Report of the National and Sub-National consultations (North, Central and South Iraq) for the NBSAP

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A consultation phase at the national level have been conducted within the process of developng the national biodiversity strategy in Iraq. One national workshop and three local workshops have been organized in order to do the following:

• define the national priorities concerning biodiversity conservation;
• setting the Iraqi Targets and indicators
• involve the key stakeholders in the project
• start up of the mainstreaming process

This report represents the result of the consultation workshops at the national level.

The four events have been conducted to gather all the stakeholders that are involved in adopting and implementing or giving technical advice for the NBSAP.

1. National Workshop held in Baghdad on the 26th of May 2013 (in combination and in parallel with the sub-national consultation for central Iraq on the 27th of May).
2. Sub National Workshops:

a) Central Iraq , Baghdad 27th of May 2013
b) North Iraq, Sulaimaniyah, 19th-20th of June 2013
c) South Iraq, Basrah, 26th-27th of June 2013

The sub-national consultations were organized as to invite all the Iraqi governorates to take part in the consultation process; the governorates that were invited, under each major geographic group were as follows.

North Iraq:
Sulemainiyah, Erbil, Dohuk, Ninewa, Kirkuk
Central Iraq:
Anbar, Kerbala, Baghdad, Diyala, Salah Ad Din, Babil, Wasit
South Iraq:
Basra, Najaf, Missan, Dhi-Qar, Diwaniya, Muthanna

The National and central Iraq Workshops were organized together and therefore the setting of the national priorities on the 26th of May was done together with the central Iraq representatives. The participants were identifying the national/central Iraq priorities during the first day; while during the second day the National Group focused on the Guiding questions (to set national targets) for the central Iraq eco-regions.