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Island Solutions 8 August 2016

Agenda Welcome; introducing the Panorama initiative: • Marie Fischborn Identifying the building blocks in regional sustainable financing architecture: • Willy Kostka, Executive Director, Micronesia

Conservation Trust • Yabanex Batista, Executive Director, Caribbean

Biodiversity Fund

Aloha+Challenge and Hawaii Green Growth: goals, measures and public private partnerships : • Celeste Connors, Executive Director, Hawaii Green

Growth

Scaling impact on islands: coupling goals, measures and project pipelines: • Kate Brown, Executive Director, Global Island

Partnership

Questions and discussion

• Collating • Documenting • Sharing • Replicating

Conservation and development success stories („solutions“)

Evidence that shows how we can approach our work differently to achieve the change that is needed

Community Conservation

Panorama – some contributors

Lauru Land Conference of Tribal Community

University of San Carlos Guatemala

“Good ideas are built out of a collection of existing parts.” - Steven Johnson

What if we could identify the core building blocks of solutions?

And adapt the building blocks to new challenges?

Share and exchange solutions

Online platform

Communications

Face-to-face meetings

www.panorama.solutions

Panorama web platform

Thank you!

www.panorama.solutions Panorama contact: Marie.fischborn@iucn.org

Join us at the Panorama launch at the IUCN World Conservation Congress:

Exploring Blue Solutions online: Launch of the new Panorama web platform Oceans Pavilion, 2 September, 13:00-14:30 Sharing success on the Panorama Platform: Launch and celebration Protected Planet Pavilion, 5 September, 19:00-21:30

The Micronesia Challenge WILLIAM KOSTKA

Executive Director Micronesia Conservation Trust

August 8, 2016

The Micronesia Challenge is a shared commitment to effectively conserve at least 30% of near-shore marine resources and 20% of terrestrial resources across Micronesia by 2020.

Protected Area Networks

Capacity Building

Integrated Management

Sustainable Finance

Support Policies

Photo by Ami Vitale

Copyright The Nature Conservancy

Impact

150+ Protected areas

MC Measures and Communications Plans in place

PAN legislation and associated PAN funds

$18 million endowment raised

20+ young champions

Bill Raynor MC Scholarship Fund

Inspired other regional commitments

Building Block #1: High level political leadership and commitment

TNC Instrumental in Garnering President Remengesau’s Leadership on the Concept Who Challenged the other Micronesia Leaders to Commit

TNC, Conservation International and GEF each committing major funding support ($12M) to the MC Endowment

Chief Executives announced at COP8 in 2006

MC Steering Committee assigned by Chief Executives

MC Regional Office and Coordinator

MCT Selected as Sustainable Financing Mechanism

Shared regional and cultural identity

MC Support Team of International, Regional, and local partners

MC Measures Team (marine, terrestrial, socio-economic)

MC Young Champion Internship Program

Bill Raynor MC Scholarship Fund

Networks (MIC, PIMPAC, LMMA, RISC)

GLISPA

Building Block #2: Building Strong Partnerships with Regional Identity & GLISPA

Micronesia Conservation Trust

MC Sustainable Finance/Business Plan developed

56 million dollar endowment (currently at $18,000)

PAN funds (Palau Visitor/Green Fee)

Conservation easements

Other payment for ecosystems services

Community Based Revolving funds

Building Block #3: Sustainable financing: PAN funds and endowments

Reflections

Lessons learned

Bringing dedicated leaders together can create powerful regional initiatives

Conservation trusts can be mechanism for building capacity

Endowment serves has one of the glues that has kept this partnership together

MC incentivizes long term planning

Resources in Micronesia ecologically, culturally, and economically important

THANK YOU D I R E C T O R @ O U R M I C R O N E S I A

M I C R O N E S I A C H A L L E N G E C O O R D I N A T O R @ G M A I L . C O M

W W W . M I C R O N E S I A C H A L L E N G E . O R G

Building the Caribbean Sustainable

Finance Architecture for Conservation

Panorama Webinar: Island Solutions August 8th, 2016

Yabanex Batista Chief Executive Office

Caribbean Biodiversity Fund

The Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF), a regional endowment fund, and an initial set of 8 National Conservation Trust Funds (NCTFs) being established in the region, form the Caribbean Sustainable Finance Architecture for Conservation that will provide sustainable resources to assist countries in achieving their goals under the CBD, the Caribbean Challenge Initiative, national conservation priorities, and help close the conservation finance gap.

Caribbean Sustainable Finance Architecture for Conservation

• Limited extension of MPAs / MMAs

• Environment is often overlooked & still relatively low in political priorities.

• Scarce resources for conservation and economies highly dependent on natural resources base.

