Institutional Support for the Protection of East African Biodiversity

This regional project (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) supports existing government and non-governmental organziations that are concerned with the conservation and management of natural resources to enhance their capacity to deal with biodiversity conservation. This project combines institutional support (education, in-service training and awareness-enhancing activities) with on-the-ground conservation activity that is intended to put training into practice. The project aims to improve coordination within country by (a) establishing or supporting existing biodiversity units within government environmental agencies and (b) enhancing regional collaboration through support of training and information-sharing activities. The executing agency, the UN FAO will promote regional coordination and cooperation through a central Chief Technical Advisor office in Tanzania.