 Charlotte, and many thanks to all of you for joining us from all over the world today to share stories on community-led nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation, or some of us call ecosystem-based adaptation. We also look forward to discuss with all of you where we can learn from those community-led nature-based solutions for building back better from COVID. The session is co-organized and supported by 12 amazing partners who have bought a diversity of experience and expertise from Asia Pacific, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It probably takes me two minutes to read all their names, so I'm just going to post it into the chat box so you can see. We also look forward to learning from all of you by making this session as interactive as possible through many meter dedicated breakout room interactions and the chat. So as a start, please do introduce yourself in the chat box to everyone if you haven't done so already. And I'm Xiaoting Ho-Jiong, Senior Researcher at IED, and I'll be your moderator today. And sorry if you see me darting my eyes and switching my head all over the place. This is mainly because I'm monitoring various chat with you, with the participants, with all the speakers, so it gets a little bit chaotic sometimes. And I think we all know that COVID, and actually this meeting is the result of COVID, that we were going to meet in person, but we actually meet virtually. So it has really impacted all of us in very different ways. It has exposed some of the entrenched vulnerability and inequality in our society and showed how challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, and pandemic and the risk to public health also interlinked. So for example, COVID disproportionately impact already marginalized in the poor communities as they may lack access to medical and social services. They're also more vulnerable to sharp price changes in local markets, disrupted food supply chains and job and income losses. But on the other hand, COVID has also reviewed some useful lessons on how we can build a better future where where society is more prepared to adapt and respond to risk like pandemic and climate change. We have also seen, as you seen in some of the photos, if you were here with us earlier, how working with nature to build communities long term resilience to climate change is also helping communities to be more resilient to many of the pandemic's impact. So leading up to the session, we worked with members of the FIBA network to collect inspiring stories from communities. So you have seen some of the photos and the videos before and we will even maybe you can post the link to the Flick account so people can also view it after the session. But coming back for today's session, we will start by sharing stories from three communities. We hope you will also share your stories in the chat box and the latest romantic meeting exercise. We will then have a panel of local governments and the policy experts to start us off on a discussion on how we can learn from those community stories to inform policies to build back-to-back from COVID. We hope all those stories and discussions then can help pave the way for more in-depth discussion among all of you in the breakout rooms. We will not have a lengthy report back in the plenary afterwards, but again, we'll try to use Mentimeter to pull your reflections before we close the session. So just a final reminder that one of the few advantages of not meeting person but virtually is that it gives us different options to engage with each other and allow more conversation to flow in this short 19 minutes. So throughout the session, please feel free to share reflections, ask questions to each other and the speakers via the chat box. And this session, as well as the chat box content, will then be recorded and shared on Hover platform after the session. So do interact with each other whatever way you feel comfortable. So that's enough from me for now, and we really want to hear from the community themselves first. Jenna, could you start preparing the video please? So first, we will hear from Mrs. Xiuying Zhang, a farmer and a plant breeder from Yunnan, China. She will tell us her stories were recorded video produced by China Pharmacy Network, who has been supporting Xiuying and her communities in China. Xiuying and the colleagues from China Pharmacy Network actually with us in the session today. Xiuying, maybe you can just wave your hands so some participants may be able to see you. Unfortunately, Xiuying doesn't speak English and many of us here, I assume, don't speak Chinese. So the video is prepared to help us overcome this translation challenge. So Jenna, could you please play the video please? I'm a farmer and a farmer. Back then, in our village, we didn't have a place to live, so we had to take care of our ancestors, so we had to take care of our ancestors slowly, so that they could live longer. Later on, we had a teacher from China Pharmacy, who came to China Pharmacy, and we picked up the most important part of the tradition, and I began to do this, to protect the tradition. From 2013, I started to do this. Slowly, the weather changed a lot. Every year, it's not just about the weather, it's about the rain. Before the rain, the weather changed a lot. The weather changed a lot every year. And the rain, as long as it rains, there's no rain or humidity, so we can't solve it. But the tradition is that at least we can solve it. I think it's a bit too hard. I think it's a good idea to share it with you. Because the color of it is different. This one is embroidered in No. 1. This one is made of stainless steel, and the texture is better. This one is made of copper, and this one is made of copper, and the texture is better. In fact, our knowledge is not complicated. It's easier to make, and it's real. It's made of copper, and steel, and copper, and copper, and steel, and then it's slowly becoming the point of the boss. I've been doing this, and this is a memory of a generation. Because my father also liked to make this piece of copper. And then I met the teacher of the Chinese Academy, and he gave me a special talk. But he was a fan of mine. I made a piece of copper myself, and we've built a house in the city of Baosan, and built a house in the city of Shandong. It's more important to build a house here. Because the boss can take care of the house. The family has a lot of children, 目前金人的有100兰竹,玉米有50脊竹,小麦七八竹,还有水道一七八竹,还有食材类,肚类这些都有。 