Wishing you a Happy New Year, full of exciting opportunities! For the winter edition of the biannual newsletter, we want to look at what is in the works for PANORAMA in 2023, and some of the highlights of 2022. We are so excited to share what we accomplished together, and what 2023 has in store for us.  
The PANORAMA secretariat at GIZ and IUCN, on behalf of all partners. 

2022 website visitation overview 

• Over 250.000 unique visits to the PANORAMA Platform 
• 179 new Solutions submitted, for a total of 1225!  
• Most of PANORAMA’s visitors came from North America (52.1%), Europe (33%) and Asia (6.8%).  
• We have over 4280 organisations registered on our platform with an uploaded solution 
• Over 100 new Solution Providers, totalling 887! 
  

The sun has set on the 15th UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP15), held in Montreal, Canada, in December, and countries have agreed on the long-awaited new Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Implementation of the framework’s goals and targets will require scaling and replication of existing proven solutions. PANORAMA is well-positioned to support that, bridging access to practical knowledge from the ground with global policy agreements.  
 
PANORAMA is explicitly mentioned in the final CBD COP15 decision relating to knowledge management in support of implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework. 

How do you feel stepping into 2023? We feel hopeful and excited for new possibilities and opportunities.

In 2023, PANORAMA will continue work to tighten our partnerships, engage with solution providers, develop the Ambassadors programme, advance the business development process, launch the new web platform and develop an impact measurement framework. We are committed to providing knowledge management tools and products to be integrated into projects and used by parties, organisations, academies, and practitioners.  

The new collaboration with the CBD Secretariat support Parties on biodiversity knowledge management and solution-based knowledge exchange and capacity building. PANORAMA will explore the collaboration and use PANORAMA methodology in action, to achieve our vision.  

Across the partnership organisations, we have been working towards a redesign and revamp of the PANORAMA website to better serve our users, maintain security and improve reliability, improve strategic positioning and enhance interoperability with other related platforms. Throughout 2022 we held a number of workshops to understand unaddressed user needs and narrow down the core features of the website.  

The new platform will include e.g.: 
- Improved solution submission/review process 
- Improved platform structure 
- Improved content classification, filtering system and analysis options 
- A state-of-the-art map explorer 

The platform is slated to relaunch in October 2023, and we cannot wait to share more details further down the line.  

In 2023, we will not expand PANORAMA’s thematic scope and the group of formal partners. Instead, we will focus on ensuring our PANORAMA Communities are strong, sustainable and vibrant, supporting solution knowledge exchange for practitioners. We will strengthen interlinkages and collaboration across these Communities, and look to strengthen the engagement of the existing partner organisations.

Towards the end of 2022, we set out to develop a measurement framework for the PANORAMA partnership with the aim of optimising the positive impact of the initiative. The process consists of four main steps: the overhaul of the theory of change & action, the evaluation of strategic questions of interest, current practice and use of insights to inform decisions, followed by the development of a MERL framework and the setting of targets. This is an inspiring and forward-thinking activity with which we aim to produce a state-of-the-art measurement framework of PANORAMA.

Over the past year, they made great contributions to PANORAMA. We would like to thank them for supporting PANORAMA’s recognition in the CBD COP15. Let’s recognise and get to know some of them.

PANORAMA – Solutions for a Healthy Planet is a partnership initiative to document and promote examples of inspiring, replicable solutions across a range of conservation and sustainable development topics, enabling cross-sectoral learning and inspiration. PANORAMA allows practitioners to share and reflect on their experiences, increase recognition for successful work, and to learn with their peers how similar challenges have been addressed around the globe.

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