Restoration - CitiesWithNature

Generation restoration community of practice

This Community of Practice provides cities with a dedicated space to share tools and resources, experiences, and best practices on ecosystem restoration, resilience, and climate change adaptation.

What our community of practice can provide

Aligned with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) and the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, this platform helps cities navigate challenges through:

Restoring and protecting coastal ecosystems to enhance resilience and biodiversity.
Sharing robust scientific tools and data for informed decision-making.
Discussing best practices for implementing climate policies that balance ecological integrity with urban development.

By fostering collaboration, this community empowers cities to scale up restoration efforts, strengthen biodiversity, and build climate-resilient, sustainable urban environments.

Why do cities need a community of practice focused on ecosystem restoration?

Cities face growing environmental challenges, including ecosystem degradation, biodiversity loss, and climate change impacts. This Community of Practice provides a space for cities to exchange knowledge, share best practices, and access tools for integrating nature-based solutions (NbS) and ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) in their city. By fostering collaboration among policymakers, scientists, and stakeholders, it supports cities in strengthening resilience, restoring ecosystems, and aligning with global biodiversity and climate goals. Through shared learning innovation, cities can accelerate sustainability efforts, enhance well-being, and build healthier, more climate-resilient urban environments.

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This community of practice gives coastal cities access to a range of current and relevant tools and resources to empower them to prioritize coastal resilience in their decision-making and planning.

To enable cities to learn and inspire each other and share their experiences, they need to be connected. This Community of Practice provides a forum with a chat function for cities to share their work and to ask questions and provide input on topics relevant to coastal cities.

This Community of Practice is proudly sponsored by WIOMSA with funding from the Government of Sweden.

The Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA) was established as a regional, non-profit, membership organization in 1993 and registered in Zanzibar, Tanzania in 1994 as a non-governmental organization. The organization is dedicated to promoting the educational, scientific and technological development of all aspects of marine sciences throughout the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region (consisting of 10 countries: Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa, Comoros, Madagascar, Seychelles, Mauritius, Réunion (France)), with a view toward sustaining the use and conservation of its marine resources. WIOMSA has a particular interest in linking the knowledge that emerges from research to the management and governance issues that affect marine and coastal ecosystems in the region.

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