Senani Dayabandara from Hei-Planet recently visited Kenya as part of the ongoing work on the AfroGrow project. Here, she shares her experience of conducting bioacoustic monitoring training with Living Lab managers from across Africa.
“As part of the AfroGrow project, I had the opportunity to conduct hands-on training in bioacoustic monitoring for Living Lab managers from Kenya, Zambia, Ethiopia, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, and Botswana. Living Lab managers play a key role in guiding and coordinating users, researchers, and organisations to co-create and test new solutions.
Bioacoustics offers a powerful, non-invasive approach to monitoring biodiversity and ecosystem responses within agroforestry landscapes. This work contributes to Task 3.5 of the AfroGrow project, Impact assessment of agroforestry systems on human well-being, helping us better understand how biodiversity, ecosystem health, and sustainable landscape management can contribute to healthier and more resilient communities”.
It was a valuable experience in capacity building and knowledge exchange, while also strengthening locally led approaches to understanding biodiversity, ecosystem health, and human well-being across Africa”.
