Encourage flexible, adaptive biodiversity programming

27 August 2026
Gender-responsive, locally-led and rights-based approaches
A landscape view showing multiple paths or arrows curving and adapting as they move forward toward a horizon, representing the need for flexible and responsive approaches to nature conservation.

Encourage flexible, adaptive, gender-responsive and locally-driven biodiversity management and programming to facilitate local leadership, as well as to address and respond to the inherent uncertainty of biodiversity under a changing climate, and to recognise and adapt to diverse ecological and cultural contexts.

Support local leadership by making the processes of designing, and delivering programmes more streamlined, simple and transparent, ensuring mutual accountability between local stakeholders and donors or intermediaries. Ensure that programme decision making is shared, inclusive and gender-responsive.