Programa ABS/CCAD-GIZ
Promoción del potencial económico de la biodiversidad de manera justa y sostenible para poner en práctica el Protocolo de Nagoya en Centroamérica y República Dominicana

Equipo del Programa ABS y las contrapartes de la región

Objetivo del proyecto

The member countries of SICA implement preliminary measures to promote fair and equitable participation in the benefits derived from the sustainable use of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge.

Avances

Until October 2018, the program has trained 2,147 people, of whom 974 are women, from different ministries and institutions. A successful example was the Regional Workshop on "Biocultural Protocols", organized in collaboration with the Executive Secretariat of the CBD, the Government of Panama and the Network of Indigenous Women of Latin America and the Caribbean for Biodiversity (RMIB-ALC). At the country level, the legal framework conditions for ABS have improved, as in the case of Costa Rica, where the Government adopted, through Executive Decree No. 39341, the application of administrative sanctions for unauthorized access to genetic and biochemical resources and their associated components which contemplates some gaps that are not predicted by Biodiversity Law No. 7788. In Guatemala, The Competent National Authority approved the National Policy on ABS and Biocultural Heritage and in the Dominican Republic the regulation and the Policy on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing (ABS) No. 0002/2018 was approved. In April 2018, Guatemala incorporated ABS into the criteria for granting funding from the National Fund for the Conservation of Nature (FONACON). At the regional level, the ABS Regional Committee of Central America and the Dominican Republic (CR-ABS / CA-DR), which has a representative from each of the 8 countries, began its work presenting the potential of the Region at the 13th Conference of the CDB Parties (COP-13) in Mexico 2016. Another important achievement of the program, to date, is the successful implementation of three ABS pilot projects in Rabinal, Guatemala; Punta Patiño, Panama and with Lisan Laboratories in Costa Rica. These projects focus on the use of local species and crops as well as traditional knowledge
associates
The Program contributes to the implementation of the international strategic plan "Aichi Targets" (Objective 16 "Nagoya Protocol") and the 2030 Agenda / Sustainable Development Goals
(Objectives 2.5 and 15.6).

Campos de acción

Intervenciones en el territorio

Experiencias prácticas

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	Contrato de Acceso y Distribución de Beneficios de alacrán azul (Rhopalurusabudi y Rhopalurusbonetti) en República Dominicana
	Catálogo de plantas nativas con potencial para biocomercio y bioprospección de la reserva natural Privada de Punta Patiño Darién – Panamá.
	Protocolo Biocultural “Protección de los conocimientos indígenas asociados a los recursos genéticos”
	DIÁLOGO DE SABERES A NIVEL TERRITORIAL PARA VISIBILIZAR EL APORTE DE LAS MUJERES, PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS Y COMUNIDADES LOCALES EN LA CONSTRUCCIÓN Y CONSERVACIÓN DEL PATRIMONIO BIOCULTURAL A NIVEL TERRITORIAL EN LA REPÚBLICA DE GUATEMALA
	Taller Regional de Capacitación para la Región de América Latina y el Caribe sobre Protocolos Comunitarios, Indicadores sobre Conocimientos Tradicionales y uso consuetudinario sostenible de la Biodiversidad en el marco del CDB
	Comité Regional ABS de Centro América y República Dominicana (CR-ABS/CA-RD)