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Twinning

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(North-east Tobago UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Stock Footage Database)
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What is Twinning?

Twinning facilitates cooperation between management organisations, governmental agencies, private sectors, academia, and civil society organisations in two or more distinct Biosphere Reserves to achieve concrete operational results and benefits through peer-to-peer activities.

High Level Goal

North-east Tobago and its future twinning partner(s) are empowered on their path to regenerative development, improved resilience, and management of cultural and natural heritage through continuous socio-cultural, economic, and knowledge exchange and capacity building.

Current Situation

The North-east Tobago Man and the Biosphere Reserve has not yet much to offer to a potential twinning partner; a sales pitch needs to be developed and substantiated by actual and mutual benefits to make our Biosphere Reserve attractive.
TOBIMA should consider establishing one North-South and one South-South twinning cooperation, with each fulfilling similar but also complementary functions and ideally resulting in a substantiated and successful triangular cooperation.

Further Information:

Downloads:

Twinning Summary PDF

Twinning Full Chapter PDF

Priority Needs

  • TOBIMA and residents of the North-east Tobago Biosphere Reserve are equipped with the tools to build resilience, improve the status of cultural and natural heritage, and foster sustainable economic development while maintaining authenticity;

  • negative effects of myopia such as intolerance, stagnation, low resilience, and inadequate response to internal and external threats are counteracted;

  • North-east Tobago carefully opens to global partners, fostering progressive, democratic, and economic development while cherishing cultural and natural heritage.

Strategies

  • Identify thematic areas and define desired results through which the North-east Tobago Man and the Biosphere Reserve could benefit from twinning arrangements;

  • position our Biosphere Reserve as an attractive twinning partner;

  • identify the most opportune moment to open our biosphere reserve for twinning opportunities;

  • market the North-east Tobago Biosphere Reserve as a potential twinning partner;

  • identify most promising twinning partners and gradually increase collaboration from loose contacts to contractual arrangements; and

  • provide resources for twinning activities.

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