我村里的这些金人也在做我的这些传统脊竹,然后比较伟低的这些材料给村里的这些金人。 一期期间,在我的竹子坑里,也足够可以费钱给大家,也没什么太大的影响。 竹子像神秘一样,有了一个人的神秘一样,就能一竹竹竹竹。 所以我一直在保留这种传统脊竹。 Thanks so much for showing at China's Mama Seed Network for such an inspiring story that shows how community-based diverse seed banks not only help communities deal with climate change but also help them ensure access to seeds for sowing during COVID-19. I think there's also a hidden story there of the importance of women for championing nature-based solutions. So the last frame of the video, if you remember, shows many of the active women farmers who are two champions of nature-based solutions. They care for their seeds, their family, their community, and they're willing to work together. So they're caring nature and the long-term vision and a genuine concern and love for the environment they live in and the culture they have is what has been going this collective effort of working with nature to adapt to climate change in China. So now we will travel from the mountains in Yunnan into the rural Nepal. Next Mr. Namao Adhikari will be our next storyteller. He's a program manager from Kanchang Nepal, a sister NGO of the International Ring Harvesting Alliance. Mr. Namao is an expert in water resource management in rural communities. Over to you, Namao. Namaste everyone. My name is Nirmala Adhikari. I'm working at Kanchang Nepal for International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance as a program coordinator. We have been working together since 2013 in Nepal. As the start of COVID pandemic, Kanchang Nepal were providing local water resource for schools, homes, and farms. We helped community harvest rainwater. We helped channel rainwater flow access across the land. One man has rainwater resources can be used for drinking, hygiene, and sanitation purposes, and even for farming. With the spread of COVID-19, it's vital for hand hygiene especially. Kanchang Nepal set the benchmark for rainwater harvesting in schools in our region. We built rainwater harvesting system in 9 schools in Kaskir district. So children have water tap and do not have to work to spring to collect the water. We run educational activities at this school to teach children about natural processes. Children planted more than 1000 saplings and was them grow in their school premises. They learned that open defecation also affect local water quality. This year we will construct our 10th blue schools in Kaskir. In one of our blue schools, Bishosanti Higher Secondary School is being used as a quarantine facility during this COVID-19 pandemic. It has a water tank that can hold over 40,000 liters of water. The rainwater fields, toilets, and tapes for hand washing. The resources have been used by communities when they rebuild after a recent earthquake and at the election of our school were pulling station. The viruses is bringing people back to Kaskir. The field in our rural community are contributed by more hands. But people coming home from the cities are more likely to transmit the virus in our communities. So local authority asked them to quarantine at Bishosanti before they go to their families. During our blue school program community realized the benefit of rainwater harvesting. They want to use rainwater for irrigation as well as for drinking. We are working to retain more rainwater encasement. We draw on local indigenous knowledge to compact water scarcity in middles. Using this knowledge, we are restoring and same properties to plant rain in the ground. Creating local nurseries and reforesting barren slopes. This water wisdom helps community to care for themselves now and beyond this COVID crisis. Thank you. Hello. Hi. This is the things that I would like to share about these activities that we have recently in Kaskir. It's a mountainous country. We have a different methodology to adapt with natural-based technology and natural-based activities. Thank you. Great. Thanks for those beautiful photos and bring us to your communities to see how they are caring for trees and helping each other. I think this again was a nice gender message in the first story. And here there is use being involved by getting the schools also prepared to join you in those integrated water management activities to help the community to access water in drought but also during COVID for hygiene purposes. Helping the young and educating the young to champion the nature-based solution in future. That would be great. And then next we would want to welcome Mrs. Muzondah Kapena. She will take us all the way from the mountains in Asia to the drylands and forest in Africa. Muzondah is the chief executive officer from Zambia National Forest Commodity Association, which support local forest communities in Zambia. Muzondah has over 20 years experience working with those local communities. So we're really looking forward to hearing from her. Thank you very much, Jouting. My name is Muzondah, as Joutin has said, and I would like to say that I'm very grateful to be online with everybody. And I hope that everybody can understand my English. The people of Africa have, for a long time, used indigenous knowledge systems as their way of being resilient to shocks, shocks from the climate change issues and shocks from all kinds of other causes. Climate change is already impacting Africa very, very badly. And for Zambia, it has