At the national level, the Trialogue approach creates a three-way dialogue between scientists, policymakers and practitioners, including indigenous peoples and local communities, farmers, businesses, civil society and NGOs.
Trialogues help strengthen the participation of key stakeholders in the assessment process, build their awareness and capacity and increase the uptake of the assessment report recommendations in Cameroon, Colombia, Ethiopia and Viet Nam. It is important to involve policymakers in crafting policy questions that are relevant to their mandates in both the short and medium term. It is also critical to understand and integrate local knowledge in order to:
Learn about past Trialogues, including the regions and themes covered and the outcomes.
The National Trialogue is a BES-Net (Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network) initiative, uniting policy, practice and science communities around the topics of IPBES assessments, primarily land degradation and pollination. The National Trialogue in Kenya aims…
Towards the Kenya National Trialogue: Accelerating Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Implementation through Strengthened Science-Policy-Practice Interface Background The Inter-Governmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) recently undertook some global…
Hanoi, Vietnam Although Vietnam has hundreds of policies and regulations related to biodiversity conservation, it still lacks a comprehensive methodology and capacity for ecosystem assessment in the context of science-policy-practice…
Bogota, Colombia. In preparation for the development of Chapter 5 “Indigenous and Local Knowledge” of the National Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (carried out with the IPBES methodology for…
Yaoundé, Cameroon Terms of Reference Agenda Day 1 and 2 Day 3
