Comparative chart summarizing and describing existing international instruments. Comparative chart listing existing binding international instruments, their status and their parties. Knowledge base and analysis of existing legal instruments and institutional approaches at the national level. Collection of national and sub-national legislation. Comparative national legislative and institutional chart of Convention on Biological Diversity parties.
Country reports for nine focus countries.
Written input into the Global Invasive Species Programme and Action Plan. The project will have a number of beneficiaries. The global community will benefit from the development of the international instrument and national legal and institutional knowledge bases including their respective analyses and comparative charts. Developing countries in particular will benefit as donors will be able to ascertain the state of development of and gaps in existing national measures. Developing countries may also benefit from in depth analysis of their legal and institutional situation with regard to invasive alien species.