CHM - ORTBy 2030, ensure the full, equitable, inclusive, effective and gender-responsive representation and participation in decision-making processes, and access to justice and information related to biodiversity of indigenous peoples and local communities, women and girls, children and youth, and persons with disabilities in conservation efforts while respecting their cultural rights and land ownership territories, resources, and traditional knowledge and ensuring the safety and rights of individuals and organizations actively engaged in advocating for biodiversity conservation.
Review existing laws and policies to ensure they support equitable, inclusive, and gender-responsive representation and participation in biodiversity decision-making.
-Inclusive participation of indigenous peoples and local communities, women and girls, children and youth, and persons with disabilities in policy-making, implementation, monitoring, and reporting.
Provide targeted training for women, youth, and persons with disabilities to enhance their leadership and advocacy skills.
Develop partnerships with legal aid organizations to provide free or affordable legal assistance to under represented groups.
Develop and maintain accessible platforms for sharing information related to biodiversity, ensuring that information is available in multiple languages and formats suitable for persons with disabilities.
Ensure that conservation efforts do not infringe on traditional knowledge and practices but rather integrate and protect the recognition and respect of cultures and rights of indigenous people and local communities.
Implement measures to ensure the safety and rights of individuals and organizations actively engaged in biodiversity conservation advocacy.-Ensuring full protection of environmental human rights defenders.
Develop indicators and monitoring systems to track the representation and participation of underrepresented groups in biodiversity decision-making.
Promote gender mainstreaming across all levels of conservation planning and implementation.
Establish multi-stakeholder platforms to facilitate dialogue and joint action among diverse groups.
| Global Targets | Degree of Alignment |
GBF-T21. Data, information and knowledge for decision-making is available GBF-T21. Data, information and knowledge for decision-making is availableEnsure that the best available data, information and knowledge, are accessible to decision makers, practitioners and the public to guide effective and equitable governance, integrated and participatory management of biodiversity, and to strengthen communication, awareness-raising, education, monitoring, research and knowledge management and, also in this context, traditional knowledge, innovations, practices and technologies of indigenous peoples and local communities should only be accessed with their free, prior and informed consent[1], in accordance with national legislation.
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[1] Free, prior and informed consent refers to the tripartite terminology of “prior and informed consent” or “free, prior and informed consent” or “approval and involvement”. | High |
GBF-T23. Implementation follows a gender-responsive approach GBF-T23. Implementation follows a gender-responsive approachEnsure gender equality in the implementation of the framework through a gender-responsive approach where all women and girls have equal opportunity and capacity to contribute to the three objectives of the Convention, including by recognizing their equal rights and access to land and natural resources and their full, equitable, meaningful and informed participation and leadership at all levels of action, engagement, policy and decision-making related to biodiversity. | High |
GBF-T01. All areas are planned or managed to bring loss of areas of high biodiversity importance close to zero GBF-T01. All areas are planned or managed to bring loss of areas of high biodiversity importance close to zeroEnsure that all areas are under participatory, integrated, and biodiversity inclusive spatial planning and/or effective management processes addressing land and sea use change, to bring the loss of areas of high biodiversity importance, including ecosystems of high ecological integrity, close to zero by 2030, while respecting the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities. | Medium |
GBF-T03. 30% of areas are effectively conserved GBF-T03. 30% of areas are effectively conservedEnsure and enable that by 2030 at least 30 per cent of terrestrial, inland water, and of coastal and marine areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services, are effectively conserved and managed through ecologically representative, well-connected and equitably governed systems of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures, recognizing indigenous and traditional territories where applicable, and integrated into wider landscapes, seascapes and the ocean, while ensuring that any sustainable use, where appropriate in such areas, is fully consistent with conservation outcomes, recognizing and respecting the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities, including over their traditional territories. | Medium |
