Resource description:
This tool is intended to help policy makers and other stakeholders understand the extent to which biodiversity and development objectives are already integrated at the national level and the obstacles and constraints that need to be overcome to promote further, and more effective, integration. It sets out a framework of issues and questions that can be used to:
Understand what progress has been made to mainstream biodiversity to date;
Map and analyse the mainstreaming approaches that have been adopted;
Assess how institutional structures and procedures support or inhibit biodiversity mainstreaming;
Examine performance internally and on-the-ground;
and identify areas for change and improvement.
Author/Contact:
Requirements:
- Diagnosis can be undertaken as a self-assessment or externally by independent review.
- Identification and analysis of relevant policy documents is a useful starting point but documents alone are unlikely to provide a sufficient basis for reviewing how well biodiversity issues are currently being addressed in development decisions and vice v
- Document review needs to be complemented by engagement with a wide range of involved or affected stakeholders from government departments, NGOs, communities, private sector organisations and so on. Each question includes some suggestions of the kinds of i
Advantages:
- The questions of the assessment framework can be explored in as much or as little detail as time and resources allow, and updated as new developments and insights occur.
- Writing up the results of the assessment as a summary paper, short policy brief, bullet points or graphic will provide a useful situation analysis that can act as a basis for discussion and validation with relevant stakeholders and for assessing and debat
Constraints:
- Use of the tool can be resource intensive
Additional information:
IIED and UNEP-WCMC (2012) A Rapid Diagnostic Tool: Biodiversity Mainstreaming - Integrating Biodiversity, Development and Poverty Reduction. IIED, London
Licence:
- Free, no licence
Development stage:
- Full, working product