Accordingly, the programme and budget details were under preparation. Africa A MIKE workshop was held during November 1999 in Namibia. This was attended by Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The 4 countries are committed to using funds derived from the auctions to fully implementing MIKE in each of their countries, with Namibia providing the co-ordination. Mozambique and Zambia will be invited to the capacity building workshop and it is the intention to support these two range states as fully as possible within the region.
Implementation is therefore under way, with no external funding needed.
The Central Co-ordinating Unit had not evolved as planned, particularly as the funding was lacking and did not seem to be very forthcoming, except a small contribution from Japan. The Secretariat had therefore taken over the CCU role at its own expense and was therefore currently providing all central co-ordination. The money from Japan was being used to further the S.E. Asia programme and budget proposal. The ETIS information is under way and the MIKE section has been set up with the provision of Doc 11.31.2. However the Secretariat has held back on the MIKE section, due to an IUCN request that current protocols are not listed until they have received TAG endorsement.