Remember Tamanda Chabvuta, she won the most popular video prize at the Global Landscape Forum last year and received an award of two coaching sessions. In this blog post, she reflects on the influence of the coaching sessions on her life.  If I had a superpower, I’d like the power to magically be present for all […]

I first met my mentor, Peace Sasha Musonge, in Paris during the Global Landscapes Forum in 2015. Last week, after numerous online discussions, we finally met again in our home country of Uganda. Once again, I saw how a right choice of mentor had been made for me. Peace’s eloquence, confidence, smartness, wit, seriousness, ambition, […]

By Mona Zoghbi and Noor Nasir A genuine and empowering youth-led and youth-targeting initiative – that’s the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of the Youth in Landscapes (YIL) Initiative. Genuine, in the sense that you feel a strong sense of belonging to, and ownership of a creative and inspiring project that is […]

By Praiya Uranukul It has been almost six months, yet my participation at Global Landscape Forum and the Youth in Landscapes Initiative mentoring program continues to inspire me – even now. The sheer scale of it – the number of passionate people enthusiastically debating options, of solutions being proposed and of the principle of the very […]

My journey started a bit late – I’ve been doing forestry and conservation work over the last eight years but I’ve only came to realise that investing in the youth is equally important and vital if we really want to be genuinely successful in our chosen field of profession. This realisation did not came easy, […]

Blogpost by Karen Verdiano and Jan Joseph What do you usually do after attending a conference? Most of us would just be back in our daily routine of doing studies or work. But when you are given a once in lifetime opportunity, somehow you just feel that urge to share it to others. This is […]