Resonance

It’s not what we say, it’s what we do. Grow your #career and impact the world from the second you join Resonance. Check out #openpositions now 👇 APPLY NOW: https://lnkd.in/ewg2dV_f

Another great communications opportunity for a talented writer/editor (requires FAC Clearance). Learn more: https://lnkd.in/et-3kbB4 And in case you missed it, we are also searching for a multifaceted Technical Communications Consultant to support an exciting Partnership Effort. See our announcement and link for that role as well (just scroll down one!).

Attention Communications Experts/Consultants with writing, technical comms skills, and the ability to promote thought leadership and impact, we have an exciting opportunity for you at Resonance! Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eEQjKRwd

Today is "International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem" or 'World Mangrove Day,' marking a dedicated annual spotlight on the critical links of mangroves to biodiversity, climate, and communities. As an implementer of notable projects including recent and current partnerships dedicated to sustainable fisheries in regions of the Philippines and Indonesia, we understand firsthand the importance of mangroves to coastal bio-places and the communities supported by a growing Blue Economy. Accompanying today's release of the Global Mangrove Alliance's 2024 'State of the World’s Mangroves' report, we echo the sentiment of IUCN Global Ocean Director Minna Epps in her call to action for much-needed investment in blue natural captial as well as increased coordination to address ambitous global targets. Through collaboration, partnerships, and alliances, we believe we can together ignite opportunity and accelerate innovative solutions to achieve greater positive impact for both Nature and people. Read more about the importance of Mangroves, including reference to the newly-released State of the World's Mangroves report in our latest Insights. #Mangroves #Biodiversity #NatureSolutions #ClimateResilience #SustainableFisheries #BlueEconomy https://lnkd.in/gnmCtr5G

Resonance is a US-based #BCorp certified global consulting firm specializing in strategic #partnerships that help clients combine resources, know-how, and networks in powerful ways to solve problems and accelerate impact. Throughout our nearly 20-year history, Resonance has brokered many collaborations and alliances that include the involvement and support of USAID. Read more from about the major changes the agency has made to make it easier for businesses to collaborate, evolving its approaches to better reflect the needs, opportunities, and challenges of its current and future private sector partners.   

Does your organization have an innovative approach, tool, or technology to counter corruption and strengthen transparency and accountability in #carbonmarkets? Submit your concept note to USAID's Safeguarding Carbon Markets Challenge for the chance to win between $50,000 and $500,000 in funding! Concept notes are due by August 15 at 11:59 AM EDT. BHP Foundation #GlobalPartnershipforSocialAccountability #USAIDCompetitions Management Systems International

US Announces Strategy to Address Plastic Pollution As Resonance works to implement projects to reduce plastic pollution, including our newly launched USAID #CIRCLEAlliance that includes partners Unilever and EY, we are encouraged by the news from the White House. Today the Biden-Harris Administration unveiled and detailed a new strategy to help address #plasticpollution at every stage of the plastic lifecycle, centering the need to protect human health and the environment, and accompanied by calls for reducing plastic production. The Administration also announced as part of its plan an ambitious goal to reduce plastic consumption by phasing out the purchase of single-use plastic across the federal government by 2027 for all food service and packaging, as well as events, and to eliminate their use entirely by 2035. Recognizing that the government cannot act alone to achieve collective goals of reducing plastic pollution across connected systems, the Administration also called on the international community to cut back on plastic production – inherent in the Global Plastic Treaty that is currently being deliberated and shaped by 175+ countries and influenced by the involvement of scientists and organizations. The just announced plan is considered a first step of many needed to shift not only how the United States addresses plastic pollution, but also how it can in its commitment work collaboratively with governments, entities, and in support of partnerships around the globe, to achieve critical goals and to reduce the serious of harm that plastic pollution, the production of plastic, and microplastics, pose to human and environmental health. These risks and impacts are particularly serious for the already most vulnerable communities and groups around the globe, including indigenous communities, people of color, and women and children.   We will continue to monitor the rollout of this plan, including next steps, and to examine the ways this work might influence our own work in projects with bold aims to accelerate the reduction of plastic pollution and engage local communities in building capacity to design and implement solutions. The CIRCLE Alliance: https://lnkd.in/ennZWg6i Link to the White House Fact Sheet on Biden-Harris Strategy to Tackle Plastic Pollution: https://lnkd.in/efJs_9hq

Useful #NASA Data/Technologies Tools Used in Climate Adaptation, Resilience and Decision-Making Introduced in New Online Courses _____________________________________________________________________ SERVIR, a joint initiative of NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration and USAID, has partnered with Geoversity.io at the University of Twente to launch two free online courses, available at the Geoversity platform. These courses introduce two valued SERVIR tools: (1) ClimateServ, a web-accessible system that allows users to access, visualize, and analyze historical Earth observations useful to decision-making across multiple sectors; and (2) Collect Earth Online (CEO), a custom built, open-source, satellite image viewing and interpretation system developed by SERVIR, FAO, and other partners as a tool for use in projects that require land cover and/or land use data. SERVIR seeks to center satellite data and geospatial technologies to strengthen weather and climate resilience, agriculture and food security, water security, ecosystem and carbon management, and air quality and health. According to an announcement of this initiative, this latest collaboration mirrors SERVIR’s commitment to increasing global access to NASA’s library of Earth data. https://lnkd.in/eEdP9M_C

Resonance is a global consulting firm that specializes in empowering clients to create, accelerate, and scale inclusive market-based solutions to critical global challenges. We bring a 20-year track record in management consulting with USAID, as well as other donor, corporate, and foundation clients, and we help deliver lasting, meaningful impact. Consider growing your career with us as our Director of Natural Resources, or share with ideal candidates in your networks (thank you!).

We have been promoting the Safeguarding Carbon Markets Challenge (SCM Challenge), launched and supported by the USAID Countering Transnational Corruption (CTC) Grand Challenge, and implemented by Management Systems International and Resonance. This challenge will award multiple grants of between $50,000 and $500,000 to organizations with the most promising innovative concepts that counter corruption and strengthen transparency and accountability in carbon markets to preserve the benefits of critical climate finance. A webinar/Q&A session will be held tomorrow, July 9 at 9 am EST (registration below) for those interesting in exploring the challenge and process for submittal. WEBINAR - Q/A REGISTRATION LINK: https://lnkd.in/ePF-aPEw How timely then is Shanna Tova O'Reilly's featured blog just published by the Countering Environmental Corruption Practitioners Forum in which she details the technical, innovative, and pragmatic work of designing a challenge to address corruption in carbon markets. This forum is an ideal outlet for this how-to discussion. It is an active community of practitioners launched by WWF, the Basel Institute on Governance, Transparency International, and TRAFFIC, to encourage and provide connections for conservationists and anti-corruption actors to work across disciplines to address corruption as a key driver of environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, and climate change. Read Shanna's Insights Here: https://lnkd.in/erKxde-9