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About the Showcase Programme |
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What is the APFED Innovation Showcase for Sustainable Development? |
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| In its Final
Report, APFED emphasised that we need "innovation" to achieve sustainable society in the Asia-Pacific region. However, there are barriers impeding the implementation of such innovation, including the uncertainty of impacts of innovative actions and the resistance of certain stakeholders. Because of different political, social, cultural, and economic conditions, the feasibility of "innovations" differs from one country/area to another. To address such barriers and to promote sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region, APFED has launched the "APFED Innovation Showcase for Sustainable Development (the Showcase Programme)"as one of the main activities of the second phase of APFED. This Programme is supported by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan. |
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Objectives of the Showcase Programme |
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| The Showcase Programme aims to support projects that promote innovative policies, measures, and actions for sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region as recommended by the APFED
Final Report. These innovative activities supported under the Showcase Programme shall be shared among various stakeholders in the region through the APFED Good Practice Database. |
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| Examples of innovative activities as defined in the APFED Final Report |
| -Innovation in relation to policies |
| To pilot innovative policies that lead to behavioural changes of people in a defined direction, such as integrated transportation planning and establishing special environmental zones for innovative policies. |
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| -Innovation in relation to technologies |
| To analyse the feasibility of emerging technologies for prevention, mitigation or adaptation purposes under specific conditions, such as new sources of water, eco-industrial parks, and eco-restoration initiatives. |
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| -Innovation in the encouragement of social practices for sustainability |
| To enhance social capacity for sustainable development by encouraging new and creative social practices conducted by Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and/or by stimulating partnerships between CSOs and other stakeholders, such as rural-based industries with support from the urban community, local eco-currency, participatory composting, joint management of protected areas, and inter-university credit systems. |
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| The Showcase Programme is expected to address implementation barriers such as uncertainty regarding the impacts of innovative actions and resistance from certain stakeholders, and to examine the feasibility of the innovative practices in one country/region and their applicability to other countries/regions that have different political, social, economic or other conditions. |
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Under the Showcase Programme, a grant of up to US$30,000 can be provided to each sustainable development project to showcase innovative approaches to support the development, implementation, monitoring, and information dissemination of innovative policies, measures and actions for promoting sustainable development in the region. The funds may be used to support stakeholder consultations, feasibility studies, pilot scheme experimentation and demonstration. It is prerequisite that the proposed project aim to generate tangible outcomes in changing behaviours and business practices toward enhancing sustainability, and improving environmental performance. Mere literature review, report writing, and meeting organisations without showing any intent to make immediate behavioural changes and improve environmental performance are not eligible to be supported by the Programme.
While the project implementing organisations assume primary responsibilities for monitoring and self-evaluating project implementation and preparing reports thereon for submission to APFED, the projects shall be complementarily monitored and evaluated by one of the member institutes of the Network of Research Institutes for Sustainable Development (NetRes) established under APFED. For each of the approved projects, a NetRes institute shall be assigned to support the implementation of the project. The funds shall be channelled through the designated NetRes institute after the completion of a contract between the NetRes institute and the project implementing organisation.
It is expected that the project shall be implemented with good will and a spirit of partnership so that the outcome of the successfully implemented project can be registered in the APFED Good Practices Database. The Database is intended to disseminate information on good practices for promoting sustainable development in the region with a view to facilitating the replication of such successful initiatives. |
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How the Showcase Programme is managed |
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| -Administration |
| Under the guidance of APFED, the Showcase Programme is administered by the APFED Secretariat (Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, IGES) in coordination with the APFED Showcase Facility established that is serviced by the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP/ROAP). |
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| -Selection of Showcase Projects |
| The selection of showcase projects shall be made by the APFED Showcase Panel that is supported by the APFED Showcase Facility and the APFED Secretariat. The Panel consists of five members from APFED who were appointed by the Chair of APFED. |
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| -NetRes |
| Each showcase project will be monitored and evaluated by one of the institutes of the Network of Research Institutes for Sustainable Development (NetRes). A NetRes institute will be appointed to each showcase project by the APFED Showcase Facility Secretariat. The NetRes members are: |
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Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences (CSES), China |
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Korea Environment Institute (KEI), Korea |
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Singapore Institute for International Affairs (SIIA), Singapore |
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The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India |
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Thailand Environment Institute (TEI), Thailand |
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University of South Pacific (USP), Fiji |
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Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Pakistan |
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The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan |
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| The major tasks of the NetRes institutes include: |
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providing the project implementing organisations with advice on refining the project proposal, the implementation plan, facilitating its effective implementation, and devising monitoring and evaluation methodologies, |
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concluding a contract and agreed implementation plan with the project implementing organisation, |
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channelling APFED Showcase Programme funds to the project implementing organisation, |
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monitoring and evaluating the project implementation and the outcomes, |
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providing guidance in drawing lessons and accumulated knowledge from the project implementation, |
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providing guidance on project implementation reports and preparing the final report based on the project implementation reports with the evaluation of the project by the NetRes institute for submission to APFED, and |
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providing guidance in preparing the information sheet for registration in the APFED Good Practices Database. |
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