Japan Biodiversity Fund

Activity Details

Title Promotion of Awareness and Ratification of the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Mandate
Decision BS-V/11
Targeted Outputs
- 136 NFPs from Africa, Asia & Pacific, CEE and GRULAC received adequate information about the Supplementary Protocol that enables or encourages them to initiate and facilitate signature and ratification by their respective countries
- 1 publication on the basics of liability and redress
Specific Activities
Briefings and Workshops*

Africa
Briefing to AU representatives, 20 June 2011, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Workshop to NFPs or their nominees (46)**, 23-24 June 2011, Kigali, Rwanda
(If Kigali does not work Addis Ababa would be more appropriate to consider. In fact, it is preferable to have it in Addis Ababa back-to-back
with AU briefing)

Asia & Pacific
Workshop to NFPs or their nominees (40), 30-31 May 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

CEE
Workshop to NFPs or their nominees (23), 11-12 July 2011, Slovenia

GRULAC
Workshop to NFPs or their nominees (27)***, 4-5 July 2011, Cartagena, Colombia

* At this stage, all the briefing and workshops listed herein as well as the venues are tentative. Contact has been made with officials in all the countries indicated except Moldova. We are waiting for their response

** African Union has been asked to be a partner and to contribute to cover cost of English-French interpretation. We are waiting for response.

*** A request has been forwarded, informally, at this stage, if the Government of Colombia would consider covering cost of Spanish-English interpretation.
Thematic Programmes Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety