The Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre and Network (HoA-REC&N) has conducted its second Annual Review Meeting on the HoA-ESR project in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The meeting took place at HoA-REC&N headquarters in Gullele Botanic Garden from September 6- 7, 2022. The review meeting was convened to update the donor, Sida on HoA-ESR achievements made...
The Board of Trustee of the Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre held its meeting on Thursday September 29, 2022. During the 4th board meeting held at the Jacaranda Meeting Hall of the Addis Ababa Hilton Hotel, Dr. Mekuria Argaw, Executive Director of AAU-HoAREC&N, presented a comprehensive report on the organizational growth and an annual physical...
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) was established to improve the interface between Science and Policy issues of biodiversity and ecosystem Services. The platform is established following the 2010 resolution of the UN General Assembly and enacted after the plenary meeting organized by UNEP in 2012. Currently, IPBES has 140 member countries....
The consultative workshop held on August 27 and 28/2021 in Hawassa town was attended by more than 40 participants including the higher official delegates from EFCCC and OEFCC-Authority, the six forest cooperative representatives, the local administrations from Zone to kebele, experts from relevant government offices, local CBOs, senior staffs of Wondogenet Forestry College, HoAREC&N-AAU and...
The meeting was held on August 18/ 8/2021 in Addis Ababa to discuss and forward direction towards expediting the urgent and critical activities in the ILDP phase-II project activity plan. The meeting, in the presence of H.E Mr. Thankuay Jock, V. President of the GPNRS, was attended by more than 25 participants assigned from the...
The Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre and Network (HoA-REC&N) conducted its first Annual Review Meeting on the HoA-ESR project in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at HoA-REC&N headquarters in Gullele Botanic Garden on July 15, 2021. The review meeting sought to update the donor, SIDA on progress in the year 2020 and onwards in the implementation...
Media reflections on the World Environment Day High-level Dialogue forum organized by PHE Ethiopia Consortium in collaboration with partners
The global biodiversity community is taking important strides to craft a new post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (post-2020 GBF) at the upcoming 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) slated to take place in October 2021. Given the importance of the contributions of non-state and subnational actors in contributing to the success of the new framework, which requires a...
HoA-REC actively participated and contributed to the successful celebration of the World Environment Day on June 5, 2021. Dr. Mekuria has been invited by the Environment, Forest and Climate Change Commission to take part as a panelist at the National WED celebration event that took place in Hawassa. Dr. Mekuria delivered a talk on “Ecosystems...
