[PDF] Top 20 Action requested: The Standing Committee is invited to a) approve the interim Secretariat

... 8. The Secretariat believes that having a fundraising strategy is essential to clarifying and guiding our funding ...applications. The strategy will greatly enhance our chances of ... See full document

... in the three languages of the Convention must be available, and any other languages for interpretation as required by the host ...for the interpreters during their rest periods outside ... See full document

... CEPA Action Plans to the Ramsar Secretariat, there are many other Parties that are currently working towards that goal or implementing CEPA action plans at other ...There is ... See full document

... also the terms “training” and “capacity-building”. The advice presented below is based, in part, on the Mainstreaming Biological Diversity publication (produced by UNESCO, the ... See full document

... During the period of this report, we held the 12th meeting of the Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP) in February ...on the work done by STRP at that meeting, as well as before and ... See full document

... of the key roles of the Panel under its modus operandi is to keep under review and identify emerging issues it considers should be addressed by the ...on the recognition that ... See full document

... consideration is being given to holding similar such meetings, resources permitting, in other ...regions. The recommendations of the European meeting will be considered by Working Group 9 ... See full document

... 3. The attached materials for SC37 consideration are a draft Resolution and an annexed framework guidance for the consolidated process for detecting, responding to and reporting change in the ... See full document

... governments to bring the “Changwon Declaration” to the attention of their heads of state, parliaments, private sector, and civil society, and to encourage them and all government ... See full document

... then, the Convention has progressively developed a major suite of water management- related implementation guidance for countries, including an overall framework for using the different aspects of ... See full document

... intended to provide lasting, structural and operational support to facilitating and improving the implementation of the Ramsar Convention in a defined geographical region, it is ... See full document

... 2. The Award was given for the first time at Ramsar COP7 in 1999, for the second time at COP8 in 2002, for the third time at COP9 in 2005, and for the fourth time at COP10 in ...by ... See full document

... character to sustain the features of a Ramsar site’s international importance is no different, in principle or practice, to obligations that already exist for these ...sites. The only ... See full document

... 1971, the Ramsar Convention has been able to attract the involvement and support of many organizations and individual experts who have been committed to the Convention’s objectives and ... See full document

... 2. The report analyzes the major challenges we have faced and the collective actions taken to address ...happy to report that the work of the Convention has proven ... See full document

... 2. The Changwon Declaration was drafted specifically to a) speak to audiences other than the usual Ramsar constituency; and b) to help the Ramsar constituency to ... See full document

... requiring the engagement by the STRP of an expert (or experts) to undertake the work ...by the STRP and its expert Working Groups – more precise costings and ways and means for ... See full document

... of the COP itself, at which all Contracting Parties are voting members of the meeting, only the Standing Committee members set out in Resolution ...by the COP to take ... See full document

... Action requested: The Standing Committee is invited to consider and advise on issues raised in the report from the MedWet Initiative, agree and ... See full document

... wish to amend any of the text you have put in a green or yellow “free-text” box, it is recommended that you cut-and-paste the existing text into a separate file, make the amendments, ... See full document