Supported by
Dr . Konrad Uebelhör
MET/GIZ Biodiversity Management and Climate Change Project
COP12 CBD Pyeongchang , October 6 – 17, 2014
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Namibia‘s experience with the ESS approach (1)
Article 95 (L) of the 1990 constitution : “the maintenance of ecosystems, essential ecological processes and biological diversity of
Namibia and utilization of living natural resources on a sustainable basis for the benefit of all
Namibians, both present and future…”
Vision 2030: One of the eight themes is
Namibia’s natural resources sector.
Five-year development plans (NDPs)
NDP3 (2007/82011/12) a key result areas is “Productive utilisation of natural resource and environmental sustainability”,
NDP4 (2012/2013-2016/17) under Environmental Management focuses on implementing the Environmental Management Act, including
Strategic Environmental Assessments.
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Namibia‘s experience with the ESS approach (2)
NBSAP1 Biodiversity and Development in Namibia 2001-2010
Elaboration of the Strategy not influenced by the Millennium Ecosystem
Assessment 2001 – 2005 but:
• Identify high-value areas for biodiversity and establish monetary value of biodiversity
• Design appropriate monitoring systems of biodiversity and ecosystems function with reliable indicators
• Build national consensus on threats to sustainable development and environmental health/biodiversity
• Establish biodiversity indicators considering landscape function analysis, socio-economics and opportunity costs
• Promote awareness of biodiversity as Namibia‘s capital resource base on which economic development and livelihoods depend
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Number of publications from Namibia and SADC countries with relevance to economic value of biodiversity (n=227)
Data: Humavindu (2013)
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• More than 220 valuation studies in the SADC
Region since the early 1990s
• Used methods: cost-benefit and contingent valuation techniques
• Mostly applied to parks and river basins
• Early experiences with environmental-economic accounting: water and forest accounts, wildlife accounts and tourism satellite accounts
• Water accounting framework resulted in shift in water policy towards greater cost recovery
• „National Rangeland Management Policy and
Strategy“ incorporated results from cost-benefit analysis
• Beside that, until now little evidence of direct use in major policy reforms but…..
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Using SEA to mainstream biodiversity conservation
Environmental Assessments of policies, plans and programmes is a key feature of the Environmental Management Act (2007)
Building on previous activities:
• Training Workshop in „Integrating ecosystem services into development planning“ with predecessor project of ValuES in
October 2011
Current policy processes:
• New National Biodiversity Strategy 2013-2022 (NBSAP2) takes up prominently the valuation of ESS
Using SEA in collaboration with GIZ/ValuES
• Land use planning ongoing for all 14 regions, link ESS assessment to SEA-process
 Planning will take into account ecological functions and dependencies and contribute to e.g. Aichi 2 (Integration into plans)
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Activities with GIZ/ ValuES
Activities correspond to Namibian NBSAP2 Target : By 2018, biodiversity values and prioritized ecosystem services are quantified, monitored and mainstreamed to support national and sectoral policy-making, planning, budgeting and decisionmaking frameworks and further targets under Strategic Goals 3 and 4
• Capacity Building : Integration of Ecosystem Services in
Strategic Environmental Assessments, October 2013
• Integrating Ecosystem Services in Strategic Environmental
Assessments of Regional Land-use Plans, example Zambezi
Region – lessons learned for further 9 IRLUPs and the National
Land-use Plan
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• Development of a summer school program with Polytechnic of Namibia
ESS integrated into the regular curriculum in the medium-term
• Possible support to 4 studies looking into the value of Ecosystem Services in major development initiatives
• Capacity building in the scope of resource mobilization for conservation/NBSAP2 implementation, especially for environmental economists
– collaboration with Resource
Mobilization Project
• Key challenge: Institutional strengthening to address crosssectoral issues, creating synergies between neighbouring sectors, e.g. Water and agriculture, energy and infrastructure
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The Resource Mobilisation Project (ResMob)
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