SYMBIOTIC

Learning: building knowledge, awareness and capacity

SYMBIOTIC equips people with the knowledge, skills and networks needed to advocate for biodiversity. The project empowers women leaders and youth, trains environmental journalists, supports educators and citizen scientists, strengthens local biodiversity champions and promotes peer-to-peer learning across countries.

Together, these efforts raise awareness, strengthen public dialogue, and bring biodiversity into everyday decisions.

Mainstreaming: embedding biodiversity across sectors

SYMBIOTIC supports governments, businesses, financial institutions and other stakeholders to embed biodiversity in policies, strategies and decision-making beyond the environmental sector. The project promotes practical approaches such as natural capital approaches, biodiversity-informed policymaking, and cross-sector collaboration to support this integration. It aims to ensure that the value of nature and society's dependence on healthy ecosystems are reflected in education, development planning, public finance, and business operations.

Transforming: turning knowledge and policies into lasting change

SYMBIOTIC turns knowledge into action by connecting people, institutions and decision-makers across countries, regions and ecosystems. The project supports locally led solutions and fosters collaboration between governments, businesses, researchers and civil society. It enables partners to exchange knowledge and learn from each other's experiences. Across diverse landscapes and regions, from the savannahs of Kenya and the forests of Madagascar, Ethiopia and Indonesia to the mountain landscapes of Kyrgyzstan, partners build on each other's experiences to strengthen biodiversity action.

This exchange of knowledge helps scale up promising approaches and strengthen the implementation of biodiversity commitments across countries and regions. SYMBIOTIC also supports the active participation of civil society and local partners in international biodiversity discussions. This ensures that lessons from the ground inform global agendas and decision-making.