Nov 28, 2018 to Nov 29, 2018

WAVES Eighth Annual Partnership Meeting

Nov 28, 2018 to Nov 29, 2018
Paris, France

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WAVES Eighth Annual Partnership Meeting

November 28-29, 2018

Hilton Opera Hotel, Paris, France

Every year since its inception, the Wealth Accounting and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services (WAVES) Global Partnership brings together WAVES partners from developed and developing countries, high-level government officials, United Nations agencies, academics, and experts from think tanks and non-governmental organizations at its Annual Partnership Meeting (APM). This year, the APM will take place in Paris France, back-to-back with the Natural Capital Policy Forum (see Annex 1 for the summary program for the whole week). 

Objectives of the meeting are to:
 
a) Share the program’s progress, experiences, and lessons on the development of Natural Capital and Ecosystem Accounts; with emphasis on the process of institutionalizing account production and update and their use for policy decisions. 
 
b) Evaluate, in a forward-looking way, how the program should respond to an evolving environment, including new demands on the policy side, new tools, recent methodological developments, e.g. in measuring ecosystem services; and what insights that yields for the roll-out of the Global Program on Sustainability (GPS), WAVES’ proposed successor program.

Agenda

TIME

PROGRAM

PARTICIPANTS

Day 1 (Wednesday, November 28, 2018)

08:30 

Registration

 

Session 1: Opening and update

09:00

 Welcome from the World Bank

Speakers:

 

Introduction to the meeting – objective, approach, introductions 

Speakers:

  • Steve Bass (consultant, overall APM facilitator)

09.30

Session 2: Keynote perspectives - NCA and decision-making

Keynote: Hon Alexander Chiteme, Minister, Ministry of National Development Planning, Zambia

Keynote: Hon Claudine Uwera, Minister of State, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Rwanda 

Message by video: Dr Ir Arifin Rudiyanto, MSc, Deputy Minister for Maritime and Natural Resources, National Development Planning Board (BAPPENAS), Indonesia 

Questions and discussion

10.30 

 Tea and Coffee

 

11.00

Session 3: WAVES Progress and challenges (1): Producing and using accounts

Discussion – ‘what works’ for producing accounts that will be well used 

Brief Table buzz: Beginning to map ‘assets’ created by 8 years of WAVES work

12.30

 Lunch

 

14.00 

Session 4. WAVES Progress and challenges (2): Institutionalization of natural capital and ecosystem accounts 

Panel from WAVES/donor countries

Questions for clarification

Table group discussion: institutionalising NCA

Report-back

15.30

 Tea and Coffee

 

15.45

Session 5. Looking forward (1): Natural capital, wealth accounting and strategic decision-making 

 

 

 Brief Table buzz: Key priorities for WAVES to accelerate and deepen institutionalisation

17.00

 Adjourn

 

18.00 

 Cocktails and Dinner 

 

Day 2 (Thursday, November 29, 2018): Annual Partnership Meeting Day 2

09.00

 Summary of Day 1

 

09.15

Session 6. Looking forward (2):  Innovations, new tools and  approaches

Discussion – WAVES and innovation

10.30

 Tea and Coffee break

 

10.45

Session 7. Table discussion: WAVES and its successor program (GPS) responding to the evolving context

Introduction from World Bank perspective (Raffaello Cervigni, the World Bank)

Introduction from a donor perspective (Ulrike Haupt, BMZ, Germany)

Working groups – how can WAVES and GPS maximize the impact of NCA and ecosystem valuation on decision making?

Report back

12.00

 Session 8. Wrap up

  • Irene Alvarado Quesada (Central Bank, Costa Rica)
  • Steve Bass (overall APM facilitator)
  • Raffaello Cervigni (World Bank)

12.30

 Lunch

 

14.30

Consultation session: WAVES countries and donors 

 

16.00

 Tea and Coffee

 

16.15

 World Bank / Donors meeting