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Building National Capacity for Biodiversity Information Management for Liberia’s CHM. By: J. S. Datuama Cammue Focal Point CHM. Background. The CHM set up in 2011 as the hub biodiversity information management under the implementation strategy of the NBSAP
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Building National Capacity for Biodiversity Information Management for Liberia’s CHM By: J. S. Datuama Cammue Focal Point CHM
Background • The CHM set up in 2011 as the hub biodiversity information management under the implementation strategy of the NBSAP • Website was set up and 16 national cadres, editors and administrators trained • Training done by the Belgium Institute of Natural Sciences .
Institutional Arrangement • EPA in charge of MEAs operation; • The CBD Coordination unit within Division of MEAs responsible for CHM ; • CHM focal point working with national cadres responsible to run the CHM; • The CHM focal point report to the national focal point –CBD; • CBD focal point coordinates through the MEAs Coordinator and the office of the Executive Director of the EPA is over all head;
OPERATION OF CHM • CHM got on a good note and later faced challenges ( slowing down operation); • The annexation of the web to the central EPA system. • Funding was the real cause (slow down) • Operation went in active because stakeholders do not have access to the web;
2011-2020 programmes of Action • Liberia has revised its NBSAP; • Communication and resource mobilization strategy and financial mechanism are integral part of the new programmes which were lacking in the first NBSAP; • The CHM is the nerve center of biodiversity information management under the National strategic plan for 2011-2025;
Biodiversity Information management • A comprehensive communication strategy built around the CHM; • financial and resource mobilization defining how to go exist; • Biodiversity related institutions are obliged to support the web through budgetary allocations; • Our initial challenge is putting into action the communication strategy which the CHM is the hub ; • Making CHM full time is immediate priority;
Over-coming • Resolving financial resources needed; • partnership/exchange of personnel countries with success story like French speaking Africa is one way; • This will help overcome problem and promote sustained biodiversity information management through the CHM;
Sustaining the CHM • We see the Belgium Technical Cooperation assistance programme as an asset; • Our participation in this forum is therefore treated as very important in the process and we went at great length to ensure our participation here.
