Friday, 24th November 2006
9.00 – 9.30
Presentation of the “Final Vision”
Facilitator: Dr. Gudrun Henne
The final vision as formulated by the mixed stakeholder group was presented and discussed and – after minor changes – adopted by all participants.
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9.30 – 10.00
Identification of the main fields of work for the ABS initiative
Facilitator: Dirk Jung
Having just finalised the vision, participants were reminded that the vision to become reality, action needs to be taken: There are many different paths to get closer to this vision. These paths are usually not straight forward. As guidance it is only important to keep the vision in mind.
The Dutch-German ABS Capacity-Building Initiative as well as others, such as UNEP, UNDP and UNCTAD Biotrade, is offering support on this "expedition". The following main fields for support have been identified:
- Good practices for ABS – public private partnerships (PPP) and benefit-sharing with local communities
- African knowledge network
- Common African positions in ABS related negotiations
- Personal and institional capacity-building
- Other initiatives
Participants were requested to brainstorm and liaise with others to formulate first activities as well as the specific support requirements. To structure the output and build a roadmap, tables were provided for each of the main fields of work using the same headings as on Thursady morning in the brainstorming for the “ABS plus” project scenario for the Thai National Park.
10.00 – 12.30
Coffee Break and outlining the roadmap by filling the tables
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12.30 – 13.30
Lunch
13.30 – 14.30
Presentation of the roadmap and feedback on the support possibilities
Facilitator: Esther Mwaura-Muiru
After reading through the tables and clarifiying some of the contents Andreas Drews highlighted the wealth of ideas and proposals for bringing the implementation of ABS in Africa closer towards the formulated vision. He expressed his confidence that quite a number of the proposals on this roadmap will find support by either the Dutch-German Initiative or provide useful input to the ongoing or just beginning ABS capacity-building processes, i.e.
- the UNDP/GEF Biodiversity Support Program for SADC implemented by IUCN,
- the UNEP/GEF program about to take off in six African countries (Cameroon, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Senegal and South Africa),
- the UNCTAD Biotrade program implemented in Uganda and by Phytopharm in SADC, and
- the GTZ/ADF supported COMIFAC Initiative to harmonise ABS implementation within the region, which is closely collaborating with the Dutch-German ABS Capacity-Building Initiative for Africa.
The roadmap and further suggestions for its use can be found under Workshop Products.
14.30 – 15.30
Evaluation of the workshop and coffee break
Facilitator: Dirk Jung
Participants were requested to tick on a scale of 1 to 4 their satisfaction with key elements of the workshop and to write on cards
- what they liked most and
- what they disliked or requires improvement.
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