9.00 – 9.30

Presentation of the “Draft Vision” of Task Force 3 (local communities and civil society)

Facilitator: Dr. Gudrun Henne

Comments by participants and handing over to the mixed stakeholder group.

9.30 – 10.30

Presentations of the answers on the research questions about the San-Hoodia case

Facilitator: Dirk Jung

1. Who owns Hoodia, who owns the associated knowledge?

• Biological resource
• country’s sovereignity held in trust
• ownership depends on land ownership too
• Genetic Resource
• CSIR patent on P57
• Knowledge
• from a legal perspective (public domain)
• on the basis of CBD and equity principles and customary practice- belongs to SAN people
• But two other groups are claiming customary ownership.

2. Who provides Hoodia?

• Landowners: with permits
• harvesting permits
• export licenses
• Illegal collectors
• without harvesting permits
• Phytopharm cultivating Hoodia
• Other private co-ownership

3. How is Hoodia being used and how is value added by whom?

• Uses
• Appetite suppressant
• Weight loss
• In fighting obesity
• Value added by whom
• CSIR does research and development (identify, innovations)
• Pharmaceutical companies
  e.g. Unilever uses it in dietary foods

Comments:

• Value added should be designed to improve peoples' (San community) needs not just profits.
• Traditional knowledge concerning the hoodia is only focused as an appetite suppressant and will not be protected if tomorrow it will be commercialised as a cosmetic product.

4. What are the mechanisms for benefit-sharing?

• San share:
• San gets 6% of royalties
• 8% of milestone income
• Procedure:
• Money is paid into SAN Trust => no individual benefits
• Characteristics of the agreement:
• IPR remains exclusive to CSIR
• Prohibited to enter other arrangements with 3rd parties
• Commit to conserve Biodiversity and Best practice => non-monetary benefits

Comments:

• Royality is paid to CSIR for using the patent in commercial activities.
• Milestone payments can be understood as certain stages that if reached, e.g. P57 discovery and isolation, benefits will be paid to the San community independent whether or not the company has made any viable profits.

5. What are the benefits being realized today, for how and for whom?

• Networking among countries
• South Africa
• Angola
• Namibia
• Learned the skills for negotiation
• Education and enlightenment
• Learning process has been established
• The communities are more organised to negotiate their rights
• Through collaboration and cooperation with the partners

Comments:

• The monetary benefit should be added: 200.000 R for the SAN community in South Africa.

6. Which stakeholders are actively involved and what is their role and relation?

• Phytopharm, Unilever, Pfizer
  Role: Commercialisation
• Brings product to Market
• Pays royalities to CSIR
• CSIR
  Role: Patent holder
• Pay 6% of royalities to the Trust
• Trustees for the fund
• Hoodia San Trust
  Role: Administration of the Trust Fund
• San Council, San community
  Role: Beneficiaries
• Owners of the knowledge
• Trustees for the Fund
• Southern African Hoodia Growers Association
  Role: Providers of Hoodia

Comments:

• The relationship with WIMSA and all the other SAN related organisations.
• New declaration of the San people from September will perhaps move them in their importance as a stakeholder up.
• In the council each regional group of San is represented.
• WIMSA is the umbrella organisation that unifies all the SAN people.

7. What kind of capacity building do the different stakeholders need?

• San Communities
• Training in negotiation skills
• Resource Management and Mobilisation
• Interpreneurship skills training
• Commodification: IPR & PR
• San Council
• financial traceability
• training in procedures required to spend the money
• Government
• Adress CBD and national ABS legislation
• Negotiation Skills
• Public Private Partnerships
• Private Sectors
  (CSIR, Phytofharm, donor community, Southern African Hoodia Growers Association)
• The value of traditional knowledge
• The CBD provison especially on ABS issues
• Following national legislation
• Networking: Skills and equipment

10.30 – 11.00

Coffee Break

11.00 – 13.00

Presentation of the Tai National Park Project, Ivory Coast

Facilitator: Esther Mwaura-Muiru

Presentation by:

• Suhel al-Janabi, GeoMedia Consult, Germany
  ABS-plus Agreements – A Potential for Sustainable Funding of Protected Area Management?

al-Janabi-TAI-CoteIvoire.pdf

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Participants were asked to exchange ideas in groups and to propose appoaches on how an ABS-plus Agreement could become a funding source for the management of the Tai National Park:

What	Who	Roles and contributions	When	Special Support
Finalize ABS legislation	Government Local communities Park management authority	Policy guidelines to contribute to the development process	April 2007	Technical Funding
Awareness rising of all stakeholders		Look for funds and implementation
Resource evaluation	Government Local scientists Local communities International cooperation partners	Government: spearhead process Local scientists: carry out ground evaluation of resources Local communites: provide knowledge	Within 6 months once fees and funds become available.	Funding Technical expertise awareness raising to obtain community buy-in to process
Resource valuation and knowledge associated with vitilization		To look for funds and implementation
Consider alternative management options

13.00 – 13.45

Lunch Break

13.45 – 14.30

Vision Building as a Management Tool”

Facilitator: Dr. Gudrun Henne

Henne-VisionNeurologicalLevels.ppt

876 kB

14.30 – 16.00

“Vision Work” – exploring further ideas on the vision by using objects that were brought by each participant.

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