IPBES Regional Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Africa - lessons learned

IPBES Regional Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Africa – lessons learned

Posted Date: 18 May 2018

16 May 2018
By Katja Heubach; Beraterin im Project ValuES / Advisor ValuES project

Following the successful release of the Regional Assessment report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Africa at the IPBES-6 in Medellin, Colombia in March, experts from the African region had held a unique type of workshop in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in April. Co-organised by the Minister of Health, Environment and Sustainable Development (MINSEDD), Swiss Research and Scientific Center (CSRS), WABES, WASCAL, UFZ, PROFIAB and ValuES, supported by the IPBES Secretary, this workshop was the first of this kind in the world.

The three-day intensive workshops dialogues focused on how to draw lessons from the IPBES regional assessment and raised questions on how to better inform national governments.
During the event, some 40 participants from seven French-speaking African countries (Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Benin, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Chad) discussed about adequate strategies and tools to make use of the IPBES assessment report including, for example, the establishment of national platforms to coordinate country-level activities. The participants concluded with draft roadmaps sketching out how they are planning to use the assessment results at the national level. The results of the workshop and lessons learned from the process itself form the basis for further such consultation processes of IPBES and its partner structures.
For more information, contact: Katja Heubach, ValuES; Hans-Ulrich Caspary, PROFIAB
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