From March 2026 to May 2027, the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) Regional Implementation Team (RIT) at CANARI is hosting a series of Learning Labs designed to promote peer-to-peer exchange and strengthen conservation practice across the Caribbean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot.
The Learning Labs respond to a clear need for more structured regional knowledge exchange across the Caribbean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot. During the 2025 Mid-Term Assessment of the CEPF investment, participating grantees and partners highlighted the value of peer exchange and called for more regular, thematic spaces for cross-country learning and collaboration.
While CEPF grantees are implementing innovative conservation actions across diverse socio-ecological contexts, opportunities for systematic knowledge sharing and collective problem-solving remain limited. Technical capacity varies across organisations, and lessons learned are not always disseminated beyond individual projects.
The Learning Labs are designed to respond directly to this demand by establishing a recurring, peer-driven platform for applied knowledge sharing, collaboration and innovation. The initiative contributes to the CEPF Investment Strategy by strengthening grantee capacity, fostering regional networks, and reinforcing adaptive learning within the programme’s monitoring and evaluation framework.
Click on the flyers below to access each lab’s key takeaways, recording and presentations.
For more information on the CEPF current investment (2021-2027) in the Caribbean Islands, please visit: https://canari.org/projects/cepf-caribbean-islands-phase-2/.