Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing in the Pacific Islands Region

SPREP, WWF-SPP, and FIELD collaborated on this Darwin Initiative project to promote access and benefit sharing provisions within the CBD in the small island states of the Pacific region. The purpose of the project was to enhance the ability of policy makers in the region to introduce national regulations that safeguard access to genetic resources, and promote the equitable sharing of benefits from those resources. As part of this project, a regional workshop was held in Nadi, Fiji, in March 2000, where regional guidelines on access to genetic resources were agreed. This regional meeting was followed by two pilot projects in the Cook Islands and Vanuatu, where national level consultation workshops on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing were held in February and April 2001, respectively.

For more information on this project...

Draft Workshop Reports for the SPREP Project: Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) National Workshop:

Vanuatu

Cook Islands

And click here for the details and report of the Access to Genetic Resources Workshop held in Honiara on 7-8 May 2003.