THANK YOU
The progress made towards our 2030 targets, as set out in the Strategic Intent 2020-2030 and documented in this Annual Review, is made possible thanks to the support of our donors, members, partners and the global network of volunteer International Waterbird Census observers. Many thanks to them all.
Wetlands International has the ambitious goal to safeguard and restore tens of millions of hectares of wetlands over 2020-2030, bringing multiple returns 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 join forces with a growing portfolio of partners to increase our reach and accelerate our impact. In 2021, we worked intensively with existing and new partners to drive wetland solutions across sectors and scales, from knowledge institutions to the private sector. We would like to thank you all. Our members played an important part in shaping our Strategic Intent 2020-2030 and their annual membership contributions helps 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 continuing 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. Many thanks to them.
We would especially like to thank our major donors in 2021:
• The COmON Foundation for supporting Wetlands 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 (see page 30), supporting for a step change in the organisation’s effectiveness, and making Wetlands International a key grantee (see page 61). • The Dutch National Postcode Lottery for their grant and extending its support for another three years (2021-2023). This contribution enables us to step up our work with partners to stimulate and enable whole landscape recovery including the regeneration of vital wetlands (see page 61). • 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 (see page 33). • Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) for enabling the restoration of high value wetlands in the Rift valley and along the East African Mangrove Coast. • The International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the 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
Measuring carbon in palm swamp forests on peat, Peru.
Nature in Asia upscaling initiative (see page 34). • The German Agency for Development & International Cooperation (GIZ) for enabling our work on deltas and coasts. • The MAVA Foundation for supporting our long-term engagement and partnership programmes in West Africa and the Mediterranean region. • 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 (see page 34). • 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 (see page 26). • Greenchoice for supporting us to restore 2,500 ha of mangroves in Guinea-Bissau (see page 29) and contributing to the first-ever Peatland Pavilion at UNFCCC COP26 (see page 44). • All the donors who fund the Global Mangrove Alliance, and particularly the Oak Foundation, DoB Ecology, COmON Foundation and the Dutch National Postcode Lottery for their support toward the development of the Global Mangrove Watch platform and its
integration into (inter)national processes to support the broader mangrove community (see page 34). • 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 (see page 11). • 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 on page 75 onwards of the Annex.
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Wetlands International Annual Review 2021
Wetlands International Annual Review 2021
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