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Mandate
of the
Commission
on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
Adopted
by the World
Conservation Congress at
its 3rd Session
Bangkok,
Thailand
November 2004
The
Mission...
To contribute
to the IUCN Mission by providing insights and expertise on
ways to harmonize biodiversity conservation with the crucial
socioeconomic and cultural concerns of human communities,
such as livelihoods, poverty eradication, development, equity,
human rights, cultural identity, security and the fair and
effective governance of natural resources.
CEESP
Objectives
- To
identify, articulate and learn from policy and practice
that reconcile biodiversity conservation with the crucial
socio-economic and cultural concerns of human communities,
including mobile and other indigenous peoples.
- To
foster a holistic approach to conservation, embracing complexities
and promoting dialogue within IUCN among perspectives and
disciplines based on different kinds of values, knowledge
and achievements and on the experiences of different
societies and communities.
- To
enhance the capacity of IUCN and its members and partners
to influence values, institutions, policies, practices,
development
approaches and socio-economic activities towards biodiversity
conservation and the sustainable and equitable management
of natural resources.
- To
provide effective advice in support of IUCN’s efforts
towards policy and practice that reconcile biodiversity
conservation with the crucial socioeconomic and cultural
concerns of human communities.
Priorities
The
Commission shall focus particularly on the following
four themes:
Cross-cutting
Priorities
The
Commision will also focus on the following cross-cutting
prioroties:
The
proposed orientation of each is outlined below:
Governance
of Natural Resources, Equity and Rights
Objective:
Improved governance of natural resources-- achieving more
effective and equitable conservation while respecting human
rights.
Activities
will focus on promoting good governance policy and practices
that ensure the respect of human rights, combining various
governance types to enhance conservation in the landscape
and seascape, fostering the equitable sharing of the costs
and benefits of conservation, and strengthening the natural
resource management and conservation systems of local communities
and mobile and other indigenous peoples. Building upon the
achievements of its Collaborative Management Working Group,
CEESP
will work in close collaboration with the IUCN Senior
Advisor on Social Policy, the IUCN Policy, Biodiversity and
International Agreements unit and other Commissions (e.g.
WCPA for TILCEPA, the existing joint Theme
on Indigenous and Local Communities,
Equity and Protected Areas; and CEL,
WCPA and others for a possible joint Theme on Governance of
Natural Resources as per Recommendation V.17 of the Vth IUCN
World Parks Congress).
Economics,Markets,Trade
and Investment
Objective:
Improved coherence and mutual supportiveness among economic
policy and trade, market dynamics and biodiversity conservation.
Activities
will focus on knowledge and capacity building through the
provision of information and research, and through the facilitation
of dialogue within the IUCN community while also addressing
the economic community. CEESP will further promote an enhanced
understanding of the mechanisms linking the world economic
system, the trade-aid-security connections and conservation.
CEESP will continue to provide information to IUCN offices,
members and partners on the interface between international
trade rules and biodiversity and will work in close collaboration
with the IUCN Policy, Biodiversity and International Agreements
unit and with the IUCN Senior Advisor on Economics.
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Sustainable
Livelihoods
and Pro-poor Conservation
Objective:
Improved coherence and mutual supportiveness among initiatives
for biodiversity conservation, poverty eradication and sustainable
livelihoods.
Activities
will focus on pro-poor conservation, conservation-coherent
poverty eradication, food sovereignty, improved knowledge
and awareness of the links between conservation, impoverishment
and undermining of livelihoods, agro-ecology, human-wildlife
conflicts, and, accountability of the private sector. CEESP
will develop and disseminate lessons learned for integrating
the conservation of biodiversity with the eradication of poverty,
with an emphasis on both human rights and the ecosystem approach.
It will provide on-going assistance to the IUCN Policy, Biodiversity
and International Agreements unit to spearhead the pro-poor
conservation initiatives of the Union, and sustain a privileged
relationship with the Sustainable Use Specialist Group of
SSC and close collaboration with the Senior Advisors on Social
Policy and on Economics.
Culture
and Conservation
Objective:
Improved knowledge, policy and practice linking cultural and
biological diversity, distancing their common threats and
strengthening their common opportunities.
Activities
will focus on an improved understanding of the synergy between
cultural diversity and biological diversity and on how this
may be harnessed and applied towards shared values, tools,
mechanisms and processes that enhance conservation and promote
a more sustainable and equitable use of natural resources.
CEESP will work on this in close consultation with the IUCN
Senior Advisor on Social Policy and the IUCN Focal Point on
Indigenous Peoples.
Environmental
and Social Responsibility of the Private Sector
Objective:
Concrete methods and tools to achieve corporate environmental
and social responsibility.
CEESP will
collaborate with the Business and Biodiversity Programme of
IUCN on methods and tools to strengthen the capacity of the
private sector (e.g. extractive industries) to become environmentally
and socially accountable in its field-based work. As part
of this, it will promote the engagement of civil society in
context-specific, long-term, constructive processes.
Environment
and Human Security
Objective:Concrete
methods and tools to contribute to human security while preserving
biodiversity.
CEESP
will collaborate with the Senior Advisor on Social Policy
on the development and adoption of conflict impact assessment
tools for conservation activities and the integration of conservation
in post-conflict reconstruction. It will also seek an improved
understanding of the contribution of conservation activities
to peace and the reduction of human vulnerability to natural
disasters.
Structure
and Organization
5.1.
The Governance Structure of CEESP
The Commission’s
Steering Committee is composed of the CEESP Chair and Deputy
Chair, the Vice-Chairs responsible for Themes and Working
Groups (related to the programme priorities), the Regional
Vice-Chairs
and the members responsible for a Task Force. Members are
also called to the Steering Committee as Focal Points (such
as for Gender
issues). To help achieve better integration of the Commission,
an overlap is expected among Regional Vice-Chairs and other
charges (e.g.
Head of Task Force, Theme Vice-Chair and Focal Point). The
Executive Committee is composed of the Chair, Deputy Chair
and the four Thematic
Vice-Chairs, with relevant other members invited as appropriate.
5.2.
Members
The
Commission will continue to seek a diversified membership,
balanced in terms of gender, geographical region, discipline
and culture. It will include some of the world's foremost
conservation and sustainable
development practitioners, relevant social scientists, economists,
experts representing major conservation and development organizations,
as
well as traditional community leaders and young professionals
with proven concern and capacities in sustainable development
at the community,
national and international level. Membership will include
not only individual professionals but also relevant organizations
and networks. The broad
scope of work of the Commission requires the extension and
strengthening of its capacity, which will be pursued through
increased membership and active fundraising on the basis of
the achievement of the Commission in its most recent intersessional
period.
5.3.
Organisation of Work
In
consultation with the Steering Committee, the Chair of the
Commission may establish additional Themes and Working Groups
to address specific elements of the IUCN Programme, collaborating
with other relevant actors in the Union. The Chair may appoint
Task Forces to deal with specific short-term assignments.
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