Registration

Opening session (Room 1)

• Dolf de Groot (Chair ESP, The Netherlands)
• Charles Karangwa & Kaori Yasuda (International Union for Conservation of Nature, Rwanda)
  - Patric Karera (Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment in Rwanda)
   

Keynotes (Room 1)

• B. Cyiza (Ministry of Environment in Rwanda) 
• P. Katanisa (World Bank) - Ecosystem Accounting in Africa 

Coffee Break

Parallel Sessions

• G4 - Early-career researchers engaging with NGOs and the private sector
  to enhance the delivery of ecosystem services in Africa (Room 2)
• T13b - Forest Landscape Restoration potentials to restore Ecosystem services (Room 3)
• S6 & T17 - Accounting for Ecosystem Services: (1) Policy support for protected areas and (2) Integrated capitals thinking to promote and support sustainable decision making in Africa. (Room 1)

Lunch Break

Parallel Sessions

• G2 - Gender, ecosystem services and human welfare (Room 2)
• T13b - Forest Landscape Restoration potentials to restore Ecosystem service (Room 3)
• S6 - Integrated capitals thinking to promote a sustainable and healthy agriculture & food sector & T17 - Accounting for ecosystem services: policy support for protected areas (Room 1)

Parellel Sessions

• G2 - Gender, ecosystem services and human welfare (Room 2)
• S1 - Enhancing ecosystems services in tree commodity agroecosystems in Africa (Room 3)
• T18 - Conserving ecosystem services for sustainable recovery and sustainable development: Locking in opportunities from the COVID-19 pandemic (Room 1)

Poster Session

Welcome reception

Day registration

Keynotes (Room 1)

• A. Cuni-Sanchez (Norwegian University of Life Sciences and honorary fellow at the University of York, UK) - Local perceptions of tropical forest ecosystem services, insights from Africa (30 min)

• T.H. Mwampamba (National Autonomous University of Mexico) - Where are the cultural, spiritual, and intrinsic values of nature in Africa’s discourses on ecosystem services? (30 min)

ESP Forum

Coffee Break

Parallel Sessions

• G1 - Open Topic session (Room 3)
• B3 - Ecosystem services from African tropical forests (Room 1)
• T13a - An ecosystem services approach to community-based landscape restoration and sustainable livelihoods development(Room 2)

Lunch Break

Parallel Sessions

• S7 - Nature Tourism in Africa: Value for Nature, Livelihoods and Economic Investment (Room 3)
• B3 - Ecosystem services from African tropical forests (Room 1)
• T13a - An ecosystem services approach to community-based landscape restoration and sustainable livelihoods development (Room 2)

Coffee Break

Parallel Sessions

• S7 - Nature Tourism in Africa: Value for Nature, Livelihoods and Economic Investment (Room 3)
• B3 - Ecosystem services from African tropical forests (Room 1)
• T13a - An ecosystem services approach to community-based landscape restoration and sustainable livelihoods development (Room 2)

Conference Dinner

Day registration

Keynotes (Room 1)

• B. Kaplin (Director Center of Excellence in Biodiversity & Natl Res Management (CoEB), Univ of Rwanda) - Ecosystem-based Adaptation experience in Rwanda (30 min)

• C. Karangwa (International Union for Conservation of Nature, Africa Region) - Enhancing Ecosystem functionality through payment for Ecosystem Services (30 min)

Parallel Sessions

• G1 - Open Topic session (Room 2)
• G3 - Landscape restoration and livelihoods enhancement through payment for ecosystem services- ongoing work in Sebeya catchment, under the embedding integrated water resources management in Rwanda project (Room 1)
• T8 - Neglected and underutilized plant species and the ecosystem services in the tropics: the role of local knowledge (Room 3)

Closing ceremony

Lunch break

Field trip at Sebeya river

All participants can participate in this field trip free of charge