The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) through the COMBO+ Program, in partnership with the Foundation for Biodiversity Conservation (BIOFUND) and the Ministry of Land and Environment (MTA), represented by the National Directorate of Environment (DINAB), and with funding from the French Development Agency (AFD), French Global Environment Facility (FFEM), World Bank/Project MozBio2 and UNDP/BIOSFAC, held on December 6th, in Maputo city, the second module of the intensive training program on the application of the Mitigation Hierarchy in Mozambique, with the main objective of increasing technical capacity and awareness on the available tools for spatial planning and to identify key biodiversity in order to support the proper implementation of the mitigation hierarchy and biodiversity offsets in Mozambique.
The module had three speakers, namely Orlando Macave from the MRV Unit of the National Fund for Sustainable Development (FNDS), who focused on Ecosystem and Land Use and Land Cover Maps, including the MRV Geospatial Platform, Hermenegildo Matimele of the Mozambique Agricultural Research Institute (IIAM) who focused on the usefulness of the red list of species and ecosystems, and lastly Kendall Jones, WCS spatial planning specialist, who presented an adaptation of the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM) for Offset initiatives.
The event was attended by 27 technicians, 7 of whom participated remotely. The overall intensive training program is composed of 6 modules and aims to increase the technical capacity of the MTA, especially the new DINAB’s biodiversity offsets assessment and monitoring division, so they can lead the process of implementing the new legal diploma for the effective application of the hierarchy of mitigation and biodiversity offsets in Mozambique.
