Enhancing National Capacities to Assess Wildlife Trade Policies in Support of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
Annual Call for Projects 2005
Summary
This two-year multidisciplinary project, approved by the Geneva International Academic Network (GIAN) in 2005, will promote sustainable development by enhancing the capacities of developing countries and countries with economies in transition to assess, design and implement effective national wildlife trade policies. Well-designed wildlife trade policies can play an essential role in protecting biodiversity, reducing poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
A key aim of this project is to improve the availability of information for conducting analyses of wildlife conservation efforts, which in the past have often been based on intuition or anecdotal evidence. The project also aims to ensure that national development plans incorporate wildlife trade and conservation considerations.
The project responds directly to calls by governments for international support in the review of their wildlife trade policies, and will bring together the expertise of the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (GIDS), the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), and the joint United Nations Environment Programme and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Capacity Building Task Force on Trade, Environment and Development (UNEP-UNCTAD CBTF).
Specific objectives of the project include:
Assisting developing countries and countries with economies in transition to better implement CITES by developing national action plans that incorporate environmental, social and economic considerations into national wildlife trade policies;
• Exchanging national experiences among participating countries on best practices for the development and implementation of national wildlife trade policies;
• Refining a general assessment framework and developing a toolkit of wildlife trade policy methodologies that can be used by participating countries as well as other countries to assess their wildlife trade policies.
The core of the project is the implementation of pilot studies in...
The grant provided by the GIAN for this project totals SFr 300,000
Project Team
Mr Hussein Abaza , Coordinator, Economics and Trade Branch , Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics , United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) .
Prof. David Dumoulin , Principal Member, Graduate Institute of Development Studies (GIDS) .
Ms Sandra Gagnon , Principal Member, Graduate Institute of Development Studies (GIDS) .
Dr. Marc Galvin , Principal Member, Graduate Institute of Development Studies (GIDS) .
Mr Ulrich Hoffmann , Principal Member, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) .
Dr. Marc Hufty , Principal Member, Graduate Institute of Development Studies (GIDS) .
Mr Asad Naqvi , Principal Member, Capacity Building Task Force on Trade, Environment and Development UNEP-UNCTAD (CBTF) , United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) .
Mr Benjamin Simmons , Principal Member, Economics and Trade Branch , Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics , United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) .
Ms Marie Thorndahl , Principal Member, Graduate Institute of Development Studies (GIDS) .
Mr Juan Carlos Vasquez , Principal Member, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) .
Ms Marceil Yeater , Principal Member, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) .
Related Links
> CBTF Project Link , UNEP-UNCTAD CBTF Website Project Description.
Related Conferences
Enhancing National Capacities to Assess Wildlife Trade Policies in Support of CITES – The Hague, World Forum Convention Center, 5 June 2007, 12:30 – 13:45
The project partners of this GIAN-supported research project will convene a side event at the 14th meeting of the...
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Research Output
Wildlife Trade Assessment Framework for Reviewing National Wildlife Trade Policies
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National Wildlife Trade Policy Reviews: 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora), The Hague (Netherlands), 3-15 June 2007
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