Transcript GTRP Implementation - Global Tiger Initiative

Global Tiger Recovery Program
Post-Summit Implementation
Anand Seth
January 31, 2011
The Summit Successes
• Ownership:
• Global Tiger Recovery Program (GTRP) owned by Tiger Range
Countries (TRCs) backed up by Heads of Government Declaration
• Awareness:
• Global message of threat of extinction and value of landscapes
• Resources:
• $369M announced by partners at the Summit – to be mobilized
through flexible financing mechanisms
• Mutual Accountability:
• Through robust monitoring as TRCs implement National Tiger
Recovery Priorities (NTRPs)
• Implementation Support:
• Through Global Tiger Initiative (GTI) Secretariat and GTI-Global Tiger
Forum (GTF) partnership
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The Three Dimensions
• National Dimension
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Sustaining political will
Strengthening national implementation capacity
Building policy support for inviolate core areas and strong front lines
Leadership in project development
• Global Support Dimension
– Lining up the promised $369M
• IDA regional program
• GEF support
• Partner commitments
– Supporting knowledge exchange
– Ramping up interdictions at smuggling hot spots
• Annual Stocktaking December 2011
– Setting and working towards clear up-front goals
– Building monitoring systems to energize each other
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The Process
• Post-Summit Consultations: Cancun/DC
– International “To Do” List
• Mapping future support
• Launching work of “thematic support consortia”:
– ICCWC for hot-spot interdiction support
– Capacity Building/Knowledge Sharing support
– TRC Ministers’ steering group on implementation
• Launching NTRP implementation
• Mobilizing donor community
• Delhi Workshop on Implementation: March 29-30, 2011
– Launching national “To Do” lists for 2011 from NTRPs
– Implementing common monitoring framework from the Global
Support Program (GSP)
– Implementing GTI-GTF Collaboration
• National and Thematic Implementation Support: April-Dec. 2011
– Coordinated support from International Community/MDBs/GEF
– GTI/GTF joint support on monitoring systems.
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Immediate Tasks
• Defining Specific Milestones for December 2011
– National Focus:
• Valuation of tiger landscapes
• National capacity enhancement
• Actions to make core areas inviolate
– International Focus:
• Resource mobilization
• Controlling illegal trade
• Strengthening knowledge sharing
• Launching Common Monitoring Systems
– Habitat, prey and tigers
– Program implementation
• Strengthening Goal-based Communication
– Goal: Sustain political will through better valuation of landscapes
– Goal: Enhance mutual accountability through progress reporting
– Goal: Mobilize support and discourage demand for tiger parts.
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