Notification 2023-124

Dear Madam/Sir, As you may recall, under the leadership of Colombia and Germany, an NBSAP Accelerator Partnership was announced during the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties and operationally launched in the margins of the seventy-eighth United Nations General Assembly, with the aim of accelerating the implementation of national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs) aligned with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Since its establishment, the Accelerator Partnership has grown to 21 member countries and 9 institutional members. The initiative aims to raise the ambition of NBSAPs and fast-track their implementation through providing or facilitating access to financial and technical support, including through supporting in-country and regional facilitators to help countries identify their needs and opportunities for accelerating progress, connecting the country needs with dedicated technical or financial support through the match-making service, supporting peer-to-peer learning, and raising the profile of NBSAPs to promote nature-positive action. The Accelerator Partnership’s operational leadership is provided by a dedicated interim Global Coordination Unit supported by the United Nations Environment Programme, the United Nations Development Programme and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. On behalf of the NBSAP Accelerator Partnership, I am pleased to convey the attached letter inviting eligible Parties interested in receiving technical support from the Accelerator Partnership to implement their revised NBSAPs, and in hosting an in-country facilitator, to submit an expression of interest. If your country is interested in hosting a facilitator, please complete the expression of interest form available online and submit the endorsement letter available on the Accelerator Partnership’s website by e mail to the Country Engagement Coordinator (alexandra.said@nbsapaccelerator.org) as soon as possible, but not later than 13 December 2023. A guidance note on receiving technical support from the Accelerator Partnership, as well as other documents and information related to the expression of interest process and on how to become a member country of the Accelerator Partnership are available on the Accelerator Partnership’s website. For any questions related to the expression of interest, kindly contact the interim Global Coordination Unit at info@nbsapaccelerator.org or at alexandra.said@nbsapaccelerator.org. Thank you for your cooperation and continued support to the work of the Convention and its Protocols.

Acting Executive Secretary

To: CBD national focal points