 Welcome everyone, fantastic to see that you have all chosen to join us today on such a packed and exciting agenda that this conference provides. So I thought I would start with just introduce who we are the organizers behind this particular event. So the forest and farm facility is a global program operating currently in 10 different countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. It is a funding facility that provides direct financial support and technical assistance to strengthen forest and farm producer organizations who represent smallholder farmers, rural women's groups, local communities and indigenous peoples institutions globally. And so collectively we call these members of these different organizations, forest and farm producer organizations, or FFPOS, which I'm sure that you will hear throughout the event. So in case there are any confusions, this is what we mean. So it's a global program and a partnership. And so in this partnership, you have the food and agriculture organizations of the United Nations. You have International Institute for the environment and development, which is my organization where I come from. You also have the International Union for conservation of nature and natural resources. And then you have agriculture, which is a EU Agri agency organizations which work with organizations, farmers organizations, not just in the EU, but globally. And also in this event, we have Asia Dara joining us. So Asia Dara is a member of aggregate. It is a regional partnership of 11 social development networks and organizations in 11 countries in Asia. You have the Vietnam National Farmers Union, which is a core partner of the forest and farm facility, but it is also a major farmers organization in Vietnam representing more than 10 million farmers and forest producers. So, in this event, we're covering some quite big concepts. Multidimensional resilience and nature-based solutions are quite a mouthful in itself. So I thought, perhaps we need to explain a little bit what we mean with this. So multidimensional resilience, well resilience basically refers to the ability of societies and nature to adapt to and manage the effects of stress and shocks. COVID-19 pandemic is a typical example of the current health and economic crisis that we're in. But then of course we also have the ongoing climate change and biodiversity crisis. And so increasingly during this time, we're noticing how important it is to have a diversity of solutions to solve these combined societal and environmental challenges. So resilience is this highly diverse adaptive capacity to manage these risks and stresses. When we talk about nature-based solutions, one of the key agents behind this problem solving, not just to these multidimensional crises, but perhaps to the everyday challenges we need to face in our societies anyway, are the local organizations of forest and farm producers. So they employ a host of nature-based solutions, that is actions to protect, manage and restore natural or modified ecosystems, which address societal challenges and provides well-being for both humans and nature. So these are some of the aspects we hope to cover, but also to show and practice what they look like and what they mean on the ground in this event. So some of the key objectives, what are we hoping to achieve? So first of all, we would like to show you through a set of different case studies how diverse forms of forest and farm producer organizations use the different approaches to deliver nature-based solutions that support nature and people. We'd like to show how these forest and farm producer organizations can partner with governments and other actors to integrate diverse production models and sustainability into the trade of forest and farm products at scale. So we're not talking about small solutions at individual levels and farm levels, we're looking at entire landscapes. Finally, we'd like to look at how forest and farm producer organizations can be empowered to use and take advantage of new tools and standards that are emerging for assessing and monitoring nature-based solutions and therefore also communicate how they are being applied and what effect that has. So in order to demonstrate and reach these different objectives, we have a very interesting panel of speakers who will be presenting their different case studies and tools. So first off, we will have Nora Simula. She is a climate and forestry expert at the Food and Forest Development Organization in Finland and she is representing Agriculture here today. She will give us an introduction to a global survey which was carried out earlier this year in an effort by Agricorps and in partnership with the forest and farm facility to get the perspective of local forest and farm producers of risk and vulnerability in the current context of climate change and COVID-19. Following Nora, we will have Pauline Buffalo and Pauline Buffalo will give us, she is a program officer within the global forest and climate change program at IUCN. She will give us a useful overview of what nature-based solutions means, where it comes from and why, and importantly, the key role that rural communities play in scaling them up. She will be launching an exciting new web tool that shows restoration potential, which is one of the nature-based solutions, and also the location of key forest and farm producer organizations globally. So that will be exciting to see that giving the light of day for the first time today. Following Pauline, we will have our first set out of three exciting case studies. Nonoi Villas from the Asia-Dara will present a case study of interesting nature-based solutions based on mangrove forest restoration in the Philippines. After that, we will have Pam Tai Tang together with Vule Yvonne from Thailand and the Vietnam National Farmers Union, who will give us a case study from Vietnam showing us the adoption of quite a different approach to supporting forest and farm producers in scaling up nature-based solutions in partnership with the government. Finally, we will turn to Ecuador, where we will have Virginia Vallejo Rojas joining us via video to present a case study from UNORCAC, which is showing how organizations of indigenous forest and farm producers around the protected area is adopted a diversified value chain approach that is rooted in cultural identity, natural integrity, and farmers organizations to ensure the well-being of its members. And so throughout the event, we will have, I am sure, questions that you would like to direct to our different speakers. So I will ask you please to put them in the chat box and we will direct them and answer them as soon as we can. So without further delay, I will hand over to Nora, Nora Simola, who will give us a start of the day in looking into multi-dimensional resilience. Okay. Thank you, Anna. And they're nice to see you all here. So my name is Nora Simola and I present Agricorps Alliance, which is one of the organizations belonging to the forest and farm facility partnership. Agricorps is a global alliance of non-governmental organizations or agri agencies, as we call them, in five different continents. And these agri agencies, they are mandated by farmers organizations to support their peers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. I myself work as a climate and forestry expert in one of the member agencies called FFD, but I work also in these matters for the whole alliance. I think that the, you know, the first page, the cover page of my presentation demonstrates that there are plenty, many, many colorful logos. And we really believe that the real impact requires real co-effort and close partnerships. So my presentation today focuses on farm and forest producer organizations, FFBOs, adopting nature-based solutions for multi-dimensional resilience. And in this presentation, I