Science Day -Science for Action: Land Restoration and Drought
Agenda ( pdf file)
8:00-8:30 Science Day Opening
SPI Co-Chairs, UNCCD Executive Secretary, Cote d’Ivoire Representative
Reaching a Desirable Future
8:30 – 8:35 Setting the Scene Moderators: Nichole Barger and Noel Oettle
8:35 – 8:45 Imagining a desirable future: harnessing the Theory of Change to shed light on the pathways (and the barriers) that could impact on achieving that desirable future, Graciela Metternicht
8:45 – 8:55 Restoration of degraded cocoa-landscapes in Côte d’Ivoire, Christophe Kouame
8:55 – 9:05 Farmers are regreening African drylands – but how socially and ecologically sustainable is the functional diversity of what trees regenerate? Fergus Sinclair
9:05 – 9:25 Audience engagement Moderators
9:25 – 9:30 Moderator reflection Lukwesa Burak and Moderators
What We Measure We Can Manage Better
9:30 – 9:35 Introduction to the Session Moderators: Cheikh Mbow and Jean-Luc Chotte
9:35 – 9:45 GEO-LDN: Supporting countries in monitoring land for planning and implementing LDN, Antje Hecheltjen
9:45 – 9:55 Monitoring Tree Cover Across Africa’s Great Green Wall: Challenges and Opportunities, Salima Mahamoudou
9:55 – 10:05 Innovative multidimensional and multiscale assessment method to foster agroecological transition to restore the multifunctionality of land, Eric Scopel
10:05 – 10:30 Audience engagement Lukwesa Burak and Moderators
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
The Next Generation of Key Actors
11:00 – 11:05 Setting the Scene Moderator Ermias Betemariam
11:05 – 11:15 Capacity Development and Stakeholder Engagement on Biodiversity and Land at the Science-Policy-Practice Interface in the African Context ,Sara Velander
11:15 – 11:25 Global Landscapes Forum Restoration Stewards, Adrian Leitoro
11:25 – 11:35 PhD programme aimed at strengthening national scientific capacities in developing countries to combat desertification and drought Meron Lakew Tefera, Chiara Ceseracciu
11:35 – 11:55 Audience engagement Lukwesa Burak and Graciela Metternicht
12:00 – 13:00 Press engagement Press along with speakers and moderators
Implications for Drought Risk
13:00 – 13:05 Opening of session Moderator
13:05 – 13:20 IPCC WG1 – the Physical Science Basis, Sergio Vicente-Serrano
13:20 – 13:35 Governance and Drought: The Gender Perspectives, Everlyne Nairesiae
13:35 – 14:00 Q&A with panelists Lukwesa Burak, moderators and speakers
Measuring Progress Towards Drought Resilience
14:00-14:05 Opening of the session Moderator
14:05-14:15 Assessment of Resilience of Ecosystems and Communities to Drought – SPI 2019- 2021 report,Mark Svoboda
14:15-14:25 Regional law, national implementation: the case of drought monitoring and management in Italy in the frame of the European Directive on Water Resources, Silvano Pecora
14:25-14:35 Drought resilience through agroecological approaches: the case for better support to community-based initiatives in drylands, Nathalie van Haren
14:35-14:45 Understanding Drought Resilience with LandPKS, Jeffrey Herrick
Nature Based Solutions for Drought Risk Reduction
15:00-15:05 Opening of the session Moderator
15:05-15:10 Investing in NbS for Drought, Chris Magero
15:10-15:15 Drought relevant SLM practices from around the globe, Tatenda Lemann
14:45-15:00 Audience Engagement Lukwesa Burak and Moderators
15:15-15:20 NbS and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Lisa Janishevski
15:20-15:25 NbS in the Volta Basin Flood and Drought Management Project , Albert Goula Bi Tié
15:25 – 16:00 Panel Discussion Lukwesa Burak, Moderators, and Speakers
CLOSING
Reflections on Science Day
16:00 – 16:10 Reflection from Graphic Recorder Stephanie Heckman
16:10 –16:25 Reflections from a Journalist, Lukwesa Burak
16:25 – 16:30 Final Comments SPI Representative
16:30 – 17:15 Press engagement Press with session speakers and moderator