Thanks to the continued funding from the Government of Japan, and in collaboration with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute and the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, with support from other partners in the "NBSAP Forum", organized a follow-up regional workshop for Latin America on updating NBSAPs, from
6 to 10 May 2013 in Villa de Leyva, Colombia.
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regional workshop for Latin America on the clearing-house mechanism (CHM) was held in parallel.
