Project

Capacity Building for the Ratification and Implementation of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing in Vietnam ABS

Lead country

Viet Nam

Participating countries

Viet Nam

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From October 10, 2016 to June 10, 2021

Project ID: 5303

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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
  • Biodiversity financing

Landscape(s)

  • Conserved areas

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Key biodiversity areas (KBAs)
  • Terrestrial protected areas
  • arine and coastal protected areas

Transformed sector(s)

  • Agriculture
  • Aquaculture
  • Tourism

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Institutional mechanism and system building
  • Policy advice

Strategy

  • Law regulation
  • Governance
  • Capacity building

Sub-strategy

  • Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
  • Institutional framework
  • Traditional knowledge application
  • Research

Social inclusion

  • Private sector
  • Local community/CSOs

Gender equality

  • Women decision making
  • Livelihoods for women

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender targeted

Pathway(s)

  • Systems pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Improve resilience

SDG target(s)

  • 15.6 Promote fair, equitable benefits sharing

Conventions and protocols

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

Private sector(s)

N/A

Hot topic

  • Public-private partnership

Project objectives

To develop and implement a national Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) framework, build national capacities and support an ABS Agreement based on Traditional Knowledge and Public-Private Partnership.

USD $2,077,000

Grant amount

USD $9,850,000

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($2,077,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Viet Nam

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Strengthening national policy, legal and institutional framework for ABS

 Indicators:

Improved capacities of national and provincial competent authorities for ABS implementation as shown by an increase in UNDP ABS capacity development scorecard
Number of ABS Agreements negotiated
Regulatory system in place for the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol
Community protocol supported in the ABS decree and developed for regulation of access and benefit sharing from genetic resources and traditional knowledge held by local communities
Conservation, use and equitable benefit sharing from traditional knowledge incorporated into ABS Decree
Financial mechanism designed to reinvest revenues for ABS agreement to support biodiversity conservation
New Decree approved for ABS in full compliance with the Nagoya Protocol
Facilitation of coordination for the operationalization of the ABS permitting system among the different national authorities involved on ABS
Guidelines for the permitting system for ABS developed and approved and piloted
National ABS clearing house mechanism operational
Number of national and provincial competent authorities trained in ABS to facilitate the implementation of the national ABS framework
Percentage of the population of researchers, local communities and relevant private sector targeted by the awareness campaign of the legal framework
In situ conservation measures to ensure the security of the concerned biological resources are integrated into the pilot project.
Number of ABS pilot agreements negotiated and implemented enabling equitable sharing of benefits between users and providers
Number of best practices and lessons of ABS from pilots documented and disseminated
Number of community documents developed and implemented at the local level enabling the conservation, future use and equitable sharing derived from TK
Outcome 2:

Developing administrative measures for implementation of national ABS legal framework
Outcome 3:

Increasing awareness and capacity of all relevant stakeholders for implementation of national ABS framework
Outcome 4:

Demonstrating private-public-community partnerships on access and benefit sharing
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Project reports and documentation

 

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