The principle tasks of the project will include: the establishment of an inter-sectoral coordination body with the creation of a Steering Committee for the Biodiversity Strategic Action Plan (BSAP); a comprehensive assessment of existing information on biodiversity in Uzbekistan; identification and agreement of options for biodiversity management; preparation of the BSAP, and definition of specific actions required to implement it; and the preparation and dissemination of a final report as well as the submission of a national report to the CoP.

The project aims to implement the biodiversity components of the Comoros National Environment Policy and Environmental Action Plan. The project objective is to develop capacity at all levels in the Comoros and assist to establish the legal, financial, institutional and operational frameworks and essential technical skills for collaborative management and sustainable use of biodiversity.

The project will define priority action to conserve and sustainbly use Yemen's biodiversity in the context of its economic development. The project will initially assess existing knowledge, and then through a process of analysis and consultations, to identify and agree upon options for biodiversity management and benefit sharing in the country.

The Biodiversity Enabling Activity for Congo will assist the Ministry of Tourism and the Environment (MTE) in developing a National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (BSAP). The BSAP will build on and reinforce other existing national strategies and plans, such as the National Environment Action Plan. The project will allow Congo to meet its obligations under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) by assisting the preparation of an Interim Report to the Conference of Parties (COP) of December 1997 and its first Country Report to the COP.

The focus of the project will be the development and implementation of a management plan which will integrate conservation and sustainable use of the outstanding endemic biodiversity of Socotra Archipelago, with development objectives. This project will work closely with a UNDP Country Programme project focussing on social development and basic infrastructure for the local communities.

The objectives of this EA are: 1. To evaluate the existing needs in four national priority areas in biodiversity management, and to propose, based on a wide consensus, a program for the strengthening of institutional capacities and human resources, in order to implement activities that enhance the knowledge, use and conservation of biodiversity in Guatemala, and 2.To implement Clearing House Mechanism on biodiversity in Guatemala, strengthening national, institutional and human resources capacities in information management.

The principal objective of this enabling activity is to assist Equatorial Guinea to prepare a national strategy and action plan which defines the current status of, pressures on, options for, and priority actions to ensure the conservation and sustainable use of its biological diversity in accordance with its own national development plan.

This EA focuses on the development of the National Biodiversity Strategy and the National Biodiversity Action Plan. The Strategy sets goals, principles and instruments of nature protection policy, describing the problems facing biodiversity and outlining measures to solve them, as well as focusing on public education and participation. The Plan focuses on the actions to implement the measures outlined in the Strategy.

Assist Armenia in the formulation of a long term strategy and action plan for conservation and sustainable use of its biodiversity in the context of its economic development, in accordance with Articles 6 and 8 of the CBD.

The principal objective of this enabling activity is to assist Burkina Faso to prepare a National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (BSAP), which will define the current status of, pressures on, options for, and priority actions to ensure the conservation, sustainable use, and equitable share of its biological diversity in accordance with the National Development Plan (NDP).