The Department of Sustainable Development organized a workshop to present the results of work carried out to strengthen the Clearing House Mechanism (CHM) on Biodiversity, particularly in the context of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (ABS), as well as associated traditional knowledge.

The aim of the workshop was to share with the members of the “Monitoring of CBD Protocols” Working Group of the National Commission on Climate Change and Biological Diversity the main deliverables developed under the ABS II project, and to gather their comments, opinions, and recommendations.

• The work that was reviewed covers key areas, namely:
• The assessment of needs to improve our national CHM;
• The redesign of the section dedicated to the Nagoya Protocol, to make it a real space for access to information and decision support;
• The communication plan developed to raise awareness and disseminate information on ABS issues in Morocco;
• The proposal for a platform dedicated to communicating the results of the APA II project, including a preview of the future national portal for managing access requests;
• Reports from surveys and consultations conducted with holders of traditional knowledge in the Drâa-Tafilalet and Souss-Massa regions;
• And finally, the proposed methodology for structuring the collection and organization of relevant data.