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CAPACITY BUILDING AND DEVELOPMENT FOR ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION

Level: Intermediate | Estimated completion time: 2 hours | Certificate upon completion

Skills: Designing participatory awareness campaigns, building stakeholder capacity for restoration, applying inclusive training approaches, engaging communities through effective communication strategies

How do you inspire communities to champion ecosystem restoration and ensure projects thrive long-term? This journey moves beyond technical skills to focus on the most critical element: people. You’ll learn how to transform any restoration initiative from a top-down project into a vibrant, community-led movement. Discover how to design powerful awareness campaigns, build practical skills for diverse stakeholders, and embed gender equality at the heart of your work to create lasting change for both communities and ecosystems.

Task 1: Importance of
learning
Task 2: Steps of participatory awareness campaigns
Stop and check 1
Task 3: Understanding capacity development for restoration
Task 4: Tools for capacity development
Task 5: Integrating gender equality into capacity development for restoration
Final test
Certificate of completion

Additional Resources

Report
Evaluation of UNDP Support to Ecosystem Management and Biodiversity Conservation (UNDP)
This document is the first global independent evaluation of UNDP’s ecosystem and biodiversity efforts from 2018–2024, with lessons for future M&E.
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Action plan
Capacity, Knowledge and Learning Action Plan for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (UNEP, FAO)
This document is an action plan to mainstream restoration knowledge across education and professional sectors.
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Course
Online Course on Ecosystem Restoration (UNDP, CBD)
The course serves as an introduction to the Short-Term Action Plan on Ecosystem Restoration - a flexible framework adopted by the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity to support governments in the development and implementation of their national restoration strategies.
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Report
Standards of Practice to Guide Ecosystem Restoration: A Contribution to the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (UN)
This report presents recommendations for restoration projects across various ecosystem types and scales.
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Report
Global Policy Centre on Resilient Ecosystems and Desertification (UNDP)
This report highlights UNDP’s “Ecosystem Restoration Promise” including capacity-building to support 30 countries’ restoration actions.
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Report
Enabling Farmer-led Ecosystem Restoration (FAO)
This policy brief shows how farmer field schools build restoration skills in agroforestry across 14 countries.
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Report
Resolving Conflicts to Advance Sustainable Forest Management and Restore Landscapes (AFOCO - FAO)
This training report details conflict resolution capacity building for sustainable forest restoration in Asia.
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Report
Global Land Initiative Annual Report 2023 (G20)
This report analyzes capacity-building activities and workshops that support restoration planning under biodiversity frameworks.
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