Geneva landscape: Conservation

For contact information for any below-listed contact points, please email aericksonpearson@gmail.com.

Conflict sensitive conservation support

  • PeaceNexus Foundation (HQ: Prangins; 23in Geneva working on HDP-climate related projects)

  • Project partners: Unknown

  • Contact point: Heloise Heyer

  • International

The International Conflict Sensitivity Programme supports organisations with a humanitarian, development or environmental mission to strengthen how they operate in conflict-affected contexts and how they can contribute to social cohesion and peacebuilding. We support environmental actors to develop new policies and practices to address conflict risks in their operations and to pioneer peacebuilding approaches as part of their biodiversity and climate work.

  • Timeline of project: Ongoing

  • Sectors: Peacebuilding, Conservation, Environment

  • Additional element: Organizational development

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Mainstreaming Conflict Sensitivity into the NAbSA Operational Framework: Strengthening the Resilience of Climate Adaptation in Fragile Contexts

  • International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (HQ: Gland; 3 in Geneva working on HDP-climate related projects)

  • Project partners: Global Affairs Canada

  • Contact point: Veronica Ruiz

  • International / Africa

NAbSA, a Global Affairs Canada initiative, supports 19 projects in 30 countries (27 of which are in Sub-Saharan Africa) to develop a gender-responsive framework for nature-based solutions with biodiversity benefits. IUCN is currently working to integrate conflict-sensitivity into the operational framework.

  • Timeline of project: Ongoing

  • Sectors: Conservation, Development

  • Additional element: Nature-based Solutions (NbS)

Read more here.

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