In loving memory of our colleague ALEJANDRA BARRIOS PEREZ (MEXICO) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

In loving memory of our colleague ALEJANDRA BARRIOS PEREZ (MEXICO)

ABS in Action Santiago Carrizosa Global Advisor on ABS United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Santiago.carrizosa@undp.org May 21, 2019

Setting the Stage: ABS in Action

Portfolio of ABS Projects: 50 Countries

United Nations Development Programme How does ABS fit into the big picture? 1. SDGs 2. UNDP Strategic Plan

ABS and SDGs: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development United Nations Development Programme

ABS and the UNDP Strategic Plan

ABS and the UNDP Strategic Plan Six ‘signature solutions’ within UNDP’s Strategic Plan achieve multiple SDGs in an integrated fashion “Biodiversity, including genetic resources provide the foundation for human societies and a safety net of resources and ecosystem services for billions of people.”

3-Part framework for nature-based solutions United Nations Development Programme ACTION NATURE ELEMENT SDG OUTCOME • Protect • Coral reef • Food security • R & D • Health • Forest • Remove • Grasslands • No poverty • Insure • Tigers • Life on land • Invest • Gender • Wetlands • Monitor • Soil • Safety • Plan • Equality • Pollinators • Enact • Genetic Resources • Carbon drawdown • Mobilize • Desert • Energy • Enrich • Peace • Invasive species

UNDP-GEF Global ABS Project Strengthening human resources, legal frameworks and institutional capacities to implement the Nagoya Protocol The UNDP-GEF Global ABS Project in a Nutshell PRESENTATION TITLE UNDP Regional Center for Latin America and the Caribbean Panama, 15th May 2019 Alejandro Lago Manager UNDP-GEF Global ABS Project ABS is genetic resources for sustainable development

BASIC IN INFO GLOBAL ABS PROJECT Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) is

BASIC IN INFO GLOBAL ABS PROJECT 23 countries OBJECTIVE: Strengthening human resources, legal frameworks and institutional capacities to implement the Nagoya Protocol 3 years (end of the Project August 2019 December 2020) Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) is

4 PROJECT COMPONENTS Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) is

4 PROJECT COMPONENTS 3. Strengthening the 1. Strengthening the legal, capacity of indigenous policy, and institutional and local communities capacity to develop national to contribute to the ABS frameworks implementation of the Nagoya Protocol Strengthening human resources, legal frameworks and institutional capacities to implement the Nagoya Protocol 2. Building trust between 4. Implementing a users and providers of genetic Community of Practice resources to facilitate the and South-South identification of bio-discovery Cooperation efforts Framework on ABS Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) is gene

Key activities- Component 1 National ABS legal frameworks developed or reviewed (1 full system 20 approved; 1 ABS Regulation Amended; 1 Provisional system adopted; 1 ABS Policy) s a sample text. Insert Stakeholders have been trained on ABS, Nagoya Protocol and ABS 1632 Procedures national policy measures developed for protecting Traditional Knowledge 18 (most have been included as part of the ABS legal frameworks) Key challenge: Political buy to complete the legal procedures for the 1 approval of the laws, regulations and effective implementation of the legal frameworks ABS is genetic resources for

Key activities- Component 2 22 Biodiscovery projects supported (34 expected) a sample text. Insert 22 Biodiscovery projects supported (34 expected) a sample text. Insert Ethical codes of conduct or guidelines for research on TK and 20 genetic resources (17 countries) (in progress) ABS commercial agreements ( 1 in Dominican Republic already 25 signed) ABS is genetic resources for

Key activities- Component 3 Biocommunity/ Biocultural Protocols and/or Traditional Knowledge 25 registries adopted by indigenous and local communities (22 countries) text. Insert Countries supported in the development, design, and 22 implementation of awareness-raising campaigns targeted to ILCs based on the past and existing initiatives in 22 countries sample text. Insert

