Assessment of Capacity-building Needs and Country-specific Priorities in Biodiversity

1.Assist the Government of Syria (MoE/NBU) in further assessing capacity building needs, identify Syria specific priorities, analyzing institutional and functional capabilities and determining mechanisms necessary to protect national biodiversity in accordance with the NBSAP recommendations, and the GEF and CoP/CBD guidelines; and2.Enable the MoE to undertake the necessary consultative process required to prepare/adopt and submit the Second National Report on biodiversity in line decision V/19 of the CoP/CBD.