Transcript Preparations for the BPOA +10

Type II Umbrella Initiative:
“Planning for Sustainable
Community Lifestyles”
Objective
• Community based frameworks to integrate environmental
and development needs;
• using people and customs as the central parameters for
decision-making, management and fostering social
cohesion;
• promotion of sustainable community livelihoods”
– National and sub-national delivery actions;*
– A planning approach which builds on coordination;
– Resource Use Planning planning, Environment & Development
status reporting, Land & resource access;
– Harbours on Community development: as the starting block,
but also for delivery!;
– Providing the nexus between village, provincial, town and
national directions supportive of national policy.
Principles
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People at core of Sustainable Development;
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Sustainable Lifestyles dependent on sustainable
use of natural resources & incorporation of
traditional & local knowledge;
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Peoples aspirations and visions should dominate
policy & practice;
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Environmental & Social justice core to SD;
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Integration environment & socio-economics in
decision making at all levels is needed;
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Equity in development processes & outcomes:
enabling environments through empowerment and
community development frameworks; ingredients to
address Poverty & improve quality of life;
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Land & resource access & tenure clarity – increases
certainty & confidence;
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Locals investment in assets true path to SD
Focus
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Instituting support & mechanisms for better accord of
information & use vertically & horizontally;
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Strengthening Participatory processes;
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Institute planning processes: holistic, information focus
& community driven;
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Support ability for PICTs to assess their state of
environment & opportunities for opportunities;
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Local communities valuing their resources
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Partnerships with NGOs & public sector;
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Empowerment at sub-national level but with respect of
governance.
Elements
Integrated decision making for communities:
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Multi-use & characterization of Information/data
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Mainstreaming & integration
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Land & Resource Access and Tenure
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Mechanisms for the empowerment of local/village,
provincial, local government;
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State of Environment Reporting (or similar)
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Forward assessment for planning & development
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Traditional methods of communication &
institution of change
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Integrative assessment & planning
Where from ?
Land Tenure Symposium USP, early 2002
J’burg Plan Of Implementation
BPOA+5 & National Assessment Reports to the WSSD
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assist with monitoring of environment and development trends;
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better plan land-use, resource activities and environmental management;
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obtain and use pricing of natural resources to recover all costs of
development;
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Incorporate Hazard & Risk Management within Planning processes;
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Generate case studies of successful approaches to integration – using
various mechanisms
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stimulate institutional change for mainstreaming of environment and
development, and better community participation in decision-making;
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forward community based development as a means to mainstream
local/traditional knowledge in decision-making;
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have available better information, characterised to suit decision-making.
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improve conduits to financial facilities; targeted finance to national
matters
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Call from the floor in WSSD May 2002 Meeting, Nadi
Post WSSD- Providing Better Enabling
Environments for Implementation
“ …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
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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: 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
Financial Support: Strategic, consistent, streamed & coordinated
Barriers to Mainstreaming and Integrating
Environment & Development
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Unsustainable Land Use & lack of LU Systems in
PICs
Overwhelming Population pressures
Land and Resource Access & Tenure
Extreme Natural Hazards
Limited Spatial & tabular Information & systems
Poor characterisation of data
Critical Human Resource Capacity & Awareness
limitations
Limited technology & Expertise (experience)
Absolute Financial constraints: Leakages, high
transaction costs, lack of investment environment.
Degradation – Pressures & Threats
Socio-Economic Drivers
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Population overwhelming driver to degradation &
over-Exploitation;
Land & Resource Tenure and Access;
Globalisation: individualism, consumerism,
commercialism.
Uncoordinated Land Use and Activities
Uncertainty in Policy Direction & conflicting Policy
Financial Leakages: loss of benefits, high cost due to
lack of coordination.
Where to ?
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“Environmental Planning” Workshop 19- 23 May 2003
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Approaches: Policy & Practice
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Tools & methods
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Information needs
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Institutional choices/needs
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Tailoring actions, initiatives & assistance
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Generation or collection of case studies on means for
Integration: Fiji Strategic Assessment of Tourism Strategy;
Vanuatu Case Study
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National land workshops: Fiji, Vanuatu and PNG (links on
USP website).
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National mediation workshops proposed.
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International Association for the Study of Common Property
(IASCP) Pacific 2003 Brisbane, September 2003.