impacted the Zambian communities in a very large way as well. And as such, we need to take stock and account for the losses. But at the same time, what the Zambia National Forest Commodity Association does is that we work with our forest-based communities to remind each other on what indigenous knowledge systems have been used in the past and how those can be remembered and used now in prosperity for the future. As such, urgent action is needed to properly sustainably manage our natural environment. As you can see from this slide, there's an old man. Most of the old people in the villages are the source of information we have. He's able to identify what is already commonly used in the communities as solutions for the COVID and for other ailments that have come on board due to climate change. The next slide, please. In this slide, it continues to show that we've acknowledged that we don't have any new information to share with the communities. Instead, we are using the indigenous knowledge systems approach where we sit through community conversations with the women and the men and ask them how they survived in the past in times of drought and in times of floods. Right now with COVID, it's amazing to learn that most people are using ash from their cooking stoves as a hand sanitizer. And you can see from the same slide that there's a collection of herbs which is used as a herbal infusion to steam their bodies each time they come from activities in the urban areas or each time they come into contact with urban dwellers. This is being cognizant of the fact that COVID in Zambia was more widespread in the urban areas than it was in the rural areas. So our learning point there is that what is being done right in the rural areas that we need to do across the country to protect ourselves from COVID and from other emergent diseases and shocks that may have come about through the effects of climate change. Next slide, please. From here, we are learning that the use of the Masau fruit, Masau in botanical terms is called Zizipas moritiana or in short the Indian jujube. This particular forest fruit has a lot of micronutrients which should not be taken for granted. People of Belwangwa Valley have used this fruit for time immemorial as a supplement to vitamins and also as a very strong immune booster. They are able to harvest it sustainably and to dry it in the sun and later on to pound it and make a paste which then can be stored with a shelf life of 12 months. So this is then used as a sweetener, as an immune booster and it's able to be eaten from the babies to the old people. What this has done is that though they may not be food due to the droughts which Malawi and Zambia faced in the last rainy season, they are able to still supplement their diets with the nutrients that are needed. They don't have to go into the pharmacies like the urban people have. They just go into the forest as their pharmacy and pluck what their ancestors ate. I was privileged to eat some of it and it's very, very nutritious. What we have done as an association is that we are looking at value addition to see exactly how these foods and first supplements can be packaged and stored for sale in urban areas and across the country. As a natural source of vitamins, micronutrients and antibodies good enough to preserve ourselves against diseases like COVID-19 and anything else that may come due to the effects of climate change. Next slide please. We're also working very well with the rural communities of the Luangwa Valley, the Gwembe Valley and the Luangwa Valley where we have a lot of tamarind. Tamarind is a very resilient forest root which has over 50 uses. In the local languages we call it Wusika, we call it Wembe or we call it Kawawasha. This also has a long shelf life and it has multiple uses ranging from edible to commercial. In some areas it's also used as an antiseptic hand wash or as a wound dressing. So what we have done as an association in collaboration with FAO under the forest and farm facility program is that we are looking at value addition to be able to package these particular fruits as you can see from the picture into marketable products which will then be a very strong supplement for not just for eating as a food or as a juice or as a sweetener or as a jam but also as a soap, as an antiseptic and as whatever else that it can be used for. And as I said at the beginning, we're not teaching them anything new. We have taken the step of the learners and the community is our mentor. They know exactly about the shelf life, they know about the handling. The only interventions which we are going in with is to assist them with the primary processing so that it's hygienic and deficient and also to remind certain communities where they were actually cutting down the trees and harvesting in that way to start harvesting sustainably. That way we'll be able to share this treasure not only within Zambia but across Africa in a methodology of reminding each other what our forefathers did that we have forgotten to do. And we believe as an association that that's the only way to have sustainable mitigation against climate change and the shocks that come with it. So from the Zambian National Forest Commodity Association, we believe that these value addition processes are possible and that they are sustainable because it all starts with the first communities and the market is all over the world across Africa and across the whole world as the nature-based solution. Nature-based solutions are basically there for us to remind each other on what ecological ways are possible for us to face the shocks that we have experienced, not just because of COVID-19 but because of unsustainable development that is going on not only in Zambia but across the globe as well. I'd like to thank you all for listening and I hope you enjoy the presentation. Enjoy the day. Thanks so much, Musonda. It's really inspiring to