THANK YOU
The progress made towards our 2030 targets as set out in the Strategic Intent 2020-2030 and reported on in this Annual Review, is made possible thanks to the support of our donors, members and partners. A huge thanks to them all.
Wetlands International has the ambitious goal to safeguard and restore millions of hectares of wetlands over 2020-2030, achieving multiple benefits for people, climate, and nature. Our theory of change encapsulates the three main phases of our work: to inspire, mobilise, and upscale. These are the key ingredients of our organisational strategy for the period 2020-2030. At Wetlands International, we understand that only by working with others can we safeguard and restore the world’s wetlands. That is why we joined forces with a growing portfolio of partners to increase our reach, accelerate our work and scale up our impact. In 2022, we worked intensively with existing and new partners to drive wetland solutions across regions and sectors, from knowledge institutions to the private sector. Our members played an important part in shaping our Strategic Intent 2020-2030 and their annual membership contributions help us to drive implementation. Our members, both governments and NGOs, also provide additional financial support and collaborate in programmes and on policy advocacy. A big thank you to them for their continued support and collaboration. The International Waterbird Census, one of the longest running and largest citizen science programme in the world, brings together counts of millions of waterbirds thanks to the many hours of fieldwork by tens of thousands of volunteers. We are grateful to them all.
We would especially like to thank our major donors in 2022:
• The COmON Foundation, for supportingWetlands International in its mission to achieve impact for wetlands and people worldwide, including safeguarding and restoring mangroves and coastal landscapes in Africa and Asia; bringing knowledge on wetlands and water issues into the 4 Returns methodology for landscape restoration in partnership with Commonland; supporting a step change in our organisation’s effectiveness; and making Wetlands International a key grantee. • The Dutch Postcode Lottery, for their three-year grant (2021-2023), enabling Wetlands International to step up our work with partners to stimulate and enable whole landscape recovery, including the regeneration of vital wetlands. • The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), for funding “Wetlands 4 Resilience”, a ten-year global wetland ambition aiming to achieve the global influence of countries, institutions and sectors, resulting in shifts in approach, policies and investments towards the regeneration of wetland landscapes. Separately, Sida also enables the restoration of high value wetlands in the Rift valley and along the East African Mangrove Coast. • DOB Ecology, for supporting major, long-term programmes to conserve and restore mangroves in Africa, and to conserve the river and wetland system of the Paraná-Paraguay and the High Andean wetlands in South America.
Identifying different mangrove species through their propagules during CBEMR Training in Lamu, Kenya
• The International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the
• All the donors who fund the Global Mangrove Alliance, and particularly the Oak Foundation, DoBEcology, COmON Foundation and the Dutch Postcode Lottery for their support toward the Global Mangrove Watch platform and its integration into (inter)national processes to support the broader mangrove community. • The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and others for funding our work in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and elsewhere on the African continent.
German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), for its support to the Building with Nature Indonesia programme and the Accelerating Adaptation through Building with Nature in Asia upscaling initiative. • The German Agency for Development & International Cooperation (GIZ), for enabling our work on deltas and coasts. • Arcadia, for enabling our work to help conserve and restore intertidal wetlands along the Yellow Sea coast in China, a critically important part of the East Asian– Australasian Flyway for migratory waterbirds. • The Grantham Foundation, for supporting our work with Rewilding Europe on the development of carbon landscape propositions for peatland restoration and attracting further funding for upscaling.
• Donors who fund our work through the effective giving platform Effektiv-Spenden.
• The many ministries of environment and development agencies, state and local governments, and all government and NGO members who enable our work.
• A big thank you also to all the other donors listed in Annex 3.10.
• Greenchoice, for supporting Wetlands International in restoring2,500 ha of mangroves in Guinea-Bissau.
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