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<div>This message to the IISD Biodiversity-L list may be of interest those of you in Africa…</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Renaud LAPEYRE <<a href="mailto:renaud.lapeyre@sciencespo.fr">renaud.lapeyre@sciencespo.fr</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Renaud LAPEYRE <<a href="mailto:renaud.lapeyre@sciencespo.fr">renaud.lapeyre@sciencespo.fr</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday 13 January 2017 at 09:36<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>New study [IDDRI-France IUCN Partnership] on innovative financial mechanisms for African protected areas<br>
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<div>Wishing you all first a successful and happy new year 2017.</div>
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<div>We, at <a href="about:blank">IDDRI</a> and the <a href="https://www.iucn.org/node/24436">
France-IUCN Partnership</a>, are glad to release and circulate a new study on the potential and limits of innovative financial mechanisms for African protected areas. We presented it during both the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawaï and at COP13 of
the Convention on Biological Diversity in Cancun.</div>
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<div>You can click <a href="http://www.iddri.org/Publications/Rapports-and-briefing-papers/Lapeyre_Laurans_Study%20IFMs%20APs%20Africa_WEB.pdf" target="_blank">
here</a> for the synthesis report while you can also find the associated Policy Brief
<a href="http://www.iddri.org/Publications/Collections/Syntheses/IB1616_RL%20YL_biodiv%20conservation%20africa.pdf" target="_blank">
here</a> in English, and <a href="http://www.iddri.org/Publications/Collections/Syntheses/IB1616_RL%20YL_biodiversidad%20conservacion%20africa.pdf" target="_blank">
here</a> in Spanish.</div>
<div>The study's abstract is below while a French version of the study will be released soon.</div>
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<div>Hope this can trigger some discussion<br>
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<div><b>Abstract</b>:</div>
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<div><font color="#0b5394">In October 2010, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted a Strategic Plan for Biodiversity. They agreed that by 2020 at least 17% of terrestrial areas should be conserved within effectively managed protected
areas. Currently, coverage stands at 14.7%. Although this is a positive trend, an additional USD 9.2 to USD 85 billion is needed annually to expand and secure protected areas, especially in Africa. In this context, governments and practitioners have repeatedly
called for new and innovative financial mechanisms to be explored that would complement official development assistance, be predictable and stable.<br>
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<div><font color="#0b5394">This study aims to unpack the potential benefits and risks of innovative financial mechanisms at work in Africa through the analysis of three case studies: an environmental trust fund created to finance the network of protected areas
in Côte d’Ivoire; a conservation concession agreement (and thereafter a REDD-related private non-profit company) in the Gola Rainforest in Sierra Leone; and a biodiversity stewardship and tax incentive approach developed in South Africa.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#0b5394">According to the study, essential financial and institutional innovations are at play and, when public and private involvement are effectively combined, not only can innovative financing contribute to more efficient management in
and around protected areas, but it can take place on a significant scale. In this regard, three significant findings emerged: first, that private funding is a complement, rather than a substitute, to public financial support; second, that co-ordination of
private and public action benefits from a contractual approach that favours conditionality; and third, this contractual approach needs to be secured at the regulatory level.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#0b5394">However, innovative mechanisms remain complex and numerous stakeholders and conditional agreements generate significant transaction costs. Furthermore, due to financial market unpredictability, private funding might not be reliable
enough to complement the fragile support coming from donors and national public funding.</font></div>
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<p><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Renaud Lapeyre</span></b><i><br>
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