Africa NCA Policy Forum: Using Natural Capital Accounting and Analysis to Inform Policies for Development, Climate Change and Nature Protection
The Africa Natural Capital Accounting Policy Forum on Using Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) And Analysis to Inform Policies for Development, Climate Change and Nature Protection aims to provide participants with a platform to discuss the use of natural capital approaches, including natural capital accounting (NCA), in particular the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA), and the challenges and opportunities in using natural capital data, tools and analysis to inform and support policies in African countries.
The Forum will foster dialogue and sharing of experiences on using NCA and related data and analysis to address policy issues like climate change, biodiversity, and nature protection. Both the latest Climate and Biodiversity Conferences of the Parties (COP 27 and COP15) called for addressing climate change and nature protection simultaneously, as they are closely intertwined. The 2023 Africa NCA Policy Forum will hence focus on how NCA and related approaches can inform the climate change, nature, and development nexus in Africa.
The Forum is expected to attract policy makers, statisticians, academics, regional and international experts, as well as private sector entities from countries and organizations across Africa. It will be an in-person event with selected sessions livestreamed.
The Forum is co-organized by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) as the host country representative, the World Bank’s Global Program on Sustainability (GPS) and United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) as members of the Africa Natural Capital Accounting Community of Practice.
Meeting documents
- Session 1 - Background note: Natural Capital Accounting to Inform Climate, Biodiversity and Development Policies in Africa
- Session 3 - NCA experience using data and analysis in Lesotho
- Session 3 - NCA experience using data and analysis in Ghana
- Session 4 - Africa Natural Capital Atlas (AfDB and UNEP)
- Session 4 - Overview of the SEEA implementation globally and in Africa (UNSD)
- Session 5 - Kenya experience implementing NCA (KNBS)
- Session 5 - Morocco experience implementing NCA (HCP)
- Session 5 - South Africa experience implementing NCA (SANBI)
- Session 6 - Integrated Landscape Planning in the Congo Basin region - a role for NCA (UNEP-WCMC)
- Session 6 - NCA Informing Economic Policies and Development Strategies in Uganda (MFPD, Uganda)
- Session 7 - Securing a sustianble and thriving future: using accounts related to protecting nature in South Africa (SANBI)
- Session 7 - NCA experiences in Ghana using nature protection policies
- Session 7 - Ecosystem Accounting:in Uganda: Compilation, Analysis and Policy implication (UBOS)
- Session 7 - ARIES for SEEA (BC3)
- Event Date
- From 6 Sep 2023 to 7 Sep 2023
- Time
- From 1:00pm to 9:00pm (UTC)
- Location
- Africa
Nairobi Declaration Statement and Call to Action
The participants of the Second Africa Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) Policy Forum 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya on 6 and 7 September 2023 adopted a Nairobi Declaration Statement and Call to Action.
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Logistical information
Logistical information and other information for participants is available here.
About the Africa NCA Community of Practice
The Africa Natural Capital Accounting Community of Practice (Africa NCA CoP) was officially established on July 1st, 2020, and ever since, the CoP has made progress to provide the much-needed space for African countries to learn, seek or share knowledge and bring together professionals from governments, institutions, nongovernmental organizations and academia that are interested in or working on natural capital accounting (NCA) in Africa.