TransLinks Program Workshops
2007/6 TransLinks "Nature, Wealth, & Power Workshop" Quezon City, Philippines
June 20-21, 2007, Quezon City, Philippines.
2008 Katoomba XIII Meeting (Dar-es-salaam and Morogoro, Tanzania)
September 16-18, 2008, Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania and September 18-20, 2008, Morogoro, Tanzania - This 2008 East and Southern African Katoomba Group meeting was hosted by the Katoomba Group and Forest Trends, with support from USAID through the TransLinks Cooperative Agreement.
2008 Rattan Value Chain Workshop (Palawan, Philippines)
Dec 2-3, 2008, Palawan, Philippines - TransLinks Rattan Value Chain Workshop: A Visit to the Rattan Harvesters, co-hosted by EnterpriseWorks/Vita and the Cebu Furniture Industries Foundation (CFIF) was the follow-up to the July 2008 TransLinks Value Chain workshop in Cebu City, Philippines.
2008 TransLinks Cebu Value Chain Workshop Agenda
Conference Agenda for TransLinks Cebu value chain workshop entitled: “Improving Value Chain Dynamics for Natural Products in the Furniture, and Gifts and Home Décor and Fashion Accessories Industry” held July 2-3, 2008 in Cebu City, Philippines.
2008 TransLinks REDD Training (Lima, Peru)
September 10 -12, 2008, Lima, Peru - Course, hosted by the Wildlife Conservation Society, with support from USAID through the TransLinks cooperative agreement, on developing forest carbon projects in tropical countries, including identification and approaches for engagement with government staff on national climate change mitigation policies.
2008 Value Chain Workshop (Cebu City, Philippines)
July 2 – 3, 2008, Cebu City, Philippines - Workshop on“Improving Value Chain Dynamics for Natural Products in the Furniture, and Gifts and Home Décor and Fashion Accessories Industry” was hosted by Enterprise Works/Vita and the Cebu Furniture Industries Foundation (CFIF).
2008/06 Katoomba Developing an Infrastructure Fund for the Planet Private Meeting (Chesapeake Bay, MD, USA)
June 11-12, 2008, Chesepeake Bay, MD, USA - Private event for the Katoomba "Developing an Infrastructure Fund for the Planet"meeting on "How to Design and Implement Market Mechanisms to Improve Water Quality Throughout the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
2008/7 Value Chain Workshop - Value Chain Cases in the Context of Conservation Marketing and Certification (Cebu City, Philippines)
July 2 – 3, 2008, Cebu City, Philippines - Workshop on“Improving Value Chain Dynamics for Natural Products in the Furniture, and Gifts and Home Décor and Fashion Accessories Industry” was hosted by Enterprise Works/Vita and the Cebu Furniture Industries Foundation (CFIF) .
2008/9 Katoomba XIII Meeting - Taking Stock and Charting a Way Forward for Payments for Ecosystem Services in Africa A Meeting of the East & Southern Africa Katoomba Group (Dar-es-salaam and Morogoro, Tanzania)
September 16-18, 2008, Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania and September 18-20, 2008, Morogoro, Tanzania - This 2008 East and Southern African Katoomba Group meeting was hosted by the Katoomba Group and Forest Trends, with support from USAID through the TransLinks Cooperative Agreement.
2008/12 TransLinks Rattan Value Chain Workshop (Palawan, Philippines)
December 2 – 3, 2008, Palawan, Philippines - TransLinks Rattan Sourcing Workshop: A Visit to the Rattan Harvesters in Palawan, hosted by EnterpriseWorks/VITA.
2009 Health as an ES Workshop (New York, USA)
December 3-4, 2009, Bronx Zoo, New York, USA.
2009/4 Katoomba Meeting XIV-Avoiding Deforestation in the Amazon: REDD & PES Markets (Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil)
April 1–2, 2009, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil - The meeting explored how ecosystem service payments and markets in carbon, water and biodiversity are quickly becoming key solutions to the urgent environmental problems of climate change, fresh water pollution, biodiversity loss, soil erosion and the destruction of our coastal and marine systems.
2009/6 Value Chain Workshop - Value Chain Cases in the Context of Conservation Marketing and Certification (Arusha, Tanzania)
June 25 – 27, 2009, Arusha, Tanzania - The “Value Chain Cases in the Context of Conservation Marketing and Certification” This event, sponsored by EnterpriseWorks/VITA, with support from USAID through the TransLinks Cooperative Agreement.
2009/10 Katoomba XV Meeting - Integrated Solutions: Water, Biodiversity and Terrestrial Carbon in West Africa (Accra, Ghana)
October 6‐10, 2009, Accra, Ghana - The meeting on "Integrated Solutions: Water, Biodiversity and Terrestrial Carbon in West Africa" was hosted by the Katoomba Group, Forest Trends, and the Nature Conservation Research Center (NCRC) and was made possible by support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, NORAD, Rockefeller Foundation, Rainforest Alliance, Price Waterhouse Coopers and USAID through the TransLinks Cooperative Agreement.
2009/12 Health as an Ecosystem Service (ES) Workshop (Bronx, New York, USA)
December 3-4, 2009, Bronx Zoo, New York, USA.
2010 PES & REDD Course (Madre de Dios, Peru)
May 24-27, 2010, Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Peru - Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) and REDD Course for Community Leaders was hosted by Forest Trends and partners, with support from the Moore Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) and the Norwegian Agency for Development Co‐Operation (NORAD).
2010 Southeast Asia Katoomba Meeting XVII (Hanoi, Vietnam)
June 23‐24, 2010, Hanoi, Vietnam - Workshop entitled "Katoomba XVII: Taking the Lead: Payments for Ecosystem Services in Southeast Asia" was hosted by Forest Trends, the Katoomba Group, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE), United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Winrock International, and was made possible by support from USAID through the TransLinks Cooperative Agreement.
2010 Southeast Asia Katoomba Meeting XVII (Hanoi, Vietnam)
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2010/2 Marine Katoomba Meeting XVI (Palo Alto, California, USA)
February 9‐10, 2010, Palo Alto, California, USA - Workshop entitled "Katoomba XVI: Building a Blueprint to Harness New Investment for the Protection of Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services".
2010/6 South East Asia Katoomba Meeting XVII- Taking the Lead: Payments for Ecosystem Services in Southeast Asia (Hanoi, Vietnam)
June 23‐24, 2010, Hanoi, Vietnam - Workshop entitled "Katoomba XVII: Taking the Lead: Payments for Ecosystem Services in Southeast Asia" was hosted by Forest Trends, the Katoomba Group, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) of Vietnam, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) of Vietnam, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Winrock International, and was made possible by support from USAID through the TransLinks Cooperative Agreement.
