Collaborative Assessment Network (CAN) ‘Steering Towards National Sustainable

1. Collaborative Assessment Network (CAN) ‘Steering Towards National Sustainable Development Strategies’ Synthesis for Policy Implementation and Planning Sustainable Economic Development Division 5th Annual Meeting, November 2004, AIT Bangkok, Thailand

2. Presentation Contents • BPOA+10 Preparations • MEAs : • Systems Approaches to Implementation • NCSA • National Assessment Reports to National Sustainable Development Strategies. • Synthesis to Monitoring : SOE • Other Actions • Involving business • Population • Partnerships • Information

3. Mainstreaming and / or Integration ? SPREP Programmes have been developed to reflect the call for better coordination for Sustainable Development through initiatives targeting the mainstreaming of environment and development and the integration of decision-making. “Mainstreaming” activities will target government and tackle the political and institutional voids at the POLICY level that become barriers to the mutual consideration of economic development and wise environmental management, at the national policy level. “Integration” activities will target better coordination in development decision-making to ensure matters of socio-economics; culture and environment are given balanced weighting. There is a TECHNICAL focus with Outputs targeting government, civil society and communities for better information, monitoring, environmental assessment, community participation and planning.

4. “Bottom Up - Top Down” Components Regional Policy Co-ord for Sust. Dev. Trade & Environment: Mainstreaming Regional Focus with National Links Legal Services Function Sustainable Development Integrated Environment * & Development Decision-Making Platforms Environmental Monitoring & Reporting Integrated Environmental Assessment & Planning National Focus with Regional Links

5. National Reporting to WSSD & BPoA-10 + Regional Assessment = Pacific Position 14 Type II Umbrella Partnership Initiatives Indicators, Baselines & Targets NSDS 2005 NAR’s NAR’s WSSD BPoA+10 National Taskforces For SD Formalise National SD Councils National Taskforces For SD Multi-stakeholder Consultation Multi-stakeholder Consultation Multi-stakeholder Implementation (Integrated Decision Making) 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

6. National – Regional SD Policy Synthesis SPREP & CROP Programming Key issues- key indicators Baselines – benchmarks Simple Multi- MEA reporting National Profiles 14 Type II Initiatives & $$$$ National SD Strategies National Assessment Reports (NARs)** National Dev. Plans Pacific Position Regional Syn/Assessment Regional SD Strategy FEMM Action Plan EU Regional Support Strategy /Pacific Plan Pacific Island Environment Outlook Framework for Trade & Environment 7th Nature Conservation Action Plan Framework for Environmental Management in the Pacific

7. MEAs: National Level Mainstreaming “ …despite plethora of Conventions, legislation, strategies, policies and Action plans that directly and indirectly address issues of land degradation there is still a wide area of uncertainty..” Vanuatu UNCCD Report

8. BPOA+10 Preparations -TOO MANY PLANS ! NATIONAL PLANS NATIONAL PROVINCIAL & OUTER ISLANDS ??? MUNICIPAL INDUSTRY COMMUNITY PROJECTS COMMUNITY Systems Approach versus STATIC PRODUCTS

9. Systems Approach for Mainstreaming & Integration ECONOMIC PLANNING INSTITUTIONAL LINKAGES, INCL PLANNING GUIDES, APPROACHES, CRITERIA DATA INTEGRATED LAWS POLICY LINKAGES TOOLS $ $ $ COMMUNITY PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT

10. National Synthesis Example: the Gaps SECTOR & THEME POLICIES and STRATEGIES Government Sustainable Development Platform – National Development Plans! NATIONAL OBJECTIVES PROCESS SYSTEMS for IMPLEMENTATION Finance & Tax Economic Development Community Services Education, Training & HRD Utility & Infrastructure Trade, Commerce & Industry NATIONAL & SUB NATIONAL LEVEL POLICIES - ACTION PLANS and IMPLEMENTATION MECHANISMS Forest Policy Coast & Marine Climate Change Cleaner production/ Renewable Energy efforts Biodiversity Conservation Environment Impact Provisions & SOE Tourism Water and Waste Management ACTIONS – SINGLE OR CROSS SECTOR, GEO OR SPASMODIC LIMITS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IMPLEMENTATION – INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENT & SD PLATFORMS PROVINCIAL MUNICIPALITY DISTRICT OUTER ISLANDS SPASMODIC COMMUNITY BASED PROJECTS & INITIATIVES

