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Jessica Smith has led the Nature programme at the UNEP Finance Initiative since 2020.…
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New Green Shoots: 6 trending products for nature finance and 5 nature investing themes to watch in 2024
New Green Shoots: 6 trending products for nature finance and 5 nature investing themes to watch in 2024
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Are you working on nature and heading to New York Climate Week? Looking forward to discussing business contributions to the Global Biodiversity…
Are you working on nature and heading to New York Climate Week? Looking forward to discussing business contributions to the Global Biodiversity…
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Globally, the estimated financing need of #smallholders is USD 450 billion, while the total amount available to #farmers in developing economies is a…
Globally, the estimated financing need of #smallholders is USD 450 billion, while the total amount available to #farmers in developing economies is a…
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Gosh that mainstreaming work brings back memories Jessica! Look forward to finding more opportunities to work with you!
Gosh that mainstreaming work brings back memories Jessica! Look forward to finding more opportunities to work with you!
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Berufserfahrung
Ausbildung
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Graduate School of Business - University of Cape Town
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Topic: private finance for pro-poor, community-led nature conservation in southern Africa.
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Quantitative Methods in Finance including Regression and Model Building, Project Finance, Financial Risk Management, Responsible Investment / ESG, International Finance including Debt Markets, Innovative Finance
Dissertation on opportunities, barriers and risks to private and blended finance for community-based conservation (CBNRM) in southern Africa. Published a peer reviewed paper based on the findings: Smith, J.; Samuelson, M.; Libanda, B.M.; Roe, D.; Alhassan, L. Getting Blended…Quantitative Methods in Finance including Regression and Model Building, Project Finance, Financial Risk Management, Responsible Investment / ESG, International Finance including Debt Markets, Innovative Finance
Dissertation on opportunities, barriers and risks to private and blended finance for community-based conservation (CBNRM) in southern Africa. Published a peer reviewed paper based on the findings: Smith, J.; Samuelson, M.; Libanda, B.M.; Roe, D.; Alhassan, L. Getting Blended Finance to Where It’s Needed: The Case of CBNRM Enterprises in Southern Africa. Land 2022, 11, 637. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11050637 -
Canada's top graduate programme in international affairs. Studied in "National and Sub-National Aspects of Development" stream and wrote thesis on Global Environment Facility (GEF) finance for promoting sustainable land management in southern Africa (Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe) in the context of post-Apartheid / post-colonial unequal land ownership and land redistribution programmes.
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Thesis on bilateral finance for Rio Conventions (climate, land, biodiversity) in Sahel region of Africa, as project for three Canadian government departments
Bescheinigungen und Zertifikate
Ehrenamt
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Impact and Advisory Board Member on Nature & Finance
Various policy, industry and academic initiatives
–Heute 3 Jahre
Support and advise a number of policy, industry and academic initiatives to mainstream nature into the financial sector, such as the International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits (IAPB) Governance Working Group, GoNaturePositive! project, Deutsche Bank Nature Panel, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) Nature with Climate and Scaling Nature Finance projects, SUSTAIN project, ALIGN project, etc
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Link parent for boarding students at progressive African IB school
Waterford Kamhlaba UWCSA
– 3 Jahre 1 Monat
Waterford was founded in opposition to Apartheid education and played a small but remarkable role in the struggle for racial equality in southern Africa. It has sustained a vision to educate exceptional students regardless of race, religion or financial background, and continues to nurture Africa’s future political, business, and civic leaders https://www.waterford.sz/about/history
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Women’s micro-enterprise finance support, funding advisory
eSwatini Fair Trade (SWIFT)
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Job creation for women through fair trade hand craft in southern Africa. Rebranded as Fair & Square http://fairandsquare.org.sz
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Guidance for banks: Biodiversity Target-setting
Principles for Responsible Banking / UNEP FI
The Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) were developed by the banking industry in
collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP
FI). In an era of increased expectations and scrutiny for banks to contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, Paris Agreement, and other norms and standards set by their customers, investors and society-at-large, the Principles define what it
means to be a “responsible bank.” There are more than…The Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) were developed by the banking industry in
collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP
FI). In an era of increased expectations and scrutiny for banks to contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, Paris Agreement, and other norms and standards set by their customers, investors and society-at-large, the Principles define what it
means to be a “responsible bank.” There are more than 230 signatories with combined
assets of USD $60 trillion from around the world as at publication.
This guidance primer is a resource for implementation to support PRB Signatories in
preparing to set portfolio-level biodiversity targets. Version 1 is published (during June
2021), in anticipation of the finalisation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)’s
post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework later this year in Kunming, and in response to other related developments such as the convergence of ‘nature positive’ within definitions of ‘net zero’ ambition in the remaining months until the Glasgow UNFCCC COP. -
Biodiversity mainstreaming in Global Environmental Facility projects: A review of current practice
Commissioned and funded by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) to the Global Environment Facility and published with permission, by IIED
Biodiversity mainstreaming is a multi-layered and dynamic concept with many definitions that have
evolved over time, but the overall goal can be synthesised as better non-biodiversity-focused decision
making which serves to improve outcomes for biodiversity itself. This is the second of two reports
commissioned by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment
Facility (GEF) that seek to explore the current status of mainstreaming biodiversity into…Biodiversity mainstreaming is a multi-layered and dynamic concept with many definitions that have
evolved over time, but the overall goal can be synthesised as better non-biodiversity-focused decision
making which serves to improve outcomes for biodiversity itself. This is the second of two reports
commissioned by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment
Facility (GEF) that seek to explore the current status of mainstreaming biodiversity into production
sectors — in theory and in practice.
