A capacity-development workshop for the Arab countries of North Africa and the Middle East, on capacity development for national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs) and biodiversity mainstreaming, was held in Cairo, Egypt, from 14 to 18 December 2008.

This workshop was organized jointly by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Technical Secretariat of the Council of Arab Ministers Responsible for the Environment (CAMRE) of the League of Arab States, and the Regional Office for West Asia of the United Nations Environment Programme.

Related documents (official documents, information documents and other documents) are available below.

• Notification
• Documents
• Information Note for Participants

Preparing for the Workshop

Presentations of Participants

• Algeria - NBSAP overview/implementation; mainstreaming through national plans; current activities (in Arabic)
• Bahrain - NBSAP Development
• Comores - État de mise en oeuvre de la SPANB
• Egypt - National Biodiversity Financial Resources and Mechanisms
• Egypt - Biodiversity Conservation (Achievements of a Decade and Future Priorities)
• Egypt - Environmental Education and Outreach Program (in Arabic)
• Egypt - Diversity of Environmental Gases in Egypt (in Arabic)
• Egyptian Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries - Case Study of Red Swamp Crayfish in River Nile, Egypt
• Iraq - Biodiversity Challenge
• Jordan - NBSAP overview/implementation; mainstreaming through national plans; current activities (in Arabic)
• Kuwait - Overview of biodiversity activities (in Arabic and English)
• Lebanon - NBSAP overview and implementation (in Arabic and English)
• Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (in Arabic)
• Mauritania - NBSAP overview and implementation (in Arabic)
• Morocco - NBSAP overview and implementation (in Arabic)
• Oman (in Arabic)
• Palestine - Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity within the framework of national sustainable development
• Saudi Arabia (in Arabic)
• Somalia - Biodiversity Overview
• Sudan - CBD/NBSAP implementation
• Syria (in Arabic)
• Tunisia (in Arabic)
• Yemen - NBSAP overview and implementation

• ELARD Group - Strategic Environmental Assessment as a Tool for Enhancing Implementation and Mainstreaming
• MADA Association - Contribution of Genetic Diversity in Poverty Alleviation: the Role of NGOs in Lebanon
• IPPC FAO/SCBD - Contribution of the International Plant Protection Convention to the work on invasive species
• SCBD - Introduction to the Workshop
• SCBD - Invasive Alien Species: The Convention on Biological Diversity and the International Plant Protection Convention
• SCBD - What is the Ecosystem Approach?