UNDP Side Event Access

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UNDP Side EventAccess Benefit Sharing and
Traditional Knowledge

• Overview of UNDPs Activities
• 16 February 2004
• CBD COP7, Kuala Lumpur

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Why is UNDP interested in ABS TK?

• Reduce poverty
• Improve governance
• Protect biodiversity

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UNDP Activities in the area of ABS TK

• over 80 UNDP projects
• UNDP/GEF Enabling Activities
• 26 countries assessing capacity needs for TK
• 18 countries assessing capacity needs for ABS
• UNDP-GEF Small Grants Programme
• community-based
• supports far-flung local and indigenous
  communities

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Examples of projects addressing ABS and/or TK

• Maghreb Date Palm
• create alternative markets for date palm types
• develop capacity of farmers to negotiate genetic
  property rights, and preserve TK.
• Zimbabwe Traditional Medicines
• develop a sui generis system for protecting
  traditional knowledge.
• Philippines Zambales
• establishment of Indigenous Reserves, including
  preservation of TK

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Other UNDP Activities in the area of ABS TK

• Implementation of official policy UNDP
  Indigenous Peoples A Policy of Engagement
• Survey of Free Prior Informed Consent (FPIC)
  procedures and their application within
  international organizations.
• Formulating an internal UNDP Practice Note on
  Traditional Knowledge and Access Benefit
  Sharing