UNEP’s Regional Office for Europe is organising a capacity-building workshop on ‘Strengthening synergies and indicators in National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAP)’ for Central Asian, Eastern European and Southern Caucasus countries.

The workshop will take place by Kyrgyzstan’s Issyk-Kul lake on the week of 7 September 2015 and is organised in partnership with UNEP-WCMC and WWF Russia, with support from the State Agency of Environment Protection and Forestry of the Kyrgyz Republic.

The meeting will be the first of two capacity-building workshops on indicators organised as part of the ‘Strengthening synergies and indicators in NBSAPs for the Pan-European region’ project financed by the European Commission. The objectives for this first workshop are to:

• Obtain an improved understanding of key concepts, steps and best practices in developing NBSAP impact indicators;
• Identify and agree sub-regional commonalities in terms of indicators, capacity development needs and support actions to be developed in the pan-European regional workshop;
• Agree upon the indicators to be worked on as a sub-region, the activities to be carried out and outputs;
• Build skills and confidence in developing and using indicators as part of updating and implementing NBSAP.

Please get in touch with Alexa Froger for more details: alexa.froger@unep.org