would like to draw the attention to the potential that nature-based solutions may offer in terms of responding to the diverse resilience challenges of farmers and forest producers around the world. Next slide, please. Thank you. So farmers, forest producers and other small-scale producers have strength in numbers. Estimates vary a bit, but for example, FAO in 2015 estimated that there is around 1.6 billion smallholders in the world, depending on forest and farm landscapes. These resource managers are many and they directly impact their lands, ecosystems and landscapes. They provide an important link in wider adoption of any nature-based solutions. And engaging them throughout the process in planning, in implementation, in monitoring, in evaluating nature-based solutions is crucial. Therefore, the organizations, I mean, you know, these smallholders, they many times scattered, also smallholder plots are scattered. So therefore, the organizations such as farmers and forest producers associations and cooperatives are in a key position. They present their members, they integrate them into landscape-level planning processes. They mobilize smallholders and their communities. They support their members in livelihood development and preparing for looming risks. Next slide, please. Thank you. So this year, talking about the risks, you know, this year we conducted a global survey on farmers and forest producers resilience. These are the results from Africa and Asia where 74 forest and farm producers organizations replied from 24 different countries. One of the objectives of this survey was to find out what forest and farm producers need to be resilient to. What are the main hazards affecting their livelihoods? So as you can see from the cracks, climate change was indicated as the number one risk. COVID-19 was the second and then came degradation of natural resources and especially soil erosion, deforestation and water shortage was specified by the respondents. Next slide, please. Thank you. So this is to say that there are several and varying resilience challenges faced by smallholders. In general, the human and social impact of the more significant risks are severe, you know, including income insecurity, increased poverty, food insecurity. And if you consider that the smallholders are currently affected by various challenges, including COVID-19 and climate change related hazards. So the situation is quite severe. And the direct impacts again vary, you know, making the picture more complicated. For example, COVID-19 caused problems according to the survey, the COVID-19 caused problems in supply such as access to seeds, but also, for example, in marketing of the products. Whereas then many times, you know, the impact of climate change hit especially the products. Next slide, please. Therefore, FFPOs advocate for multidimensional resilience for their members that are vulnerable to various hazards and livelihood challenges. They need solutions that respond simultaneously to multiple social, economic and environmental challenges. They need different level of urgency, but also different time scales and geographic extents. They need solutions that improve their livelihoods at all times. Also, solutions that simultaneously help them to cope with risks, support times in times of crisis such as, you know, buffering from disasters and also recovering from crisis. But also, they need solutions that improve and sustain the functionality of ecosystems without forgetting the need for climate change mitigation. So, okay, nature-based solutions have potential to respond to these needs, but at the same time, we need to be realistic. These solutions, nature-based solutions have to be clearly beneficial and relevant from the perspective of farmers and forest producers. The only way to sustain the buying of small holders by a long run is to engage them in all parts of the process starting from the planning of these solutions. At the same time, it's good to remember that small holders are already operational in this field. In this global survey I mentioned before, 98% of the FFBOs indicated that they are already engaging climate actions. In addition, sustainable forest management, agroforestry systems and many other ecosystem-based good practices are their business as usual. Next slide, please. Thank you. So, okay, they are operational already, but the question is how to scale up this effort, how to scale up the good practices? We need to expand the local good practices to landscape-level initiatives. We need to expand the number of small holders and communities benefiting from nature-based solutions. So, what is shown by this last slide is that the global survey indicated that scaling up requires especially capacity building of small holders, long-term financing and collaboration with other actors. And, you know, this way indicated in relation to both COVID-19 crisis and climate change crisis. So, overall, there is definitely a momentum for scaling up, but it requires investment. Next slide, please. Thank you very much. And now I would like to hand over to Pauline Buffalo, IUCN. Yes, hello, everyone. I'm just going to be sharing my screen to be able to present to you definitions and a few more details on the approach that are nature-based solutions and some examples. Okay. Excuse me, I need to put equality. Okay, never mind. So, nature-based solutions. You must be asking yourself, okay, are we talking about new practices? Well, no. It's just put to the words and descriptions to existing practices, but you can see here the evolution on how we came up with the nature-based solutions standard. So, first of all, here, we have the early IUCN origins and other peers that are also present in this call, in this presentation. We have a strong foundation in forest landscape restoration, ecosystem-based adaptation, ecosystem-based disaster risk protection. And then we started putting them under the umbrella of what we call nature-based solutions. Then the term nature-based solutions started appearing in some of our IUCN position papers at UNFCCC. In 2017, we came up with a formal definition. Then in 2017, the EU Horizon 2020 very strongly picked up on our definition of NBS to develop a multimillion funding program. And finally, after a long year and two rounds of public consultation, we launched a few weeks back, the nature-based solutions standard. And this standard is actually supported by a self-assessment tool that I will be presenting a bit later on. So internally in the conservation community, it has helped us change the paradigm to have a second pillar in conservation practices. So the idea is that we still have, of course, conservation actions for safeguarding nature and biodiversity, but also to address societal benefits, provide societal benefits, and while addressing specific challenges. Then, well, why create a new standard? With the global momentum around nature-based solutions, the approach has led to several misuses. And even when there were good attentions, but sometimes, for example, too much focus on nature maybe was at the expense of local communities or the opposite with too much focus on economic benefit. Or if, for example, carbon sequestration, then biodiversity benefits were not really taking into account. And therefore clarifying the approach with a standard made it much easier to upscale and to extend the reach and the relevance of this type of practices. And finally, in this context and for Forest and Farm Produce organization, I think it is very good for communication purposes. And I think it is important for FFPS to put a name on it when they are implementing NBS. And I went already briefly, defined briefly the nature-based solutions. So our official definitions are actions to protect, sustainably manage and restore natural or modified ecosystem that address societal