Notification 2024-117

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am pleased to inform Parties and observers that the Secretariat, in collaboration with the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity and the UNEP Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, and with financial support from the Government of Denmark, is organizing a regional workshop on Knowledge Management for Biodiversity (KM4B) for Asia, which will take place from 11 to 13 March 2025, in Bangkok, Thailand. 

The main objectives of the workshop are to: (a) review the current status of biodiversity knowledge management (KM) in the countries of Asia; (b) share experience, best practices, and lessons learned in KM for biodiversity; (c) identify common KM4B needs and challenges in the region and co-create possible solutions to address them; (d) support participants in drafting elements of their national biodiversity KM strategies or action plans; and (e) establish a subregional KM4B community(ies) of practice and/or strengthen the existing ones.

The workshop is part of a broader KM4B Initiative led by the Secretariat, which aims to enhance the capacities of Parties and stakeholders to generate, collect, organize, share and utilize biodiversity-related data, information and knowledge to support evidence-based biodiversity planning, policy and decision-making, implementation, monitoring and reporting, in line with the Knowledge Management Strategy adopted at COP 16. The other components of the initiative include: KM4B webinars, regional workshops, KM change management programmes and KM networks and communities of practice.

Parties to the Convention and its Protocols in Asia are invited to nominate one representative responsible for knowledge management to attend the workshop. The nomination should be sent through an official letter addressed to the CBD Executive Secretary, with a duly completed nomination form (please see annex to the present notification), to secretariat@cbd.int as soon as possible and preferably no later than 17  January 2025. The Secretariat will also invite a limited number of participants from organizations representing indigenous peoples and local communities, women and youth, and relevant stakeholders, to participate in the workshop.

Please note that participants to the workshop will be expected to have successfully completed the Online Training Course on Knowledge Management for Biodiversity, as indicated in notification 2024-076. Parties are encouraged to nominate participants who attended the course, conducted from 20 August to 20 September 2024. Nominated participants who did not attend the Online Training Course on KM4B are invited to go through the course content available on the KM4B portal at: https://km4b.cbd.int/course.

Please accept, Sir, Madam, the assurances of my highest consideration.

 (Signed) Astrid Schomaker 
Executive Secretary

Enclosure: Annex