Two days Inception workshops program held on 7 and 8 June at Forest Dept; for the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan for Myanmar jointly with United Nation Environmental Program ( UNEP ).
U Soe Win Hlaing, Director General of Forest Department delivered the speech. After that the United Nations Environment Program’s Junior Professional Officer Dr. An Bollen read about the “Importance of biodiversity and planning process of establishing the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan”. The presenter includ from Forest Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, Department of Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Science, Forest Resource Environment Development Association , Wildlife Conservation Society ( WCS-Myanmar), Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Association, Smithsonian Research Conservation and Capacity Building in Myanmar by Smithsonian Institution and the Kochi Prefectural Makino Botanical Garden from Japan.
Multi-stakeholder: several people per ministry or division, as well as good representation of the universities and NGOs, international NGOs, and Cross sectoral are attended in this workshop.
It was held the Goal of;- understanding of the full process of developing a national biodiversity strategy and action plan ( different steps, roles, responsibilities, ….. ) and to launch the process,-to initiate stocktaking; start assembling available biodiversity data and the input different stakeholders can provide,-to establish a Steering Committee, Project Management Team and 3 Working Groups (National Resource Use, Conservation & Ecology, Social-Economic-Political) to define roles stakeholders, tasks and clear time frame of next activities and to discuss application for full budget.
 “It was very luck for the Myanmar that she participate in Conservation activities together with the other nation that can’t doing by only one nation but for the world wide need” the participant from the Myanmar Bird and Nature Society said.
Nyein Chan,( Ecotourism Director) of SST Tourism attended the workshop as an observor. He said, " We always strive to participate whatever doing conservation activities in Myanmar to get the knowledge for doing business in Mother country's sustainable development of tourism. we can ensure the preservation of the nature while generating wealth for the local communities".