challenges, effectively and adaptively, and simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits. And as you can see here, we often describe NBS as a no-regret option. So the main societal challenges that the standard focuses on are climate change adaptation and mitigation, disaster risk reduction, socio-economic development, human health, food security, water security and environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. Those seven challenges can involve the standard is in constant evolution and will adapt its relevance. Now, often we do get the question, okay, so what is the difference? What is, for example, is wind power, a nature-based solution? So as I said, it's important that the nature-based solutions is really an ecosystem approach about restoring, protecting or sustainably managing it, addressing societal challenge and with benefits both for society and nature. The example of nature-derived solutions like wind power or solar power, hydro power, well, it is using water and sun and wind but it does not necessarily provide biodiversity benefits. Or then we have nature-inspired solutions. Well, here it's a very interesting example of the Steno-Kara beetle in the arid African desert. So the beetle uses a part of its node along its back to collect moisture and then the droplets slide off the bumps of its back into its mouth. So academics are trying to mimic this structure of the beetle to develop water harvesting in arid zones, but this is not also providing ecosystem and biodiversity benefits. So this is where we need to put a distinction. So there are several, as I said, there are several nature-based solutions that can be implemented. Here is an example of a large-scale assisted restoration in China that took place in 1994. So the societal challenge that it addressed was poverty and unemployment, but also degraded soils, pollution and natural risk like dust storms. And the benefits, well, again, because it's a nature-based solution, it addressed societal benefits, which is improved household income, local employment rate, but also biodiversity and ecosystem service benefits with increased vegetation cover with much more soil retention. So in FFF, in the forest and farm facility, we strongly believe that direct funding should be channeled to FFBOs to implement nature-based solutions like forest landscape restoration. That is why we have created this product. It's called a story map, so you can maybe use the QR code to access it directly or the website link. And it's really, it's an advocacy piece to show the value of forest and farm producer organization in forest landscape restoration. So among other things, we explain how among the two billion hectares around the world of degraded land with potential for restoration, a majority of it is on or adjacent to farmland. For example, in Asia, the potential is about 300 million hectares. So much of this land could be restored by intervention involving agroforestry, smallholder agriculture and buffer planting. Farmers would benefit from it by increased production, reduced erosion and enhanced food production. Here on this map, you can see very well, we try to show the value of engaging forest and farm producer organization. So the green is where the Myanmar Farmer Federation is very active in Myanmar and the blue are the restoration opportunities that were assessed with the government and other stakeholders. So it is a matter of really overlaying the opportunities and the potential of the FFPS to show their value. And this is really building on the scale of their constituencies. But of course, engaging them makes a lot of sense for other other aspects. I mean, they have they have the directly with the land, whether they own it or not, they have the local and traditional knowledge about land use management. And their understanding of the economic and political constraints for restoration is very useful and key in implementing forest landscape restoration. So another novelty that I would like to share today with you is actually the IUCN self assessment tool that was developed to support the standard. So you have received it by email and you can again, it should appear in the chat. You can open it there if you want to have a look. So what is the purpose of this tool? Well, it's to help design nature based solutions, but also upscale and improve pilots by identifying gaps and area for improvements or assess past projects and future plans. Well, why do I advocate for forest and farm producer organization to use the self assessment tool is because there's an increasing momentum, both from donors and the private sector on NBS. And I think it would be a very strong communication and policy advocacy tool to show the value of small holders but also the value and the strength in number numbers of producer organization to do it. So now I will just quickly go through the tool just for you to have an idea. So it's it's a basic Excel sheet for now with all the instructions here. And it's all about it's it's built around the eight criteria. So the first one is, as I said the entry point, it's about what kind of, and how does it address societal challenge criteria to is the scale. Three, four and five are the pillars of sustainability, which is like biodiversity and ecosystem benefits, economic and financially viable. And the fifth is the governance and societal aspects, because we cannot count on having a triple win very strong triple win, there will necessarily be trade offs and trade offs also over time with an evolving situation so it's also very important to be transparent on the type of trade offs that that had to happen. Criteria seven is about managing. It's about NBS being adaptive, because ecosystems are dynamics but also there is climate change and other aspects that need to be taking into account so we need to be prepared that whatever our land use planning or NBS is looking for then we need to make sure that it's adaptive. Finally criteria eight is more of the aspirational criteria criterion. It's about mainstreaming it in in policy in sectorial policies and, if possible, also grounding it into community based governance or FFPO governance to ensure its durability. So I will zoom in a bit more. But for example for criteria three, you go in in the Excel sheet, you look at the policies. It's an indicator guiding questions to help with the indicator, then you can self assess using this type of information to help you assess whether you are strong adequate partial or insufficient. And then you put the rationale on why you actually self assess this way and the means of verification. So once you have filled in all of this, you you come up with this page. So here this the spider web shows you helps you show the results and it will help you show where you are strong, which you can then use for communication and policy influencing or knowledge sharing and building the capacity of others. But you can also show it also shows where maybe there's a lot of room for improvement. And that's really useful and it's inch it ensures its sustainability to address also the weak points of the NBS. So I'm really looking now for for us and farm producers organization who would be interested to pilot this self assessment tool with IUCN, because we really want to make sure that it is user friendly but relevant for FFPs and local government needs that necessarily changes in the language and in the process are taking into account. And that while the entire process represents FFPs needs. This is a call for anyone who would like to pilot this in with with me. Thank you Pauline. Great so I think as I mentioned in the beginning. This is the first time that this is the first day that this initial, the story map on IUCN website, the change makers, as in the first and farm produce organizations behind forest landscape restoration is being