Building Capacity in Sustainable Development Strategies

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Building Capacity in Sustainable Development
Strategies

• WTO Symposium on Trade and Sustainable
  Development
• 10- 11 October, 2005
• Odin Knudsen/John Nash
• Environmentally and Socially Sustainable
  Development Vice-presidency
• The World Bank

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Global Environmental Facility

• GEF is an independent financial organization that
  provides grants to developing countries for
  projects that benefit the global environment and
  promote sustainable livelihoods in local
  communities.
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• GEF projects address six complex global
  environmental issues
• Biodiversity
• Climate Change
• International Waters
• Land Degradation
• The Ozone Layer
• Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
• Since 1991, the GEF has provided 4.5 billion in
  grants and generated 14.5 billion in
  co-financing from other partners for projects in
  developing countries and countries with economies
  in transition.

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Consultative Group on International Agricultural
Research (CGIAR)

• The CGIAR is a strategic alliance of countries,
  international and regional organizations, and
  private foundations supporting 15 international
  agricultural Centers, that work with national
  agricultural research systems and civil society
  organizations including the private sector. The
  alliance mobilizes agricultural science to reduce
  poverty, foster human well being, promote
  agricultural growth and protect the environment.
• Chaired by vice-president for Environmentally and
  Socially Sustainable Development in World Bank

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Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF)

• The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) is
  a partnership of Conservation International, the
  GEF, government of Japan, MacArthur foundation,
  and the World Bank.
• It provides strategic assistance to
  nongovernmental organizations, community groups
  and other civil society partners to help
  safeguard Earths biodiversity hotspots.
• CEPF strategically focuses on hotspots in
  developing countries, providing funding and
  technical assistance for civil society groups to
  
• Help preserve the diversity of life and healthy
  ecosystems as essential components of stable and
  thriving societies.
• Undertake initiatives that will ultimately also
  contribute to poverty alleviation and economic
  prosperity.

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Trust Fund for Environmentally and Socially
Sustainable Development

• TFESSD is a multi-donor trust fund providing
  grant resources for World Bank activities aimed
  at mainstreaming environmental, social and
  poverty reducing dimensions of sustainable
  development into overall Bank work.
• It is intended to help develop Bank and client
  country capacity, promote inclusion of these
  cross-cutting issues into World Bank operations,
  and foster cooperation between different units in
  the World Bank and with the United Nations and
  other external agencies and groups.
• TFESSD currently funds more than 140 activities
  in 80 countries, with 50 percent of the funding
  going to Africa. Cumulative disbursements and
  commitments are over 43 million.

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Profor

• PROFOR seeks to encourage the transition to a
  more socially and environmentally sustainable
  forest sector supported by sound policies and
  institutions that take a holistic approach to
  forest conservation and management.
• PROFOR fosters such policies and institutions
  through support to participatory processes, such
  as national forest programs, and knowledge
  generation in forest governance, forests'
  contribution to livelihoods of the rural poor,
  mitigation of adverse cross-sectoral impacts on
  forests, and innovative approaches to financing
  sustainable forestry management.
• PROFOR is funded by the Department for
  International Development (DFID) of the United
  Kingdom, the Finnish Department for International
  Development Cooperation, the Japanese
  International Forestry Cooperation Office, Swiss
  Development Cooperation (SDC). The German
  Government is an in-kind contributor.

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Alliance for Forest Conservation and Sustainable
Use

• World Bank/World Wildlife Fund Alliance for
  Forest Conservation and Sustainable Use is a
  strategic global partnership, formed in response
  to the continued depletion of the world's forest
  biodiversity, the loss of forest-based goods and
  services essential for sustainable development,
  and the resulting severe impacts on the
  livelihoods of the rural poor.
• Alliance is working with governments, the private
  sector, and civil society to create 50 million
  hectares (124 million acres) of new protected
  areas of forest and that a similar amount of
  existing protected areas come under effective
  management.
• Alliance also aims to have 200 million hectares
  (495 million acres) of the world's production
  forests under independently certified management.

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PROFISH

• PROFISH is a partnership of the Bank and other
  donor and many developing country partners to
  promote effective fisheries strategies and
  policies at the country, regional and global
  levels. It addresses governance issues in
  fisheries, builds institutional capacity and
  encourages countries to adopt fisheries
  management as a poverty reduction measure.

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Montreal Protocol

• Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the
  Ozone Layer was adopted in 1987 as an
  international treaty to eliminate the production
  and consumption of ozone-depleting chemicals,
  with developing countries benefiting from a
  ten-year grace period.
• Objective of the World Bank as an implementing
  agency is to help client countries accomplish
  their ozone protection objectives through
  strategic planning, policy formulation, and
  technical support in project identification,
  preparation and implementation.

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TerrAfrica

• TerrAfrica is a Bank-led multi-partner initiative
  aimed at increasing the scale, efficiency and
  effectiveness of investments in sustainable land
  management (SLM) in Sub-Saharan Africa, by
• Mobilizing partners under a coalition that will
  support advocacy, align a common vision for
  financing and implementing SLM in SSA
• Identifying, generating and disseminating
  knowledge to support advocacy, guide investments
  and harmonize ME at programmatic and project
  levels and
• Supporting the process of mainstreaming SLM into
  national development and sectoral strategies, as
  well as into strategies of development partners
  enabling the upscaling of investment into SLM
• TerrAfrica is planned to be officially launched
  during the next Conference of the Parties of the
  UNCCD (UN Convention to Combat Desertification)
  in Nairobi in October 2005, and, in parallel,
  during the NEPAD/AU CAADP retreat in Cape Town on
  the same day.

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World Bank Institute

• Training and capacity-building arm of the World
  Bank Group

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WBIs Water and Rural Program

• Overall objective is to build skills and enhance
  the capacity of client institutions,
  professionals, and civil society to engage in
  water and rural sector reforms and to deliver
  services to the public, with an emphasis on
  sustainable economic growth and reaching the
  poor.
• Current program 12,000 training days

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WBIs Environment and Natural Resources
Management Program (ENRM)

• The over-arching objective is to enhance
  countries capacity to responsibly manage natural
  resources and environmental public goods in the
  broader context of economic growth,
  development, and poverty reduction.
• Program aims at improving understanding of the
  linkages among the economy, ecosystems and
  society and strengthening of institutions to
  undertake action to address the following
  challenges
• Managing the urban environment to improve
  health and quality of life
• Managing natural assets that sustain economic
  growth, development, and poverty reduction
• Conserving ecosystem services, including
  biodiversity
• Mitigating and adapting to climate change
• Current program 14,490 participant training days

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Two major thematic approaches

• Transforming Institutions for Good Environmental
  Governance
• Institutional Strategies for Sustainable
  Development
• Environmental Economics and Market-Based
  Environmental Policies
• Strategic Environmental Assessment
• Environmental Law, Compliance, and Enforcement
• Catalyzing Sustainable Development Action
• Health and the Urban Environment
• Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation to
  Climate Change and Variability
• Decentralized Natural Resources Management