Through coaching, light-touch training and facilitating spaces, we jointly design a tailored process to meet project needs and shake up business-as-usual, with the aim of achieving greater impact.
We call this dynamic space: Panda Labs
Our support can be completely tailored to your needs. From a one off session to a multi-months process co-designed with you, we support conservation teams at the point of project design, iteration or scaling validated concepts.
Panda Labs support is currently available in these delivery models:
As an individual, you will develop your innovation mindset and skills through ‘learning by doing’ which you can use in your day-to-day work.
As a team, you will become part of the Panda Labs alumni, to keep connected to other teams & access ongoing support opportunities.
Your project goal will be more ambitious, have initial validation of more innovative elements & plans for further testing to enable development.
Click on the map below to discover how teams have used Panda Labs to find innovative solutions for their projects and how they link to the GBF targets.
Many of this projects have been ongoing on WWF, and now having the Global Biodiversity Framework 23 targets, we look at the portfolio of projects and categorized them under the target that they mostly related to.
What are the GBF targets? Learn more here
Listen to participants describe how they have used they tools, process and approach in their work. These clips come from actual Panda Labs sessions.
Esran Turan, WWF-Türkiye, shares how empathy enabled her team to improve relationship dynamics with farmers, resulting in more effective outcomes
Experiences of unconscious assumptions and their effect on project results from courageous Pandas Joann Binondo of WWF Philippines and Lynette Tshabangu of WWF Zimbabwe
Craig Smith, WWF South Africa, shares how listening is the starting point for designing better solutions
Maye Padilla, WWF Philippines, shares how empathy tools surfaced stakeholder interests which enabled her to improve project outcomes
Humans of Panda Labs
Lydia from WWF Myanmar
Umair Shahid, WWF Pakistan, shares how role play & scenarios with stakeholders enabled more effective learning and for better solutions to emerge
Humans of Panda Labs
Maggie from WWF Hong Kong
Watch this space for more updates and for any more information,
please contact Likumbi at lkapihya@wwfint.org
** This model for Panda Labs is a re-imagined version of a ‘decentralized innovation lab’ which saw incredible results with WWF Australia, Denmark, Kenya, Romania, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Chile & Vietnam. For more information on this approach & case studies, pls contact Likumbi at lkapihya@wwfint.org
