National Target
By 2020, at the latest, biodiversity values have been integrated into national and local development and poverty reduction strategies and planning processes and are being incorporated into national accounting, as appropriate, and reporting systems.
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• Decision makers do not appreciate the role of natural resources in supporting the development and progress of productive and service sectors, and the reverse impacts of those sectors on the sustainability of biodiversity and ecosystems.
• The ongoing degradation of the natural resources biodiversity and ecosystems are triggered by a variety of driving forces inherent in the existing development plans including the horizontal expansion of agriculture, gold mining and petroleum exploration.
• The choice of the Aichi target 2 as a national NBSAP target aims to introduce economic valuation of biological resources as a catalyst for rural development and poverty alleviation into national plans, strategies and policies
• The process of adopting this target into NBSAP 2015-2020 included a variety of experts and personnel from different biodiversity related agencies and stakeholders. They focused on streamline the CBD targets into the NBSAP to alert the national planners to include them into the remaining successive five years development plans of the 25 National Development Strategy (2007-2031) during the last 15 years of its progress.
• The vision of the 25 Years Sudan Development strategy (2007-2031) to develop a better human and natural resources environment. The Strategy adopts five years plans approach and the Third Five Years Plan coincided with the declaration of the SDGs 2015-2030,and accommodated the African Union Plan (2014-2023) and African agenda 2963. Thus the Plan introduced the concepts of biodiversity conservation, protection and sustainability in a sporadic way, emphasized specifically in some sectors plans and policies of forestry but implicated in the other sectors of range and pastures, wildlife and climate change sectors and activities.
• More specifically, the NBSAP 2015-2020 introduced qualifying statements supporting implementation of the selected Aichi Target 2 covering the integration of plant agro-biodiversity, forestry, range and pastures and grazing livestock, and the terrestrial and aquatic wildlife including the Red Sea coastal and Marine biodiversity values and programmes into the national development strategies and planning processes by 2018-2020,
- Forest National Corporation Five years program for economics reform 2015-2019 which call for leveraging the plantation process by increasing the annual plantation targets through allocation of additional area of 6000 Fed. annually to reach 30000 feddan by 2019
• A national REDD+ Strategy is currently under preparation addressing main causes for deforestation and forest degradation.
• In addition to many climate change and biodiversity related projects, developed based on the NAP, NAPA, that are being implemented covering biodiversity related sectors, including one ecosystem based adaptation, another on climate risk financing, the preparation of the third national communication, which involved studies on climate change adaptation and mitigation and some projects in the pipeline one on biodiversity covering some important and highly vulnerable ecosystems, such as marine protected areas in number of states, anther of on building the resilience of the agriculture sector covering 9 states of Sudan, etc
