Strategy for Resource Mobilization and Financial Reporting under Convention on

Biological DiversityTechnical Support for Implementation DivisionSecretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Outline of the Presentation

• Evolution of debates and strategy for resource mobilization for biodiversity

• Indicators for resource mobilization• Financial reporting

Strategy for Resource Mobilization

• COP-9 (2008): Adoption• COP-10 (2010): Fifteen indicators• COP-11 (2012): Preliminary funding targets• COP-12 (2014): Final funding targets with

domestic dimension

Funding targets by 2015-2020

• Double international financial resource flows• At least 75 per cent of Parties to have:– included biodiversity as national priorities– reported domestic biodiversity expenditures, as

well as funding needs, gaps and priorities– prepared national financial plans

• 30 per cent of those Parties have assessed and/or evaluated values

Pertinent funding trends

COP-92008

COP-102010

COP-112012

COP-122014

Weak in micro-foundation

Decision X/3 indicators (15)•Number of countries that have assessed values of biodiversity•Technical cooperation; South-South cooperation•Domestic funding•No indicator on contribution of collective action of indigenous peoples and local communities

4. Domestic biodiversity expenditures

Collective action of indigenous and local communities

Workshop in Mexico City, May 2015

• Assessing the contribution of collective action by indigenous and local communities constitutes important work: – Can enhance the recognition of the important role

of many indigenous and local communities as traditional biodiversity stewards

– Can highlight an important source of resources that could be further mobilized for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use

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• Mutually supportive linkages between formal (monetary) resource mobilization activities and collective action– Formal biodiversity policies may sometimes risk

jeopardizing (informal) collective action by indigenous and local communities

– Promoting and harnessing collective action can enhance the effectiveness of formal policies and reduce their cost

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• The issue of monetization of the contribution of collective action: – enhance visibility and recognition– generate a powerful argument to enhance

support, based on national income expenditure surveys.

• Maybe culturally inappropriate. Identify and describe possible approaches for undertaking such monetization when useful/appropriate

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• Importance of assessments being followed by adequate policy responses:– Measures that enable communities to maintain

their traditional lifestyles– Strengthening community-based protected areas

such as indigenous and community conserved areas (ICCAs) (UNEP-WCMC ICCA registry)

– Giving formal recognition to traditional sacred sites, systems or reward and recognition (not necessarily monetary ones) etc.

Reporting as a solution

• Further guidance to on how to incorporate the values of collective action within the financial reporting framework– Simpler for Parties to report– Various stages of details to be considered– Different capacity

• This first round: as much information they can

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