launched. Pauline, it'd be great if we could get an idea of how to go and visit that as well on the website. Otherwise, the tool call for action please give us feedback on how useful this is, and give us your own experiences. Next we're going to turn to Florante Nonoy Villas in Philippines, and we will hear about a very concrete and practical approach that has been very successful to mangrove forest restoration. So Nonoy, you have all of our ears. It's a good evening here in the Philippines. I'm Florante Villas and they call me Nonoy. It's my nickname. I am the senior program manager of ASEGRA. And ASEGRA as mentioned earlier by Nora is a member of a record and ASEGRA is working here in Southeast Asia. The presentation actually is a supplement to a video that will be shown to you after this one. And the logos on this first slide represents the partners that work with Compass. Compass is a coalition of municipal pieces for smaller pieces association at the municipal and village level. And these are the smaller logos at the bottom are the local government units, providing commencement agreement with Compass and its members. Next slide please. So when asked about the drivers of deforestation and degradation of mangrove forest in the Philippines, in particular in the province of Subwanga. The province of Subwanga is located in the eastern part of the southern island of the Philippines. And the drivers of deforestation actually are the previous centralized management, which allowed degradation and deforestation of mangroves because of this rampant establishment of fish funds for commercial fishing in the production of milk fish and shrimps. Including and regulated coastal developments in human settlements. And of course the illegal cutting of timber for firewood and production of charcoal and some even exported to other countries for the production of rye on. Next slide please. So the nature based solution applied in this case is the reforestation, restoration, rehabilitation of deforested denuded, damaged or destroyed mangrove forest. But this is combined with earlier the oyster production, and then you have fish cage production, and then across the culture and collective marketing of fish and seafood products. And this one I would want to emphasize that any nature based solutions without a combination of initiatives that provide economic and social benefits will not succeed. This is the experience of the earlier part of compass years back. Next please. So the important role of teachers and the organization in planning and implementing nature based solutions. First it's actually putting them putting the pieces organization at the driver's seat. And, and, and we as support organization taking the backseat and providing the, the, the advice of pieces organization where to drive. So it's really the direct management of pieces organization in coastal resources. And compass and its member associations are legitimate actors not presenting the features who have the capacity to mobilize their members. So it's also part of the organization that also matures and provide leadership. And in the case in this case compass and its member organization act as a legal entity to undertake a co management agreement with the local government. This is a long history because before it was not possible. It was only possible. When the new history code of the and co management agreement which devolved the sum of the forest mincing functions to local government and the local government can partner with pieces organization in the management of mongoose. So compass and its member association now in the province are officially recognized as the primary managers of mongoose forest coastal resources and some established marine sanctuaries. While the local government provides policy, technical and material assistance to research organizations. Next piece. And in addition to the role that pieces organization play their members also provide labor time and materials in mangrove report station restoration and habilitation because it takes years before mangrove forest matures. So the pieces themselves volunteers to replant mangrove and maintain and protect, especially during the early stages of growth, mangrove species are vulnerable. And the teachers also has a range of expertise. They have a very intimate knowledge of the area in mangrove group. They know about water currents. They know about the implications of high tide and low tide. They know about the navigational pathways, the currents, the identification of the seagrass coral areas, etc. So the local analysis needed to ensure a successful report station restoration and habilitation. So the key to success is the capacity of the pieces organization to bring together and mobilize their members towards this common goal. And the other very important factor is the security of tenure that was being provided by the common cement agreement with local governments. This policy was a result of long advocacy and lobby by pieces organization and NGOs at the national level. And three, the clear benefits has derived from the natural solutions. Pacers already understood the impact, the negative impact of mangrove loss. This includes the declining fish cuts. In the video you will see later that previous aberrant fish cuts were small and it's steadily growing until present. Next please. So the other benefits that is derived from this nature based solutions is there is increased food. The increase in the volume of fish population provide food security and it facilitates sustainable food systems. And because of that it improves and sustains livelihood. It supports a vital ecosystem services and biodiversity. And it bapers them from disasters. And also provide aesthetic beauty to the communities of fishers. Next please. So what secures a long-term sustainability of natural solutions from this experience. It's the continuous education and awareness building being being continually made by this by compass and their members, which even resulted to mobilizing former illegal teachers for responses to join compass. And in this case, some of these pieces are now volunteer sea wardens, which they are tasked to protect the forest and run after illegal teachers. And very important is the engagement and partnership with local government. And in this engagement policies are enhanced and financial investments for maintenance of mangrove forest and marine sanctuaries support, for example, for volunteer fish wardens, the equipment that they use the patrol boats, the food among others. And of course the services of compass to their members. Most of the services are economic services, technical support in the production of fish, in fish farming, in seafood, in lobster production, sea bass, snapper, and in establishing a Quasiliac culture. And also in, in gathering the consolidating the products of the members and market it collectively. Next piece. So in order to expand the results of this compass and scale up investments are needed, especially in a way. This is a piece of pieces and organizing pieces and building the institutional capacity of the organization to be able to effectively engage government and provide supporting services to their members. These are some of the very important aspects in expanding the, the resource that compass has made at present. I think this is the last slide I've got in the pack. Thank you. Thank you. So we have a video also from compass and acid data, I believe. Yes, one second, I'll slide that up. Compass provides capacity building, extension services and technical assistance, processing of marine products and marketing services to its members. Mangrove forest is important to fishers because mangroves provide breeding grounds for fish, shrimp, crab, and other shellfish. It is a shelter of many marine species, young commercial fish species, before they