FLARE 2023 – Nairobi

2023 FLARE Annual Meeting - Official Photos

2023 FLARE Annual Meeting - Official Program and Book of Abstracts

2023 FLARE Annual Meeting Plenary Sessions

FLARE is proud to feature three plenary sessions at this year's Annual Meeting. These plenary sessions will also be available virtually via Zoom and are free to view. Mark your calendars for these exciting events! Please Note: All times listed are East African Time.

2023 Annual Meeting Registration - CLOSED

Please read before registering

To register for the 2023 Annual Meeting, please click the link the relevant option below. Meeting registration fees are based on a tiered structure according to country income level (World Bank Country Classifications). FLARE relies on registration fees to cover meeting costs and we therefore request that you register at the level corresponding to the country of your current primary institutional affiliation.

Also consider registering for the GLF Nairobi 2023 Hybrid Conference: A New Vision for Earth. Please note, this conference is a separate event and will immediately proceed the 2023 FLARE Annual Meeting.

Presentation and Poster Guidelines

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2023 Annual Meeting Theme

Linking Research and Action for Thriving Forests, Trees, and People

Research can play a key role in advocacy and action to address climate change, reduce vulnerability, conserve forests, and foster human development. For example, evidence accumulated over decades has demonstrated the critical role of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in protecting and sustainably managing forests and, in turn, helped lead to government recognition of community land rights and new funding flows. More generally, impact assessments of different forest-related interventions have helped improve policy design.

Yet too often research has been ineffective in fostering change – or reforms benefitting communities and forests inspired and honed by research have been clawed back by forest services and other interested parties. Too often, even when research reveals options and abuses, key findings are hidden behind a paywall, suppressed by threatened parties, or are couched in specialist language that obscures their practical relevance, among other barriers. The result is that knowledge relevant to tackling the urgent challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, poverty alleviation and other social ills often remains unused.  What can we do to confront such obstacles? How can research—and researchers—make a difference?

FLARE 2023 will explore these questions and seeks to make concrete progress toward better harnessing research for action. Doing so will require dialogue and collaboration among scientists, government officials, concerned citizens, activists and advocates, business leaders, journalists, and others.

Therefore, proposals for FLARE 2023 are particularly welcome that:

• Include collaboration between researchers and other actors mentioned above,
• Involve early career scholars and practitioners, including in intergenerational partnerships,
• Are led by scholars from low- and middle- income countries/the Global South.

And that:

• Address barriers to effective use of research in policy and practice and means to overcome them,
• Document and explain the exclusions of research from arenas where it could result in better forest management or improve lives and livelihoods,
• Present cases of positive policy change that reflect good practice in research uptake,
• Demonstrate collaborative approaches that have worked to bridge divides and/or show promise to do so,
• Provide examples of collective action for systemic change that favors thriving human communities and forest landscapes, and/or
• Highlight the voices, challenges, and successes of those who suffer most from forest loss and degradation, climate and environmental change, and restrictive policies.

2023 Annual Meeting Sub-Themes

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Event Deadlines & Timeline

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2023 Coordination Committee