Ref.: SCBD/NP/VN/JS/DM/85176 18November 2015

NOTIFICATION

Regional Training Capacity-Building Workshop for the AfricanRegion on Community Protocols, Indicators on Traditional Knowledge and Customary Sustainable Use of Biodiversity under the CBD

25 - 29 January 2016, Nairobi, Kenya

Dear Madam/Sir,

I am pleased to inform you that, with the generous support of the Government of Japan, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), in collaboration with the Government of Kenya and the Indigenous Information Network, is organizing a regional trainingworkshop for the Africanregion, which will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 25 to 29 January 2016.

The aim of the training workshop is to train trainers from Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ (IPLCs) organizations and Parties from African countries in:

(i)Development of community protocols on traditional knowledge (TK) including traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources under the Nagoya Protocol;

(ii)Operationalising indicators on TK and Customary Sustainable use (CSU) including through Community-Based Monitoring and Information Systems (CBMIS);and

(iii)Implementation of the global Plan of Action on Customary Sustainable Use.

The training programme and workshop will assist in familiarizing trainers with training materials and in organizing their ownnational or local capacity-building workshops on these thematic issues, in line with the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, particularly Targets 18 and 16. The training workshop will be conducted in English and French and is dedicated only to countries in the African region.

I am thereforepleased to invite interested Parties, in particular Parties that have nominated national focal points for traditional knowledge, and IPLCs of the African region to nominate representatives based on the following criteria:

(i)Their expertise on traditional knowledge and related issues; and

(ii)Their ability to conduct further trainings at the regional, national, subnational or local levels on community-based monitoring and indicators on traditional knowledge and customary sustainable use, and on community protocols on TK, including TK associated with genetic resources under the Nagoya Protocol.

Nominations should take the form of an official letter addressed to the Executive Secretary, by email at: , or by fax at: +1 (514) 288-6588, and must contain full contact details of the nominee, along with a curriculum vitae clearly indicating the relevant areas of expertise and the attached form. Nominations should be submitted no later than 11December 2015.

Subject to the availability of funds, the Secretariat will select the participants on the basis of regional balance, gender equity, relevant expertise, and ability to offer trainings, to build the capacity of indigenous and local communities at national, sub-national and/or local levels and to develop local training materials in the abovementioned topics. A list of selected participants will be posted on the CBD website ( once the selection is completed. Selected participants will be contacted directly by the Secretariat.

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

Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias

Executive Secretary

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(a) Development of community protocols on traditional knowledge (TK) including traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources under the Nagoya Protocol and,
b) Operationalising indicators on TK and CSU including through Community-Based Monitoring and Information Systems (CBMIS).
c) Implementation of the global Plan of Action on Customary Sustainable Use
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