The Transformative Pilot on Forest and Mangroves Monitoring supported by the Setting and Local weather Change Canada via NovaSphere has concluded its handoff Coaching in Monrovia. The Coaching was performed by J. Negatus Wright, an impartial advisor with help from the Spatial Informatics Group (SIG). The Transformative Pilot has been profitable in hiring the companies of the Spatial Informatics Group (SIG), and has been offering capability helps to the geospatial and GIS workers of the Forestry Improvement Authority (FDA), The Environmental Safety Company (EPA), the Ministry of Mines and Vitality (MME), the Liberia Land Authority (LLA) and the Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Info Providers (LISGIS). These capability helps embody the usage of spatial applied sciences like Accumulate Earth On-line and Google Earth Engine scripts to observe the forest and surroundings of Liberia, in addition to the availability of applied sciences, comparable to excessive tech drones, computer systems and GPS to the nationwide and regional workers of the EPA and FDA. Over the past two years, the help offered to the Transformative Pilot on Forest and Mangroves monitoring by the Canadian authorities via NovaSphere has trickled right down to the regional counties of Liberia, offering capability and gear help to over 200 workers of the talked about authorities’s ministries and businesses.
In continuation of its capability help to Liberia, SIG has developed a forest alert software to observe deforestation in Protected and Proposed Protected forest areas in Liberia, and GEE scripts mixed with Accumulate Earth On-line (CEO) to organize forest cowl maps of Liberia. The coaching was held on the College of Liberia’s predominant Campus on the Local weather Motion Lab from December 8-18, 2025 and introduced collectively over 20 members.
The coaching aimed toward guaranteeing that the operations and capacities constructed in the course of the lifetime of the pilot challenge change into embedded and utilized, actively influencing determination making and investments. Along with the CEO-and GEE superior coaching there have been sector particular, comparable to breakouts periods involving the varied establishments represented. The EPA and FDA’s technical groups that have been educated have begun utilizing the talents and information gained to map Land Use and Land Use Change Information which will probably be used to arrange Liberia’s Forest Reference Emission LEVEL. The members expressed appreciation to NovaSphere and the Canadian authorities for his or her help in ensuring that they acquired the technical capability and know-how wanted to observe the Liberian forest.
As it may be recalled, Canada helps nations within the Pacific Alliance and Western Africa to outline regional priorities to deal with greenhouse gasoline (GHG), and Quick-lived local weather pollutant and emissions to pursue alternatives to strengthen their capability to measure, report and confirm (MRV) emissions. These initiatives facilitate South-South MRV collaboration and information sharing inside and between the Pacific Alliance and West Africa as a way of exchanging greatest practices and supporting the replication of greatest practices generated from Canada’s local weather finance sectorial challenge in every area. By capacity-building and regional collaboration efforts, the MRV for Local weather Motion initiative help nations to attain their respective Nationally Decided Contribution (NDC).
