Transcript UNEP - Global Environment Facility

United Nations Environment Programme
Global Environment Facility Pacific Alliance for
Sustainability
Dr Greg Sherley ([email protected])
UNEP Pacific Office
Care of UNDP, Apia, Samoa
Mr Joe Stanley ([email protected])
SPREP, Apia, Samoa
Presentation Outline
UNEP GEF PAS update
GEF 5 projects and issues
GEF PAS conservation projects 1
(GEF contributions shown to be matched 1:1)
Micronesia Challenge – Palau, FSM, RMI (Guam, CNMI
partners); $US6 (18)m; Project Document complete and
being reviewed by UNEP; resubmitted to UNEP Project
Review Committee 28 Jan 2010; co-finance guarantee
letters; behind schedule; Micronesia Conservation Trust
will be EA
Phoenix Islands Protected Area- Kiritimati, $US1m (first
phase), Project Document underway – complete by 31
March, MELAD (Government of Kiribati) EA
Pacific Regional Invasive Species – ten countries;
$US3.5m, Project Document and consultation underway
– complete by 31 March 2010, workshop 4th week Feb
Nadi, SPREP EA
GEF PAS conservation projects 2
Implementing Island Biodiversity Programme of Work
with integrated management of island biodiversity and
conservation – Cook Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Nauru;
$US2m; PIF approved for inter-sessional GEF Council
agenda; PPG application submitted; SPREP EA
NGO sector conservation (examples – many more exist):
Conservation International – Critical Ecosystem
Protection Fund – Melanesia-Micronesia hotspot
The Nature Conservancy (and others) – Coral Triangle
Initiative
Other GEF PAS projects 1
Renewable energy – Cook Islands, Tuvalu,
Tonga, Nauru; $3.45m; inception workshop;
IUCN Oceania (Suva) EA
Persistent Organic Pesticides monitoring;
$0.517; Fiji, Kiribati, Niue, Samoa, Palau,
Solomon Islands, Cook Islands; underway; USP
EA
DDT management; PNG, Solomon Islands,
Vanuatu, Thailand; $1m; PIF written unknown
future; EA UNEP/FAO
Other GEF PAS projects 2
Integrated Management of Solid and Hazardous Wastes
and POPs; Cook Islands, Federated States of
Micronesia, Repbulic of Marshall Islands, PNG, Samoa,
Tuvalu, Palau, Tonga, Kiribati, Niue; $3.5m; PIF
accepted for March inter-sessional; SPREP EA –
possibly other(s) as well.
Implementing Sustainable Integrated Water Resource
and Wastewater Management in the PIC’s; Cooks, Fiji,
Kiribati, FSM, Nauru, Niue, Palau, PNG, Samoa,
Solomons, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Marshalls, Tonga; $9m;
underway; SOPAC EA
Suggested GEF 5 conservation
projects 1
Ocean-scape - Kiribati proposal on ocean
stewardship as per Cairns Pacific Island Forum
agreement; regional; $7m? IA = UNEP
(possible) shared? EA = Cons Int Pacific (Apia)?
Pacific Ocean Ark (Kiribati) – sub-programme of
Ocean-scape - southern Micronesia and
Polynesia archipelagos; $15m? Cook Islands,
Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Niue, Kiribati;
IA = UNEP (possible); EA = CI (Pacific)?
Suggested GEF 5 conservation
projects 2
Solomon Islands National Biodiversity Strategy
and Action Plan Implementation; $10m; IA =
UNEP (willing) + partner ? (UNDP?); EA’s = CI
(Pacific, willing) + Birdlife (Pacific, willing)?
Western Melanesia biodiversity hotspots
conservation implementation; Vanuatu and
islands of PNG including Bismarks and
Bougainville; ? $ but FSP; IA = UNEP (willing);
EA’s = CI (Pacific, willing) + Birdlife (Pacific,
willing)?
Modelling optimal programme implementation # 1
(lessons for GEF 5 and the future):
Avoiding too much, too soon and too short
Trust endowment funds – longterm, moderated
income, stable – solve a lot of recurring
problems – especially capacity
Cooperation/collaboration – avoid duplication,
economies of scale – Pacific Round Table,
Invasives examples
Set up and use regional scale service providers
– technical support, information and capacity
building (e.g. SPREP, SOPAC, SPC)
Modelling optimal programme implementation
#2
Rationalise similar programmes – requires
countries to lobby funding agencies
Collaborative/collegial behaviour –
individuals need to put into practice
selfless actions
Urgency – don’t lose the benefits of past
work – capitalise on the opportunity now
nor foreclose future options
Action strategy for nature conservation and
protected areas in the Pacific Island region
2008-2012
Process – product of extensive consultation
and input over decades – at least 1975
Pacific region – almost unique with a
conservation action strategy
Vision and Mission – see SPREP website
Mission
To protect and conserve the rich natural
and cultural heritage of the Pacific
Islands forever for the benefit of the
people of the Pacific and the world
Objectives – five years
1.
Ensure conservation has a development context that
recognises, respects and supports sustainable
livelihoods and community development aspirations
2.
Identify, conserve and sustainably manage priority
sites, habitats and ecosystems
3.
Protect and recover threatened species and species of
ecological, cultural and economic significance
4.
Manage threats to biodiversity, especially climate
change impacts and invasive species
Principles – “A code of conduct”
6. Co-ordination (example)
Conservation is more effective when partners co-ordinate and work
within a strategic framework
National Partners will commit to:
Ensuring NBSAP’s and other locally devised conservation
programmes are strategic, focused and set clear local priorities
Taking a leadership role in co-ordinating all partners
Providing national and local focal points for co-ordinating NBSAP
and other programme implementation
International Partners will commit to:
Working within the legislation, policies, strategies, programmes and
priorities established by national partners
Working with each other to ensure collaborative analysis,
strategies, agreed priorities and co-ordination of political
engagement to avoid duplication
Avoiding programming that directly competes with national
partners for projects and funding
The other principles
Community rights
Conservation from a Pacific framework
Ownership of conservation programmes
Financial sustainability
Good governance
[Co-ordination]
Capacity development
Accountability
Action Strategy implementation
National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans –
collectively are the implementation plan(s) for
the Strategy
The Round Table is the support mechanism for
countries implementing NBSAP’s (via their
steering committees)
Meets annually – facilitated (currently) by IUCN
Suva
Working groups
Function as : fora for interagency collaboration;
implementing arms for the action strategy
Invasive species
Capacity building
Threatened species
Information and communication
Others
How:
Chair, members from active agencies
Share experiences, collaborate projects
Modelling optimal programme implementation:
Invasive Alien Species Working Group and the
Regional IAS Programme
IASWG could act as advisory body to the RIASP
starting with developing the Programme
Document (the blueprint saying what the
programme will do) :
– Country and annual work plans (alignment with
NBSAP’s and Regional Conservation Action Strategy)
– Identify leverage opportunities with other projects
– Assist with technical and practical support
– Role in monitoring and evaluation
– Ensure maximum use of existing networks e.g. PILN,
PII etc