SwedBio Program f resiliens & utveckling 2016-2020 SwedBio Program f resilience & Development 2016-2020 - SwedBio Resilience & Development Progr 2016-2020 A knowledge-interface programme initiated by Sida in 2002 to          strengthen resilience & sustainable development as a tool for poverty reduction. SwedBio is now a programme under the Stockholm             Resisilience Centre, Stockholm University. During recent years        SwedBio has been developing towards a more detached, international    think-tank with a reduced dependency of Sida. Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) har ansökt hos Sida om ett stöd på 141,2 miljoner kr för att genomföra det globala programmet ”SwedBio – a knowledge interface on resilience and development at Stockholm Resilience Centre” under fyra år 2016-2019. 

Programmet har som mål att bidra till utvecklingen av resilienta ekosystem och samhällen med minskad fattigdom och respekterade mänskliga rättigheter. Detta vill man bidra till att uppnå genom utveckling av politik, policyer och metoder på internationell, nationell och i viss mån, lokal nivå. Verksamheten har en särskild styrka i SwedBios långsiktiga samarbete med 10-12 frivilligorganisationer som i huvudsak har sin bas i utvecklingsländer. Ett särdrag hos SwedBio är deras arbete med att fungera som ett ”gränssnitt för kunskap” (knowledge interface) och förbättra dialogen mellan olika aktörer, från ursprungsfolk och folkrörelser till det internationella forskarsamfundet och FN-förhandlare. De skräddarsydda dialogseminarier som SwedBio arrangerat i Ekvador, Panama och Colombia sedan 2012 i syfte att bl a underlätta förhandlingar inom konventionen för biologisk mångfald är några exempel på hur man arbetar.
 
SwedBio startades på initiativ från Sida år 2002 och inhystes fram till 2011 på Centrum för Biologisk mångfald på Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet. 2011 bytte programmet värd till Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) och är numera en integrerad del av SRC.

Parallellt med detta beslut fattar Sida beslut om stöd till SRC för att genomföra programmet "Guidance for Resilience in the Anthropocene: Investments for Development 2015-2019" (GRAID), insatsnr 61050180.

Ansvarsfördelningen är följande: Stockholms universitet är avtalspart eftersom Stockholm Resilience Centre inte är en egen organisation utan ligger under fakulteten för naturvetenskap på Stockholms universitet. Stockholm Resilience Centre och dess styrelse har dock ansvar för att programmet genomförs enligt överenskommelse. SwedBio-programmets enhetschef har viss delegerad beslutskapacitet och ansvarar för den dagliga verksamheten. SwedBios personal inklusive enhetschef finansieras av SwedBios programbudget. Background 

SwedBio's focus is biodiversity and since its establishment in 2002, the organization has worked to contribute to poverty alleviation, increased fairness, sustainable livelihoods and social-ecological systems rich in biodiversity that are resilient to different types of global changes such as climate change. The organization was first based at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), but moved in 2011 to the Stockholm Resilience Center. SwedBio is a programme that supports the generation and dissemination of new knowledge, a knowledge interface, with regard to resilience and ecosystem services.

Objectives and overview of the operation

The focus has been on developing countries, mainly least developed countries and other low-income countries. In these countries, SwedBio has worked with the following thematic focus areas: "Livelihoods, Food and Health; Cities and Biodiversity; Biocultural Diversity; Climate Change and Ecosystems; Values and Governance; and Assessments and Indicators."  SwedBio has worked in all these themes in an integrated way and through a combination of dialogues and learning, art and culture, communication and education.

During the programme phase, SwedBio has supported a total of 63 partner organizations operating in 57 countries. The majority of these partners have been regional or global networks that in turn coordinate and cooperate with national and local partners.
In addition, the following overarching issues have formed the basis for SwedBio's operations throughout the programme phase:
-Resilience perspective: there is a strong correlation between biodiversity and the resilience of an ecosystem, and thus its ability to deliver ecosystem services.
- social-ecological systems rich in biodiversity: these systems are interconnected systems of man and nature and should not be treated in separation.
- Poverty alleviation: there is a strong interrelationship between poverty, livelihoods and biodiversity and by addressing drivers of biodiversity loss, the vicious circle in which biodiversity loss creates vulnerability and poverty can be broken.
- Justice, human rights and democracy: democracy and human rights are integrated through all activities and through a rights-based approach that analyses power structures in society, individual rights and the obligations of states throughout the development process.
- Gender equality: SwedBio's work is guided by a gender and development perspective that recognises the need for a deeper understanding of the different gender roles of poor women and men as managers of ecosystems.
- Endogenous development: SwedBio works from an endogenous development perspective, which means that they support organizations and collaborate with partners from the starting point for their supply strategies and worldviews, in an attempt to overcome a Western bias in grant and project design.