• Limited capacity to manage large flows of resources

• Stop-and-go Investments: Lost momentum between projects.

Caribbean Sustainable Finance Architecture for Conservation

* Majority non-government

Partners

Board of Directors*

~$42M

Observer Countries Participating Countries

Secretariat

Finance Committee

B Beneficiaries: NGOs/CBOs, Government -- Projects, strategic activities

Caribbean Challenge Initiative • “20-by-20” Goal- Effectively conserve and manage at least 20% of the

marine and coastal environment by 2020. • Sustainable Finance Goal- have in place fully functioning financial

mechanisms that will provide reliable funding to conserve and sustainably manage the marine and coastal resources and the environment over the long term.

Building Block 1: Governments’ Commitments

Building Block 2: Independent Governance

• Legally independent CTFs

• Independent governance structure

o Majority non-governmental Boards.

o Decision making procedures and policies

• Partnership with Government and dialogue.

• Transparency

• Asserting independence is key during the establishment phase.

Building Block 3: Efficient Operations

Appropriate capacity to initiate and sustain operations is essential for success:

o Human Resources – Staffing, staff/board trainings, effective governance procedures and others.

o Operational/Technical – Infrastructure, operational systems, grant making and resources programming policies and procedures and others.

CBF 2020 Strategic Plan • Institutional development plan to

achieve the overall objectives. • Engagement with NCTFs,

governments and regional actors. • New thematic funding windows,

such as climate change. • New Participating Countries. • Marketing and Communications

Strategy. • Fundraising Strategy and Action

Plan.

Building Block 4: 2020 Strategic Plan

Building Block 5: Monitoring and Evaluation

• CBF and NCTFs compatible financial resources and conservation impact monitoring.

• Measure impact, address areas that need improvement or to be adapted, and help attract new donors and partners.

Caribbean Sustainable Finance Architecture: Impacts

Environment is often overlooked & relatively low

in political priorities

Strengthen environment’s sector voice in the Caribbean:

• Strengthen role of NGOs and CBOs in conservation

• Engagement of non-traditional conservation sectors - finance, tourism, private sector.

• Promote regional collaboration and dialogue.

Scarce resources for conservation

Increase and create sustainable resources flows for conservation:

• US$2m/yr of resources from the CBF; • US$2 m/yr of new resources

establishment national level sustainable finance mechanisms.

Caribbean Sustainable Finance Architecture: Impacts

Stop-and-go Investments: Lost momentum between

projects

Create capacity for continuity between big investment projects.

Limited capacity to manage large flows of resources

Nine (9) Conservation Trust Funds. Build strong regional, but most importantly, national institutions with the necessary

financial management systems and skills to increase absorptive capacity for

effective deployment of resources for ocean and marine conservation.

• Building political commitment is a lengthy process that requires technical and policy inputs at multiple levels in government:

• Partnership between Ministries of Finance and Environment and

others. • Assisting countries with their international and national

commitments promotes political sustainability.

• Donor’s & Partner’s commitment provides countries with additional security and confidence to achieve their goals.

• Challenging to find the right balance between government and civil society representation in governance structures.

Reflections and Lessons Learned

• Developing all necessary systems (accounting, other operations systems) often takes longer than expected.

• Essential to have formal and informal advisor and other kinds of technical support.

• Mistakes will occur along the way and it is important to recognize and address these quickly and continue to move forward.

Reflections and Lessons Learned

Donors and Partners Participating and Observer Countries

Thank you!

Yabanex Batista Chief Executive Office

Caribbean Biodiversity Fund ybatista@caribbeanbiodiversityfund.org

www.caribbeanbiodiversityfund.org Skype: yabanex

+1-787-346-8015

Global Challenges, Local Solutions

August 2016

The Aloha+ Challenge announced by US Department of State at the UN SIDS Conference

Aloha+ Challenge Dashboard April 2015

Freshwater Security

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# Brown Water Advisory Days

Hawaii Kauai Maui Oahu

Watershed Protection Marine Management

Restoration of Native Species Invasive Species Control

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A Model of Interdependence – Systematic Framework identify challenges + align interests = integrated action agenda

Hawaiʻi WCC Signature Initiatives

Scaling Island Models for the Sustainable Development Goals

Kate Brown Executive Director, Global Island Partnership

Moving to island sustainability

Goal Setting How we know we are

having an impact: Measures

Implementing: Project pipeline

Backbone organization

Scaling Initiative: Backbone Orgs

Backbone organization

Public Private Partnership

Collaborate and Coordinate

Manage measures process

Communicate and Engagement

Dedicated Staff Strategic guidance

Scaling Initiative: Peer Network

Peer Networks Support

Island Backbone

Island Backbone

Island Backbone

Leaders

Members

Supporters