Tagabe River Catchment Case Study
Intent:
Explore & document innovative and successful environmental
planning and management approaches to mainstreaming
environment & development
Aim:
Review Legislative, Administrative and Traditional / Community
Information Processes for Mainstreaming Environment into
Development Processes [Process review v product]
Incorporate:
Lessons Learnt, Constraints and Positive Contributions
Involve: Wide Stakeholder participation, cross government players,
industry.
Specific Objectives:
To identify Barriers or Potential Strengths to Mainstreaming.
Identify actions that can be taken to stimulate evolution of current
planning and development practice.
Tagabe Case Study Findings
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Legislative Frameworks: No coordinated laws to guide natural resource
decisions; no scope to address people/environment in development processes; weak
links to levels of governance; where effective laws-constrained by resources, knowhow, lack of will; inclusion of traditional practices limited! Positives: CRP – direction
for new laws to address SD and Tradition; EMCA 2003 and WRA 2003 made; Important
for coordination but only initial steps to mainstreaming; some opportunities to plot the
direction of planning evolution direction; can encapsulate existing Plans;
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Institutional Arrangements: Communication occurs – but no admin linkages to
make common; 2 areas where planning assessment done at national level; (1) PP Unit –
can only provide advice to Municipal-Provinical; No power for national to require
direction of lower governance in planning; Provincial decisions made by committee –
no technical input; driven by ‘appl fees’; Planning & assessment by Economic planning
(DESD)- informal, inconsistent & biases; uncoordinated nature of displaced
communities negates linkages to Govt DM; lack of tenure security- lack of investment:
 poor & env damage; Positives: EMCA provides thru EIA -some Coordination
mechanism & start to integrated planning; TRCMI sets up a sub-national body which
crosses Government levels, & includes Community and Industry.
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Information: Despite VANRIS poor info linkages across & between Govt;
lack of administrative processes to stimulate flow; poor data; Positives: GoV
recognition of NRIC. Positives: Comprehensive GIS system with multiple layers
across environment, land management and socio-economic arenas
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Policy Frameworks:  frameworks to guide implementation; sector
based; competing demands; no goals; externally driven; no multi-function
direction; no national Env policies; Positives: CRP recognises Policy integration,
monitoring, National Summit with business & NGOs; A framework to link REDI.
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Environmental Planning Systems:  means to deal with land &
resource use issues; Population critical; multi-culture makeup of squatters 
traditions, compounded by cultural ownership, tensions abound over water/land.
Positives: TRCMI set up community focus group (vertical & horizontal links);
‘own the issue & answer’;  enabling env for mainstreaming; will link REDI &
NBSAP! Etc; EMCA first base only but now they themselves can plot a path to
more comprehensive integration, that suits their nurtured capacity development.
AN ADAPTIVE PLANNING FRAMEWORK
Socio-Economic Pressures
For Population growth & urbanisation
Determine Drivers, trends, threats and emerging issues – SOE, EVI, Stats
Geographical Features & Environmental
Mapping
Stats &
Econ
Lands & Env
Identification of Features, patterns, aspects – land &
marine
Characterisation of Demands/Needs for
Settlement
CHARM or similar
Biodiversity
programmes
Needs Assessments and Suitability
Analysis
Assessment of Risks from Hazards
Risk Management Options as
Response
Assessment of Ecological / Biodiversity
Sensitivities
Freshwater & Supply programmes
Absolute & Relative
Options
Assessment of Freshwaters systems
Land Resources (Soil), Agriculture &
Forestry
Balancing Utility with Sensitivities & Cultural
Values
(GIS-Data, Guidelines, Criteria, Admin, Strategy,
Absolute & Relative
Opts
Assessment of Soil/Land Capabilities
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above
Planning Analysis and Policy, Strategy
& Resource Use Planning instruments
Integration in Practice: Action from the Community Level
Land and Marine Resource Use Plan – Niue 1997 -2001
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Data InformationCharacterised for Multi Use
• Scientific
Characterised
Data
Integrated
Strategies,
Instruments
• Traditional knowledge
• Community concerns
• Community aspirations
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• User friendly GIS
• Agreed admin processes & procedures that Decision
makers understand
• Hazard & Sensitivity mapping, Preferred use areas
• Land & Resource Use strategies & development crite
Guidelines
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Sustainable Development Guidelines
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Tools for
delivery
Legislative platforms
Key to instituting
Integrative
PROCESS
Synthesize
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Tourism development
Water
Agriculture
Subdivision plans
Forestry
Fisheries
Strategic & Environmental Impact Assessment
Resource Use Management and Planning Bill