Notification 2012-023
Methodological and Implementation Guidance for the “Indicators for Monitoring the Implementation of the Convention’s Strategy for Resources Mobilization”
Dear Madam/Sir, The Conference of the Parties, through its decision X/3, adopted fifteen indicators for monitoring the implementation of the strategy for resource mobilization (paragraph 7) and set out the steps in a process to be carried out prior to the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 11), making use of these indicators (paragraph 8). In addition, through paragraph 8(i) of decision X/3, the Conference of the Parties decided to adopt targets for the Strategy for Resource Mobilization at its eleventh meeting provided that robust baselines have been identified and endorsed and that an effective reporting framework has been adopted. In the same decision the Secretariat was requested to develop methodological guidance and guidelines for the application of the indicators and the establishment of a baseline year. In response to the above decision, the Secretariat prepared a draft document containing methodological guidance for the application of the indicators and a preliminary reporting framework. The document was made available to Parties and comments were invited through notification SCBD/ITS/YX/77665 (2011-190) issued on 30 September 2011. In light of the comments received, the methodological guidance and reporting framework have been revised. The revised document can be accessed from http://www.cbd.int/financial/doc/srm-guidance-2012-01-en.pdf. I would like to encourage you to make use of the reporting framework and to provide the Secretariat with the required information at your earliest convenience but no later than 1 July 2012 so that the information can be compiled and made available to COP 11 in Hyderabad, India, in October 2012. Additional or updated information may be submitted after this deadline, bearing in mind that a revised reporting framework may be developed in light of the review of the framework by the fourth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Review of Implementation of the Convention (WGRI 4) and COP 11. Please accept, Madam/Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration.
Executive Secretary
To: All National Focal Points under the Convention and its Protocol