hear diversified income from diversified value-added forest product can make local communities more resilient to climate change. But also interesting to hear that with those diversified herbs and the forest product, that also means they have a more diversified use. So the herb boat sanitizers for rural communities in COVID is a really good example. And I think both you and also showing also showed us the importance of traditional knowledge and learning from decades of experience or centuries of experience of working with nature to adapt to change is really important. So now we want to hear from all of you. So Jenna, if you can go to the next slide, please. So we're pulling exercise in Menti meter. So please go to Menti.com and enter the digits 5374674 and use up to three words to describe how nature has helped you all the communities you work with to adapt to climate change and cope with COVID-19. The question at Menti code is displayed on the slide. If you don't work directly with any communities, you're also welcome to draw on the speaker stories to shape your answers. So if everyone could do that. And we should see the polling result coming in on the slide. And if you have any questions on how to do that, do feel free to ask in the chat box. Hi, Jenna, have you enabled the result to show? Yes, it should be. Sorry, this is one of the incidences with technologies we need to. I do have it on. So while Jenna try to get to the Menti meter slides ready, please keep on entering your inputs. We'll try to get take a moment to load that slide. And with that, I just don't want to really delay the session too much. So while Jenna loading the slide saying it's loading, it could take a moment. Yeah, please do bear with us. And at the same time, I did see some speed, some questions for the speakers as well. So now I think there will be a question for you. So do feel free to respond to some of the questions in the chat box as well. And, and at the same time, I just want to say the next step in the session. Since we have heard some of the evidence and experience showing that the community champion nature based solutions can help us not only adapt to climate change but also respond better to other societal risks like the pandemic. The question has been raised the many times and been discussed in the last two days of CBAs are often why then having those practices being scaled up. And what are the main challenges for scaling them up and what are the opportunities we have now to scale the solutions up. And I think the next panel we're going to really discuss them how can national and subnational policies help, especially as countries thinking about the policies for building back better from COVID. So we, we will show you hopefully the meta meter result. Not great. Thanks. And it's really great. I think in the, in the middle we really see again, like indigenous knowledge coming up really strongly and that also relates to our question how to scale it up and how we actually harness that indigenous people's knowledge. And the importance of resilience and working with different ecosystems. I can see mango forest and some of the much smaller funds coming up. Great. We will share the final result with all in the world cloud and keep your good inputs coming. But with that, I just want to introduce the next panel who will take us to that question about the opportunity and the challenges of scaling up and then the how national and the subnational policy can help. And we have three panelists that will be joining us today. Next slide, Jenna, please. So the first is Johnny, that part of India, the forestry officer from forest farm facility. Johnny and the forest farm facility has been enhancing the organization and the capacity of local people to improve livelihoods and respond to a diversity of societal challenges, including climate change forest farm facility also support those local organizations to collectively advocate for better policies. So Johnny, if you can probably enable your video and audio now. So based on the story you have heard from communities and the participants just now, could you share some quick reflections to the two questions that she on that show on the screen Jenna next please. Great. And I know FFF work around the world, but it's, we would really appreciate if you can share some insights also from Latin America to complement the other speakers expertise. Johnny over to you please. Thank you. Chautine and also I want to thank to the colleagues from the first panel. This video from the China network and the presentation of Nirmal from the Alliance of Nepal. The presentation of Musonda from the Sambia Forest Community Association were really inspirational. I want to reflect a little bit on what we have here and seen from this first panel. And I see an opportunity on this collective action to respond to COVID-19 and recovery. And as a challenge that is at the same time an opportunity this enhancing the capacities of local communities. So let me explain a little bit this my my two point so I don't know if you agree with me but this COVID crisis has helped us to reflect and see that the these health issues and climate change are in many ways interconnected. And from the forest and farm facility perspective I would want to emphasize that for us this community social capital. Cohesion, trust, institutions, governance mechanisms inside the organizations have been fundamental for these communities to respond to this COVID-19 but also to adapt to climate change and other shocks. These elements to my mind are very essential for these collective actions. The forest and farm producer organizations are very critical local actors to be on the ground lasting solution for changes like climate, economic and social changes, but including this health crisis. These producer organizations can offer services and information enhancing the capacities of their members as we