Geneva landscape: Projects, programs, and activities in Asia

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Projects, programs, and activities

Inter-state cooperation on climate and environmental risks

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Across South and Southeast Asia, HD convenes informal regional dialogue platforms that promote cooperation for shared resource-management, especially in climate-vulnerable sectors like fisheries. These dialogues contribute to building trust between states and help foster long-term stability, environmental protection and sustainable resource use.

  • Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HQ: Geneva; 2 in Geneva working on HDP-climate related projects)

  • Contact point: Lina Hillert

  • Bay of Bengal, Greater Mekong Region, South China Sea

  • Sectors: Peacebuilding, peacemaking, & cooperation; Environment; Climate

  • Additional element: Mediation

Read more about HD’s work in the Bay of Bengal here.

Read more about HD’s work in the South China Sea here.

Environmental mediation: promoting sustainable use of natural resources through community agreements

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Since 2015, HD has facilitated more than 110 agreements in the Sahel, many of which specifically prevent or address environmental challenges. The outcomes of the mediation processes demonstrate that these agreements not only help to resolve conflicts but also to protect natural resources and adapt community practices for more sustainable resource exploitation.

  • Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HQ: Geneva; 2 in Geneva working on HDP-climate related projects)

  • Contact point: Lina Hillert

  • Sahel (incl. Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger)

  • Sectors: Peacebuilding, peacemaking, & cooperation; Environment

  • Additional element: Mediation

Read more here.

Building Sustainable Livelihoods and Social Cohesion for Young People in Uganda

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The Kofi Annan Foundation (KAF) and Prospect Initiative (Uganda) are developing a 24-month project to support 80–100 young women and men (18–30) from conflict- and climate-affected communities in the Rwenzori sub-region and Kampala’s Kisenyi settlement to access sustainable, climate-resilient livelihoods. The project combines vocational and technical skills training, entrepreneurship support, and market linkages with peer-based collaboration and dialogue, recognising that economic inclusion and social cohesion are interdependent.

  • Kofi Annan Foundation (HQ: Geneva; 1 in Geneva working on HDP-climate related projects)

  • Project partners: Unknown

  • Contact point: Anja Tresse

  • Uganda: Rwenzori (in Kasese) and Kisenyi

  • Timeline of project: Started 2026; 24 month project

  • Sectors: Peacebuilding, Environment, Climate

  • Additional element: Livelihood development

No link available.

Peacemaking and nature conservation

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HD supports conservation actors with negotiating access arrangements for park rangers, establishing conflict-sensitive management structures, and facilitating dialogue between authorities, communities, and other actors on issues such as benefits, compensation and land ownership.

  • Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HQ: Geneva; 2 in Geneva working on HDP-climate related projects)

  • Project partners: Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Noé

  • Contact point: Lina Hillert

  • Central Africa (incl. Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo)

  • Sectors: Peacebuilding, peacemaking, & cooperation; Conservation

  • Additional element: Mediation