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Sud Expert Plantes Développement Durable (SEP2D)

2007 - 2012 2015 - 2020

Use, Consolidate, Build upon SEP results Développement Durable Africa Rising – Cape Town 19-22 May 2015

Sud Expert Plantes Développement Durable (SEP2D) Objectives

Know, preserve, and use in a sustainable way plant biodiversity,

Scientific capacities,

Help research and academic institutions:

Defend countries’ interests in international meetings,

Links between scientists, actors and policy makers,

Acquire practice of working with the private sector, Organize collectively to draw benefits out of their knowledge, skills and data, Secure long term funding for research and training

Africa Rising – Cape Town 19-22 May 2015

Sud Expert Plantes Développement Durable (SEP2D) 22 targeted countries

Western Africa: Benin, Burkina-Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo,

Central Africa: Burundi, Cameroon, Central Africa, Congo, Gabon, Congo Democratic Republic, Rwanda, Chad,

Indian Ocean: Comoros, Madagascar,

South-east Asia: Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam.


Sud Expert Plantes Développement Durable (SEP2D) Approach

Mobilize scientists on concrete issues regarding plants conservation and use

Encourage balanced public-private partnership operational results new knowledge : scient. papers, training modules best practices

Appropriation of CBD principles (ABS, GSPC, REDD+, ..) by countries, actors and scientists

Generate practical implementation of CBD principles


Sud Expert Plantes Développement Durable (SEP2D) Activities

Pilot operations

Research projects on applied themes

Forestry / REDD+ Mining

Agrobiodiversity Cosmetics and pharmacy

Support to collections

GBIF : participation & extension of portal to abundance data

Workshops, conferences, CBD meetings Training : academic and technical


Sud Expert Plantes Développement Durable (SEP2D) Global Biodiversity Information Facility & Sud Expert Plantes

Olaf Banki Senior Programme Officer for Participation

SEP-CEPDEC

Melianie Raymond Senior programme Officer for Node development


GBIF Proposed Plans for SEP2D Deployment of GBIF in SEP

participant countries

Empowering the GBIF community in SEP countries by training the trainers

Regional workshops on: -  biodiversity data publishing, -  use of biodiversity data, and -  biodiversity information facility building

Development and deployment of helpdesk for French speaking countries on the GBIF infrastructure & tools


GBIF Proposed Plans for SEP2D Increasing GBIF’s relevance for

monitoring global biodiversity change

Access, discovery, and use of sample based data

Pilot projects on publishing e.g.: -  Biodiversity monitoring data, -  Forest biomass and REDD+ assesments -  Natural resources assesments -  Environmental impact assesments

Sud Expert Plantes Développement Durable (SEP2D) Budget & schedule

€ 5.3 M; 2015 – 2020 Donors approval obtained in Sept. 2014

Oct 2014-June 2015: governance and management set up July 2015-beg. 2016: context assessment Spring 2016: terms of reference for calls Summer 2016: calls for projects Dec 2016: select projects and actions Jan 2017: start projects and actions

tentative schedule:


Sud Expert Plantes Développement Durable (SEP2D) Contacts

Eric Chenin: [email protected] http://www.sud-expert-plantes.ird.fr/


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