Indicators and Targets

“The target of the strategy for resource mobilization is to substantially enhance international financial flows and domestic funding for biological diversity in order to achieve a substantial reduction of the current funding gaps in support of the effective implementation of the Convention's three objectives and the 2010 target. This target for global resource mobilization should be viewed as a flexible framework for the development of measurable targets and/or indicators addressing all relevant funding sources, according to national priorities and capacities, and taking into account the special situation and needs of developing countries … Concrete activities and initiatives to achieve the following strategic goals should be developed as well as indicators to monitor the implementation of the Strategy, all within appropriate timeframes” -- Strategy for resource mobilization, paragraphs 8 and 10

At its tenth meeting, the Conference of the Parties adopted 15 indicators for monitoring the implementation of the strategy for resource mobilization, based on its mission and eight goals, including:

1. Aggregated financial flows, in the amount and where relevant percentage, of biodiversity-related funding, per annum, for achieving the Convention’s three objectives, in a manner that avoids double counting;
2. Number of countries that have: assessed values of biodiversity, in accordance with the Convention; identified and reported funding needs, gaps and priorities; developed national financial plans for biodiversity; been provided with the necessary funding and capacity building to undertake the above activities;
3. Amount of domestic financial support, per annum, in respect of those domestic activities which are intended to achieve the objectives of this Convention;
4. Amount of funding provided through the Global Environment Facility and allocated to biodiversity focal area.
5. Level of CBD and Parties’ support to other financial institutions that promote replication and scaling-up of relevant successful financial mechanisms and instruments.
6. Number of international financing institutions, United Nations organizations, funds and programmes, and the Development Agencies that report to the Development Assistance Committee of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD/DAC), with biodiversity and associated ecosystem services as a cross-cutting policy;
7. Number of Parties that integrate considerations on biological diversity and its associated ecosystem services in development plans, strategies and budgets;
8. Number of South-South cooperation initiatives conducted by developing country Parties and those that may be supported by other Parties and relevant partners, as a complement to necessary North-South cooperation;
9. Amount and number of South-South and North-South technical cooperation and capacity building initiatives that support biodiversity;
10. Number of global initiatives that heighten awareness on the need for resource mobilization for biodiversity;
11. Amount of financial resources from all sources from developed countries to developing countries to contribute to achieving the Convention’s objectives;
12. Amount of financial resources from all sources from developed countries to developing countries towards the implementation of the 2011-2020 Strategic Plan of the Convention;
13. Resources mobilized from the removal, reform or phase out of incentives, including subsidies, harmful to biodiversity, which could be used for the promotion of positive incentives, including but not limited to innovative financial mechanisms, that are consistent and in harmony with the Convention and other international obligations, taking into account national social and economic conditions;
14. Number of initiatives and respective amounts, supplementary to the financial mechanism established under Article 21, that engage Parties and relevant organizations on new and innovative financial mechanisms, which consider intrinsic values and all other values of biodiversity, in accordance with the objectives of the Convention and its ABS Protocol;
15. Number of access and benefit sharing initiatives and mechanisms, consistent with the Convention and when in effect, the Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of the Benefits Arising out of Their Utilization, including awareness-raising, that enhance resource mobilization;

The tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties also decided to adopt targets at its eleventh meeting, provided that robust baselines have been identified and endorsed and that an effective reporting frame-work has been adopted. This will allow progress towards the targets set out in this decision and towards target 20 of the Strategic Plan, including an effective reporting framework, to be used in assessing the information provided by Parties as outlined in this decision for the consideration of the Conference of the Parties at its eleventh meeting.

For the biennium 2011-2012, the following activities are expected:

• Parties, other Governments and levels of governments, relevant international organizations, and civil-society organizations, in response to the indicators and other information pertinent to the indicators, to submit information not later than 30 June 2011 for the Executive Secretary to compile and present a synthesis of this information;
• The Executive Secretary to compile information from all sources, including but not limited to the Biodiversity Indicator Partnership, to give methodological guidance to the above indicators, including collaborating with the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD/DAC) and informed by the work of the ad hoc technical expert group on indicators for the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020;
• The Executive Secretary to provide guidelines to the Parties during 2011 for the implementation of this methodology on the application of indicators and establishment of a baseline year;
• Parties to apply the methodology during 2011-2012 to measure gaps and needs as well as progress in the increase in, and mobilization of, resources against the indicators, using the baseline year, and to present relevant information to the Secretariat in a timely manner;
• The Executive Secretary to compile and consolidate information from all relevant sources, and on this, determine baselines to be presented to the Conference of the Parties at its eleventh meeting for agreement by the Parties;
• Adopt targets at its eleventh meeting, provided that robust baselines have been identified and endorsed and that an effective reporting framework has been adopted. This will allow progress towards the targets set out in this decision and towards target 20 of the Strategic Plan, including an effective reporting framework, to be used in assessing the information provided by Parties as outlined in this decision for the consideration of the Conference of the Parties at its eleventh meeting

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