have seen in this case of the alliance in Nepal and the Sambia cases of this community association to keep up their business and livelihoods also to shape better policies. Also, they offer the possibility to restore and sustain landscapes at landscape level. In addition, they could provide solidarity and social support systems between their members and they manage this traditional knowledge that was mentioned in the first panel and lead also collective responses to the recovery. In many cases we have seen in Latin America and also can understand also in other parts of the world, they provide the only organized response to the local needs. And these organized producer organizations, they are setting up already also not for the future, many innovative initiatives also in Latin America. They support their members during the crisis, like in communication campaigns in the local language, not only national also the language that are spoken by the indigenous people and so on. Also innovative logistic and marketing solutions that we have supported in Ecuador and Bolivia. We have seen in specific social and health and health service for the people who are affected in the and also people and households. We have seen in Latin America that this collective action has been keen to keep the virus out from entering to the communities but also for attending the sick people, sharing available food, growing food locally, finding ways to access market despite of all these lockdowns everywhere. For both for selling and also for buying goods. I think that this real and concrete benefits of investing in enhancing these capacities is a very good investment. Investing in strengthening these capacities of these local people can deliver sustained improvements to rural livelihood. Recovery from COVID but also build long term resilience. I want to also to point out following in terms of a scale, we have seen also local cases, but to do to reach a scale. It's very important this second and third grass wood organization for both purposes. One is for this economies of scales in processing marketing procurement technical services. Among others, but also that these organizations are able to influence governmental policies. At national sub national but also international levels as for example for advocating in this stimulus packages recovery plans of the country. To finalize I want to go to the second question about the policies and I will try to be a shorter so in the long term. Considering all that I have shared. A key government policy to respond all these challenges is to build institutional capacity of these local organizations through different kind of technical assistance trainings exchanges, but also creating policies that encourage community actions and enterprises. Those policies can be for example, a national and also some national level incentives. What, and I want to say one in Latin America said differentiated policies, not everyone could receive all this and they should be policies addressing these people in incentives. Governmental procurements addressing the products are coming from these producers, low in administrative barriers, but also making finance available tailor made to this kind of person they don't have the salaries they don't have properties they don't have but they have many things to offer. And this finance should be tailor made to them. Great Johnny sorry just quickly reminding with little bit lack of time. So we can come back to some of the Johnny's really great thoughts. And just because of time it's really great that Johnny you highlighted how those challenges integrated interconnected and communities experiencing them at all at the same time. It's good to think about how policy can support those strong community based collective organizations, which is key for innovation mobilizing collective actions and the promoting integrated solutions for long term change. Next, could we move to Mrs. Vanessa Fred, the assistant secretary secretary of the division of marine resources of the Department of Resources and Development for the government of federal states of Micronesia. She has supported the engagement of communities in protected area systems that contra and regional levels and it's an advocate for holistic approach. And before we also invited Vanessa just want to remind everyone Johnny there's some questions for you in the chat box please use the chat box to respond and all the also all the participants. Please also put in your comments and your reflections to those two questions as well. Okay, with that, Vanessa over to you please. Hello, can you hear me. Yes, perfect thank you. Hello everyone my apologies I will not be activating my video due to bandwidth. So I will continue just with audio. Thank you very much everybody. Greetings for Micronesia and my humble respects to you all. Thank you and the Nature Conservancy for this opportunity to share our story and experiences here in Micronesia. Thank you to panel one speakers. I really enjoyed the great examples of how communities are adapting across the world, and especially utilizing knowledge and practices that have existed within their society over the many years. I'm from the island of the app in the federated states of Micronesia, which I'm sure many of you will probably Google. But I'm now based in Pompeii, which is the capital of FSM, and I'm working with the national government on sustainable natural resources and management. With my response to the questions at hand. I would like to sincerely thank all of my family mentors, community leaders colleagues and teachers. Those who are no longer with us, and those who are still fighting for a better world for our future generations. All I have learned has inspired, guided and grounded and shaped the career and life that I know that is now my reality. Thank you all as I continue to learn. Thanks again for this opportunity. I will now proceed to