| Commissioning Unit: | Morocco |
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| Evaluation Plan: | 2017-2022 |
| Evaluation Type: | Project |
| Completion Date: | 12/2019 |
| Unit Responsible for providing Management Response: | Morocco
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Key Action Update History
1) Reassess the current strategy to introduce ABS in the country, confronting the issues of how and when the process of ratification of the NP and of proposed legislation should progress
Management Response: [Added: 2019/12/10] [Last Updated: 2019/12/12]
Reassess the current strategy to introduce ABS in the country, confronting the issues of how and when the process of ratification of the NP and of proposed legislation should progress
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
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| The ratification of the Nagoya Protocol is not technically an expected output of the project (it was considered to be in finalization phase prior to project launch), the higher visibility of the ABS issue brought by the draft ABS legal framework will allow the MEME to further push for the ratification. Key next step is to accelerate the adoption process of the ABS legal framework.
[Added: 2019/12/10] [Last Updated: 2021/07/06] |
Ministry of Energy, Mines and Environment (MEME) and Government General Secretariat | 2021/06 | Completed | The draft ABS legal framework is not yet adopted by the Government. We are working in a new project ABS phase II that will help accelerating the adoption process of the ABS legal framework. History | |
| The ABS mechanism developed under the project is based on existing processes to grant access to biological resources by various Departments in government. This interim system can be used to process ABS requests by potential bio prospectors while the legal framework is adopted and implemented. All ABS requests are to be sent to the respective sectorial committees, under coordination from the MEME, to follow due process for granting access, while benefit-sharing clauses will be examined by the National Committee on Biodiversity (NCB), namely its ABS sub-committee.
[Added: 2019/12/10] [Last Updated: 2021/01/05] |
Ministry of Energy, Mines and Environment (MEME) coordinating the four other Departments responsible for granting access, in collaboration with the NCB. | 2020/12 | Completed | The National Climate Change and Biodiversity Commission is institutionalized by decree with a sub-commission dedicated to biodiversity. This sub-commission includes the following working groups: - "Monitoring the Protocols of Convention on Biological Diversity " ; - "Scientific affairs and techniques ". History |
2) Delegate the implementation of relevant components of the ABS framework to the four key sectors involved in ABS, anticipating on role of proposed NCA Specialized Committees
Management Response: [Added: 2019/12/10] [Last Updated: 2019/12/12]
Delegate the implementation of relevant components of the ABS framework to the four key sectors involved in ABS, anticipating on role of proposed NCA Specialized Committees
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
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| NCA specialized committees are members of the National Committee on Biodiversity (NCB) who have reviewed and approved the ABS legal framework and are already capable of processing access request to genetic resources. Key next step is to accelerate the institutionalization of the NCB so they can officially support the validation of ABS contracts with sectorial committees until the national ABS legal framework is adopted.
[Added: 2019/12/10] [Last Updated: 2021/01/05] |
Ministry of Energy, Mines and Environment (MEME) coordinating the four other Departments responsible for granting access. | 2020/12 | Completed | The National Climate Change and Biodiversity Commission was institutionalized by decree with a sub-commission dedicated to biodiversity. History |
3) Review communication strategy, ensuring implication of partner institutions and NGOs and that information is disseminated online beyond the national clearing house for the NP.
Management Response: [Added: 2019/12/10] [Last Updated: 2019/12/12]
Review communication strategy, ensuring implication of partner institutions and NGOs and that information is disseminated online beyond the national clearing house for the NP.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
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| Prominent NGOs are members of the NCB, and are fully aware of the necessity to carry out further dissemination on ABS. However, their capacity to disseminate online information is not as efficient as private and government entities. Key next step is to establish partnerships between the MEME and several regional NGOs to support promotion efforts on implementing ABS and fuel public support for the finalization of the ratification process of the NP.
[Added: 2019/12/10] [Last Updated: 2021/01/05] |
Ministry of Energy, Mines and Environment (MEME) in coordination with prominent NGOs such as the Mohammed VI Foundation and the Ribat Al Fath Association. | 2021/12 | Completed | According to the Decree N°2.19.721 establishing the National Commission for Climate Change and Biodiversity, the NGOs are members of this commission and will play a key role to support promotion efforts on implementing ABS and for the finalization of the ratification process of the NAgoya Protocole, History |