Commission on Education and Communication

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Commission on Education and Communication

• Annual Report to Council - November 2009

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What is CEC?
Photo Royal Roads University

• CEC is a global network of voluntary
  practitioners and experts with a mission to drive
  change towards sustainability through leading
  communication, learning and knowledge management
  in IUCN and the wider conservation community.

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Driving change means

• Network Facilitation CEC stimulates
  collaboration and promotes cross-sectoral
  dialogue and alliance processes, formal and
  informal.
• Capacity Development CEC has the capacity to
  design learning programs and is engaged in
  professional development in the environmental
  sector.
• Change Agent CEC advocates and inspires
  transformation and behaviour change in
  individuals, organizations, both within IUCN and
  externally to leverage larger impact.
• Communication Catalyzer CEC catalyzes
  communication and is a source of catalytic
  communication in support of IUCN and the global
  sustainability agenda.
• Partnership Builder CEC offers authority in
  partnership processes that help partners
  influence and be positively influenced by others.
• Knowledge Management CEC offers expertise in how
  to identify, create, represent and distribute
  knowledge for learning and innovation.

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Driving change means

• To drive change means that CEC has had to change.
• CEC is changing how it is organized
• CEC is adapting its membership and what it
  focuses on
• CEC is partnering with different parts of the
  Union in new ways
• CEC is investing in recruiting new members to
  provide the next generation of communication and
  learning leadership for pressing issues today and
  tomorrow
• CEC is embedded across the One Programme

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CEC Organizational Structure
Focal Point in Secretariat
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• CEC is most strongly connected to the IUCN
  programme in biodiversity, climate change and a
  green economy, linked with IUCN Global Results
  1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 5.2

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Climate Change
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Climate Change and the Military

• Raising awareness and building partnerships with
  IES, CNA, NATO and retired military of national
  governments
• Disseminating militarys strong signal for
  Copenhagen

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Dialogues to link conservation and security
communities
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• Military experts from five continents warn
• incremental, and at times, abrupt, climate
  change is resulting in an unprecedented scale of
  human misery, loss of biodiversity and damage to
  infrastructure with consequential security
  implications that need to be addressed urgently.

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Learning about climate change

• CEC provided input on a climate change curriculum
  for Jeju, Korea training centre
• CEC sponsored a workshop Empowering public
  participation in informed decision-making at FAO
  Agricultural Biotechnologies in Developing
  Countries Options and opportunities in crops,
  forestry, livestock, fisheries and agro-industry
  to face the challenges of food insecurity and
  climate change

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Biodiversity
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CEC promoted IUCN partnership with National
Geographics Planetary Action Atlas A
communications platform for biodiversity and
climate change
http//www.actionatlas.org/
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Communicating Biodiversity

• Signed resolution to Encourage the philanthropic
  community to increase their funding for visual
  communication for conservation
• Actively promoted WildSpeak conference for
  conservation communication

• Advised CDB on logo, and supporting
  communication strategy and manual for
  International Year of Biodiversity

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Green Economy

• Supported IUCN and Rio Tinto due diligence for
  business and biodiversity
• Dialogues for project proposal to SGS company for
  in-house training on sustainability
• Next step Business and biodiversity reporting
  capacity building CEC specialty chair

Photo Argyle diamond mine, Rio Tinto 2009
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Intergenerational Partnerships

• Facilitated representation of young people on
  IUCN Commissions
• Created Wiki and Facebook resources for
  Intergenerational Partnerships for Sustainability

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CEPA Workshops
Training workshops to build strategic
communication capacity of conservation
professionals

• Managers of protected areas in Ecuador
• PA Managers, NBSAP Coordinators in the Caribbean
• Strategic communication training and ESD
  community building at Bonn UNESCO conference
• Participants at World Environmental Education
  Conference - Montreal
• Iberoamerican Environmental Congress APECO, Peru
• Ecuador Ministry of Environment training

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Learning for professional development
Formal learning Prepared MOU signed by IUCN and
Royal Roads University to create an Institute
to award certificate for courses drawing on a
global range of e-learning courses Informal
learning Building www clearinghouse for informal
providers of sustainable e-learning courses
Photo Royal Roads University
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Learning for professional development

• Offered expert support to IUCN dialogue processes
• Planned environmental info centre in Spain
• Evaluated opportunities for private sector
  sustainability training

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Learning for professional development
IUCN played a key role in developing a Voluntary
Partnership Agreement on forests between the
Government of Ghana and the European Union

• I think we can take a lot of quiet
  satisfaction from the role we played in
  facilitating multi-stakeholder input and support
  and thus enhancing the likelihood of successful
  implementation. It is also gratifying to note
  that at a recent meeting in Accra a number of
  stakeholders publicly attributed the critical
  turning point to IUCN's (CEC and the Secretariat)
  input on designing and supporting the
  consultative framework. To me this is IUCN at
  its best!
• Stewart Maginnis

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Future directions for CEC

• Communicate climate change and biodiversity
• Strengthen regional focus
• Deepen collaboration within the One Programme
• Broker alliances with non-traditional partners
• Plan for the next generation of Knowledge
  Management and Networking

• Engage new audiences, e.g., women and youth
• Build the IUCN Institute
• Communicate value of protected areas as to
  biodiversity
• Sustainable Education Learning Centers Network
• Evaluate new communication tools and strategies
• Continue to drive change management best practice
  for sustainable solutions

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Inter-Commission collaboration in support of the
One Programme
Developed joint CEC-WCPA work plan to

• Communicate value of protected areas to
  biodiversity
• Build skills for PA managers
• Improve knowledge management

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Video
Joint meeting of CEC-WCPA Steering
Committees with support of the Ecuadorian
Government and the SUR Office Ecuador, May 2009

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