Creating a Movement
Whether at global, country or landscape level, our work always starts by convening all actors who depend on or impact wetlands to get a joint understanding of the problem and co-create solutions. We also help to connect and mobilise tens of thousands of people across vast regions through our work on the world’s great flyways for migratory birds and swimways for migratory fish.
But the real gamechanger is the creation of a movement to accelerate action, boosted by the three global initiatives that Wetlands International has helped to shape – the Freshwater Challenge, Mangrove Breakthrough and Peatland Breakthrough. Designed to assist countries to deliver progress and achieve national goals under multiple global conventions, these initiatives seek to mobilise non-state actors to help unlock finance and deliver impact on the ground.
By mobilising these broad, transformative coalitions that connect communities, civil society organisations, companies, and countries, we will ensure that our best site and landscape solutions are scaled up and replicated worldwide – far beyond our direct spheres of impact. They will also provide platforms to communicate widely about wetlands.
Speaking of communications: we will be the global voice of wetlands, their people, and wetland-dependent species. We will work with more partners in more sectors and across more platforms to enhance our local, national, and global reach and impact. We will go beyond our traditional technical audiences and reach out to a wider public, to see wetlands for what they are: our life support systems. This will contribute significantly to reconnecting people and wetlands, sharing local and landscape level solutions, spreading knowledge and tools, and creating this movement.