Activity 2: Build capacity for PAs
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Component 1: Education and training
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Promote environmental education and training and the development of human resources in co-operation with other biosphere reserves in the Network: MAB Statutory Framework Article 7, 3 SEE COMMENTARY 1
- Define the training needs of biosphere reserve managers in the 21st century and develop model training programmes: MAB Seville Strategy Recommendation 3.4, 3 SEE COMMENTARY 2
Create curricula, resources and programs for the sustained delivery of PA management training: CBD Decision VII/28, 19 and CBD Decision VII/28, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 3
- Promote capacities and resources that enable indigenous and local communities to be involved in the establishment and management of PAs. CBD Decision VII/28, 19 and CBD Decision VII/28, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 4
- Organize regional technical workshops to advance implementation of and assess the progress of the programme of work: CBD Decision VII/28, 27
- Develop conservation education programmes linked to national networks of nature reserves covering listed and non-listed wetlands: Ramsar Recommendation 4.4
Indirectly relevant obligations and commitments
- Provide developing countries with assistance, including capacity building, in order to help reverse the factors leading to consideration of deletion or restriction of a Ramsar site: Ramsar Resolution IX.6, 12
- Promote the training of personnel in the fields of wetland research, management and wardening: Ramsar Article 4, 5
- Identify the training needs of institutions and individuals concerned with wetland conservation and wise use, and implement appropriate responses: Ramsar Strategic Plan 2003-2008, Operational Objective 20.1 SEE COMMENTARY 5
Organize linguistic training when needed: MAB Recommendations Goal 3 SEE COMMENTARY 6
- Establish or develop national or regional centres for training in the protection, conservation and presentation of cultural and natural heritage and encourage scientific research in this field: WHC Article 5, e SEE COMMENTARY 7
- Include risk preparedness as an element in World Heritage Site Management plans and training strategies: WHC Decision 28 COM 10B, 4 SEE COMMENTARY 8
- Provide regular training programmes and educational curricula to improve capacity-building for managers and coastguards on IMCAM activities: CBD Decision VIII/22, 5(f)
- Prioritize training and capacity-building regarding the implementation of integrated management approaches for wetlands: Ramsar Resolution IX.20, 12
- Promote gender-sensitive capacity-building to enable stakeholders to carry out specific participatory and synergistic programmes as part of their National Action Programmes to combat land degradation and mitigate the effects of drought, protect biodiversity, facilitate the regeneration of degraded forests, while promoting sustainable livelihoods at local level: UNCCD Decision 1/COP.6, 17 SEE COMMENTARY 9
- Identify training needs in wetland restoration: Ramsar Resolution VIII.16, 21
- Conduct joint educational and training activities on the cultural values of wetlands: Ramsar Resolution VIII.19, 21
- Work with Wetlands International in order to make available expertise in training and capacity- building in wetland inventory: Ramsar Resolution VIII.6, 23
- Support the training of and career opportunities for marine taxonomists, ecologists, and members of other relevant disciplines, particularly at the national and regional levels: CBD Decision V/3, 2 and CBD Decision V/3, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 10
- Support international networks for peatland training and education: Ramsar Recommendation 6.1, 13
Devote a sufficient part of the budgets for wetland conservation to training matters: Ramsar Recommendation 4.5
- Develop training programmes for wetland conservation managers: Ramsar Recommendation 2.3, and Ramsar Recommendation 2.3, Annex
Component 2: Developing and transferring technologies
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Promote an enabling environment for the transfer of technology to improve PA management: CBD Decision VII/28, 19 and CBD Decision VII/28, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 11
- Increase technology transfer and cooperation to improve PA management: CBD Decision VII/28, 19 and CBD Decision VII/28, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 12
Indirectly relevant obligations and commitments
- Develop, validate and transfer appropriate technologies for mountain ecosystems, including indigenous technologies: CBD Decision VII/27, 3 and CBD Decision VII/27, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 13
- Contribute to initiatives concerning the transfer of technologies for management of mangroves: Ramsar Resolution VIII.32, 16
- Develop appropriate technologies for the sustainable development of products and services in drylands, to increase their competitiveness: UNCCD Decision 1.COP.6, 14 SEE COMMENTARY 14
- Strengthen technology transfer, including through concrete projects and capacity-building in relevant sectors such as agriculture, biodiversity, and forestry: UNFCCC Decision 1/CP.8
Component 3: Building institutional capacity
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Strengthen institutionally and improve governance of PAs management authorities, including those of indigenous and local communities and build capacities of PA managers to financially plan and manage: CBD Decision VIII/24, 18g SEE COMMENTARY 15
