The sub-regional workshop for West Asia and North Africa on Capacity Building for Implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA) is organized by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Technical Secretariat of the Council of Arab Ministers Responsible for the Environment (CAMRE) of the League of Arab States, the Regional Office for West Asia of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP-ROWA), and the PoWPA Friends Consortium, and is hosted by the Ministry of Environment and Water of the United Arab Emirates. Its objective is to build capacity to: create national action plans for PoWPA implementation; access funding based on these action plans; and strengthen implementation of the PoWPA on the themes of governance, climate change, sustainable financing, and valuation of the costs and benefits of protected areas.  

dates: 16-20 April 2012   location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates   contact: CBD Secretariat   phone: +1 514 28 2220   fax: +1 514 288 6588   e-mail: secretariat@cbd.int   www: http://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2012/ntf-2012-027-pa-en.pdf