Activity 3: Raise understanding and awareness
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Component 1: Raise awareness in the public and generally
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Organize exhibits and events around the Transboundary Biosphere Reserve: MAB Recommendations Goal 3 SEE COMMENTARY 1
Promote continuously biosphere reserves within the Network and their objectives: MAB Statutory Framework Article 6,2 SEE COMMENTARY 2
- Publicize biosphere reserves by disseminating information, developing communication policies and highlighting their roles as members of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves: MAB Seville Strategy Recommendation 4.2, 17 SEE COMMENTARY 3
- Establish or strengthen programmes of education and public awareness on the role of PAs in biodiversity conservation and sustainable development: CBD Decision VII/28, 19 and CBD Decision VII/28, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 4
- Incorporate PAs as a component of the school curricula and informal education: CBD Decision VII/28, 19 and CBD Decision VII/28, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 5
- Evaluate the impacts of CEPA programmes on biodiversity conservation to ensure they improve awareness and change behaviour: CBD Decision VII/28, 19 and CBD Decision VII/28, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 6
- Develop facilities for promoting public awareness of wetland values at wetland reserves: Ramsar Recommendation 5.8 SEE COMMENTARY 7
Indirectly relevant obligations and commitments
- Promote understanding of neighbouring countries’ culture: MAB Recommendations Goal 3 SEE COMMENTARY 8
- Increase recognition of the significance of wetlands for reasons of water supply, coastal protection, flood defence, food security, poverty alleviation, cultural heritage, and scientific research: Ramsar Strategic Plan 2003-2008, Operational Objective 3.3 SEE COMMENTARY 9
- Strengthen appreciation and respect by people of cultural and natural heritage, particularly by educational and information programmes: WHC Article 27, 1 SEE COMMENTARY 10
- Keep the public informed of the dangers threatening cultural and natural heritage and of the activities carried on in pursuance of the World Heritage Convention: WHC Article 27, 2 SEE COMMENTARY 11
- Take appropriate measures to make known the importance of the property for which international assistance under the World Heritage Convention has been received and the role played by such assistance WHC Article 28
- Emphasize the desertification/poverty nexus in activities to celebrate the International Year of Deserts and Desertification, and increase efforts to implement the Convention, so that there is greater international attention on the link between land degradation, its socioeconomic aspects, desertification and poverty UNCCD Decision 7/2, 4 SEE COMMENTARY 12
- Raise awareness of the self-perpetuating cycles that result from the relationship between wetland degradation and poverty: Ramsar Resolution IX.14, 8
- Conduct CEPA campaigns to ensure that different groups are aware of the Akwé: Kon guidelines and the need for their application when developments are proposed on sacred sites and lands and waters traditionally occupied or used by indigenous and local communities: CBD Decision VII/16, F5 SEE COMMENTARY 29
- Increase public education, participation and awareness in relation to mountain biodiversity: CBD Decision VII/27, 3 and CBD Decision VII/27, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 29
- Provide technical and financial resources for the organization of regional workshops to exchange experiences, enhance awareness of the ecosystem approach and provide regional, national and local capacity-building: CBD Decision VI/12, 3
- Increase public support and understanding of the value of forest biodiversity and its goods and services at all levels: CBD Decision VI/22, 28 and CBD Decision VI/22, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 13
- Include considerations of pollinator and host plant diversity, and related dimensions of agricultural biodiversity, at species, ecosystem and landscape levels, consistent with the ecosystem approach, in formal educational programmes at all levels: CBD Decision VI/5, 8 and CBD Decision VI/5, Annex II SEE COMMENTARY 14
- Take actions for improving awareness of the functions and values of mountain wetlands: Ramsar Resolution VIII.12, 14 SEE COMMENTARY 15
- Improve awareness of the functions and values of peatlands: Ramsar Resolution VIII.17, 12 SEE COMMENTARY 15
- Include peatlands in the implementation of national action plans for education and public awareness: Ramsar Resolution VIII.17, 16
