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UNDP-GEF Global ABS ProjectStrengthening human resources, legal frameworks and institutional capacities to implement the Nagoya Protocol

ABS is genetic resources for sustainable development

SPECIAL SESSION: Challenges and Opportunities for ABS Cooperation in the Research and Plant Breeding Sector

ISTANBUL AND JAPAN 10 April 2019

BASIC INFO GLOBAL ABS PROJECT

Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) is

Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) is

BASIC INFO GLOBAL ABS PROJECT

23 countries

OBJECTIVE: Strengthening human resources, legal frameworks and institutional capacities to implement the Nagoya Protocol

3 years (end of the Project August 2019 December 2020)

Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) is

4 PROJECT COMPONENTS

4 PROJECT COMPONENTS

Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) is

Strengthening human resources, legal frameworks and

institutional capacities to implement the Nagoya Protocol

1. Strengthening the legal, policy, and institutional

capacity to develop national ABS frameworks

2. Building trust between users and providers of genetic

resources to facilitate the identification of bio-discovery

efforts

3. Strengthening the capacity of indigenous and local communities

to contribute to the implementation of the

Nagoya Protocol

4. Implementing a Community of Practice

and South-South Cooperation

Framework on ABS

Key activities- Component 1

ABS is

•Development or review of 20 national ABS legal frameworks•1 Ratification of the Nagoya Protocol (23 out of 24 countries are Parties to the Nagoya Protocol)•1 provisional ABS system has been approved in Uruguay (November 2017)•1 full ABS legal framework has been approved in Dominican Republic (January 2018)•Submission of 14 draft ABS national legal systems and manuals on access procedures at the end of 2018 (Seychelles only ABS policy; Myanmar and South Africa expected in 2019; 2 countries prepared studies; Egypt has not started the implementation of the project)

•18 national policy measures developed for protecting TK (most have been included as part of the ABS legal frameworks)

•1380 key stakeholders trained regarding ABS rules and procedures (1632 stakeholders have already been involved and training will start in the other 9 countries in 2019)

•Challenges: Political buy to complete the legal procedures for the approval of the laws (national parliaments) and regulations (national governments) and effective implementation of the legal frameworks.

Key activities- Component 2

ABS is genetic resources for Gender Equality

• Negotiation of at least 25 ABS commercial agreements (1 in Dominican Republic already signed) (the hardest target to be achieved)

• Research projects to be supported by the Global ABS Project as national examples of biodiscovery have been selected (initiated in 4 countries in 2018) and are being or will be conducted in 2019

• Development of 20 Ethical codes of conduct or guidelines for research on TK and genetic resources (17 countries) (in progress)

• Global, regional and national mapping of biotech companies that utilize genetic resources and traditional knowledge

• Knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) assessment surveys are carried out in 17 countries (2 have been already finalized) targeting specific groups (e.g., researchers, local communities, and relevant industry) that may use or benefit from ABS transactions to assess enhanced awareness about national ABS frameworks, the CBD and Nagoya Protocol

• Socioeconomic valuation of key ABS value chains

Key activities- Component 3

• Support the development, design, and implementation of awareness-raising campaigns targeted to ILCs based on the past and existing initiatives in 22 countries (foreseen 2019)

• 25 Biocommunity/ Biocultural Protocols and/or TK registries adopted by indigenous and local communities (22 countries) (initiated in some countries, including a regional workshop of exchange of experiences in LAC with the support from the UNDP-GEF ABS national project in Mexico, but mainly foreseen 2019)

ABS is genetic resources for Decent Work and Economic Growth

Key activities- Component 4 (UNV)

• Community of Practice on ABS implemented and operating at regional and global level (website released in October 2018-www.abs-sustainabledevelopment.net) Global ABS Community launched on February 2019

• 50 experts on ABS mapped and incorporated into a regional and global database

• 15 technical assistance requirements on ABS fulfilled at regional and global level (11 already fulfilled- see next slide)

• 20 knowledge products on specific ABS topics developed at the regional and global levels, including a publication on ABS cases and the SDGs for COP-14 of the CBD (Nov. 2018) (27 countries)

ABS is genetic resources for Industry Promotion and Infrastructure

Additional activities

1. Support to UNDP-GEF ABS national projects in Cook Islands

2. Regional exchanges of experiences in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe (and recently in ASIA!!!!!)

3. Support to UNDP-GEF ABS National Project in Argentina with trainings and country mission (Dec. 2017) and Cook Islands (February 2018)

4. Facilitation of an exchange mission from Morocco (UNDP-GEF ABS national project) to South Africa (Global ABS)

5. Co-organization of a training for 9 countries with Bioversity and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Rome, Nov 2017)

6. Support to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity:1. 6 Regional IDLO legal trainings on the Nagoya Protocol2. 3 Regional trainings on traditional knowledge 3. 2 Regional trainings on the mutual supportiveness with the International Treaty

on Plant Genetic Resources with Bioversity ABS is genetic resources for Life Below Water

Virtuous circle on ABS

• PIC & MAT

• Biocultural Protocols

• Biodiversity conservation

• Complies with the system

• Puts into value biodiversity of the country

• Channels R&D into the country

• Biodiversity conservation

• Simple Access system

• Control of users

• Biodiversity conservation

• Generates R&D

• Shares benefits

• Biodiversity conservationPrivate

sectorGOV.

ILCR&D

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Recent developments

Publication “ABS is genetic resources for sustainable development”: Biodiscovery cases from 27 countries with UNDP-GEF ABS projects (17/11/2018)

Electronic version available at:• www.abs-sustainabledevelopment.net

• https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/poverty-reduction/abs-is-genetic-resources-for-sustainable-development.html

Recent developments

Campaign to support the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11th February 2019)

Access the campaign and

watch the videos:

• www.abs-sustainabledevelopment.net

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr2qYNToGPU

Recent developments

Launch of the Global ABS Community (the online community of practice on ABS):• Webinar “Blockchain as an innovative tool to implement the

Nagoya Protocol and ABS” (15th February 2019)

• Webinar “Mainstreaming gender into Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) Under the Nagoya Protocol: Experimenting new Approaches to Think Equal, Build Smart, and Innovate for Change (13th March 2019) (Toolkit will be released end of April)

• www.community.abs-sustainabledevelopment.net

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INCOMING EVENTS

Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) is

• 18th meeting UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: Side event “Mechanisms to protect traditional knowledge associated to biodiversity in the framework of the Nagoya Protocol. UNDP-GEF Global ABS Project/Ecuador/UNV” (23 April 2019- also through webinar)

• Regional training on the negotiation of ABS contracts in Latin America and the Caribbean (Dominican Republic, 1-3 May 2019) (in collaboration with UEBT)

• Regional business series dialogues for Africa (Seychelles, July 2019)

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Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) is Genetic Resources for Sustainable Development

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