go out to the open sea. It protects shoreline against damaging storms, typhoons, and erosions. It maintains water quality and clarity, and mangroves sequester carbon four times more than rainforests. Compass addressed the challenge of mangrove deforestation by reforestation. Currently 9,000 deforested mangrove forests, six protected marine sanctuaries, and over 15,000 under-conference members protection and management. The 30 forested mangroves increase the population and the number of fish species in the municipal waters. Fishers have experienced increased in average fish catch per trip. Now, fishing is no longer just extraction, but it also includes marine farming, like fish culture, and a facility protection. Policies and mechanisms are a place to prevent illegal and unregulated fishing. Sea wardens and vigilant communities switch to their illegal fishing and cutting off mangrove forestries, intrusion of commercial fishing operations, and forest poachers. Members of Compass are represented in local government development bodies. In these bodies, they engage in policy dialogue and lobby. Compass, as a coalition of these fishers associations, became a united voice of fishers in the province. One of the best practices of Compass is the requirement for an association to become a regular member to the coalition. An association is required to establish a track record of reforestation at least two hectares of mangrove before being admitted as regular members. But even with this tough requirement, Compass is able to grow in membership. Another best practice is the establishment of community managed nurseries for mangrove forestries species. These nurseries make seedlings and planting materials through the forest mangroves easily accessible to members. Partnerships with local government units and managing mangrove forests is another best practice of Compass. These partnerships is formalized through a Memorandum of Agreement or MOA between the local government unit and Compass or its local member. The MOA serves as a vehicle basis for Compass's interventions and the mangrove forest and allows government to provide financial and other support and services to Compass and its members. The Identification, Selection, and Deployment of Bantai Daggot or Sea Wardens is also Compass's best practice. The local government unit, the National Police and the Coast Guard train and deputize selected Compass members as Sea Wardens to patrol, report, and act on illegal activities in their areas of responsibility. The provision of livelihood and economic services to Compass members is one of the best practices of organization. These have strengthened and sustained the work of Compass in mangrove reforestation, protection, and management, including other areas of community-based coastal resources management. AsiaDRA, under the Farmers Fighting Poverty Project, supports Compass's sweet funding from EU and EFID through AgriCord. We have shared four best practices of Compass. These practices are scalable. The building up of partnerships with local governments allows fishers to have binding relationships between the organizations and the local government. There is so much work to be done in coastal and mangrove resource protection and management. AsiaDRA is committed to support Compass, strengthen its economic services to its members, to sustain Compass work to improve the well-being of small-scale fishers in the province. Today, it is impossible in the whole of Zamboanga Peninsula in the future. At present, Compass's standing production capacity for fish, goopers, snappers, and sea bass is 2.7 tons per production cycle. The demand from its current buyers is more than 7 tons. The major constraint is the supply of juveniles in the wild. Supply of juveniles is unpredictable. Compass plans to establish a breeding hatchery and fish nursery station to address this problem. This facility will help ensure reliable and predictable supply of fingerless. Great. Thank you, Nonoy. So, I believe we have to test all of your listening skills. We've prepared a little Mentimeter exercise, of course, to test you. So, Michael, is this ready or should we? Yeah, this is ready. I'll just bring it up on the screen and everyone should be able to join us soon. Yeah. So, here with Compass, we saw an excellent example of this network of partnership that has been developed in order to support our members implement this specific nature-based solution. But the question is, which of the following project components do you think have required the most financial investment over the years of implementation of this specific nature-based solution? So, I think if you have loaded your, yes, we see some answers coming in, organizational capacity building in the lead, followed tightly by mango restoration activities, which is picking up. Oh, yeah. Oh, have we got the end of that? And the answer. Could we see the, what might the answer be, Michael? I believe the answer is first on organizational capacity building. Yes. So, Nonoy, you had the answer to this was organizational capacity building. Could you tell us a little bit why? Because it takes years. It really takes years to build an organization. An organization that mature in one, two, three years. It's a constant, you know, nurturing, building, educating, capacitating. So, these are in cycles. You know, you don't stop doing this because new members come in, there are problems, you have to solve all this requires investments and you have the investment based on community facilitators, community organizers, expenses in doing capacity building. It takes years. This, the original association was organized in 2001. The first local association, and then it slowly organized another village, another village, and then in 2013 takes how many years? Yeah. Compass was, Compass as a coalition of these small organizations on the ground. And then you have to build again, Compass capacity. Indeed. So often when we talk about investment for nature based solution may, many people may be thinking mainly of the more physical aspect of planting trees of setting up flood barriers and so on, but often forgotten is this crucial aspect of strengthening local organizations and the costs involved with that. And yet, they are so important in making sure that this can happen and work. So thank you so much, Nonoy. In addition, in fact, this is the component that has been forgotten by our donors. Exactly. By many, I think. So, fantastic. So, going from one key example of the importance of partnering in order to make nature based solution happen, we will turn our listening ear and eyes to Vietnam. And to Tang, who is the national facilitator for the forest and farm facility, and also who is representing the Vietnam National Farmers Union. You have our attention Tang. Yes. Thank you Anna. Hi everyone. Can you hear me? Okay, that's good. Good afternoon from Vietnam. We are very happy to be part of CTA conference to start with the meeting today. Vietnam Farmers Union and FF team, we have me FF facilitator as introduced by Anna, and miss Yvonne, our senior advisor. We would like to share with you about Vietnam Farmers Union collaborate with government agency to implement the NBS. Next night, please. Next. Yeah. So, as you know that in rural communities, especially in mountainous area of Vietnam. It needs to be so based on nature or based on community. And the first thing I would like to say with you is that so now in many places in mountainous areas, forest and farm producers, they still abuse a lot of chemical in their productions. So that's the thing also lead to soil and water pollution. The second issue is that the forest station in protected forest. And in addition to that, when we work with farmers and rural communities, we realize that we realize that forest, many forest land transfer to agriculture