In recent years, theories of change (ToCs) have increasingly been recognised as valuable tools for
project design, adaptive management and evaluation of impacts. This report reviews a sample of GEF-funded biodiversity mainstreaming projects, with a view to answering the following questions: (1) What ToCs have been developed for biodiversity mainstreaming and what ToCs for key recognised pathways for mainstreaming have been developed? (2) Are there typologies for ordering and understanding the wide variety of entry points, pathways and approaches for biodiversity mainstreaming? (3) Are there positive examples of how co-benefits and trade-offs have been explicitly addressed, managed, accounted for or monitored, or emerging approaches or suggestions for doing this? (4) Are there indications regarding the success of particular causal pathways?
The report concludes that there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to mainstreaming, and this context- and
problem-specificity means that there is also no singular theory of change that can be applied to
mainstreaming projects. However, the process of thinking through the ToC has helped some projects better articulate their mainstreaming goals, recognise where additional effort and intervention might be needed, and better understand the process by which mainstreaming occurs. -
Biodiversity mainstreaming: A review of current theory and practice
Commissioned and funded by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) to the Global Environment Facility and published with permission, by IIED
Biodiversity mainstreaming is a multi-layered and dynamic concept with many definitions that have
evolved over time, but the overall goal can be synthesised as better non-biodiversity-focused decision
making which serves to improve outcomes for biodiversity itself. This is the first of two reports
commissioned by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment
Facility (GEF) that seek to explore the current status of mainstreaming biodiversity into…Biodiversity mainstreaming is a multi-layered and dynamic concept with many definitions that have
evolved over time, but the overall goal can be synthesised as better non-biodiversity-focused decision
making which serves to improve outcomes for biodiversity itself. This is the first of two reports
commissioned by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment
Facility (GEF) that seek to explore the current status of mainstreaming biodiversity into production
sectors — in theory and in practice.
The review reveals that while the literature on mainstreaming continues to evolve and improve, its
development is hampered by an inconsistent use of terminology and approaches, which prevents the
comparison of cases. In particular, while the GEF has developed a theory of change for its
mainstreaming portfolio, there was no evidence of other theories of change for biodiversity
mainstreaming in the literature. Second, although the literature suggests a number of typologies that
could be used to understand mainstreaming approaches, these are loosely defined and not used
consistently. Third, there is a rich literature on trade-offs around ecosystem services and poverty
alleviation, but little that specifically relates to mainstreaming. Finally, there is little literature on
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Evaluation of GEF Support to Mainstreaming Biodiversity
Global Environment Facility Independent Evaluation Office (GEF IEO)
The Evaluation of Global Environment Facility
(GEF) Support to Mainstreaming Biodiversity was undertaken to assess GEF contributions to
biodiversity mainstreaming and identify good practices and challenges in biodiversity mainstreaming
interventions.
I led the South Africa country case study which subsequently provided the framework for the study as a journey of mainstreaming:
■ Transformation, where conservation moves from protected areas to the wider landscape…The Evaluation of Global Environment Facility
(GEF) Support to Mainstreaming Biodiversity was undertaken to assess GEF contributions to
biodiversity mainstreaming and identify good practices and challenges in biodiversity mainstreaming
interventions.
I led the South Africa country case study which subsequently provided the framework for the study as a journey of mainstreaming:
■ Transformation, where conservation moves from protected areas to the wider landscape, reflecting changes in the perception of biodiversity conservation as it applies to society
■ Elevation, by which the conservation sector becomes more effective at working with economic sectors; and biodiversity is taken up by a broader range of sectors, institutions, and actors
■ Acceleration, as increased adoption of biodiversity considerations and changing institutional and sector models start to have an effect at the systemic level; this stage is critical to containing threats to biodiversity and has a measurable impact on biodiversity indicators at the landscape scale
■ Normalization, a posited subsequent stage where biodiversity becomes a recognized asset for the economy and is ingrained in the management of productive landscapes and seascapes, and in the various sectors -
Mid-term review of the Biodiversity and Land Use project (South Africa)
UNDP Evaluation Resource Centre
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Conserving Drylands Biodiversity (book 2013 & article 2014)
Biodiversity: Journal of life on Earth Vol 15, Issue 2-3: 143-147
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BioTrade – A catalyst for transitioning to a green economy in Namibia
UNEP, Green Economy Sectoral Study
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Rapid Trade and Environment Assessment - National assessment for Namibia
IISD and South African Institute for International Affairs
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