2015 Progress Report Award 50457 – Strategic Ecosystems and Biodiversity protected through the implementation of Economic Valuation methodologies, payment of environmental services and adoption of new technologies as of December 2015

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  Set a common vision for “The Amazon that We Want” by 2030, and adapt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the Amazon.
  
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  Share and promote sustainable development solutions for the Amazon through a web-based platform, and support the Amazon countries with implementation of these solutions.
  
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  Undertake strategic research that could have transformative impacts in the Amazon.
  
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  Promote massive capacity building including through the Massive Open Online Course (MOOCC) model.
  
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  Provide support to development of public policies for sustainable development and conservation in the Amazon region.
  

With the approval of the Agenda 2013 and the SDG framework, there is a recognition of the need to secure and multiply the significant sustainable development and conservation successes over the last decade in the Amazon.

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   Regional consultations on Amazon-wide initiatives
   
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   Stock taking reports in Amazon countries
   
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   Synthesis report
   

UNDP has supported the SDSN Amazonia through its engagement dialogues with government institutions, relationships with other partners, and support for the program formulation through its network of Country Offices in the 8 countries that share the Amazon basin.

In Manaus, the Academy of Sciences of Brazil and the Inter-American Network of Academy of Sciences (IANAS) and the Global Network of Science Academies convened a day and half consultation session with the Academies of Science of the Amazon countries on “A Research Agenda for the Sustainable Development of the Amazon Region” to debate the challenges and opportunities related to sciences and sustainable development in the Amazon and to identify specific contributions to the SDSN-Amazonia.

Key highlights of this consultation are:

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   Amazonia is inspirational, unique, challenging and isolated- necessitates large scale vision and innovation and transformational solutions. Need to develop a common long-term vision, with variety of stakeholders, but with specific short-term goals and deliverables.
   
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   The scientific agenda needs to focus on the solutions of social and economic problems of the region. It should embrace interdisciplinary agenda that addresses natural and social dimensions including sustainability priorities of indigenous people.
   
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   Amazonia scientific and research agenda should include High Amazonia including Andean glaciers.
   
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   Utilize big data and satellite information to develop sustainable solutions.
   
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   In light of the foregoing, a concerted, collaborative multidisciplinary Plan to create science, apply technologies focused in adding value to sustainable products of the Amazonia should be explored in partnership with IANAS, which has recognized convening capacity in the scientific community.
   

Key conclusions from the meeting were:

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   To further advance a common agenda of indigenous people in the Amazon region, including legal guarantees of indigenous rights;
   
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   Support to Facilitate land titling and the establishing of an Indigenous Fund in the Amazon region;
   
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   Cross cutting issues, education, women and management of indigenous territories.
   

The methodology of both meetings was developed by the ORGE Innovation Consulting firm. They elaborated a brief document containing detailed information on the methodology and general findings of both consultations. The document is part of the Annex list.

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  A profile of the SDGs for the Amazon on the basis of the information available on the country reports;
  
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  An introduction to the main social, economic and environmental trends in the region;
  
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  An analysis of the resulting common challenges and opportunities affecting the different country´s Amazonian regions;
  
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  Identification of successful and innovative public policies, as well as transformational potential models of sustainable development that have been undertaken in the region to address these challenges.
  

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   State of the Amazon
   

A thorough and reliable data source of Amazons micro reality is an essential tool to advance on sustainable development solutions in the region. Even though there are some interesting and useful data being produced, they are often hard to access and scattered, hindering a full analysis.

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   Scientific Research
   

The centrality of science to advance sustainable development solutions to the Amazon is a key aspect of SDSN-Amazonia strategy. Fostering the interest and practical appliance of scientific knowledge to a new development models is a great challenge embraced by the network. Therefore, this program will advance on issues such as: (i) applying science for new products based on the forest natural resources; (ii) evidence-based arguments and proposals (with independent assessment); (iii) reinforce preservation as an essential scientific value; and (iv) strengthen and train local leaders to absorb and spread the knowledge, connecting it to a local-based know-how, on a multidisciplinary collaboration basis.

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   Prize
   

Inspired by the Samuel Benchimol Prize³, awarded by the Brazilian government to sustainable development initiatives, SDSN-Amazonia will complement this and other prizes given to sustainable development solutions in the Amazon, by first enhancing their visibility, secondly expanding some of these prizes to other areas or more initiatives, and thirdly creating a complementary prize or an annual award for sustainable development initiatives, whose objective is to promote a reflection and value concrete initiatives on economic, scientific, technological, environmental, social and entrepreneurship solutions for sustainable development of the Amazon Region.

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   Solutions Platform
   

The print screen below is a representation of how the geo-localization reference will look like in the SDSN-Amazonia platform:

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   Education and Capacity Building
   

Promote educational initiatives that respond to the challenges of sustainable development in the region. The need for labor force qualification is a crucial issue to be approached in this SDSN-Amazonia education program. Other, specific projects will be developed, focused on youth, for example.

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   Communication Management
   

The communication management program is guided by the idea that empowering local voices is extremely important in many senses. The strategy behind it is that to find and implement solutions that deal with sustainable development challenges, we must count not with local population but also with regional, national and international solutions and commitments.

Therefore, strengthening local media and facilitating the dissemination of information all over the Amazon countries and in other countries allows the rest of the world to get in touch with this reality through the perception of local actors.
SDSN-Amazonia will gather all relevant daily news (print and audiovisual) broadcast about the Amazon and will post it in its daily blog. This program will include local TVs, blogs, websites, local media, NGOs etc.
Governance structure for SDSN-Amazonas

The firm Gestão de Interesse Público Pesquisa e Consultoria developed a governance structure for SDSN-A. They suggest that the SDSN should be a bottom-up network and this inherent characteristic must be reflected on the chosen governance model. The country representatives and programme coordinators should be empowered as decision-makers and feel deeply engaged with the network and its success. SDSN are truly responsible for shaping the network as a whole.

Therefore, a relevant specificity of SDSN´s governance would need to reflect the principles of subsidiarity (decision making lies as close as possible to beneficiaries) and interdependence (relationship towards common good of the network but not submission to SDSN-Global).

Considering the great relevance of members of SDSN-A and also taking into consideration the heterogeneity among the group, it is essential that all the stakeholders are aware that governance process is not static or set in stone but agreed and dynamic process of consensus.

II.2.3 Ecuador

II.2.4 Guyana

II.2.5 Peru

II.3.1 Bolivia

II.3.2 Brazil

II.3.3 Colombia

II.3.4 Ecuador

II.3.5 Guyana

II.3.6 Peru

II.3.7 Surinam