GBF-T09. Management of wild species is sustainable and benefits people GBF-T09. Management of wild species is sustainable and benefits peopleEnsure that the management and use of wild species are sustainable, thereby providing social, economic and environmental benefits for people, especially those in vulnerable situations and those most dependent on biodiversity, including through sustainable biodiversity-based activities, products and services that enhance biodiversity, and protecting and encouraging customary sustainable use by indigenous peoples and local communities. | Medium |
GBF-T13. Fair and equitable sharing of benefits from genetic resources, digital sequence information and associated traditional knowledge GBF-T13. Fair and equitable sharing of benefits from genetic resources, digital sequence information and associated traditional knowledgeTake effective legal, policy, administrative and capacity-building measures at all levels, as appropriate, to ensure the fair and equitable sharing of benefits that arise from the utilization of genetic resources and from digital sequence information on genetic resources, as well as traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources, and facilitating appropriate access to genetic resources, and by 2030 facilitating a significant increase of the benefits shared, in accordance with applicable international access and benefit-sharing instruments. | High |
GBF-T22. Ensure participation, justice, and rights for indigenous peoples and local communities, women, youth persons with disabilities and environmental defenders GBF-T22. Ensure participation, justice, and rights for indigenous peoples and local communities, women, youth persons with disabilities and environmental defendersEnsure the full, equitable, inclusive, effective and gender-responsive representation and participation in decision-making, and access to justice and information related to biodiversity by indigenous peoples and local communities, respecting their cultures and their rights over lands, territories, resources, and traditional knowledge, as well as by women and girls, children and youth, and persons with disabilities and ensure the full protection of environmental human rights defenders. | High |
GBF-T14. The multiple values of biodiversity are integrated into decision-making at all levels GBF-T14. The multiple values of biodiversity are integrated into decision-making at all levelsEnsure the full integration of biodiversity and its multiple values into policies, regulations, planning and development processes, poverty eradication strategies, strategic environmental assessments, environmental impact assessments and, as appropriate, national accounting, within and across all levels of government and across all sectors, in particular those with significant impacts on biodiversity, progressively aligning all relevant public and private activities, fiscal and financial flows with the goals and targets of this framework. |
-Mobilizing financial resources to ensure meaningful representation of indigenous peoples and local communities, women and girls, children and youth, and persons with disabilities in decision-making processes.
-Collective efforts towards achievement of targets by ensuring effective inclusion of indigenous peoples and local communities, women and girls, children and youth, and persons with disabilities.
-Ensuring contribution and rights of indigenous peoples and local communities.
Integrate traditional knowledge and practices into conservation strategies, ensuring benefit-sharing and informed consent.
Develop culturally sensitive communication strategies to engage diverse groups effectively.
Address gender-specific barriers and create opportunities for women to lead and participate in conservation initiatives.
-Fostering a human-rights based approach in driving inclusion.
-Intergenerational equity as a key driver for meaningful engagement of youth.
-Attaining whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach through effective inclusion of indigenous peoples and local communities, women and girls, children and youth, and persons with disabilities
Participation of indigenous peoples and local communities
Access to justice and information
Rights of indigenous peoples and local communities over their cultures, lands, territories, resources and traditional knowledge
Rights of women and girls, children and youth, and persons with disabilities
Full protection of environmental human rights defenders
Target 14: Opportunity to mainstream biodiversity in sectors working with indigenous peoples and local communities, women and girls, children and youth, and persons with disabilities.
Target 21: Inclusivity and participation informed by best available data and traditional knowledge.
Target 23: Embracing a gender-responsive approach in engaging indigenous peoples and local communities, women and girls, children and youth, and persons with disabilities
-Kenyan Youth Biodiversity Network committed to working with the government agencies to ensure effective engagement of youth, and access to justice and information.
-Committed by the Kenyan Youth Biodiversity Network directly aligns with the national target on increasing number of youth that are fully represented in decision-making.
-Financial resources
-Capacity-building
-Technologies and technology transfer
-Tool to track effective engagement of stated groups.