- Review and improve the wetland-related components of education curricula: Ramsar Resolution VIII.31, 24
- Promote dialogue at all levels to foster national and regional understanding for the protection of World Heritage and sustain support to the three modules of the Africa Regional Programme by hosting events, and providing professionals as participants, coordinators, and resource persons WHC Decision 29 COM 11C.1 SEE COMMENTARY 16
- Develop initiatives at all levels to promote dialogue that will increase national and regional understanding for the protection of World Heritage: WHC Decision 27 COM 20B.6, 9
- Build stakeholder partnerships, community participation programmes, and public education campaigns and information products that address the causes and consequences of coral bleaching: CBD Decision V/3, 2 and CBD Decision V/3, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 17
- Promote international coordination of measures to further public awareness of wetland values in reserves: Ramsar Recommendation 5.8 SEE COMMENTARY 18
- Reinforce public awareness for the preservation of World Heritage sites endangered by war and civil conflict through education and the mass media: WHC Decision 17 COM Agenda item V, part V.2
- Promote public education and awareness regarding the value of wetlands: Ramsar Recommendation 2.3, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 19
Component 2: Raise awareness in organisations and specific groups
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Include conservation and sustainable use, as practiced in biosphere reserves, in school programmes, teaching manuals and media efforts: MAB Seville Strategy Recommendation 3.3, 3 SEE COMMENTARY 20
- Identify CEPA programmes which increase understanding of scientific knowledge by indigenous and local communities and policy makers, achieve compliance by stakeholders and increase understanding of indigenous and local communities' knowledge and practices by Governments and NGOs: CBD Decision VII/28, 19 and CBD Decision VII/28, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 21
Indirectly relevant obligations and commitments
- Carry out school exchanges: MAB Recommendations Goal 3 SEE COMMENTARY 26
- Promote the appreciation of the cultural values of wetlands among populations close to wetlands: Ramsar Resolution VIII.19, 19 SEE COMMENTARY 22
- Carry out appropriate education and awareness campaigns directed at urban and rural communities and other targeted groups, on the ecological and cultural significance and the significance for ecotourism of Asian big cats, their prey and habitats: CITES Resolution 12.5 SEE COMMENTARY 23
Component 3: Evaluate or plan awareness campaigns
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Encourage participation of biosphere reserves in international networks and programmes, to promote cross-cutting linkages in education and public awareness MAB Seville Strategy Recommendation 3.3, 4 SEE COMMENTARY 24
- Strengthen information mechanisms directed at target groups: CBD Decision VII/28, 19 and CBD Decision VII/28, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 25
- Place priority on providing educational programmes at key wetland reserves: Ramsar Recommendation 4.5
Indirectly relevant obligations and commitments
- Nominate government and non-government focal points for wetland CEPA Ramsar Resolution VIII.31, 19
- Establish task forces to review needs, capacities and opportunities in the field of wetland CEPA and formulate Wetland CEPA Action Plans: Ramsar Resolution VIII.31, 20 SEE COMMENTARY 27 + 31
- Develop Wetland CEPA Action Plans as components of broader environment policy instruments and programmes: Ramsar Resolution VIII.31, 21 SEE COMMENTARY 27 + 31
- Evaluate the effectiveness of Wetland CEPA Action Plans and amend the priority actions Ramsar Resolution VIII.31, 22
- Support the participation of wetland education centres in the global network of such centres Ramsar Resolution VIII.31, 29
- Identify case-studies and implement pilot projects, and organize regional, national and local workshops and consultations to enhance awareness, share experiences, and strengthen regional, national and local capacities on the ecosystem approach: CBD Decision V/6, 3 SEE COMMENTARY 30
- Develop Wetland CEPA Action Plans as components of broader environment policy instruments and programmes Ramsar Resolution VII.9, 11 SEE COMMENTARY 31
- Establish Task Forces to review the needs, capacities and opportunities in the field of wetland CEPA: Ramsar Resolution VII.9, 9 SEE COMMENTARY 32
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