- Strengthen institutional capacity to establish cross-sectoral collaboration for PA management at the regional, national and local levels: CBD Decision VII/28, 19 and CBD Decision VII/28, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 16
- Strengthen national and local capacities to enhance the effectiveness and functions of forest PA networks, and for implementation of sustainable forest management, including restoration: CBD Decision V/4, 10
Indirectly relevant obligations and commitments
- Set up one or more services for the protection, conservation and presentation of cultural and natural heritage with an appropriate staff and possessing the means to discharge their functions: WHC Article 5, b SEE COMMENTARY 17
- Develop the capacity within institutions in Contracting Parties to achieve wetland conservation and wise use: Ramsar Strategic Plan 2003-2008, Operational Objective 18.1 SEE COMMENTARY 18
- Increase cross-sectoral coordination and partnership development for pro-poor investments in drylands, and support capacity-building in a predictable and sustainable manner in all areas relevant to the implementation of the National Action Programmes by African country Parties UNCCD Decision 7/1, 7 SEE COMMENTARY 19
- Integrate the ecosystem approach and sustainable forest management into policies and strengthen institutional and human capacity for adaptive management: CBD Decision VIII/19, 5 SEE COMMENTARY 20
- Develop institutional structures and other modalities for IMCAM: CBD Decision VIII/22, 3 SEE COMMENTARY 21
- Create an enabling environment for the implementation of the ecosystem approach through development of institutional frameworks and capacity-building, technology transfer, and awareness raising: CBD Decision VII/11, 14
- Improve technical and scientific cooperation and other forms of capacity-building related to mountain biodiversity: CBD Decision VII/27, 3 and CBD Decision VII/27, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 22
- Establish multi-country coordination mechanisms to support the establishment and management of regional PA networks: CBD Decision VII/28, 19 and CBD Decision VII/28, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 23
- Build capacity to mitigate the effects of the biological and socio-economic consequences of degradation and destruction of key habitats particularly mangroves and coral reefs and the human communities which depend upon coral-reef services CBD Decision VII/5, 5 and CBD Decision VII/5, Annex I SEE COMMENTARY 24
- Assist States Parties under-represented on the World Heritage List to enhance conditions for the preparation and updating of Tentative Lists and the nomination of their cultural and natural heritage: WHC Decision 27 COM 13.3, 8 SEE COMMENTARY 25
- Support capacity-building for the integration of adaptation concerns into sustainable development strategies: UNFCCC Decision 1/CP.8(e),
- Enable indigenous and local communities to develop and implement adaptive community-management systems to conserve and sustainably use forest biodiversity. CBD Decision VI/22, 28 and CBD Decision VI/22, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 26
- Build institutional capacity at the national level to address the linkages between climate change and wetlands: Ramsar Resolution VIII.3, 19
- Support the development of national adaptation programmes of action: UNFCCC Decision 5/CP.7, 15 SEE COMMENTARY 31
- Develop a rapid response capability to document coral bleaching and mortality in developing countries and remote areas CBD Decision V/3, 2 and CBD Decision V/3, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 27
- Encourage and support countries in the development and dissemination of status-of-the-reefs reports and case studies on the occurrence and impacts of coral bleaching: CBD Decision V/3, 2 and CBD Decision V/3, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 28
- Support the development of local, national and regional capabilities regarding wetlands in the Pacific Islands region Ramsar Recommendation 6.18, 11
- Identify specific needs, priorities and options for capacity building in countries with economies in transition: UNFCCC Decision 3/CP.7, 1 and UNFCCC Decision 3/CP.7, Annex(Framework for capacity building in countries with economies in transition) SEE COMMENTARY 29
- Promote sustainability of activities undertaken within the framework for capacity building in developing countries: UNFCCC Decision 2/CP.7, 1 and UNFCCC Decision 2/CP.7, Annex (Framework for capacity building in developing countries) SEE COMMENTARY 32
- Provide an enabling environment to promote the sustainability and effectiveness of capacity-building activities: UNFCCC Decision 3/CP.7, 1 and UNFCCC Decision 3/CP.7, Annex (Framework for capacity building in countries with economies in transition) SEE COMMENTARY 33
- Identify specific needs, options and priorities for capacity building in developing countries: UNFCCC Decision 2/CP.7, 1 and UNFCCC Decision 2/CP.7, Annex (Framework for capacity building in developing countries) SEE COMMENTARY 30
- Establish and/or strengthen institutional, administrative, and legislative arrangements for the development of integrated management of marine and coastal ecosystems, plans and strategies for marine and coastal areas, and their integration within national development plans: CBD Decision II/10, 3
- Support the development and functioning of NGOs aiming for conservation and wise use of wetlands: Ramsar Recommendation 5.6
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