The United Nations Environment Programme-Global Environment Facility (UNEP-GEF) Project on Building Capacity for Effective Participation in the Biosafety Clearing House (BCH) of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety was initiated in March 2004. A number of documents from the project have recently been put on the web, including the report of a Pacific islands sub-regional meeting on Implementation of national biosafety frameworks and regional cooperation, including the establishment of a pacific regional node of the BCH" held on 21-25 November 2005 in Apia, Samoa; the report of the "BCH training of trainers course for information technology and Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety regional advisors" held from 31 January to 12 February 2005 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; two bi-annual project progress reports (June 2005 and December 2005); five BCH training modules; and an on-line training workshop module which provides guidelines on how a BCH training program can be conducted. See http://www.unep.ch/biosafety/BCH.htm or contact [email protected] for more information.

07/05/2006