Swedbio
2021 saw the transition into a new Sida-funded four-year programme phase and agreements with several new collaborative partner organisations
Under the new programme, SwedBio will embark on two complementary impact pathways.
The first of these pathways is the “dialogue for knowledge and policy” pathway, via which SwedBio will engage with its partners in policy processes at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to drive further biodiversity-related policy processes.
Examples of such partners include the Committee on World Food Security, the Committee on Fisheries, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Meanwhile, through the second collaborative partner implementation pathway, SwedBio will enable strategically selected partner organisations to implement locally driven, fair and sustainable solutions through financial and technical support.
The focus networks that coordinate and collaborate with both national and local partners constitutes a strategic decision to assist in bridging the gap between local and global levels, and narrowing the gap in policy implementation
Henrik Brundin, director of SwedBio
Gender equality and human rights
Gender equality is another central perspective in all areas of SwedBio’s work. This is particularly evident in its new collaboration with Women4Biodiversity, which works to build resilience and weave gender approaches into biodiversity governance.
The deep connections between nature and people will continue to form the foundations of equitable and sustainable development at the heart of SwedBio’s work, with human rights serving as an entry point. In relation to this, the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework has been a prominent area of work throughout 2021.
As one of the founding members of the Human Rights in Biodiversity Working Group, SwedBio worked with its partners to produce policy briefs and co-hosted several online events to advance, maintain and strengthen elements of a human rights-based approach in the final draft of the Framework.
The recent adoption by the UN Human Rights Council of a resolution on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment creates the momentum to continue the efforts of SwedBio and its partners to bridge the gap between environmental action and the protection of human rights as mutually dependent goals.
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