11. A National Example: the Aim SECTOR & THEME POLICIES and STRATEGIES Government Sustainable Development Platform – National Development Plans! NATIONAL OBJECTIVES Finance & Tax Economic Development Community Services Education, Training & HRD Utility & Infrastructure Trade, Commerce & Industry PROCESS SYSTEMS for IMPLEMENTATION NATIONAL & SUB NATIONAL LEVEL POLICIES - ACTION PLANS and IMPLEMENTATION MECHANISMS Forest Policy Coast & Marine Climate Change Cleaner production/ Renewable Energy efforts Biodiversity Conservation Environment Impact Provisions & SOE Tourism Water and Waste Management ACTIONS – SINGLE OR CROSS SECTOR, GEO or TIMING LIMITS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORKS IMPLEMENTATION – INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENT-COMM PLANNING PROVINCIAL MUNICIPALITY DISTRICT OUTER ISLANDS PROCESS SYSTEMS for COMMUNITY Partnerships & Mainstreaming

12. Niue & Samoa: Workable Models ? Government Sustainable Development Platform – National Development Plans! NATIONAL OBJECTIVES Finance & Tax Economic Development Community Services Education, Training & HRD Utility & Infrastructure Trade, Commerce & Industry PROCESS SYSTEMS for IMPLEMENTATION SECTOR & THEME POLICIES and STRATEGIES Forest Policy Coast & Marine Climate Change Cleaner production/ Renewable Energy efforts Biodiversity Conservation Environment Impact Provisions & SOE Tourism Water and Waste Management NATIONAL & SUB NATIONAL LEVEL POLICIES - ACTION PLANS and IMPLEMENTATION MECHANISMS ACTIONS – SINGLE OR CROSS SECTOR, GEO OR SPASMODIC LIMITS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK IMPLEMENTATION – INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENT-COMM PLANNING PROVINCIAL MUNICIPALITY DISTRICT OUTER ISLANDS COMMUNITY FRAMED Environmental Planning & Resource Management System Int. Env. Planning Laws and Regulations Administration Processes & Guides Env., Land Socio-economic & Cultural information: GIS Res. Use Strategies Island & Coasts: eg Preferred Use Areas SD Guidelines: eg Urban dev & Forestry Practice

13. Integration in Practice: NIUE Characterised Data • Data InformationCharacterised for Multi Use • Scientific • Traditional knowledge • Community concerns • Community aspirations • Synthesize • User friendly GIS • Agreed admin processes & procedures that Decision makers understand • Hazard! & Sensitivity mapping, Preferred use areas • Land & Res. Use strategies & development criteria • Sustainable Development Guidelines • Tourism development • Water • Agriculture • Subdivision plans • Forestry • Fisheries • Strategic & Environmental Impact Assessment • Resource Use Management and Planning Bill Integrated Strategies, Instruments Guidelines Tools for delivery Legislative platforms Key to instituting Integrative Systems

14. From National Assessment Reports (NARs) to National Sustainable Development Strategies (NSDSs)

15. NARs for BPOA+10 - UNSIDS Template X-SECTORS PARTS 4 -TRADE? -FINANCE & INVESETMENT -INSTIT CAPACITY & COORD -REGIONAL COOP -HRD MDGS -POVERTY -EDUC & CHILD -GENDER -EMPOWERMENT -HEALTH -ENV SUSTAINABILITY -GLOBAL PARTNs WSSD REPORTING PARTS 1-3 -SOCIO-ECON -THEMATIC assmts -FRAMEWORKS -PROGRESS PROBLEMS GAPS & WIDER SCOPING; Est GOALS REVIEW & INITIAL EVALUATION ANALYSIS & COMMON THREADS ‘EMERGING’ & SPECIAL NEEDS -PRIORTIES -ACTIONS -TARGETS -INITIATIVES -KEY MESSAGES PRIORITIES & DIRECTION **LINK to NSDS

16. NARs: benefits for BPOA+10 & beyond! The intention to assist the augmentation of NARs towards: • as valuable platforms for input to BPOA+10 (Inter-regional, Regional Assessment, & implementing JPOI; • to identify priorities for improvement to and implementation of the Pacific Umbrella Initiatives; • to develop national based Initiatives; • to provide the basis for the further development of indicators for sustainable development (inclusive of MDGs); •   As essential elements for strengthened planning systems at the national level, including resource use planning, assessments and integrated reporting efforts; • As an essential first step in the generation of “National Sustainable Development Strategies (NSDSs)”; or, • The vehicles for the inclusion ofSD Principles in National Development Plans

