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National Target

General

Government

Sudan

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Ensure That Knowledge is Available and Accessible to Guide Biodiversity Actions

Description

Ensure 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 in Sudan, and to strengthen communication, awareness raising, education, monitoring, research and knowledge management and, also in this context, the traditional knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous peoples and local communities relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, and their customary use of biological resources, are respected, and should only be accessed with their free, prior and informed consent in accordance with national legislation.

Please outline the main policy measures or actions that will be taken to achieve this national target.

Rehabilitate destroyed biodiversity resources infrastructure and institutions caused by successive wars.
Establish valid data base and information for all stakeholders, especially policy practitioners, planners, public and private sector, and local communities’ participation on decision-making,
Build capacities for collection of data for guiding effective and equitable governance biodiversity conservation systems,
Respect customary rights over access, use of biological resources, getting priori consent indigenous people according to national laws, acts and regulations.
Integrate participatory management of biodiversity resources into productive and services sectors,
Communicate and raise awareness, promote education, monitoring, research and knowledge of stakeholders on management, traditional knowledge and technology, innovations, practices of biodiversity related threats.

Alignment

Contribution to global Goals

GBF-G-C. Benefits from the use of genetic resources are shared and substantially increased

GBF-G-D. The biodiversity funding gap of 700 billion USD is progressively closed by ensuring adequate means of implementation are available.

Alignment with global targets

Global Targets

Degree of Alignment

GBF-T21. Data, information and knowledge for decision-making is available

High

Which of the “considerations for implementation” in Section C of the GBF have been taken into account in developing this national target, and the actions to implement it

Access to financial resources

Biodiversity and health

Collective effort towards the targets

Consistency with international agreements or instruments

Contribution and rights of indigenous peoples and local communities

Cooperation and synergies

Different value systems

Ecosystem approach

Formal and informal education

Fulfilment of the three objectives of the Convention and its Protocols, and their balanced implementation

Gender

Human rights-based approach

Intergenerational equity

National circumstances, priorities and capabilities

Principles of the Rio Declaration

Right to development

Science and innovation

Whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach

Please explain how these considerations have been taken into account

All are important for the data and achievement of the target

Explanation, including which aspects of the goal or target are covered

Availability and accessibility to data, information, knowledge
Effective and equitable governance, integrated and participatory management of biodiversity
Communication,
Awareness raising
Education,
Monitoring,
Research
Knowledge management
traditional knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous peoples and local communities

Indicators to be used to monitor this national target

Headline indicators

21.1 Indicator on biodiversity information for monitoring the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

C.1 Monetary benefits received in accordance with applicable internationally agreed access and benefit-sharing instruments

C.2 Non-monetary benefits arising from applicable international access and benefit-sharing instruments

D.1 International public funding, including official development assistance for conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystems

D.2 Domestic public funding on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystems

D.3 Private funding (domestic and international) on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystems

Binary indicators

13.b Number of countries that have taken effective legal, policy, administrative and capacity-building measures at all levels, as appropriate, to ensure the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from the utilization of genetic resources and from digital sequence information on genetic resources, as well as traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources

Other national indicators

Availability and accessibility of data and knowledge National legislation on traditional knowledge and innovations Growth in number of records and database at national level

National legislation on traditional knowledge and innovations Growth in number of records and database at national level

Means to implementation and barriers to implementation

Please indicate if additional means of implementation are needed for the attainment of this national target.

Yes (Additional means of implementation are needed for the attainment of this national target)

Please explain (Additional means of implementation are needed for the attainment of this national target)

Data base banks and exchange information platforms and units for biodiversity.
Published documents on biodiversity related issues including indigenous knowledge and practices related to conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity resources,
Awareness materials including brochures, magazines and maps to raise public awareness.
Mechanisms and methods for applications of biosafety rules and measures,
Websites-platforms for dissemination of biodiversity data and information,
Consultancy services on diagnostic assessment studies and planning of biodiversity products and services,
Public media and extension services programs on harmful impact of human and non-human practices on biodiversity species,
Sudan biosafety electronic platforms,
Education systems and curricula on biodiversity issues including insect and microorganism biodiversity species,

Additional explanation

Barriers to implementation:

Inadequate data base and high cost and time consuming for collection.
Weak capacity of staff and local communities in collecting required data base,
High cost of accessing and storing data base for analysis.
Poor funds and capacities of staff for conducting data base surveys.
Expansive country for collecting data base and analysis.
Lack of information on existing types of indigenous knowledge, innovative practices of biodiversity resources,
Lack of adequate mechanisms for improving the integration of indigenous and local communities into national plans.