Decision 15/8 : Capacity-building and development and technical and scientific cooperation

In decision 15/8, the Parties, among other things, adopted a long-term strategic framework for capacity building and development (Annex I) to support nationally determined priorities for the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal global biodiversity framework. The long-term framework outlines the expected high-level capacity results; provides a menu of guiding principles and key strategies and approaches for improving the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of capacity-building and development initiatives and programmes; and describes mechanisms to facilitate and support its implementation at the global, regional and country level. For further information, please refer to the capacity development pages.

COP 15 also established a technical and scientific cooperation mechanism comprising a network of regional and/or subregional support centres to be coordinated at the global level by a coordination entity (Annex II). It also established an informal advisory group on technical and scientific cooperation to provide strategic advice on practical measures, tools and opportunities to promote and facilitate technical and scientific cooperation, technology transfer, capacity-building and development, knowledge management, and the clearing-house mechanism in support of the Kunming-Montreal global biodiversity framework (Annex III). For further information, please refer to technical and scientific cooperation pages.