Project

Strengthening of National Capacities for the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising From their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Lead country

Mexico

Participating countries

Mexico

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From January 25, 2017 to January 29, 2021

Project ID: 5375

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Technical team

  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Ecosystem management and restoration

Sub-area(s)

  • Access and benefit sharing
  • Wildlife conservation

Landscape(s)

  • Conserved areas

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Productive landscapes/Seascapes
  • Key biodiversity areas (KBAs)

Transformed sector(s)

  • Agriculture
  • Forestry and other land use
  • Other sectors

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Innovative approaches
  • Support functions

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
  • Awareness raising
  • Alignment
  • Institutional capacity building

Social inclusion

  • Local community/CSOs
  • Private sector

Gender equality

  • Women decision making
  • Women's cooperatives and groups

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

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

  • Structural/system transformation

About this project

Description

The project will strengthen the implementation of and compliance with the NP offering greater legal certainty and transparency for GR suppliers and users by providing elements for the creation of a national legal framework that promotes and fosters prior informed consent to access and use GR and associated traditional knowledge, while strengthening the opportunities for fair and equitable sharing of profits arising from their utilization, based on mutually agreed conditions. The above will favor developing incentives for conservation of biological diversity and sustainable use of its components; promoting sustainable development and will contribute with the efforts by the international community to stop the loss of biodiversity and avoid misappropriation of GR and associated TK.

Objectives

Enhance in Mexico in a participatory manner, the capacities of national authorities (SRE, SEMARNAT, SAGARPA, CDI, SE), as well as the legal and institutional framework in relation to genetic resources, associated traditional knowledge and benefit-sharing, according to institutional conditions for the implementation of the “Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising From their Utilization to the Convention on Biological diversity” (NP).

USD $2,308,105

Grant amount

USD $8,938,579

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($2,308,105)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Mexico

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Adjusting the legal framework and establishing public policy measures that regulate the access utilization of GR and associated TK arising from the fair and equitable benefit-sharing.

Indicators:

1. Status of adoption and/or implementation of a National ABS Policy and related regulatory & institutional framework in compliance with the Nagoya Protocol
2. Level of institutional and personnel capacity for implementation of the national ABS framework as indicated by an increase in the GEF ABS Capacity Development scorecard
3. Status of development and implementation of ABS mechanisms to protect TK associated with GR
4. % of Analysis and Diagnosis of National Legal Framework for Genetic Resources and ABS
5. % Advance of Bill proposal to amend the national ABS legal framework per NP
6. # of Key Lawmakers trained on access to GR and benefit- sharing
7. # of financial mechanisms created for ABS
8. % Advance of National Strategy for conservation and sustainable use of GR, including associated TK
9. % Advance of National ABS Policy
10. Capacities of national ABS implementing agencies, as measured by the ABS Capacity Development Scorecard
11. Degree of adoption of knowledge on the part of officials
12. Degree of input from officials regarding the Learning Plan for institutionalization of ABS Policy
13. Inter-institutional Genetic Resources Information Exchange Center (GRIEC) established with:
13a. Database on access permits
13b. ABS checkpoints
13c. National ABS Clearing-House
14. % compliance with the processing times for Access Permits established under the ABS Instrument
15. % Advance of development and implementation of ABS mechanisms to protect TK associated with GR
16. Availability and accessibility of ABS information
17. Level of awareness of targeted indigenous and local communities regarding ABS and TK, the TK catalog and community protocols
Outcome 2:

Strengthening of national institutional capacities
Outcome 3:

Protecting traditional knowledge and improving the capacities of indigenous and local communities and other stakeholders to generate social awareness on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, GR and associated TK, as well as benefit-sharing arising from their access and utilization.
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