Africa-Madagascar Policy & Partnerships Office

November 2011

WWF in Africa

A Regional African Perspective of Development

Assistance for Climate Change Action

“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors.

We borrow it from our children”.

- Chief, First Nations People, Canada

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The Challenge……

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AFRICA’S CHALLENGES

WWF in Africa

Regional offices: West

Africa, East Africa,

Central Africa,

Madagascar & Western

Indian Ocean

16 country offices,

(including South Africa)

Partner organizations

in Niger and Nigeria

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Climate Change+

Poverty within huge natural resource wealth base

Lack of knowledge/education

Food, Energy, Water and health demands

Land Tenure and Conflict

International trade and Extractive industries

Threats to forests (Deforestation)

Threats to marine resources (Over-fishing, poor practices, piracy and policing)

Threats to species (Poaching: bush-meat, traditional medicines, exotic animal trade)

Poor Governance and Mismanagement

Population Growth and young populations

Corruption and lack of policing, judiciary

WWF Africa Policy and Partnership Strategy

Harmonization, Alignment & Coordination

Goal

Leverage conservation impact by influencing Africa’s development agenda – leveraging

different and new political and donor commitments for climate change action

Approach

1. Partnering and joint programming with African development institutions: AfDB,

NEPAD Planning and Coordination Agency (Rural Futures) and Regional Economic

Commissions

2. Influencing Multilateral and bi-lateral agencies, Multilateral Environmental Agreements

(RAMSAR, CBD, CITES, Rio+20, UNFCCC, Stockholm convention ) and

intergovernmental institutions (FOCAC, Yaoundé);

3. Strengthening WWF Africa institutional capacity to influence and link national, regional

and international development agendas,

Recognizing the importance of linking/strengthening the broader network

capability, expertise and approaches relevant to the development and conservation

nexus

Areas of collaboration (MoU Signed on 21th July 2011)

1. Developing win-win partnerships with emerging economies and strengthening

South-South cooperation;

2. Catalyzing knowledge sharing and knowledge products for green growth and

sustainable development

3. Collaborating on energy and water resource management and climate change

WWF and AfDB

2009 – Feb 2010

Policy /partnership strategy

July 2010

Initial WWF/AFDB partnership

dialogue

May 2011 Invitation to AFDB Safeguards and

biodiversity consultations

June 2011 Invitation to AFDB Annual Meeting and CSO event

July 2011

Jim meets with President

Kaberuka – Signing of MOU

Influencing

How

1. Advocacy

2. Lobbying and negotiating

3. Campaigning

4. Position WWF perspectives in

environmental conventions and

policies

5. Networking decision-makers

6. Integration, harmonization and

alignment across WWF CO’s, PO’s,

NO’s and the WWF network

Who/What

• United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

• Convention on Biodiversity (CBD)

• Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC)

• Rio +20

• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)

• Stockholm Convention

• RAMSAR Conventions

• Yaoundé Process

• European Union (EU)

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Partnering and Joint Programming

How

1. Scaling up our conservation work

2. Greening Africa’s development

agenda

3. Mobilizing and leveraging

development resources for

conservation

4. Influencing policies, investments and

practices

Who

• African Development Bank

• NEPAD Planning and Coordination

Agency (Rural Futures)

• Regional Economic Communities

• COMIFAC

• AMCEN

• UN Agencies (UNEP, UNCCD,

UNIDO, UNDP, UNESCO,

UNECA)

• GEF

• FOCAC (China Africa Engagement

in the pipeline)

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Advocating for….

• Managing natural capital;

• Setting up appropriate frameworks;

• Providing economic incentives;

• Fostering effective governance;

• Investing in human and natural capital;

“....We cannot (however) limit ourselves to fighting for the crumbs of the

benefits that we are promised in such meetings. We should also recognize

that when push comes to shove, we are on our own. We should therefore

always have a plan that we can implement on our own with or without

external support. This is different from giving up the fight for global fairness

or hopelessly waiting for others to take us out of the quagmire that we find

ourselves in. It is a realistic approach of on the one hand fighting for every

benefit that belongs to us whilst at the same time preparing ourselves for the

eventuality of promises to us being broken again and again.”

- H.E. Mr. Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Opening Address on Sustainable Development

24 October, 2011, ECA Addis Ababa

Bridging the Development Assistance gap…

• Financing sustainable development;

• Aid and Development Effectiveness;

• Technology Development and Transfer;

• Capacity Development;

• South-South cooperation;

• Globalization and Trade;

• Regional Integration;

Key conclusions and recommendations

• Domestic resources, including from the diaspora, should be better mobilized for

sustainable development

• To ensure aid and development effectiveness, South-South Cooperation must

adhere to the principles set out by the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for

Action

• Best practices and experiences at country level should be identified and

disseminated

• Bridging critical gaps that exist between public and private sectors

• Need for both private and public sector to see the necessity and importance of

public-private partnerships

• Define Green Economy in the context of national circumstances and development

priorities

• Governments should engage private sector in setting enabling policy, regulatory and

incentive environment in order for business to translate such conditions into

business investment opportunities

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