Multiple values of migratory species and their habitats have been integrated into international, national and local development and poverty reduction strategies and planning processes, including on livelihoods, and are being incorporated into national accounting, as appropriate, and reporting systems.
Note: Actions towards this SPMS target may also contribute to SPMS target 13.
Expected Results
The target does not define a change, except by implication: it implies (justifiably) that the strategies and processes mentioned in the target currently do not integrate the “multiple values of migratory species and their habitats”, or that if they do, this integration is inadequate. The assumption therefore is that Target 2 seeks a better degree of integration of these values in 2023 than existed in 2014. The content of the strategies and processes mentioned in the target is therefore expected to change. This is a target intended to enable conservation impact, but it does not involve an expectation of that impact itself.
Target 2 makes a crucial link between migratory species conservation and sustainable development objectives, and hence it is connected to Target 11, which aims to ensure that the provision of relevant ecosystem services is maintained.
This target also needs to be read in conjunction with Targets 3 and 13. Target 3 seeks improvements in governance of any sector (environmental or otherwise) which affects migratory species. Target 2 seeks the integration of relevant values in processes that are specifically directed at development and poverty reduction. Target 13 expresses a similar idea in relation to strategies and plans addressing biodiversity (NBSAPs), and goes further by referring to implementation as well as planning.
A mere mention of migratory species/habitat values in the strategies and processes covered by Target 2 is unlikely to fulfil the target - what is sought instead is integration of those values, thus implying a deeper and more active level of reflection of the issue. As well as strategies and processes, the target also expects the same change to be seen in national accounting and reporting systems.
There are therefore several aspects to be considered in monitoring the achievement of this target, namely:
- Identification and listing of the international, national and local development and poverty reduction strategies and planning processes (including on livelihoods) in which the expected integration of values should be visible.
- Multiple values of migratory species and their habitats integrated (not merely mentioned) to a better degree than before in the strategies and processes identified.
- These same values also incorporated into national accounting, “as appropriate”.
- These same values also incorporated into national reporting systems.
A - Outreach, promotion and uptake of the Plan
- CMS Communication Strategy (under development)
B - The delivery framework
- Action Plan for the conservation of southern South American migratory grassland bird species and their habitats
- Resolution 10.19 Migratory Species Conservation in the Light of Climate Change
- Action Plan - Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation and Management of the Middle-European Population of the Great Bustard
- African-Eurasian Migratory Landbirds Action Plan (AEMLAP)
- Memorandum of Understanding for the conservation of cetaceans and their habitats in the Pacific Islands Region: Whale and Dolphin Action Plan 2013-2017
C - Key partnerships and other supporting delivery frameworks
D - Capacity development
- MoU for the Conservation of cetaceans and their habitats in the Pacific Island Region: Whale and Dolphin Action Plan 2013-2017
- MoU concerning the conservation of the Manatee and small cetaceans of Western Africa and Macaronesia: Action Plan for the conservation of small cetaceans of Western Africa and Macaronesia
- CMS COP Resolution 11.17 (2014) on Migratory landbirds in the African-Eurasian Region
E - Resourcing for biodiversity (including human, technical and financial resources)
- Action Plan for the conservation of southern South American migratory grassland bird species and their habitats
- Medium Term International Work Programme supporting the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding concerning Conservation Measures for the West African Populations of the African Elephant (West African Elephant MoU MTIWP)
- MoU concerning the conservation of the Manatee and small cetaceans of Western Africa and Macaronesia: Action Plan for the conservation of small cetaceans of Western Africa and Macaronesia
F - Monitoring and evaluation, including indicators, milestones and feedback to the sub-targets, as well as headline measures of success by which overall success of the SPMS may be judged
G - Reporting on and review of progress at national level and by governing bodies such as the CMS COP