Dear Colleagues,
I hope you're finding moments of positive connection to the natural world, even as nature-related headlines lately tend to focus on heat waves, droughts, storms, and other environmental struggles. Amidst challenge, I hope your day-to-day still holds room for nature's simple joys.
If you’re new to the ECCP, welcome. Watch the recording of our February 2026 New Member orientation here. You can follow the ECCP conversation on WhatsApp in our three groups in English, French, or Spanish; or in our ECCP LinkedIn group.
Our next general monthly networking meeting will be held Tuesday 14 July at 14h CET. You can register your interest on this sign-up sheet if you’d like to receive calendar invitations for our monthly meetings.
A note from members of the ECCP Steering Committee:
Over the past two years, regional chapters have emerged organically across the ECCP, convened and organized entirely by volunteers. With a small amount of funding, we’re now aiming to build on this early foundation to start piloting something new: light-touch, compensated regional coordination, building on the model we use for global coordination. Like so much of what we do in the ECCP, this is an experiment.
We’re framing the process as a pilot in 2026 so that we can keep an open perspective on where this leads us, what works and what may need adapting moving forward. It will be included with our broader learning work this year alongside Steering Committee member and MEL expert Amanda Woomer. We look forward to continuing this journey alongside you and deepening these regional chapters together!
Our two coordinators, Sol Santos and Dancan Erick Okoth, are happy to introduce themselves:
You’ll find information on how to engage in both chapters in forthcoming newsletters, and/or by joining each chapter’s WhatsApp group: https://www.ecosystemforpeace.org/chapters. (And yes, a Spanish version of Sol’s introduction will be going out to the LAC group!)
We have emerging ECCP chapters in both locations. Please send us an email to ecosystemforpeace@gmail.com to get more information!
What’s an ECCP chapter? We currently have groups in Nairobi, Germany, London, and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). They organize in-person and online conversations, and help weave connections on the more micro-level between people in those locations. Learn more: https://www.ecosystemforpeace.org/chapters.
As a reminder, an overview of the activities (including calendar!) of the community, related resources, and more are all linked on our 2026 Activity Page: https://www.ecosystemforpeace.org/2026.
If you have an idea for a briefing, meeting, conversation, or activity, please just reach out. We’d love to hear from you and see how we can meet your interests!
Are you looking for resources related to ECCP topics? I recommend you check out the Environmental Peacebuilding Association’s knowledge platform!
I’m keeping this week’s email short, so I’ll wrap things up here. I wish you a wonderful rest of your week ahead!
Warmly,
Annika
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