Cbd third National Report Armenia (English version)

E. OPERATIONS OF THE CONVENTION

Has your country actively participated in subregional and regional activities in order to prepare for Convention meetings and enhance implementation of the Convention? (decision V/20)
No	X
Yes (please provide details below)
Further comments on the regional and subregional activities in which your country has been involved.

Is your country strengthening regional and subregional cooperation, enhancing integration and promoting synergies with relevant regional and subregional processes? (decision VI/27 B)
No
Yes (please provide details below)	X
Further comments on regional and subregional cooperation and processes.

The following question (204) is for developED countries

Is your country supporting the work of existing regional coordination mechanisms and the development of regional and subregional networks or processes? (decision VI/27 B)
No
No, but programmes are under development
Yes, included in existing cooperation frameworks (please provide details below)
Yes, some cooperative activities ongoing (please provide details below)
Further comments on support for the work of existing regional coordination mechanisms and the development of regional and subregional networks or processes.

Is your country working with other Parties to strengthen the existing regional and subregional mechanisms and initiatives for capacity-building? (decision VI/27 B)
No
Yes	X

Has your country contributed to the assessment of the regional and subregional mechanisms for implementation of the Convention? (decision VI/27 B)
No	X
Yes (please provide details below)
Further comments on contribution to the assessment of the regional and subregional mechanisms.

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Please elaborate below on the implementation of the above decisions specifically focusing on: outcomes and impacts of actions taken; contribution to the achievement of the goals of the Strategic Plan of the Convention; contribution to progress towards the 2010 target; progress in implementing national biodiversity strategies and action plans; contribution to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals; constraints encountered in implementation.

F. COMMENTS ON THE FORMAT

75. 
    
    

Please provide below recommendations on how to improve this reporting format.

The format of this report is from our point of view very long and complicated. The questions of the report are in a number of cases very general and difficult to understand. From our point of view the questions regarding the 2010 target should be asked one year after the 2010 to see if Parties have achieved all goals and targets but in more simple way. The Boxes are too much detailed. Information we would give to these boxes are often part of our answers in notifications and it is not necessary to make the report more complicated filling these boxes in. Problems rose with clarification of some questions during the work with stakeholders. About half of the questions are duplicated. About one third of the questions need further clarifications.

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1 Please note that all the questions marked with ◊ have been previously covered in the second national reports and some thematic reports.

2 The questions marked with  in this section on Taxonomy are similar to some questions contained in the format for a report on the implementation of the programme of work on the Global Taxonomy Initiative. Those countries that have submitted such a report do not need to answer these questions unless they have updated information to provide.