Day One: Monday 12 November

WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS

0930-1000 Workshop Registration

1000-1030 Welcome Addresses (Video)

Dr. Josue Dione, Director, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

Mish Hamid, GEF IW:LEARN

1030-1045 Tour le Table/Expectations

1045-1115 Coffee Break

SESSION II. RECOGNISING AND RECONCILING MULTIPLE USES OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: ECOSYSTEM APPROACHES TO MANAGEMENT OF AQUATIC R[VIDEO PRESENTATION]ESOURCES

Objectives:

• Provide an introduction to the need for an ecosystem approach: rationale, principles, planning
• Highlight the challenges of reconciling the different objectives of multiple stakeholders and multiple sectors competing for limited resources and the importance of objective information on costs, benefits and values to assist planning and decision-making

SESSION Facilitator: Kevern Cochrane & Warwick Sauer, Rhodes University

1115-1200 Introduction to the ecosystem approach as a framework for management of ecosystem use [SEE VIDEO]

1200-1300 Examples of application of an ecosystem approach in marine and inland fisheries [SEE VIDEO]

1300-1400 Lunch

1400-1430 Examples of application of an ecosystem approach in marine and inland fisheries (cont.): simple cost-benefit analysis

SESSION II. RECOGNISING AND RECONCILING MULTIPLE USES OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: ECOSYSTEM APPROACHES TO MANAGEMENT OF AQVIDEOUATIC RESOURCES (continued)

SESSION Facilitators: Mark Smith & Stefano Barchiesi, IUCN

1430-1600 Principles of watershed services from ecosystems and examples of application of an ecosystem approach in river basin management International Union for Conservation of Nature [VIDEO PRESENTATION]

1600-1630 Break

1630-1800 Small-group work: identification and preliminary consideration of all existing objectives in selected ecosystems (i.e. LME, river basin)

Facilitated by Rhodes and IUCN

WELCOME RECEPTION

1830-2030 Welcome Reception

Location: Habisha 2000

Day Two: Tuesday 13 November

SESSION III. ECONOMIC VALUATION OF ECOSYSTEMS

SESSION Facilitator: IUCN

Objectives:

• Provide a framework to comprehensively evaluate natural and environmental resources
• Introduce integrated economic and environmental accounting as a means to keep a continuous record of the use and status of environmental resources of society
• Present various methods to assessing the value of ecosystems to human well-being as well as examples from marine and freshwater ecosystems to illustrate the different concepts and methods

0900-1000 Methods of economic valuation (Marine) - Rolf Willmann, Food and Agriculture Organization [VIDEO PRESENTATION]

1000-1100 Payment for watershed Services-EPWS: Ecosystem based approach in water resource management. A case of Naivasha basin, Kenya

Josephat Nyongesa, WWF – Kenya

1100-1130 Break

1130-1230 Using valuations to influence decision-making: small-group work on relevance and challenges for applications within projects/institutions

1230-1330 Lunch

SESSION IV. PAYMENTS FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

Objectives:

• Introduce the various options for market based incentives and PES schemes
• Illustrate the institutional requirements and processes for stakeholder involvement and engagement that need to accompany these processes
• Highlight the importance of good governance for PES, from public participation to transparency and access to information to property rights and negotiation issues

SESSION Facilitator: IUCN

1330-1430 Tools and Issues in Identifying, Designing and Implementing PES International Union for Conservation of Nature [VIDEO PRESENTATION]

1430-1530 Case Study: The Benefits of Ecosystem Services, Environmental Economics and Eco-Compensation Schemes - Christian Susan, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem) [VIDEO PRESENTATION]

1430-1530 Tools and Issues in Identifying, Designing and Implementing PES - International Union for Conservation of Nature

1530-1600 Break

1600-1700 Practical Experience and Lessons Learned on Equitable Payments for Watershed Services (EPWS) Scheme in Ulugurus, Tanzania - Dosteus Lopa, CARE Tanzania [Video Presentation]

1700-1800 Elements of a PES Agreement: small-group work on relevance and challenges for applications within projects/institutions

Wednesday 14 November

SESSION V. APPLICATIONS OF ECONOMIC VALUATION AND PES

Objectives:

• presentation of a practical example of performing a valuation;
• description of the methodology used, also dealing with data gaps/uncertainties;
• discussion of the "added information" of such a project for policy decision making

0900-0930 Approaches to Economic Valuation in the Benguela Current LME - Nico Willemse, Benguela Current LME project (video presentation)

0930-1045 Application of Economic Valuation Methodologies in the Guinea Current LME - Eduard Interwies, InterSus – Sustainability Services

1045-1100 Break

SESSION VII. THE ROAD AHEAD: PERSONAL ACTION PLANS & COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

Objectives:

• Formulation of personal action plans for project applications and ongoing learning: an interactive session on how to use this kind of information in project planning (where to feed, what the gaps)

1130-1230 Small-group work: development of a personal action plan for designing & implementing of EV Approaches & PES programmes, including through project twinning facilitated by IUCN

1230-1330 Lunch

INTRODUCTION TO THE UNECE WATER CONVENTION

Objectives:

• Increase awareness on and understanding of the UNECE Water Convention and its work in view of its forthcoming global expansion, including the guidance documents developed under its framework and the practical experiences of its application;
• Discuss relevance and implications of the UNECE Water Convention for international waters and their management in Africa

1330-1410 The UNECE Water Convention: main obligations and practical implementation - Ms. Francesca Bernardini, Secretary to the UNECE Water Convention, UNECE

1410-1435 Translating the Convention into practice: concluding agreements and establishing joint bodies - Mr. Werner Wahliss, Bavarian Ministry of the Environment and Public Health

1435-1500 Joint Monitoring and Assessment in transboundary basins: obligations and experience under the Convention - Ms. Zsuzsa Buzas, Hungary

1500-1525 How to cooperate on adaptation to climate change in transboundary basins - Ms. Francesca Bernardini, Secretary to the UNECE Water Convention, UNECE

1530-1600 Coffee Break

1600-1625 The advantages of being a Party to the UNECE Water Convention - Ms. Sibylle Vermont, Chairperson of the Water Convention, Federal Office for the Environment, Switzerland

1625-1745 Discussion: The UNECE Water Convention: how is it relevant for Africa - How can you get involved?

1745-1800 Workshop Closing

END OF WORKSHOP

Thursday 15 November – Technical Site Visit

0800 Departure from Panorama Hotel

0830-1030 Eastern Nile Subsidiary Action Program (ENSAP)

1030- Departure to project site of the Ethiopian Ministry of Water