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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. The examples of innovative activities as defined in
the APFED Final Report are: |
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| -Innovation
in relation to policies |
| To pilot innovative
policies that lead to behavioural changes by 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 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 granted
funds may be used to support stakeholder consultations, feasibility
studies, pilot scheme experimentation and demonstration. It is
a 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 shall be disqualified under
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
project 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 as of 10 April are: |
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Chinese Association
of Environmental Science (CAES), 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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TERI (The Energy
Research Institute), India |
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Thailand Environment
Institute (TEI), Thailand |
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University of South
Pacific (USP), Fiji |
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The Institute for
Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan |
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| -Eligibility
of applicants |
| To be eligible to apply
for the Programme: |
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The organisation and project site(s) are in Asia and the Pacific region (Click here to see eligible countries). |
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An applicant must
be a representative of an organisation that has been
properly registered under the laws of the country for
more than three years as an organisation working continuously
for the promotion of sustainable development in a country
in the Asia-Pacific region. |
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The organisation
must have sufficient capacities to implement the proposed
activities. |
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An organisation
that fails to show its legal status and to present
its recent annual report including financial statements
at the time of concluding a contract shall be disqualified
from receiving funds under the Programme. |
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Applicant has never obtained funding from APFED Showcase Programme in the past. |
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| -Eligibility
of projects |
| The proposed projects
must satisfy the following requirements to be eligible
for the Programme. |
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Projects must
demonstrate innovative policies, measures, and actions
including community empowerment and technology application
with a view to promoting behavioural changes toward
achieving sustainable development and generating
positive impacts on environmental performance in
Asia and the Pacific. The concrete outcome must be
demonstrated in terms of behavioural or environmental
performance. In other words, the experimentation
and demonstration of pilot schemes are essential
components of the project. Therefore, mere literature
review, report writing, or organisation of meetings
and study tours per se shall not be eligible. |
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Projects must
not have been implemented yet or must be at the very
early stages of implementation. The incremental component
for improving environmental performance within the
ongoing or completed projects makes such a project
eligible for the Programme. |
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The project implementing
organisation must have already secured core funds
including in-kind contributions to support the implementation
of the APFED Showcase project. |
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Projects must
be designed to be implemented in partnership with
other relevant organisations and stakeholder groups
as well as NetRes institutions. |
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Projects must
aim to demonstrate impacts that are measurable within
the project implementation period. |
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The project implementation
period shall be from 6 months to 24 months. |
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There are the five thematic priority areas of APFED according to the APFED Final Report, namely (1)freshwater; (2)marine and coastal resources; (3)energy and air; (4)land management including urbanisation, rural development, forest, and biodiversity; (5)waste/3R, chemicals. Among these priority thematic areas, additionally weighted scores may be given to the proposals that address climate change and/or 3Rs (facilitating actions to reduce, reuse, and/or recycle materials and to foster sound material cycle and circular economy ) for 2008 showcase projects.
Note: We welcome the proposals which cover the thematic areas other than the designated priority areas for 2008. |
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