Target 21

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GBF-TARGET-21
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21. Data, information and knowledge for decision making is available

Ensure that the best available data, information and knowledge, are accessible to decision makers, practitioners and the public to guide effective and equitable governance, integrated and participatory management of biodiversity, and to strengthen communication, awareness-raising, education, monitoring, research and knowledge management and, also in this context, traditional knowledge, innovations, practices and technologies of indigenous peoples and local communities should only be accessed with their free, prior and informed consent, in accordance with national legislation.

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Ensure that the best available data, information and knowledge, are accessible to decision makers, practitioners and the public to guide effective and equitable governance, integrated and participatory management of biodiversity, and to strengthen communication, awareness-raising, education, monitoring, research and knowledge management and, also in this context, traditional knowledge, innovations, practices and technologies of indigenous peoples and local communities should only be accessed with their free, prior and informed consent, in accordance with national legislation.
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7418
Document type
Report
Publication date (of file/URL)
23 May 2023

INTRODUCTION

Le Togo jouit d’une biodiversité assez riche qui concourt à l’équilibre de la vie des populations togolaises. Cette biodiversité et les écosystèmes qui lui sont associées rendent d’importants services aux communautés humaines spécialement aux femmes des milieux ruraux qui sont pour

Document type
Report
Publication date (of file/URL)
2 March 2023

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Over the last decades, the Government of Rwanda together with environmental stakeholders worked tirelessly to engage local communities in sustainable protection and management of protected areas. To achieve that, many public awareness programs were implemented to raise knowledge

Document type
Report
Publication date (of file/URL)
14 December 2022

Context

The State of Palestine is a state in the making and is under Israeli occupation. Yet, the Palestinian government has been concerned about the environment from its inception after the Oslo agreements. These agreements, while interim and proposed for five years transitional period (1994

Document type
Report
Publication date (of file/URL)
22 July 2022

Introduction

La République du Bénin est caractérisée par un réseau d'aires protégées constitué de quatre réserves de Biosphère dont deux au nord du pays et deux au sud. Les deux réserves du nord (réserve de Biosphère de la Pendjari et réserve de biosphère transfrontalière du w) constituent les

Document type
Report
Publication date (of file/URL)
30 January 2024

Contexte du projet


La République du Bénin dispose aujourd’hui deux (2) parcs Nationaux, sept (7) périmètre de reboisement et 46 forêts classées qui constituent les aires protégées du Bénin couvrant environ 19% du territoire national. Plusieurs études nationales ont montré que la plupart de ces

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Document type
Notification
Publication date (of file/URL)
20 January 2025

Introduction

Policy context and objectives

During COP16 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Decision16/09 paragraph 3 called up on parties to further develop their national Clearing House Mechanisms (CHMs) and paragraph 5 assistance from other parties to developing country Parties