responding to those two questions. And I'll just speak to both of them together. And then we can get into more detailed discussions in the breakout groups. Thank you. So to begin, the FSM is blessed to not have any COVID-19 cases to date. And fortunately, that our government reacted when it did and closed our border back in March. And one we figure out how to best deal with this global situation. Usually, as a small island nation, we consider our isolation a challenge. However, in this case, it has been an opportunity. And our homeowners have relied on our environment and natural resources, not just for existence, but for economic development and integration that we are still striving to balance and keep sustainable climate change adaptation and COVID-19 pandemic are new. And we are working to better understand it and how best to utilize what we currently have and use external technical and financial resources to better adapt and cope. There is no substitute for an intact apex functioning environment, national and subnational policies to support communities by integrating state supported livelihood and quality of life components into project level activities. These projects must be centered at the heart of the communities and address the needs that matter most to them, which include making sure that their families are safe, fed and healthy with strong and unconditional support from local and state governments. These would include access to clean water and stable water and energy infrastructure, improved community or family levels, sanitation facilities, the opportunity to address these challenges and have promote opportunities that include small scale agriculture and aquaculture interventions. Once these basic needs are addressed, the communities can focus on traditional concepts and realities of conservation and environmental protection. Natural resources are used primarily for the sake of supporting livelihoods. When basic needs are met, then the discussion and action to protect nature can be seriously addressed and communities can move forward in a progressive manner to address real needs that are in harmony with nature and sustain. Fortunately, our people understand that we must take care of the environment as it has served our basic needs over the years. Needs are evolving based on new lifestyles and expectations. At the same time, challenges and threats are intensifying. Government leadership must understand the capacity of its environment, natural resources and people to best build on, reinforce and strengthen traditional knowledge and practices through innovative programs and policies that are realistic, applicable and sustained into the future to truly build environmentally friendly resilient communities that are working with nature. This knowledge, this wealth of knowledge must be captured and complemented supported by data to best inform decision making to address the challenges now and into the future. Thank you. Thanks so much Vanessa for highlighting that local communities actually have deep understanding of the need to work with nature to adapt to the challenges based on traditional knowledge but so important to ensure and for government to support their basic needs and again pointing us to the traditional importance of traditional knowledge. Thanks for that. And then last but not least, we have Alfredo Coro, the vice mayor of Saago Island in the Philippines. He's a champion of partner driven approach in development and he has used such approach to ensure more efficient and effective local governance and enhance the local community resilience on his island. So Alfredo over to you. Thank you. The thanks as well to the earlier presentation as they were really inspiring. The basic premise of nature based solution or any development framework is that it would address the needs of the community. Several countries including my own the Philippines have strong and relevant policies that support nature based solutions, although not explicitly stated. These policies can already help local governments and communities to better respond to risk like climate change and other risk like COVID-19. The gap is in the appreciation and implementation of policies from the local leaders and therefore the communities they represent. Their experience, the support of NGOs like rare help us frame the localization of the policies and influencing behavioral change of the constituency. The main challenges we observe in sustaining community champion nature based solutions are local leadership embracing owning the nature based solutions will work for their community. If the local leadership government or civil society will not support nature based solution, it will be hard to implement anything. Access to the science for better decision making and deciding on the right nature based solution for the community. Science plays a key role in ensuring that we are planting the right flora and nurturing the right pona just because we are nature based does not mean anything for nature is allowed. Communicating nature based solution and its benefit to the people influencing behavior to accept nature based solution has to be done regularly and sustainably. And regardless of age must go on the idea that nature based solution programs will benefit them more. Enforcement of nature based solution solutions policies are often challenged and integrity of the leadership must be consistent. Proper planning helps in avoiding potential violators of laws and policies. Enforcement of innovative solutions in all sectors and public services to align to nature based solution. Education, health, road development, housing, social protection must be attuned to nature based solutions to capture a whole of government community approach. Currently financing nature based solutions is the hardest part since convincing financing support provides investments and NBS currently needs to be very