Project

ABS Global Capacity Program Nagoya Protocol – Strengthening human resources, legal frameworks and institutional capacities to implement the Nagoya Protocol

Lead country

Regional Centre - Istanbul

Participating countries

Regional

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From August 24, 2016 to June 23, 2021

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 15.6 Promote fair, equitable benefits sharing
  2. 15.a Mobilize resources for biodiversity conservation, sustainable use

Project ID: 5381

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Technical team

  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Ecosystem management and restoration
  • Mainstreaming biodiversity

Sub-area(s)

  • Access and benefit sharing
  • Wildlife conservation

Landscape(s)

  • Conserved areas
  • Forests
  • Marine

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Productive landscapes/Seascapes
  • Key biodiversity areas (KBAs)
  • Indigenous and communities conserved areas (ICCAs)
  • Tropical forests
  • Coral reefs

Transformed sector(s)

  • Agriculture
  • Forestry and other land use
  • Other sectors

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Direct support / Service Delivery
  • Policy advice

Strategy

  • Management operation
  • Law regulation
  • Capacity building

Sub-strategy

  • Species and genetic diversity
  • Wildlife and habitat conservation
  • Knowledge/Data management
  • Institutional framework
  • Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
  • Fiscal planning
  • Awareness raising
  • Alignment
  • Institutional capacity building

Social inclusion

  • Local community/CSOs
  • Private sector

Gender equality

  • Livelihoods for women
  • Women's cooperatives and groups
  • Awareness raising (on gender)

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender responsive

Pathway(s)

  • Systems pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Reduce exposure
  • Improve resilience

SDG target(s)

  • 15.6 Promote fair, equitable benefits sharing
  • 15.a Mobilize resources for biodiversity conservation, sustainable use

Conventions and protocols

  • Nagoya protocol (ABS)
  • Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
  • National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs)

Private sector(s)

  • Capital providers
  • Large corporations
  • Small and medium-sized enterprises

Hot topic

  • Structural/system transformation
  • Nature-based solution

About this project

Description

Strengthening human resources, legal frameworks, and institutional capacities to implement the Nagoya Protocol (GEF ID 5731; 2016-2019), is a 3-year project that specifically aims at assisting countries in the development and strengthening of their national ABS frameworks, human resources, and administrative capabilities to implement the Nagoya Protocol. The project seeks to achieve this by a) strengthening the legal, policy and institutional capacity to develop national ABS frameworks; b) building trust between users and providers of genetic resources to facilitate the identification of bio-discovery efforts; and c) Strengthening the capacity of indigenous and local communities to contribute to the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol. The implementation of the basic measures of the Nagoya Protocol in the participating countries will unleash a wide range of monetary and non-monetary benefits for providers of genetic resources. Some of these benefits should be reinvested in the conservation and sustainable use the biological resources from where the genetic resources were obtain. This will fulfill the three objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Objectives

To assist countries in the development and strengthening of their national ABS frameworks, human resources and administrative capabilities to implement the Nagoya Protocol.

USD $24,300,000

Grant amount

USD $16,920,575

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($24,300,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • New York - GEF

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