What BIODEV2030 wants to change and how
BIODEV2030 coordination teams met late 2021 to jointly establish the project’s theory of change. This theory of change illustrates how public and private sector stakeholders can successfully implement concrete voluntary commitments and how these commitments could contribute to the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.
BIODEV2030 proposes a pathway of change that is unique and that fits into a multi-stakeholder landscape gathering multiple initiatives, projects and negotiations working to reduce pressures on biodiversity. The theory of change presents in a visual way BIODEV2030’s intervention strategy and causal links with desired immediate, medium-term and long-term changes. It also provides a framework in which appropriate indicators can be found to measure project outputs and progress towards its outcomes and impacts.
A theory of change describes the change a project wants to bring about, and the way this change should occur and why. It makes explicit the intermediate and necessary steps that need to take place for the long-term vision to be achieved, according to the people developing it, in this case the reduction of biodiversity loss.
The theory of change proposed is general and does not attempt to reflect the particularities of national contexts.
The theory of change workshop was conducted in a phase of assessment and learning following the achievement of the first milestones of the project, with a prospective and strategic reflection on the steps to come. In this sense, the theory of change is a very enriching tool for the project because it allows:
1) the joint revision of a good project logic of intervention,
2) the exploration of links between outputs, outcomes and longer-term impact,
3) the identification of changes that we would like to measure at the end of the project.