The main goal of the project is to support the implementation the National Biosafety Framework by establishing a biosafety management system, and strengthening capacity building and infrastructure for LMOs development, import/export, handling, transport and release in the country. The National Biosafety Framework will be established through the approval and the entry into force of the draft biosafety Act, and the implementation of the national regulations and guidelines for safety in biotechnology as well as the institutional Biosafety guidelines.

This project proposal addresses the most urgent priorities among those identified in the National Biosafety Framework for Namibia and ensures that Namibia can meet its obligations under the Cartagena Protocol. The overall objective consists in providing support to strengthen capacity building for the implementation of NBF in compliance the obligations of the Cartagena Protocol.

The overall objectives of this demonstration project on biosafety is to provide support to strengthen capacity building for the implementation of national biosafety framework in compliance with the obligations of the Cartagena Protocol. Four areas of capacity building needs were identified through the first phase pilot project on biosafety:1) strengthening the institutions serving as centers of excellence/expertise and reference laboratories for LMOs monitoring, 2) training, 3) increase in public awareness on GMO matters, including media and NGOs, 4) development of information resources.

The overall objectives of this demonstration project on biosafety is to provide support to strengthen capacity building for the implementation of national biosafety framework in compliance with the obligations of the Cartagena Protocol. The specific objectives are: a) to support the establishment of the regulatory and administrative biosafety management system in to enable an adequate level of protection in the field of the safe transfer, handling and use of living modified organisms (LMOs) resulting from modern biotechnology, with a specific focus on transboundary movements in Bulgaria.

To create an enabling framework for the long-term, sustainable integrated management of the Kura-Aras River Basin following IWRM principles and avoid overuse and conflicting uses of water resources.

Project Summary. This Biodiversity Enabling Activity for South Africa assists DEAT in developing a National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (BSAP). The BSAP will build on and reinforce other existing national policies, particularly the White Paper on the Conservation and Sustainable use of South Africa’s Biological Diversity (1997) setting out the National Biodiversity Policy.

The goal of the project is to protect, conserve, and restore in-situ a 12,900 ha area located in proximity to Santiago consisting of a representative example of a Mediterranean-mountainous ecosystem (i.e., the Santiago Foothills) and support the continued functioning of the ecosystem’s ecological processes on which much of the city depends.

To improve national assessment methodologies relating to land use options and UNFCCC requirements, and to support core activities of the GEF Integrated Ecosystem Management Operational Programme and IPCC by developing and demonstrating generic tools which quantify the impact of land management and climate scenarios on carbon sequestration in soils.