Biodiversity Capacity-Building and Development Forum
In
decision 15/8, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity requested the Executive Secretary to convene, in collaboration with partners, a forum to facilitate networking and sharing of experiences, good practices and lessons learned in capacity-building and development for biodiversity, and to organize events to showcase technical and scientific cooperation initiatives, technologies and opportunities.
These forums will bring together representatives of Parties, indigenous peoples and local communities, women and youth, non-governmental organizations, private sector, academia and other relevant stakeholders involved in capacity-building and development and technical and scientific cooperation in support of the implementation of national biodiversity strategies and action plans (
NBSAP) and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (
GBF).
The Biodiversity Capacity-Building and Development Forum is expected to contribute to a
better understanding of capacity-building and development and technical and scientific cooperation needs, good practices and conditions contributing towards the effective implementation of NBSAPs and the GBF at the national level;
greater coordination and
synergies among the various initiatives and partnerships supporting implementation; and opportunities for forging and strengthening
partnerships and developing collaborative initiatives and projects.
