The great advantage of these trainings was the transformation from face-to-face to digital format. A company specialized in communication and digital design was hired to adapt the materials. This entailed several challenges, but undoubtedly benefited in terms of the scope and massification of access to knowledge. A self-taught methodology was used where the student does not need any kind of support from a physical person, virtual characters were created to accompany him/her, animated videos and videos with real people, interactive, graphics and evaluations. This meant that only one single effort was needed to create the materials and that they could be available to all users of the platform without the need to rework the content.

The inclusion of secretariat personnel in the creation of the content, from the conception of the idea to the design phase, was a crucial factor in ensuring good acceptance of the training. Periodic and dynamic meetings were held to review the content and adapt the materials to the compliance standards and requirements that were requested. Likewise, progress was periodically reported to managers and finally, a pilot test was carried out with a certain number of users to gather their comments and possible adjustments.

In preparing the content, IICA sought to interrelate various topics within the management of agriculture in order to provide a more comprehensive vision. Topics such as climate change, gender, food self-sufficiency, integration of biodiversity, ecosystem services, inclusion of the rural sector and sustainable production practices, among others, were incorporated. This approach goes hand in hand with a holistic vision that encompasses various aspects that depend on or have a direct impact on agriculture. The Mexican agricultural sector is mostly rainfed, which means that it is highly dependent on rainfall cycles, making it more vulnerable to climate change. There are also many situations of exclusion for both gender and socioeconomic reasons. This is why it is important to integrate all these issues for a more complete analysis with greater impact on areas of opportunity.

The nesting of the trainings within the AGRICULTURE Secretariat was a strong factor, since they were completely appropriate as they were installed within its internal platform and available to all staff. In this way, they were not perceived as an external intervention, but rather as integrated and promoted within the Secretariat itself, giving them complete control over their management and evaluation. In addition, as an incentive, they were made equivalent to double the number of hours taken in order to make them more attractive to users and to reach as many people as possible.

By providing job and research opportunities, the HeRe Lab plays a key role in empowering emerging heritage professionals and researchers in Italy. The Lab supports emerging professionals in working long-term within the World Heritage field, a working area that is still unstructured and underdeveloped in Italy. This makes HeRe Lab a pioneering example in the country.

Emerging professionals and researchers are involved in relevant  research projects and they are directly contributing to: drafting of Management Plans of World Heritage properties located in Tuscany; Heritage Impact Assessments; museums-related activities; international conferences and projects, as well as a wide range of activities directly related to heritage research and practice.

The success of HeRe Lab lies in its multidisciplinary team, made up of professionals dealing with a wide variety of fields such as World Heritage, urban planning, architecture, art history, development, and economics.. The University of Florence acts as a catalyst for their involvement, through the participation of different faculties in the Lab and in the use of holistic approaches for the creation of sustainable solutions for challenges affecting the historic centre. The Lab has also played an important role in advocating for sustainable strategies in the development of the city, by taking into account urban green spaces, social inclusivity, tangible and intangible heritage protection, economic growth, sustainable tourism, as well as the requalification and enhancement of architectural elements.

In the framework of the COP13 of the Convention on Biological Diversity held in December 2016 in Mexico, CONABIO, the German Cooperation Agency (GIZ) and the Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN-Mexico) developed together with the agricultural, forestry, fisheries and tourism sectors, the Strategies for the Integration and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity, These Strategies set out the strategic lines of action that will guide their actions in the short, medium and long term to achieve a sustainable use of biodiversity, contributing to its conservation and guaranteeing the wellbeing of future generations through the adequate management of ecosystem goods and services. It is within the framework of this effort that the Biodiversity Integration Center is established.

Sustainability objectives for productive processes cannot be met by a single institution or person; they necessarily involve the coordination of a large number of actors and sectors in order to be successful. Having a space dedicated to the issue of biodiversity integration helps to promote the intersectoral dialogue necessary to find comprehensive solutions to complex problems, so the Biodiversity Integration Center is proposed as a space for intersectoral coordination that contributes to the fulfillment of the SDGs of the 2030 Agenda and where the different instances are supported to strengthen the planning instruments, strategies and programs of government institutions, generating benefits related to poverty alleviation, food security and sovereignty and adaptation to climate change, among other aspects.

The Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development is strongly committed to achieving sustainability in the sector, as expressed in the Sectoral Program for Agriculture and Rural Development and its mandate to make progress in ending hunger, achieving food security and improving nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture, which are goals set out in Sustainable Development Goal 2 of the 2030 Agenda approved by the United Nations, which this Secretariat is responsible for implementing and monitoring. The Biodiversity Integration Center responds to the actions for the fulfillment of Objective 3 of the Sector Program: To increase sustainable production practices in the agricultural and aquaculture-fishery sector in the face of agro-climatic risks.

This Building Block aimed to develop a regional roadmap on MSP and sustainable blue economy agreed by the seven beneficiary countries, as well as neighboring countries involved in another regional activity focused on blue economy (WestMED Initiative): Algeria, France, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Spain, Tunisia, Libya, Portugal and Mauritania. National Focal Points were invited to provide recommendations according to their relevance to five specific themes; these recommendations were then compiled in a survey and prioritized by the National Focal Points and other National Experts. The most voted recommendations were selected and rephrased (when necessary) to compose the regional roadmap.