wanting what wens? observations on ontogeny of multinational wildlife enforcement networks william...
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Wanting What WENs?Observations on Ontogeny of Multinational Wildlife
Enforcement Networks
William SchaedlaEcolloquium
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Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.
― John Wayne
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When the WENs?The early days…
2 October 2004 ― Thai Prime Minister Taksin Shinawatra calls for a Southeast Asian Regional Law Enforcement Network to Combat Nature Crimes
1 December 2005 ― AEG-CITES meeting votes to create the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Wildlife Enforcement Network (ASEAN-WEN)
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22 May 2008 - South Asia Nations Wildlife Enforcement Network (SAWEN)
5 September 2010 - Red de Observancia y Aplicación de la Normativa Silvestre para Centroamérica y República Dominicana (ROAVIS)
When the WENs?Reproducing the model
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2004 - State Department scoping grant to WildAid (now FREELAND) and TRAFFIC
USD 50,000
2005 - USAID funding for the ‘ASEAN-WEN Support Program’ to WildAid (now FREELAND) and TRAFFIC
USD 5,000,000
Cash as cash can
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2010 (11)
US State Department grant to Support for the South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network (SAWEN) to TRAFFIC
USD 450,000
US State Department grant for Assessing Feasibility of an Andean Wildlife Enforcement Network to TRAFFIC
USD 50,000
US State Department grant for the Central American Wildlife Enforcement Network (CAWEN) to TRAFFIC
USD 300,000
New Geographies
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Exciting new focal areas
2010 - US State Department grant to Build ASEAN-WEN Capacity to Combat Illegal Trade in Marine Turtles and other Marine Species awarded to TRAFFIC
USD 120,000
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2010 (11) USAID grant ‘Combatting Illegal Wildlife Trafficking in Asia’ Asia’s Regional Response to Endangered Species Trafficking (ARREST) awarded to FREELAND
USD 8,000,000
Reprising familiar roles
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2011 USAID grant for the Bhutan, China, India and Nepal launch of Project PREDATOR to INTERPOL
USD 600,000 2012 USAID grant to create Project Predator links with the South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network (SAWEN) to INTERPOL
USD 720,000
Enforcement, Partner…
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So, what’s the point?
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Whither the locals?
Uneven national uptake and ownership
Some countries marginalized or excluded
Communication and engagement uneven
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Cross-cultural follies
Messaging right?
Working through existing regional trade agreements can moot criticism of partners
Opposition to US Government ‘interference’
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Inappropriate attire
Sub-optimal or wrong agency leadership
WEN participation a mechanism for alleviating international criticism on other fronts
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NGO-ing the focus
Priority setting by outsiders
Dependence on publicity as a motivator
Civil society organizations become interlocutors with international bodies like INTERPOL, the World Customs Organization, and (to a lesser extent) CITES
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NGO-ing how to get along
Countries in conflict with NGOs declining participation
NGO disunity and turf-wars detrimental to ownership transfer, engagement by external bodies
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Dubious securitization
Drive towards common-denominator goals can sideline country motivation to participate
Current WEN arrangement places a premium on high profile species and commodities
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External connectivity
INTERPOL, CITES Enforcement, World Customs Organization, all invited to early planning, but then left outside the funding stream. (Not addressed until USAID grants to INTEPOL)
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Non-WEN countries other than the US largely absent from meetings, discussions
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Internal connectivity
Some existing Mechanism for communication ignored – either because of ignorance or by choice
.Forced use of languages the outside funding and implementing agencies can understand.
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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
― Voltaire
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Thank You