17. NCSA Linking MEAs to National POLICY National Sustainable Development Strategy (NSDS)/NDPs Overarching guiding Strategy for National SD Economic Integrated decision Making across 3 pillars of SD Social Environment NCSA Tools for identifying Gaps and needs National Assessment Reports WSSD, BPoA+10 & MDGs Poverty Alleviation Strategy POPs NIPs HDI CCD NAP’s NAPA’s Education Strategies Economic Development Plan NBSAP’s NEMS Health Strategies Trade Policy Private Sector Policy

18. Synthesis of Plans & MEAs– Policy, Operational & Practice • COMMON ENABLING MECHANISMS • Data, Indicators, Benchmarks • Integrated Law Platforms • Integrated Administrative Processes • Networks, Reference Material • Research & Criteria Development • Technology and Knowledge Transfer • Civil Society Engagement – entrenched as part of development process. -BPOA+10 -RSDS, NSDSs -NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS -SECTOR/X-SECTOR PLANS POLICY DEVELOPMENT -COOPERATION MECHANISMS -APPROACHES TO INTEGRATIVE DM: PLANNING & MANAGEMENT OPERATION & TECHNICAL PRACTICE TOOLS & TECHNIQUES DECISION SUPPORT METHODS EVALUATION, ANALYSIS, PRIORITISING

19. JPOI – Section 7 • SPECIAL SIDS PRIORITIES • BUT • -LETS NOT FORGET IMPLEMENTATION • ‘ENABLING’ PARAMETERS, ELSEWHERE • IN THE PLAN

20. JPOI - Enabling Environments for Implementation • Institutional Arrangements: linkages and synergies; coord policy, Criteria & actions, case studies- choices; • Legislative Frameworks: Plethora of laws not the answer – integrated simple & strategic • legal bases required; • Training, Awareness and HR Capacity Development – at regional /national level: local ownership of direction necessary • Land Use / Environmental Planning Systems – support to current & Planned activities: • EIA, SEA, land suitability, soil conservation, resource use. • Information: Support GIS/ RS capacity development & Clearinghouses, Assist with Indicators, benchmarks & strategic reporting processes • Technology & Knowledge Transfer: Exchanges + effective-efficient alternatives • Finance: Strategic Support, consistent, streamed & coordinated, Internalise • Costs;  coordination  community costs; ‘planning systems’ –stop LEAKAGE • Participation & Partnerships: NGOs & Civil Society: – key players for pragmatic on-the- ground actions for resource shy Govts; provide checks & balances.

21. From Synthesis to Monitoring For Sustainable Development Groundwork for State of the Environment Systems

23. Harmonizing Indicators

24. Involving Business : Samoa’s Sustainable Tourism Indicators • Forest Resources • Marine Resources • Waste And Pollution • Water Resources • Rural Tourism Income • National Income • Tourism Education • Fa’aSamoa • Arts & Crafts Sustainable Tourism • Tourist Facilities • Tourism Planning • Tourism Policy

25. Samoa Tourism Indicators Handbook Environment e.g: • % Hotels composting bio-degradable waste Economy e.g: • % New businesses focused on tourism Socio-cultural e.g: • % Tourism operators informing visitors of village protocol Tourism e.g: • % Hotel staff going on training courses

26. POPULATION & URBANISATION CASE STUDIES – For Policy and Planning To Explore The Why The How And The When For Implementation Mechanisms

28. Pacific Type II Umbrella Initiatives:14 Released by Leaders at WSSDBroadening Partnerships4 Tackle Institutional and HRD SystemsGovernanceCapacity Building-HRD Planning - Community LifestylesICT

29. Action Plans Legislation & Policy State of the Environment Guidelines, CC Biodiversity etc LU or Res Use Planning Biophysical Data Socioeconomic Data Atmosphere Geology Hydrology Soils Biodiversity etc. Admin. Boundaries Infrastructure Land Use Population & settlements Trade, etc. Information “ Cornerstone for SD” Decision- making Tools Expert Systems Information Base-line Data Gap ID & Filling Indicators Indices Emerging Issues Tools GIS/RS Data

30. Niue - Village level Resource Use Plan A product of better info & participation

31. NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

32. SPREP Project Database

33. SPREP Metadata Catalogue

34. Conservation Area Database

35. GIS Data Directory Structure(in SPREP intranet)