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Launch of New Funding for Mangroves for the Future

Bangkok, Thailand 10 Jun 2014

Country: Asia Region, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Global, India, Maldives, Myanmar, Pakistan, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Viet Nam

Topic: Financing Coastal Conservation, Integrated Coastal Planning

IUCN, UNDP and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) today announced the launch of the third phase of the Mangroves for the Future (MFF) regional initiative with new funding from Sida. The new phase will run from 2014-2018 a...    

Towards Building Coastal Resilience in South and South-East Asia

Dhaka, Bangladesh 31 Mar 2014

Country: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Viet Nam

Topic: Community Resilence

MFF National Coordinating Body (NCB) of Bangladesh and the MFF Regional Secretariat arranged regional symposium with the goal of sharing experiences between Bangladesh and India, Indonesia and Viet Nam, on ways to build coastal community resilience u...    

Hai Phong moves towards becoming Viet Nam's first "Green Port" city

Hai Phong City, Viet Nam 27 Mar 2014

Country: Asia Region, Viet Nam

Topic: Civil Society Engagement, Integrated Coastal Planning, Private sector partnerships

The Hai Phong Peoples Committee, Viet Nam in collaboration with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) under Mangroves for the Future (MFF) initiative, co-organized a National Workshop on ”Green Growth – Green Port City”. During th...    

MFF-UNEP regional project Green Fins goes digital

Asia Region 03 Feb 2014

Country: Maldives, Viet Nam

Topic: Marine Protected Areas

MFF regional project in Maldives and Viet Nam get spotlight as Green Fins launches www.greenfins.net, a new digital platform featuring best practice in diving industry, and the Top 10 best dive operators applying the Green Fins approach.    

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...    

Protecting Asia’s Coasts for People and Nature : Viet Nam hosts 10th MFF regional meeting with focus on building community resilience

Hoi An, Viet Nam 11 Sep 2013

Country: India, Indonesia, Maldives, Pakistan, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Asia Region

Topic: Knowledge for Management, Strategies for Management, Coastal Governance ...

The 10th Regional Steering Committee of the Mangroves for the Future (MFF) initiative was held in Hoi An, Da Nang province, with representatives from the nine member countries convening to discuss efforts to protect coastal regions for people and for...    

Stories of conflicts: a review of MFF Small Grant Projects 2011-2013

Hanoi, Viet Nam 23 Jul 2013

Country: Viet Nam

Topic: Knowledge for Management, Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation, Knowledge management and communications ...

On July 23, 2013, nine organizations that have completed MFF-funded small grant projects attended a lessons learned workshop in Hanoi, together with representatives of the projects’ beneficiary groups. What emerged from the workshop were stories of c...    

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 ?    

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