for a beautiful Europe Capacity Building Workshop on
Biodiversity Indicators 5-6 November, Dubrovnik, Croatia Kristijan
ivi, ECNC STREAMLINING BIODIVERSITY INDICATORS IN THE WEST BALKANS
Support for biological diversity activities and capacity building
Summary and main results of the 1 st workshop Slide 2 www.ecnc.org
Objective of the workshop were: To get a common understanding of
biodiversity indicator development at the level of the EEA region
To get an overview of activities regarding biodiversity indicators
in the Western Balkan region To identify gaps and issues faced by
the region in developing and producing biodiversity indicators To
develop an action plan for developing national biodiversity
indicators EXPERT WORKSHOP ON BIODIVERSITY INDICATORS 4-5 JUNE
2013, TIRANA, ALBANIA Slide 3 www.ecnc.org PRESENTED CONTEXTUAL
INFORMATION: Contextual information: About the project; EEA work on
biodiversity indicators UNEP work on biodiversity indicators;
Progress in national level work on biodiversity indicators
(Albania, Macedonia, Serbia) Country overview report Indicator fact
sheet introduction and example Setting the SMART objectives and
action planning; Slide 4 www.ecnc.org Identify gaps and need in the
work on biodiversity indicators in the region (in connection to
process and content) Main gaps identified in connection to the
process: Problems of cooperation/communication between
institutions/sectors/stakeholder Problems of expertise within some
institutions Much more data exist than what is available: scattered
data, problem of ownerships of data Lack of human capacity for data
collection Lack of: legislation; capacity (human resources, etc.);
financing; defined indicator set; exchange of experience with other
countries; public awareness PRACTICAL EXERCISES: Slide 5
www.ecnc.org Main gaps identified in connection to the contents: No
national monitoring system or monitoring system not efficient
enough Data not well balanced between the countries Some data are
specific at country level and not relevant for European level Data
not equally distributed through the whole country (protected areas
well covered vs. rest of the territory not) PRACTICAL EXERCISES:
Slide 6 www.ecnc.org To define the objectives that should be
achieved in order to resolve the identified gaps Functional
monitoring programme/framework, that covers whole territory, in
place [8] Financing mechanisms (from the state budget) improved [8]
Harmonisation of biodiversity indicators in/between Western Balkans
[7] Communication between stakeholders improved [6] Public
awareness about ecosystem services increased [6] Harmonised
Biodiversity indicators set with SEBI [3] Biodiversity indicators
used for public awareness [1] Make existing data public/available
To make uniform legislation for development of indicators Full set
of biodiversity indicators defined PRACTICAL EXERCISES: Slide 7
www.ecnc.org Develop action plans to solve three priority
objectives 1) Action/target 2) How/Means by which that objective
will be achieved 3) Who will do it 4) When it will be achieved 5)
Which stakeholders to involve 6) Optional/later: Cost and source of
funding. PRACTICAL EXERCISES: Slide 8 www.ecnc.org Agreed on the
set of indicators for which the fact sheets will be elaborated at
the following workshop: Based on the availability of information it
was agreed that all countries will compile data on the indicator
SEBI 07 Nationally designated protected areas another three
indicators were selected from which each country to choose one
additional to prepare for the next workshop: SEBI 14 Fragmentation
of river systems SEBI 2 Red list index for national red list
species SEBI 1 Abundance and distribution of selected species Tasks
to be completed by the participants before the 2 nd Workshop Tasks
for the Project Team AGREED ON FOLLOWING ACTIONS Slide 9
www.ecnc.org EXPECTATIONS FROM THE WORKSHOP Thank you for your
attention Hvala na panji Faleminderit pr vmendjen tuaj