Southern African participants busy negotiating benefit deals as part of role playing exercises
From Left to Right: Mr Preston Scott, Ms. Beatrice Chaytor and Dr. Nicholas Mateo-GBDI faculty for
Module 2
Module 2:
Constructing a Contractual Agreement and Benefit Sharing

Module 2 deals with various ways in which contracts can be developed to result into a Win-Win agreement.

Some of the topics include:

  • The implications of biodiversity for economic growth
  • Policy and legislative contexts
  • The Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD)
  • National strategies
  • National legislation
  • Procedures, implementation and monitoring
  • Types of benefits
  • The case of Costa Rica: Costa Rica Biodiversity Law and Bioprospecting Agreements
  • Lessons learned building modern regulatory frameworks for ABS, and
  • Critical issues in access and benefit-sharing contractual arrangements.