creative. National government and private financing are very limited and in the private sector side often on CSR initiatives for now. Our experience in the municipality of Del Carmen addressed all of the mentioned challenges and develop an entire public service delivery framework around nature based solution. The story of a large conglomerate with no business in our community that believe in the idea of carbon sequestration with a 5000 hectare mangrove forest became our financial ally. The story of cow village whom we empower the whole community to manage and echo tourism destination employing all 400 families in rotational duties and conditions of improved health, education and environmental indicators. The story of manjari was very active in all methods of destructive fishing and accepted the national nature based solutions framework. After household level discussion of sustainable practices and its benefits. He now participated in our community based ecotourism program to become a tourist both operator and marine garden. The story of Gina, our environmental officer who relentlessly pursued our vision of stopping illegal fishing and illegal mangrove cutting until we achieved 90% reduction in illegal fishing and zero illegal mangrove cutting. All our experiences collectively allowed us to manage through the COVID pandemic and economic health livelihood crisis in the last six months. We have enough fish and marine resources, even if there was 150% increase the number of Fisher folks securing food for our families. We are not worried of storm surges since our mangrove forest is vast and wide in a traditional medicinal practices of sources we can use to address common illness and totality climate change, pandemics and the new normal are I believe best managed with nature based solutions. Thank you. Thanks so much Alfredo again highlighting the importance of partnership but also reminding us financing sometimes a big challenge, but it's really exciting to hear some of the good examples of how public and private financing for multiple benefits from nature based solution like carbon ecotourism fishing and how important it is to make sure those whatever financing mechanism benefits go to the local communities. And thanks all the panelists and again there's a really good chat going on in the chat box and at the same time we also want to hear more from you. So we would like break into smaller groups for now for 30 minutes. So we can hear give you all the opportunity also to reflect on two simple questions showing on the screen now Jenna next slide please. The two questions are what did you hear from the panels that resonated with you most. Please also share why those resonated with you most. Jenna I don't think it's a right slide and then what did you learn today that will be useful for you to implement in your communities or work beyond CBA. Please also try to explain how you're going to use the lessons learned. And we're just going to post those questions into the chat box in zoom because it's having trouble of showing on the slides. And then you will also get those questions from the facilitators once you get into the group. So you will see a join button pop up on your screen shortly and the please kick join and then after 30 minutes will reconvene in the plenary. So see you in 13 minutes. Charlotte could you please assign the group please. Great. I think welcome back for those already is back we hope you had a good discussion so unfortunately we're running a little bit short of time. So we wouldn't have a detailed breakout back and we're going to skip the mentee that we have prepared before. But I really encourage everyone to go to the chat box and then share one of the biggest learning that you had found the breakout group today can be really short or some keywords, but just really helpful to know kind of what are really resonated with you in the breakout group discussions. And for each of the group we also have been assigning people to take notes. So your rich discussion will be captured some somewhat as well so but at the same time please do use a chat box to share some of your reflections. Charlotte are we all back always still waiting. I think we're all back now. So yes, I think just carry on. Great. So we only have a very few we actually is at the time but we do want to use this last few minutes to have a final reflection with all of you. You can see on the slide we especially want to learn from all of you what's the biggest lesson you learn today that will you will take forward in your community or your work beyond CBA conference. And with that I want to invite back so our excellent speakers to share their reflection on this for under one minute and all the participants again please feel free to use the chat box to share your reflection. And with that I just want to invite first to each team song each team represents China's pharmacy network. She didn't speak but she was mentioned many times by showing in her video as inspiration for her community to work with nature and diversify the agriculture production system. So each team over to you one minute quick reflection please. Okay, thank you for the chance that if they are the biggest lessons I would like to say the biggest inspiring today for me that to hear the the voice from different communities and different countries globally that they are doing this local community actions community based adaptations and give a supporter to the traditional knowledge and diversified food and medicines those are quite inspiring me. And so this is also the big lesson that we want to further enhance our community based action and community based adaptation to all the climate changes and the crisis. And this is the big lesson we would like to do. And the second one I want to emphasize here is that for the policy we did also discuss in the group that we in support those kinds of communities based adaptation. The