The Convention on Wetlands is the intergovernmental treaty that provides the framework for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources.
The Convention was adopted in the Iranian city of Ramsar in 1971 and came into force in 1975. Since then, almost 90% of UN member states, from all the world’s geographic regions, have acceded to become “Contracting Parties”.
Global Affairs Canada, under the leadership of the Minister of Foreign Affairs; the Minister of Export Promotion, International Trade and Economic Development; and the Minister of International Development, is responsible for advancing Canada’s international relations, including providing international assistance (encompassing humanitarian, development, and peace and security). In support of efforts to eradicate global poverty and contribute to a more peaceful, prosperous and inclusive world, the department manages the majority of Canada’s international assistance. The department also leads coordinated Canadian responses to crises and natural disasters abroad, including the provision of needs-based humanitarian assistance.
A wetland is an area of land that is either covered by water or saturated with water. The water is often groundwater, seeping up from an aquifer or spring. A wetland’s water can also come from a nearby river or lake.
Environmental Peacebuilding
Environmental peacebuilding examines and advocates environmental protection and cooperation as a factor in creating more peaceful relations
A gender-transformative approach is concerned with redressing gender inequalities, removing structural barriers, such as unequal roles and rights and empowering disadvantaged populations.
Climate resilience is a concept to describe how well people or ecosystems are prepared to bounce back from certain climate hazard events. The formal definition of the term is the “capacity of social, economic and ecosystems to cope with a hazardous event or trend or disturbance”.
Nature-based Solutions leverage nature and the power of healthy ecosystems to protect people, optimise infrastructure and safeguard a stable and biodiverse future.
Traditional, Local & Indigenous knowledge
Knowledge systems that are embedded in the cultural traditions of regional, Indigenous, or local communities.
Lake Chad is a historically large, shallow, endorheic lake in the Sahel region of Central Africa, which has varied in size over the centuries.
Lake Chad Basin Commision
The Lake Chad Basin Commission is an intergovernmental organization that oversees water and other natural resource usage in the basin. There are eight member governments—i.e., Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Algeria, the Central African Republic, Libya, and Sudan—chosen for their proximity to Lake Chad.
Climate change adaptation
Changes in processes, practices and structures to moderate potential damages or to benefit from opportunities associated with climate change.
Climate-smart agriculture
Climate-smart agriculture is a set of farming methods that has three main objectives regarding climate change. Firstly, they use adaptation methods to respond to the effects of climate change on agriculture (this also builds resilience to climate change). Secondly, they aim to increase agricultural productivity and to ensure food security for a growing world population. Thirdly, they try to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture as much as possible.
Ponds are small wetlands with a well-defined shoreline. The water in a pond is fed mainly by rain. Some are formed when seepage occurs from the water table, or if they are deep enough to be supplied by the underground water table.
An ecosystem is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction. The biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows.
A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river. Floodplains stretch from the banks of a river channel to the base of the enclosing valley, and experience flooding during periods of high discharge.
Ecological restoration, or ecosystem restoration, is the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed. It is distinct from conservation in that it attempts to retroactively repair already damaged ecosystems rather than take preventative measures.
A way of life or a form of social organization based on the growing of crops and the raising of livestock as the primary means of economic activity.
The degree to which a system is susceptible to, or unable to cope with, adverse effects of climate change, including climate variability and extremes.
