In the period from 19th to 22nd of October 2020 the Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands arranged training webinars on “How to carry out national wetlands inventories and their relevance for decision making”. The aim of the webinars was to enhance capacities for carrying out a National Wetland Inventory (“NWI”) by presenting the new step-by-step toolkit for completing a wetlands inventory and the use of a wetland inventory in decision making processes. The European Space Agency and the GlobWetland Africa team contributed with a dedicated session on how to use Earth observation for wetland inventorying.