land. So, big issues in mountainous area of Vietnam. And another issue is that Molo country plantation also effect to the rural community. And in the picture in on the my presentation on the right, you can see that the cinnamon needs. Now, they are all eaten by the past, but that did not happen in the in the past. And another issue is that they should have resources and traditional country heritage now losing and losing. And we know that before Vietnam we have 4054 minority groups, and we have many traditional bands and songs, but now become less and less. And another issue I would like to mention here is climate change effect so much on. We have a frozen video on tongue here. Can you present. Can you help us pick up a one or tongue. If one of you here as if you could please respond where the checkbox or on the video. Michael so we have actually from Vietnam while we are getting ready to reconnect tongue. Could we show the videos that we have from Vietnam so we have four two minute videos that have been prepared by the different partners in Vietnam, starting with the government representative, follow up with one of the key technical partners for in within the university in Vietnam, who supports the organic farming technical training and implementation. And two cooperatives who will be giving their own perspectives of how they working together with the forest and farm facility and the Vietnam National Farmers Union to implement a host of different initiatives and production models, including organic farming. So here we have the first of the, the videos which is the Vietnam National Farmers Union's director. So apologies not the government he's the VNF you director, who will be giving us an introduction. Please, let's go ahead. Number one, I am my but me, I am the director's external office and international cooperation departments of Vietnam farmer unions and the director of FFF to Vietnam. First of all, on behalf of Vietnam FFF team, I would like to thank you for giving us a great opportunity to participate in the communities based adaptation meetings. I wish you all good health and the CBA meeting successfully conducted. As you know, CBA and natural based solutions are action to protect, manage natural to address societal challenges at the same time developments. Actually, there are things that we're doing quite well in Vietnam for MPOs, such as we provide technical and skill trainings, a strength visit to successful forest and farm models, building agroforestry, organic climate resilience models, etc. Vietnam common health policy related to nature based solutions such as sustainable forestry and agriculture developments, biodiversity conservations, organic agriculture developments and sustainable poverty reductions. Vietnam farmer unions collaborated with the FFF program in implementing activities to respond to challenges of forest based farmers committees in four provinces, such as Surla, Wabing, Inbhai, Makta with seven ethnic minority group in northern mountainous regions. We have farmers organization to develop and manage forest to combine agroforestry production to increase the value of income from forest, organic farming and environmental protections, climate resilience and traditional cultural preservation. This is what I want to share with you. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to discuss with us. Thank you and goodbye. I'm at the center of the FFF, directly under the management and development of Nong Thon, Nong Thon University, Vietnam. I'm standing here at the A3 house of Nong Thon University. We are very happy to be the partners of the program forest and agroforestry from 2019. We have created 32 forests and more than 200 forests, which are cooperated and coordinated. The students here are working to understand how agroforestry needs to be produced, and how it needs to be developed. We are very excited to learn and develop agroforestry products based on agroforestry. Before this, we produced agroforestry and agroforestry for farmers. All of them were farmers and farmers, but now we have been able to produce two types of agroforestry products, which are agroforestry and agroforestry, to export to countries like Japan and France. Since 2015, we have received support from the FFF program forest and agroforestry. We have learned and performed only with 1.7 ha of agroforestry. Until now, we have produced and developed about 600 ha of agroforestry with more than 600 farmers. The agroforestry products have not only brought back to us about the increase in income, but also improved the health of the country, the forest and especially the health of the people. The members of the association have contributed to the production of agroforestry with which we have produced 12 types of agroforestry. The agroforestry has increased from 15% to 20% and has produced from 120% to 150% of agroforestry with 70% of agroforestry. The members of the association have also contributed to the production of agroforestry with which we have produced 12 types of agroforestry with 20% of agroforestry. Our association has 35 official members and nearly 200 association members. Among them, there are more than 150 forest and agroforestry forest and 60 agroforestry land. Over the past time, we have received support and support from the FFF program forest and agroforestry. Until now, there have been agroforestry products brought back to us by the people. There is a knowledge of agroforestry using PGS and control the internal energy. Currently, agroforestry has agroforestry products such as palm trees, pine trees, pine trees. The agroforestry has brought back the highest economic value, the highest value is at least 10% to 20%. Therefore, the farmers have less profit. Over the past time, the agroforestry association has developed a market and has distributed agroforestry products as a result of the association's cooperation with the agroforestry association, such as the agroforestry association BBGarine in Vinh Nghia An, the agroforestry association Thien Phúc in Vinh Nghia An, and the agroforestry association Heo Thi Lau Caay. The total consumption of agroforestry is about 1.5 million and some other agroforestry. We will continue to carry out agroforestry projects and continue to grow agroforestry. The vegetables and the agroforestry plants in the next season. Through that, we understand that the first thing is that the protection of the forest police is more valuable than our forest products, such as the industrial, industrial, and industrial products of the Pacific Ocean. Women and young people can earn more work and participate in community activities. Because of that, the social life of our community will be improved. For disturbing, I don't know why it may be an IT technical problem. So you have a watch and here a sharing of VNFU and organic government agencies and our AFPLs. They are sharing about what we are implementing NBS in Vietnam. And all the videos made by our AFPLs, because of the COVID, we could not go there to make the video. So we ask them to prepare and we use what they have to produce and send to Hanoi. On this occasion, we would like to send our great thanks to our AFPLs. So through the videos, you can understand the policy of the Vietnam government related to the laser-based solution and how VNFU and MFF and our partners support AFPLs to apply organic farming and agroforestry. So at this time, maybe you will question yourself that what and how we can do this. And through this diagram, I would like to explain further for you so that you can maybe understand. So on the screen, the diagram on the left hand, you can see the blue dash. It's like the individual farmers. So when we work with rural communities, we try to organize our individual farmers as a farmer group or collective groups or cooperatives we call AFPLs. To support them, facilitate them to produce