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Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a la edición de abril de AREP Noticias, boletín que presenta las últimas noticias del trabajo que USAID realiza en conjunto con sus socios en la región amazónica.

Welcome to the April edition of the AREP News, featuring updates from USAID’s work with partners across the Amazon region to preserve the rainforest.

• 04/01/2022

This flagship report from the IFRC and WWF highlights how the power of nature to protect people is being overlooked. It shows how nature-based solutions can reduce the likelihood of climate change and weather-related events occurring. And how they can save lives by preventing exposure to these hazards and supporting vulnerable communities to adapt to and withstand the dangers of a warming world.

• IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, WWF – World Wide Fund For Nature (Formerly World Wildlife Fund)

Para anunciar la nueva Alianza para la Pesca Manejada Sosteniblemente de USAID y la Administración Nacional Oceánica y Atmosférica, AREP creó una serie de infografías que crean conciencia sobre el impacto que tiene la pesca ilegal, no declarada y no reglamentada en la región amazónica.

• 05/27/2022
• USAID

To announce USAID and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s new Partnership for Sustainably Managed Fisheries, AREP created a series of infographics that raises awareness about the impact illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing has on the Amazon region.

• 05/27/2022
• USAID

The Sustainable Agriculture Decision Support Tool assesses the financial and climate impacts of alternative agricultural technologies accounting for climate forecasts, to maximize agricultural and environmental outcomes. This report presents its application for two agricultural technologies in Senegal: (1) improved dual-purpose millet and cowpea, which have higher crop and fodder yields, on their own; and (2) improved dual-purpose millet and cowpea in conjunction with farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR), which involves nurturing tree growth around croplands.

• 05/26/2022
• Tulika Narayan, Faraz Usmani, Aliou Faye, Edith Felix, Haixin Chen, Sarah Leser

This toolkit describes how users can use the Decision Support Tool to assess technologies based on agricultural and environmental outcomes and inform their scale up.

• 05/26/2022
• USAID

Health systems strengthening activities should include climate considerations by promoting and building capacity for effective and iterative risk management across all levels, fostering multi-sectoral engagement, and identifying actions and investments over the short- and long-term to increase system resilience.

• 03/30/2022
• USAID

This brief describes each building block, outlines custom performance indicators, and provides examples to address key constraints to develop programs that use a systems approach and consider context-specific mechanisms and tools.

• 05/24/2022
• USAID

Gaps and Opportunities Assessment Report.

• 03/31/2022
• USAID

SERVIR builds gender-responsive geospatial services and by empowering women and girls as thought leaders in the geospatial and earth sciences so that they can take on leading roles as decision-makers.

• 04/28/2022
• SERVIR Global

USAID envisions a healthy and resilient Amazon Basin that is valued by society, ensures human well-being, and safeguards our global climate. The Amazon Region hosts a third of the world’s known species of plants and animals –many of which do not occur anywhere else– and is home to the largest river system in the world.

• 02/16/2022
• USAID

Blockchain is a breakthrough technology, one that enables to reshape markets and re-define the ways we work and trade. It has been a driver of economical development and brought under the spotlight after the advancement of the controversial but nonetheless revolutionary digital currencies, the first of many applications which defined the Blockchain Technology protocols and opened the Pandora box of a digital transformation era.

• 04/25/2022
• USAID, Vanuatu Business Resilience Council

This guide is designed to highlight how a business resilience organization in the Pacific, the Vanuatu Business Resilience Council, has integrated itself into government and non-government humanitarian processes to play a meaningful role in recovery as well as support and influence resilience building overall.

• 04/25/2022
• USAID, Vanuatu Business Resilience Council

This guide is designed to highlight how a business resilience organization in the Pacific, the Vanuatu Business Resilience Council, has integrated itself into government and non-government humanitarian processes to play a meaningful role in disaster and climate preparedness, response and recovery as well as influence resilience building overall.

• 04/25/2022
• USAID, Vanuatu Business Resilience Council