BioInnovation Africa for Namibia

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BioInnovation Africa for Namibia

BioInnovation Africa

LOCATION

Namibia

Total Project Budget (EUR)

>500 000 EUR for the Namibian division of the project

Project Developer / Owner

German BMZ (Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung) (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development)

Implementation by GIZ

iDealX CC works under the main contractor Geo-Media Germany and UEBT

Project Type

Demonstration/ Pilot as Senior Technical Advisor for the national BIA project
Consultancy as Project Coordinator for the GACP+ Standard and writing/ editing the standard document

About the Project Developer

The German BMZ is the ministry that is responsible for economic cooperation and development. As such, they also fund projects in other countries, through the GIZ, for example.

The GIZ is the institution that implement projects.

Project Partners

Geo-Media Germany and UEBT

Project Type

Consultancy as Senior Technical Advisor

SECTOR

Natural resources management and value addition

PROJECT TIMELINE

BIA 1: 2020 – 2022 | BIA 2: 2023 – 2025

The BioInnovation Africa project is a project that focuses on UNCTAD BioTrade compliance, as supported by the UEBT standard.

The activities here include, but are not limited to, due diligence, technical advice to the project developers in regard to biotrade and policy, natural resources value chain development and bioprospecting. In general. Specifically the following components are fulfilled:

Improving efficiency of national Access Benefit Sharing (ABS) frameworks
Supporting conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity through and beyond benefit-sharing
Biodiversity- based value chains for sustainable development (partnerships)
Reflecting biodiversity-based value chains in development cooperation (advocacy)

Dagmar’s work focussed on the working with the 7 value chains that were established in Namibia, ie:

NANCi, Namibian Devil’s Claw Exporters’ Association Trust (NDCEAT), Naturex part of Givaudan and Givaudan Foundation on developing the GACP+ Standard for sustainable devil’s claw trade
IRDNC / Kunene Conservancies Indigenous Natural Products Trust and Regenerative Essences on improved market opportunities for biotrade Commiphora wildii resin and Colophospermum mopane ingrdients
CRIAA SA-DC on improved market opportunities for manketti biotrade ingredients
IRDNC, Parceval and V Mane Fils on Novel essential oils of so far underutilised plant species
Eudafano Womens’ Cooperative/ Eudafano Women’s Marula Manufacturing, The Body Shop International, Aldivia, Gustav Heess Group on improved production, productivity and market opportunities for marula oil as a cosmetics ingredient

SEED Namibia and the Marula Guys on market opportunities for marula pulp as a novel food supplement.

Outcome and Impact

The expected outcome here is that communities in possession of natural resources can profit from the development of a natural resource value chains, based on either biotrade and/or bioprospecting principles. The market for these natural resources is developed and the communities can be lifted out of poverty as a result of the income generated from that natural resource, while rights holders (eg rural communities) and users (buyers) become ABS compliant in the national and international context.