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Recognizing that the UN Decade for Education
for Sustainable Development provides a major opportunity,
the workshop on Communication for Biodiversity
Conservation (CBC) assessed how far
the current Communication, Education, Participation
and Awareness (CEPA) efforts of international
agreements and programmes, such as the Convention
of Biological Diversity, help in achieving the
Millennium Development Goals.
The workshop focused on case examples of extraordinary
CEPA efforts in selected sectors that have so
far been inadequately dealt with in existing CEPA
efforts. These include lawyers, decision-makers
in political circles, corporate leaders, journalists
and marginalized sections of society. Addressing
the CEPA needs of such sections is key to biodiversity
conservation, especially in the context of:
- Communication strategies that would help
achieve the Millennium Development Goals, which
have a direct link with biodiversity conservation
- these include enhancing livelihoods, nutrition,
gender equality and empowerment of women, maternal
health, meaningful schooling (especially for
marginalized communities most dependent on natural
resources, including biodiversity), and environmental
sustainability.
- Facilitating on-ground work in various countries
for Communication, Education and Public Awareness
(CEPA) including the Convention on Biological
Diversity (CBD) Programme of Work, and other
international programmes such as the Millennium
Assessment etc.
An International Advisory Group guided the development
of the workshop structure and content and identified
case examples for presentation and analysis.
Objectives
- To share CEPA related decisions and recommendations
from the CBD and other relevant programmes of
work with workshop participants, and identify
common ground between these programmes.
- To identify and analyze case examples of
innovative CEPA for biodiversity conservation,
looking specifically at the challenges faced
by them in various stages of their development
and how these challenges were addressed (or
not addressed) (focusing on a diversity of experiences,
not saying 'best practices', but 'good practices');
as well as looking at examples of 'how not to
do'
- To, especially, develop strategies for on-the-ground
work for sectors highlighted in the CBD CEPA,
and for sectors that are particularly challenging
or have so far been absent from the biodiversity
education agenda. Examples include under-privileged
children and communities on the one hand and
very affluent children and communities on the
other, as well as decision makers in industry,
banking, law, engineering, mining, and politicians.
- To especially focus on education for sustainable
agriculture, and its relationship with biodiversity
conservation.
- To explore innovative media such as biodiversity
festivals, drama, film and scenarios as a means
of public awareness and participation.
- To explore education and communication necessary
to address issues related to indigenous and
local knowledge, its role in biodiversity education
and its combination with formal knowledge.
- To explore methods of communicating.
Input/background Documents
- CEPA related decisions of the COP of the CBD
and other multilateral agreements
- Capacity Building and CEPA recommendations
from the World Parks Congress
- CEPA components of the IUCN Programme of Work
- Millennium Ecosystem Assessment materials
and reports
Workshop Outputs
- Interpretation of how CEPA recommendations
in the relevant CBD PoW, and IUCN programmes,
can be implemented on the ground
- Compilation of case studies on Biodiversity
CEPA for particularly challenging or not usually
addressed sectors
- Input into the processes for achieving the
Millennium Development Goals, where biodiversity
conservation has a direct linkage.
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