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Africa-Madagascar Policy & Partnerships Office
November 2011
WWF in Africa
A Regional African Perspective of Development
Assistance for Climate Change Action
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors.
We borrow it from our children”.
- Chief, First Nations People, Canada
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The Challenge……
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AFRICA’S CHALLENGES
WWF in Africa
Regional offices: West
Africa, East Africa,
Central Africa,
Madagascar & Western
Indian Ocean
16 country offices,
(including South Africa)
Partner organizations
in Niger and Nigeria
Beijing, 8 June 2011 5
Climate Change+
Poverty within huge natural resource wealth base
Lack of knowledge/education
Food, Energy, Water and health demands
Land Tenure and Conflict
International trade and Extractive industries
Threats to forests (Deforestation)
Threats to marine resources (Over-fishing, poor practices, piracy and policing)
Threats to species (Poaching: bush-meat, traditional medicines, exotic animal trade)
Poor Governance and Mismanagement
Population Growth and young populations
Corruption and lack of policing, judiciary
WWF Africa Policy and Partnership Strategy
Harmonization, Alignment & Coordination
Goal
Leverage conservation impact by influencing Africa’s development agenda – leveraging
different and new political and donor commitments for climate change action
Approach
1. Partnering and joint programming with African development institutions: AfDB,
NEPAD Planning and Coordination Agency (Rural Futures) and Regional Economic
Commissions
2. Influencing Multilateral and bi-lateral agencies, Multilateral Environmental Agreements
(RAMSAR, CBD, CITES, Rio+20, UNFCCC, Stockholm convention ) and
intergovernmental institutions (FOCAC, Yaoundé);
3. Strengthening WWF Africa institutional capacity to influence and link national, regional
and international development agendas,
Recognizing the importance of linking/strengthening the broader network
capability, expertise and approaches relevant to the development and conservation
nexus
Areas of collaboration (MoU Signed on 21th July 2011)
1. Developing win-win partnerships with emerging economies and strengthening
South-South cooperation;
2. Catalyzing knowledge sharing and knowledge products for green growth and
sustainable development
3. Collaborating on energy and water resource management and climate change
WWF and AfDB
2009 – Feb 2010
Policy /partnership strategy
July 2010
Initial WWF/AFDB partnership
dialogue
May 2011 Invitation to AFDB Safeguards and
biodiversity consultations
June 2011 Invitation to AFDB Annual Meeting and CSO event
July 2011
Jim meets with President
Kaberuka – Signing of MOU
Influencing
How
1. Advocacy
2. Lobbying and negotiating
3. Campaigning
4. Position WWF perspectives in
environmental conventions and
policies
5. Networking decision-makers
6. Integration, harmonization and
alignment across WWF CO’s, PO’s,
NO’s and the WWF network
Who/What
• United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• Convention on Biodiversity (CBD)
• Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC)
• Rio +20
• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
• Stockholm Convention
• RAMSAR Conventions
• Yaoundé Process
• European Union (EU)
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Partnering and Joint Programming
How
1. Scaling up our conservation work
2. Greening Africa’s development
agenda
3. Mobilizing and leveraging
development resources for
conservation
4. Influencing policies, investments and
practices
Who
• African Development Bank
• NEPAD Planning and Coordination
Agency (Rural Futures)
• Regional Economic Communities
• COMIFAC
• AMCEN
• UN Agencies (UNEP, UNCCD,
UNIDO, UNDP, UNESCO,
UNECA)
• GEF
• FOCAC (China Africa Engagement
in the pipeline)
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Advocating for….
• Managing natural capital;
• Setting up appropriate frameworks;
• Providing economic incentives;
• Fostering effective governance;
• Investing in human and natural capital;
“....We cannot (however) limit ourselves to fighting for the crumbs of the
benefits that we are promised in such meetings. We should also recognize
that when push comes to shove, we are on our own. We should therefore
always have a plan that we can implement on our own with or without
external support. This is different from giving up the fight for global fairness
or hopelessly waiting for others to take us out of the quagmire that we find
ourselves in. It is a realistic approach of on the one hand fighting for every
benefit that belongs to us whilst at the same time preparing ourselves for the
eventuality of promises to us being broken again and again.”
- H.E. Mr. Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Opening Address on Sustainable Development
24 October, 2011, ECA Addis Ababa
Bridging the Development Assistance gap…
• Financing sustainable development;
• Aid and Development Effectiveness;
• Technology Development and Transfer;
• Capacity Development;
• South-South cooperation;
• Globalization and Trade;
• Regional Integration;
Key conclusions and recommendations
• Domestic resources, including from the diaspora, should be better mobilized for
sustainable development
• To ensure aid and development effectiveness, South-South Cooperation must
adhere to the principles set out by the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for
Action
• Best practices and experiences at country level should be identified and
disseminated
• Bridging critical gaps that exist between public and private sectors
• Need for both private and public sector to see the necessity and importance of
public-private partnerships
• Define Green Economy in the context of national circumstances and development
priorities
• Governments should engage private sector in setting enabling policy, regulatory and
incentive environment in order for business to translate such conditions into
business investment opportunities
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