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Liberia ESP National Network is partnering with a local grassroot water and sanitation organization called DAYLON Water and Sanitation, for the management of plastic wastes from the mangroves within Monrovia city and it’s environs. The aforementioned organization has agreed to render logistical services during the exercise. The exercise will commence in early October 2021. The plastic wastes will be processed into plastic bricks for construction purposes.

Get in touch with the Liberia national network team here.

Between 15-17 August 2021 in Varna, Bulgaria a technical workshop on the advancements and challenges in ecosystem services accounting in Bulgaria was organized. The event was held in hybrid form as part of the MAIA (Mapping and Assessment for Integrated Ecosystem Accounting) project.

The workshop was hosted by Prof Boian Koulov (NIGGG-BAS), National Coordinator. Special guest was MAIA’s project coordinator Prof Lars Hein (Wageningen University, the Netherlands).

The presentations and discussions were focused on the current development state of the national ecosystem accounts and on future updates and suggestions about further improvements of the activities in Bulgaria. [Read more…] about Technical workshop on the advancements and challenges in ecosystem services accounting in Bulgaria

CENTRUS – Universidad Iberoamericana participates as co-founder of the American Continental Network of Participatory Community Monitoring, which brings together 33 people from eleven countries of the American continent. This network seeks to constitute a platform that allows, among other goals: (i) to share experiences of participatory community water monitoring, to understand how local initiatives are articulated in the different contexts of the American continent; (ii) to put community data into action to make visible the problems of rivers and streams of the continent, and mobilize knowledge for their recovery; (iii) to strengthen local capacities for local and community participation in decision making on the territory.

This network brings together various social actors so that “our rivers reach the sea alive and healthy”. Find more information on the official website.