1. BACKGROUND

Stopping the decline of biodiversity is an urgent imperative to ensure the sustainable provision of vital ecosystem goods and services that underpin the sustainable development of humankind, such as food, fiber, wood, carbon sequestration, and water regulation. In order to reverse the curve, a coherent movement with individual and joint commitments from all actors - states, the private sector, civil society organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities, citizens, men, women and young people - must be catalyzed. Their voluntary contributions will serve as ambitious joint goals to stop the decline in biodiversity by 2030 and restore biodiversity by 2050.

This is how the BIODEV 2030 project “Facilitating commitments for biodiversity” is presented as a support instrument that aims to support this movement towards ambitious multi-actor scientific commitments with clear accountability mechanisms for the preservation of biodiversity for the decade 2020-2030. It aims to experiment with a pilot group of 16 countries (developing countries, in particular African countries) including Burkina Faso, scientific analysis, discussion and the participatory construction of commitments and contributions at the national and sectoral levels (with scientifically established objectives). These concrete national and sectoral voluntary contributions and commitments may be presented by these countries as part of the proposals for the CBD's post-2020 global biodiversity framework, and beyond in the context of coalitions of private, public and civil society actors for biodiversity.

The BIODEV 2030 project has three specific objectives and seven main results.

The specific objectives:

1. Test a pilot process for the scientific construction of multi-actor voluntary commitments for biodiversity;
2. Support up to 16 countries to formalize national voluntary commitments on the integration of biodiversity in high-development sectors that impact biodiversity;
3. Contribute to the international debate on the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework by disseminating the commitments and contributions discussed in each targeted country.

The main expected results of BIODEV 2030:

1. RA1.1: One or more multi-actor analysis and consultation methodologies is/are tested and replicable: co-construction of pressure-impact diagnostics on biodiversity for certain sectors, scientifically established, realistic and compatible targets, and targets established scientifically, realistic and compatible, and trajectories through participatory consultations;
2. RA1.2: A document or support type of commitments made for 2020 is tested and replicable: harmonized, coherent, standardized as much as possible;

3. RA2.1: For each country targeted by the project (up to 16), priority actions to effectively integrate biodiversity into at least two economic sectors impacting biodiversity are identified: diagnoses, science-based targets, trajectories, etc.;
4. RA2.2: For each country targeted by the project (up to 16), a consensus on these priority actions is reached with all stakeholders from the target sectors, public (ministries, development banks), private (companies, banks), and civil society (CSOs);
5. RA2.3: For each country targeted by the project (up to 16), sectoral/intersectoral commitments are formulated at the national and regional levels, and state coalitions are formed at the regional level;
6. RA3.1: At the IUCN World Congress in Marseille and at CBD COP15 in Kunming, a group of countries targeted by the project (public and private actors/business coalitions) present the respective national processes under discussion and determination of trajectories and potential commitments for Biodiversity;
7. RA3.2: The sectoral commitments formulated earlier are revised. Interventions to be financed (potentially by AFD) and implemented are defined in order to support the respect of sectoral commitments made.

To facilitate the achievement of these results, it is important that the main stakeholders are informed and made aware of the content of the project and their roles in its implementation. It is with this in mind that these terms of reference are developed.

2. OBJECTIVES

The overall objective of this workshop is to create a favorable framework for exchanges between the main stakeholders in biodiversity conservation and economic sectors in order to identify the actions necessary for voluntary commitments in favor of biodiversity and sustainable development in Burkina Faso.

Specifically, it will be about:

1. Inform participants of the ambitions of the Biodev 2030 project and gather their expectations for a voluntary and objectively verifiable commitment to the integration of biodiversity conservation in economic sectors;
2. Adopt a multi-sectoral consultation action plan to support the achievement of project results in Burkina Faso.

3. EXPECTED RESULTS

The expected results of these activities are:

1. The BIODEV2030 project is officially presented to national stakeholders and the guidelines are formulated for its success;
2. The methodological approach for assessing the state of biodiversity and the various threats is presented to the participants;
3. The multisectoral consultation for the integration of biodiversity into economic sectors in Burkina Faso examined and validated their constituent texts and action plans.

1. DATE AND LOCATION OF THE WORKSHOP

The workshop will be held from 15 to 16 October 2020 in the Royal Beach Hotel room from 08:30am in Ouagadougou.