forest and farm as a value chain and link them to the market. And as you know that in the process of this, many related things related to them, such as governance and legalty, research development, business support, and technical advice also. And also includes social organization and finance for their production. So you can see the red word here, we put here the linkage. It's the key. We not only link our AFPLs to the market, but also linked with the different agencies, local and national government and different departments. Next please. So you can see some phrase appear here that to explain for you how we can do this. The first thing is we organize farmer as a group and develop organization by capacity, technical training, and also we facilitate them to policy advocacy. Next slide please. So after many years of working with communities and farmers, we have some lessons. The first lesson is we use participatory approach to work with farmers. It means that we try to work with them and involve them in own the process of development and listen to them carefully. And we use bottom up, not center approach. And the second lesson is that we use the round table discussion as a tool. So the round table is discussion is not a new thing, but it's like a place for the farmers and AFPLs sit together with different agencies like local authority, multi stakeholder, private sector to discuss and solve the difficulty and challenge of the AFPLs. It means that when we work with the farmers and AFPLs, we firstly we help them to identify their difficult and challenge. And after that we organize a round table discussion at the community level to discuss and to solve their issue and their problem. If something at the community level, we do not solve AFPL problems, we will bring to the district level. It means that we will organize round table at the district level. At the same with this, if something cannot address at the district level, we will organize round table at the provincial level. So through the many round table discussion, so many difficulties and challenge of AFPLs was addressed. Not only that, through the round table discussion, we will also mobilize many resources to support for the AFPLs so that their income really generate and their forest and farm sustainable management. So the next lesson is that visitors incubation and we conduct value chain training and value chain approach to link them with the development and support them to become more confident and more income. And another lesson from our work is that peer-to-peer learning and each visit so that through these activities, farmers and AFPLs they can share their experience and their creation, each other. Next night, please. And for coming time, BNFU and AFPL, we will continue to support our AFPLs to implement natural-based, such as sustainable forest and farm practice. And we will establish models based on natural solutions to respond to the challenge. And we continue to implement business incubation and training in ecosystem-based. And also, as I mentioned, we will try to facilitate to organize policy advocacy activity and collaboration with government agencies and other monthly stakeholders to mobilize resource and finance to support for AFPLs. And another thing we really think that is very important is we enhance communication on NBS and sustainable forest and farm management, production and business to protect and restore pleasure. And that's what we want to share with you and the recommendation and succession. Well, warmly welcome. Thank you very much. Thank you, Tang. Great. So that was a fantastic example of how a producer organization of the scale, such as the Vietnam National Farmers Union is, is able to support its members through a very integrated approach building on business incubation, policy advocacy and technical assistance to help them scale up these different solutions. Thank you so much. So now we will go to our last case study today. And I do hope that you are all following us in this is we're going to Ecuador. So a very different context over to South America, and we will have on video presentation Virginia Valejo Rojas, who is the National Forest and Farm Facilitator in Ecuador. So here is her presentation that she has prepared for us today, since it is too early in the morning. Today with everyone in gradings from Ecuador. In collaboration with a family farm organization from Ecuador, Colledun Alcac, we will present the using nature basis solution to achieve the sumac outside or good living in Quechua language with the nature. This is a history of an Alcac in Ecuador. I give thanks to an Alcat for the valuable support for this presentation. As a background, firstly, Ecuador is in South America. It is a country that has four natural regions, coasts, Andean, Amazon and Galapagos. The Unarcac is in an Andean province located in the north of Ecuador, a province called Imabura, as we see in the map. The Unarcac is the acronym of the Union of Indigenous Peacent Organization of Kotakachi. Unarcac has 42 years of organizational trajectory and has 3,000 households that form 45 communities. This household managed an ancestral production model called Chakra. The communities of Unarcac are in the buffer zone of Kotakachi Kayapas National Park. In addition, the territory that managed Unarcac are in the process of an international recognition of GMs. GMs is a globally important agricultural heritage system. In this sense, this international recognition is focused on Chakra system, an Andean Chakra system. That is the production model of Unarcac communities. The communities and people of Unarcac are organized in various groups, such as water boards or juntas de agua in Spanish, women, young and producer groups. The production models, strategies and ventures of Unarcac are part of natural-based solutions that Unarcac do to provide human wellbeing and biodiversity benefits. In this slide, we show how Unarcac manage resources to achieve suma kausai. Firstly, suma kausai is a ketchup term that is used by ketchup indigenous people to refer to a new form of citizen coexistence in diversity and harmony with nature and with cultural identity. In this scheme, the Unarcac shows how the spheres of peasant organization, cultural identity, natural resource conservation and economic development interact to achieve the suma kausai as a process that is based in peasant organization that is the human collective action. The peasant organization sphere is composed mainly by organized groups such as cabildos, women groups, young groups, farmer groups and water boards, or juntas de agua in Spanish. In this arena, we also show that Unarcac is part from another major organization such as cantonal assembly, local government and phenocene. This last is a national indigenous organization in Ecuador. The cultural identity sphere is composed mainly by cosmomission and traditional knowledge, indigenous health, gastronomy, handicrafts and rituals. The natural resource conservation sphere is composed mainly by ancestral and sustainable production model based on agro-biodiversity, agroecological, seed fairs, community water management and environmental education. And the economic development sphere is composed mainly by strategies like microcadic, agroecological fairs, agrotorins, agro-industry beekeeping and producer networks. These forest spheres interact to achieve the suma kausai. In this sense, we can view how this interaction constitutes the diversity of natural basis solution that Unarc performs. All of these natural basis solutions are performed by the human agency of Unarcac. That is a collective agency and a collective action that emerged from business organization. And that is the base of all interaction of these four spheres to achieve the suma kausai. From here, we briefly show through pictures the nature basis solution