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The Darwin projects

Assigning search categories to projects

Assigning search categories (or tags) is limited for projects completed before 2008 and has been restricted to significant contributions to CBD Articles as reported by projects.

However, work is ongoing to provide a much richer set of categories, so check back periodically to monitor progress. Advances in this work will be indicated by further additions to the project menu (above), and additional search fields in the projects and documents search forms.

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Darwin Initiative

About the Darwin Initiative

The Darwin Initiative was announced by the UK Government at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.

The aim of the Initiative is to assist those countries which are rich in biodiversity but poor in financial resources to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) through the funding of collaborative projects which draw on UK biodiversity expertise.

The Darwin Advisory Committee (currently chaired by Professor David MacDonald), consisting of experts from government, academic, science and the private sector, advises Ministers on development of the Initiative and makes recommendations on applications for funding.

Darwin projects are diverse. Typically, they may address issues in the following areas:

  • institutional capacity building
  • training
  • research
  • work to implement the Biodiversity Convention
  • environmental education or awareness

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