Blue IES: Worldwide training course offer around integrating ecosystem services into marine & coastal development planning
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Description
... enhance capacities for scaling up success
... provide learning opportunities and trainings on Blue Solutions themes
... support policy processes to facilitate blue solutions.
Context
Development planners are often confronted with a set of multi-faceted challenges. Projects and policies intended to meet development goals often go forward unwittingly at the expense of nature; e.g. a national plan to expand aquaculture to increase food production may lead to mangrove degradation causing erosion and loss of fish habitat. Effects are felt by people who depend on nature for their livelihood and well-being. Recognizing the links between ecosystem services and development goals can be the key to a broader successful strategy.
A better ability to assess, describe and value benefits of ecosystem services can help development planners to understand better how their actions depend on and impact on ecosystem services, to consider trade-offs, and to choose policies that sustain services.
Our approach
The guide for development planners and policy-makers on integrating marine and coastal ecosystem services into development planning advocates a stepwise approach to recognize, demonstrate and capture the value of ecosystem services.
The training combines theoretical and practical elements and guides participants through the application of six steps to recognize, demonstrate and capture the value of ecosystem services:
1. Defining the scope
2. Screening & prioritizing
3. Identifying conditions, trends and trade-offs
4. Appraising the institutional and cultural framework
5. Preparing better decision making
6. Implementing change
Training concept
The training is based on the Harvard Case Methodology, which conveys teaching messages mainly through interactive practical work by participants. The training takes place in the fictitious country of Bakul, a situation closely based on real life conditions and challenges.
Objectives
To learn how to recognize linkages between ecosystem services and development.
To familiarize participants with tools and methods for assessing and valuing ecosystem services.
To learn about main policy options and instruments to capture ecosystem services related risks and opportunities as well as entry points for decision-making.
To earth the approach in the context of partner countries and identify concrete opportunities to use the approach in participants work.
Relevant Links:
Find the training material here: https://bluesolutions.info/ecosystem-services-2/
News article about conducted training in Hawaii: https://news.grida.no/5-days-in-bakul
Details about GIZ project ValueES: Methods for integrating ecosystem services into policy, planning and practice: http://www.aboutvalues.net/
GRID-Arendal (other relevant actor),
IUCN (Intergovernmental Organisation)
UN Environment (UN System)
SDGS & Targets
Goal 14
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
14.1
By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
14.1.1
(a) Index of coastal eutrophication; and (b) plastic debris density
14.2
By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
14.2.1
Number of countries using ecosystem-based approaches to managing marine areas
14.3
Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels
14.3.1
14.4
By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
14.4.1
14.5
By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information
14.5.1
14.6
By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognizing that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation
14.6.1
Degree of implementation of international instruments aiming to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
14.7
By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism
14.7.1
Sustainable fisheries as a proportion of GDP in small island developing States, least developed countries and all countries
14.a
Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries
14.a.1
14.b
Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets
14.b.1
Degree of application of a legal/regulatory/policy/institutional framework which recognizes and protects access rights for small‐scale fisheries
14.c
Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of "The future we want"
14.c.1
Number of countries making progress in ratifying, accepting and implementing through legal, policy and institutional frameworks, ocean-related instruments that implement international law, as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, for the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and their resources
SDG 14 targets covered
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| 14.2 | By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans |
| 14.5 | By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information |
| 14.a | Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries |
Deliverables & Timeline
Resources mobilized
Partnership Progress
| Title | Progress Status | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| Partnership Progress 2017-12-20 | Completed |
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NGO and civil society representatives
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Ocean Basins
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Contact Information
Jan Kleine Buening, Head of Project