between HS sphere of action of Unarcac. Regarding to natural resource conservation sphere, Unarcac has a nature-based solution which contributes to peace and family agriculture, food sovereignty, conservation of agro-biodiversity, traditional knowledge, peace and enterprises, education and conservation of agro-biodiversity and food security. Also, foster of agroecological land and chakras, training and exchange for agroecological production and foster of the knowledge center. Regarding to cultural identity sphere, Unarcac has nature-based solution which contributes to maintain the Andean Cosmovision. A representative ritual linked to cultural identity is the Muirain. It is an Andean festival that fostered cultural identity within, with and between producer, consumers, policymakers and another groups of society. Through several practices such as fair seed exchange, exhibition of gastronomic heritage, gastronomic fair, entrepreneurship fair, agroecological production fair. To economic development sphere, Unarcac has nature-based solution which contributes to generating comms from different agri-food activities such as peace and commercialization. In pre-COVID-19 context, the producers have a traditional fray with several consumers in the same place. But with the COVID-19 context, the producers develop new forms to perform commercialization activities. For example, using virtual platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook and implementing new forms of logistics like home delivery. All of these new strategies are now implementing with biosecurity measures in order to save the health of all people and communities. These strategies are supported by Forest and Far facility in Ecuador. In this scheme, we show how a function the Unarcac commercialization found for the direct sale of agroecological baskets of products. We show the institutional arrangements that are the rules for found operation that are manual for the management of the fund, regulation for community fair and biosecurity protocol under COVID-19 context. The fund began with the initial support of Forest and Far facility in Ecuador. This support provides liquidity to purchase agri-food products directly from producers at the farm. Then two women facilitate the gathering, consolidate the basket of products and plan efficient routes for home delivery. Finally, the basket of products are delivered directly to urban consumers. Here consumers pay to the Unarcac and the Unarcac recovers the money paid to producers and generate a surplus that is returned to the fund in order to provide financial sustainability to the fund. Finally, another nature-based solution of Unarcac that contributes to economic development sphere are the efficient micro-interprises such as sumac-miqui, focused on added value to native crops, Saramama, focused on traditional drink, Pakachet Kullet Chicha de Jora, Mama Murukuna, focused on production and commercialization of Andean grains, Runa Tupari, focused on agrotourines, Azoproag, focused on beekeeping production, and Osteria Quicocha, focused on community tourism. For us, thanks and greetings from Ecuador and from Unarcac. Thanks. Great, so we're now coming to the end of the event. So that was a very different and interesting example from Ecuador. So we have now seen one nature-based solution example from the coastal area landscape in the Philippines, turning to the forest and farm landscape in Vietnam, and then finally to the periphery of a protected area landscape in Ecuador, all which emphasize on the one hand sustainable management of natural resources, but also the importance of strengthening entrepreneurship and economic development in those areas for local producers. So I hope we've given you a flavor of some of the work that the forest and farm facility and its partners are doing around the world. So as a last exercise, we hope to hear from you more in terms of how you have gauged this session together in a world-class cloud exercise. Any questions that you have also for Virginia, please post them in the chat box because we will forward them directly to you unless we can answer them ourselves. Michael, could you please help us to load just the final word cloud before we close for today? Okay, so first question, I hope everybody has their mentor meter accounts opened is coming back to the initial session presented by Pauline from IUCN and the new nature-based solutions self-assessment tool. How do you think mapping and assessing progress on nature-based solutions could be most useful for local communities? So if everybody could enter three entries starting from now, and you see the code to mentor meter at the top of the slide there, 660706. Great. So we have three very equal entries. See if we can get some more. Whoa, advocacy is coming out strong. So using a self-assessment tool for communicating to those who make decisions about the nature-based solutions being applied. And showing transparency is also coming out strong. Who is doing what and who can claim the right to benefit from it, perhaps. Great. I think that's very clear. We might, oh, okay, capacity building and inclusiveness is also coming up to the race here. So I think we have two more questions that we would want to load before we finish today. So transparency, inclusiveness, advocacy and capacity building is coming out as top useful aspects of using this nature-based solutions tools. So our next question. What role do you see for forest and farm producer organizations in scaling up nature-based solutions at the grassroots level? So again, we have three options, three entries that you feel is a key role that forest and farm producers play in scaling up nature-based solutions at the grassroots level. It takes a lot of thinking, doesn't it? Here we go. Policy advocates, yes, linked to our previous reflection, models of good practice, educators. Interesting. Indeed, mobilization, traditional knowledge, advocacy is coming out strong. Market access, peer-to-peer, strengthen numbers, rights and governance. We see also piloting the standard advocacy capacity building. Interesting. Okay, so we have three key messages emerging here. Four, capacity building advocacy, local knowledge is coming up here and policy advocacy. Great. I think those takeaways, we will go to the last word cloud. I can see a red thread here. We have similar priority uses as well as roles for producer organizations in nature-based solutions. Finally, what three enabling conditions do you see for bringing nature-based solutions to scale? Three entries again. The trick here is to act fast and not think too much on feeling, okay, local leadership, investment, big one. And as we've seen, particular investments that you may easily forget, but that are crucial to make these nature-based solutions happen. In particular, into organizational strengthening and capacity building in various aspects. Partnership, leadership, local leadership, funding, investment, capacity building. Yes. I think we have a red thread here as well. Investment and capacity building is big contenders, partnership, local leadership and policy. Great. So with that in mind, I would like us to all perhaps, at least on behalf of the organizers, if we could all turn on our videos to say thank you to everyone. We have Virginia here today now, I see as well. Great to see Virginia. And so to remind you that we have the capacity to answer all questions that you may have. And so we will want to do that as well. So please do send us your questions. It's not been in the chat box then by email or on the chat box on the event page. So get in touch and let us have any questions that you might have had that we did not get a chance to answer for those who we have gone a little bit over time. So thank you so much again and have a fantastic afternoon. It was a pleasure to engage with you today.