This workshop, jointly convened by the Environment and the Development Co-operation Directorates, held on 18 February 2015, at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris, brought together over 85 representatives from the biodiversity and development co-operation communities to share experience and insights on the key opportunities and challenges to mainstreaming biodiversity into development policies and planning and into development co-operation.
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Agenda
Session 1: Mainstreaming biodiversity into development strategies, policies, plans and budgets
Session 2: Approaches and partnerships to mainstream biodiversity at sector and local levels
Co-chairs' summary
opening session
This session set the stage for the day's discussions by providing an overview of how biodiversity, poverty reduction and development are linked, and why development co-operation needs to address biodiversity.
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Markus Lehmann, Secretariat of the Convention |
Anna Drutschinin and Juan Casado-Asensio, |
Vice Minister Patricia Madrigal Cordero, Ministry of Environment and Energy, |
Session 1: Mainstreaming biodiversity into development strategies, policies, plans and budgets
This session focused on experiences from countries in mainstreaming biodiversity into development objectives at national level, including how to manage trade-offs. It also explored good practices on how development co-operation agencies have been supporting developing countries in this process and mainstreaming biodiversity into their own activities.
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Sofía Panchi, Ministry of Environment, Ecuador |
Antti Inkinen, Counsellor - Head of Development
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Laure Ledoux (DG ENV) & Arnold Jacques-de-Dixmude (DG DEVCO), European Commission
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Session 2: Approaches and partnerships to mainstream biodiversity at sector and local levels
This session examined approaches to mainstreaming biodiversity into development at the sector and local levels, including examples of partnerships. Approaches to identify, assess and manage synergies and trade-offs when mainstreaming biodiversity into key development areas were also discussed.
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Christina van Winkle, OECD Secretariat
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Jeffery Manuel, South African National Biodiversity Institute
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Kim Thi Thuy Ngoc, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
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Session 3: Managing for results - examining the effectiveness of biodiversity and development mainstreaming initiatives in partner developing countries
This session examined how developing countries identify priorities and funding gaps for biodiversity, ecosystem services and development. It also considered how development co-operation agencies work with partner countries to agree on measurable objectives and then work together to ensure that their activities achieve these results. This session provided examples of managing for results through ex-ante and ex-post assessments, real-time evaluations, and other means to build evidence of impacts.
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Gabriela Blatter, Federal Office of the Environment, Switzerland
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Angella Rwabutomize, Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Uganda
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Ida Hellmark, NORAD, Norway
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