Regional workshop for East Africa on updating national biodiversity strategies and action plans held in Kigali

Montreal, 7 July 2011

– Over four days, biodiversity experts and officials from the East Africa region worked towards implementing the Nagoya biodiversity compact. The Regional Workshop for Eastern Africa on Updating National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), co-organized and co-hosted by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Rwanda Environment Management Authority and the Secretariat of the East African Community, with the financial support of the Government of Japan, was held in Kigali from 27 to 30 June 2011.

Following workshops held for Southern Africa (Botswana), Europe (Germany), and North Africa and the Middle East (Lebanon), West Africa (Senegal), and Central Africa (Republic of Congo), the East Africa workshop is the latest in a series of regional and subregional capacity-building workshops to strengthen national capacities for the development, implementation, reviewing, updating, and communication of national biodiversity strategies and action plans. The next workshop will be held in Quito, Ecuador, from 13 to 15 July 2011).

For additional information, please see: www.cbd.int/nbsap/workshops2.shtml.