation with: International Partnership for Satoyama Initiative (IPSI) Secretariat