Capacity Building or Development, is a cross-cutting aspect of all GEO activities, whether a flagship, thematic or regional initiative, or community activity. Different CB intervention modalities are being used at individual, organizational or institutional level or at a combination of levels. CB targets different audiences and uses varying levels of impact monitoring linked to quantitative and/or qualitative indicators and through sharing success stories. This session will highlight ongoing CB activities in GEO and provide an open forum for discussion on effective practices and needs that can be incorporated into future workplans.

Event report

• Summary report

Presentations

• Introduction (GEO Secretariat)
• Theory of Change in SERVIR: A Key to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (Raymond French, BetzyHernández - NASA SERVIR Science Coordination Office)
• AmeriGEOSS and Capacity Building (Angélica Gutiérrez - Chair of the AmeriGEOSS Initiative; On behalf of the Coordination Working Group)
• GFOI (Virginia Burkett - USGS, GEO)
• Capacity Development in GEO Flagship GEOGLAM (Andy Nelson - University of Twente)
• GOS4M – From researchto user-driven applications (Nicola Pirrone - CNR)
• GEO BON - Capacity Building for the monitoring of Global Biodiversity change (Laetitia Navarro - iDiv)
• Sector Skills Alliance: Empowering a new generation of (G) EO users (Mónica Miguel-Lago - EARSC)
• Building national capacities for monitoring and reporting on land degradation with Earth Observations (Sasha Alexander - UNCCD)
• GEO-CRADLE: GEO Capacity Building in North Africa, Middle East, Balkans, and the Black Sea (Haris Kontoes - GEO-CRADLE / NOA)
• SERVIR Capacity Building Experiences from the Hindu Kush Himalayas (Birendra Bajracharya - SERVIR-HKH; Rajesh Thapa - CB Lead)

Agenda

• Draft agenda

Target audience:

• Points of contact and CB coordinators of GEO flagships, initiatives and community activities.
• Project members involved in CB activities or in developing CB resources.

Objectives of the side-event:

• To describe and discuss how GEO can facilitate capacity building on different intervention levels
• To share effective methods and modalities in the design, development and implementation of CB activities
• To provide tools and methods to design, monitor and evaluate the results and impact of CB interventions
• To share ideas on how to use project outcomes, results and impact for internal (organizational) learning and external accountability

Organizers:

ITC / NASA / HCPinternational

Speakers from:

• GEO-Working Group Capacity Building
• GEO Regional Initiatives: AmeriGEOSS, AfriGEOSS
• GEO Flagships: GFOI, GEOGLAM, GOS4M, GEOBON
• GEO Initiatives: EARSC / EO4GEO, GEO LDN, GEO-Cradle
• NASA-SERVIR HUB: ICIMOD / ADPC

Contact:

Joost Teuben (jteuben@geosec.org)

Senior Capacity Building Coordinator; GEO secretariat

Organizers

ITC / NASA / HCPinternational

Contact

Joost Teuben (jteuben@geosec.org)