The UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) launched a toolkit to help countries integrate biodiversity into development policies and planning strategies.
The toolkit is the result of a five-year project titled, ‘Mainstreaming Biodiversity into Development Initiative: Guidance from African experience 2012-2017'.
22 August 2017: The UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) have launched a toolkit to help countries integrate biodiversity into development policies and planning strategies. The toolkit aims to enhance understanding of the mainstreaming process; select, analyze and present evidence on the links between biodiversity and national development priorities; and identify approaches that have been successful in Africa.
The toolkit is the result of a five-year project titled, ‘Mainstreaming Biodiversity into Development Initiative: Guidance from African experience 2012-2017,’ which helped countries integrate development priorities into their revised National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), and biodiversity into development policy and planning. The toolkit will support achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), given its focus on integration and placing biodiversity on equal footing with social and economic considerations.
The toolkit is funded by the Government of the United Kingdom’s Darwin Initiative and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development (BMZ). [UN Environment Press Release] [Publication: Mainstreaming Biodiversity into Development Initiative: Guidance from African Experience 2012-2017]