Other Guidance on NBSAPs

Parties are encouraged to take into account the following additional guidance on NBSAPs:

Proposed Voluntary Guidelines to Parties for Review of NBSAPs

Decision VIII/8

BirdLife International (2012)

Booklet on developing and implementing NBSAPs: How to set, meet and track the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

CBD Technical Series No. 49 (2010)

Mainstreaming Gender into National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (English, French, Spanish)

UNEP 1993 and WRI 1995 Guidelines

United Nations Environment Programme Guidelines for Country Studies on Biological Diversity, Nairobi, 1 October 1993 (UNEP/Bio.Div./Guidelines/CS/Rev.2)
Miller, K R and Lanou, S M. National Biodiversity Planning: Guidelines Based on Early Experiences around the World. World Resources Institute/UNEP/IUCN, Washington, DC, 1995
Juan Javier Garcia Fernandez. Guide for the Preparation of Action Plans within the framework of the Biodiversity Convention, UNDP/GEF 1998 (available in English and Spanish)
Roy T. Hagen A. Guide for Countries Preparing National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans, UNDP/GEF 1999 (available in English)

UNEP Biodiversity Planning Support Programme (BPSP) Thematic Studies

Integrating Biodiversity into Broader National Development Frameworks
Agriculture, Fisheries, Forestry, Tourism, and Environmental Impact Assessment, Use of Economic Tools in Biodiversity Planning, Financial Planning for NBSAPs, and Harmonization of Legal Obligations under Biodiversity-related MEAs

Fauna and Flora International Guidelines

Fauna & Flora International. National Biodiversity Strategy and Action: Planning BSAP Preparation: Materials Compiled for the BSAP preparation process, Cambridge UK, n/d (available in English)

The Prescott et al. guidelines

Jacques Prescott, Benoît Gauthier and Jonas Nagahuedi Mbongu Sodi. Guide to Developing a Biodiversity Strategy from a Sustainable Development Perspective Institut de l’énergie et de l’environnement de la Francophonie (IEPF), Ministère de l’Environnement du Québec, UNDP and UNEP, Montreal, September 2000 (available in English, French and Spanish)

WWF/SPREP

National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans - Pacific Regional Review, Eleanor Carter (2007)