policy really need to be more more participatory more integrated to address the real need of community support communities. The last one most I think is a very important one is that the communities need to be further collaborated and not not working towards each other and working together at a local regional and even global south levels. Working together to adapt to the change to the crisis. This is the key for the solution. Thank you. Great collective actions and a stressing number. Okay next in the mall. Last on the one minute conclusion biggest lesson for you please. This is a really great opportunity to me for to know more about this. Mr best solutions and basically I just mentioned about this. The closing remark is that how can we cooperate this indigenous knowledge into the scientific knowledge. If we can cooperate this in between this knowledge definitely this should there. We can go with this and natural based solution efficiently in that way and I understand more about this indigenous knowledge that can. That can fill the gaps over the scientific knowledge. Thank you. Great comparing this people's knowledge and scientific knowledge. Great. Next Musonda please. My one minute is that it is possible to combine traditional knowledge with scientific knowledge. It is possible to repackage the nature based solutions into acceptable packaging standards by partnering with the standards Bureau and partnering with the agencies that focus on research. All this is impossible. All this is possible because the women in the villages who have this knowledge are not writing it or documenting it in any way so we need to preserve this knowledge and make the best out of it. And also the forest hold everything that we need so we all need a consented effort to learn from what the local people know and take it to step forward as a nature based solution with empirical evidence and marketing strategies. Thank you very much. Great. Again we are dependent on nature and then them also from those local traditional knowledge is important. Next Johnny please. Thank you for the opportunity to listen this very good stories and also be part of this sharing in the panel in the breakout sessions. To find the solutions to the current global challenges we don't need to go to the sky. The solutions are on the ground and also are local. The stories that we have here and all this experience and the discussion today show that strong communities and strong forest and farm producer organizations have proven potential to be both transformational and also sustainable. They need the government and don't know investment to enhance their capacities. Thank you over. Thanks strong produce organizations actually strong local collective organizations is so important for everything and then next Vanessa please. Hello everyone. So just lastly, I just want to thank everybody I learned a lot. Thank you again for the opportunity. I think lastly I just want to reiterate that you know we must not forget that we, no matter where we're working for an NGO for the government, we must always remember that we are part of a community. And that, you know, we understand and we know that our governments have limited capacity and have their own challenges. And so that, you know, we must learn and work together. And that the community has the leadership and the networking and working together can be the best solution and a resilient force in all of these challenges moving forward. Thank you. Thanks collective actions equitable partnerships and understanding each other's challenges very important and Alfredo last words. One minute first thank you for the opportunity that you allowed us to share a story and for the other groups that shared the stories. For me it's really focused on local governments and local communities, and by focusing on them and capacitating them with the right science, the right science, teaching them how to communicate the way what we're doing now how to share their knowledge so that people would be inspired and would listen what they have done and it can be replicated. And lastly it's about leadership and the leadership has to understand the nature based solutions and communities are key. National leadership and local leadership both they have to start appreciating the value of indigenous technologies, the value of the role of communities of every actor in in in our society can contribute to building a better community for all of us. Thanks. Perfect note to end down need to keep telling our stories and work together and many of you here are the leaders to make the change actually happen. And I just want to thank those people who also share some really good examples in the chat box, for example, agriculture, new tool for risk assessment and designing adaptation activities in the forest sector please do have a chat and do check those chat box. And thanks to all of you for a very informative and constructive discussion. Sorry for some of the tech glitch, but I hope you still enjoy the session. I definitely did and unfortunately we have run over a minute, but we hope we can continue the discussions through the CBA online platform. For example, you can go to the Flickr album and view more stories from communities and they keep telling their stories and you can add your reflections and add your story there as well. You can continue the discussion on the chat section under the session on Hover platform. You can arrange meet up with speakers and people you met in the session which you haven't really had a chance to discuss but you want to network with them. You can also find all of us in the participant list and now you all know our name and send us messages if you have any feedbacks on the session or any further queries. So we hope to continue to hear from you and learn from you beyond this session and beyond CBA. With that we'll officially close the session and thanks everyone for your time.