Key activities- Component 4 (UNV) Global ABS Community ( Community of Practice on ABS implemented and 1 operating at regional and global level (website released in October 2018- www.abs-sustainabledevelopment.net) Global ABS Community launched on February 2019 during the International Day of Women and Girls in Science a sample text. Insert 15 technical assistance requirements on ABS fulfilled at regional and global level sample text. Insert knowledge products on specific ABS topics developed at the 20 regional and global levels, including a publication on ABS cases and the SDGs for COP-14 of the CBD (Nov. 2018) (27 countries) ABS is genetic resources for

Virtuous circle on ABS ABS is genetic resources for

UNDP-GEF Global ABS Project Strengthening human resources, legal frameworks and institutional capacities to implement the Nagoya Protocol Global ABS Community PRESENTATION TITLE Fernando J. Lopez R. Agustina Rato United Nations Volunteers Programme/UNDP-GEF Global ABS Project ABS is genetic resources for sustainable development

UNV´s Contribution UNV Component UNDP-GEF Global ABS Project “UNV Support to the implementation of the “ Strenghtening human resources, legal UNDP-GEF Global ABS Project” frameworks and institutional capacities to Figure : Responsible Party and Senior Beneficiary implement the Nagoya Protocol ” Project Document • Modality: Direct Implementation Modality(DIM) • Intervention: 4 Products, 11 activities y 10 Indicators; • National Level: 5 Countries in LAC; • Global Level : 24 countries/4regions; • Budget: SVF: US$ 425,000 / UNDP-GEF: US$ Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) 332,000; • Mobilization: More than 300 local volunteers.

Communities of f Practice Elements of Communities of Practice • ”COPs refers to groups of people who genuinely care about the same real-life problems or hot topics, and who on that basis interact regularly to learn together and from each other.” Mutual Joint enterprise Shared repertoire engagement Wenger E, McDermott R and Snyder WM (2002) Cultivating Communities of Practice. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Outputs, indicators & targets Outputs Indicators Targets 1. Experience exchange a. Number of members Two thousand and knowledge-sharing registered and interacting (2,000) members Indicators & targets fostered; among each other 4.1. Global ABS Community b. Number of on-line activities Twenty (20) on-line 2. Countries’ implemented and operating at regional for knowledge-sharing activities and global level Target: (Yes) ABS CoP requirements on ABS conducted (e.g. webinars, addressed; 4.2. Number of experts on ABS presentations, forums, live information mapped and incorporated transmissions) into a regional and global database c. Number of on-site activities Five (5) on-site Target: Fifty (50) experts 3. Best practices, for knowledge-sharing (e.g. activities lessons learned and 4.3. Number of technical assistance workshops, field visits, Ten (10) knowledge requirements on ABS fulfilled at regional knowledge products on advisory) products and global level ABS shared; Target: Fifteen (15) technical assistances Number of knowledge products developed (e.g. 4.4 Number of knowledge products on publications, case studies, e specific ABS topics developed at the regional and global levels courses, databases) Target: Twenty (20) knowledge products 4. Interaction, trust and Number of multilateral Ten(10) multilateral Component 4 spirit of collaboration collaborations on ABS fulfilled collaborations. between and among at the local, regional and countries promoted. global level.

Thematic Areas A space for experience Explores the impact of Knowledge, good practices Provides an overview of sharing, information and lessons learned market dynamics and the ABS thematic to the disemanation and best Sustainable Development regarding the major trends in R&D of practices regarding the implementation of legal GR and its market Goals, use of traditional frameworks on ABS. demands. knowledge associated to GR.

On On-line Activities Promoted Type of Languages Name of the Activity Region of Focus Total Reach Activity Offered ▪ Gender and ABS ▪ The Nagoya Protocol LAC 306 English ▪ Webinars Blockchain as an innovative Africa Registrations Spanish to improve the 187 Attendees implementation of the NP ▪ CBD Cop-14 Global ▪ Community of Practice English Eastern Europe 297 Event Live- Workshop for ABS Rusian (Russian Speaking Registrations Streaming practitioners Spanish Countries) 136 Attendess ▪ Protection Mechanisms of LAC Traditional Knowledge Recordings ABS Contract Negotiation Spanish LAC