Environment and Energy

Access and Benefit Sharing and Traditional Knowledge

UNDP promotes the protection of Traditional Knowledge (TK) and the equitable sharing of the benefits derived from TK and genetic resources as a means of promoting the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, and the sustainable livelihoods of communities that rely upon these resources. UNDP’s mandate to work on these issues follows directly from its commitment to promote the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in particular those associated with poverty reduction and with environmental sustainability. It also provides UNDP with a means of advancing its policy of engagement with indigenous peoples, and of building upon its support for systems that encourage indigenous knowledge and practices.

• Access & Benefit Sharing and Traditional Knowledge: Analysis and Findings of Capacity Assessments undertaken by Selected Countries through the UNDP/GEF Biodiversity Enabling Activities.
• Country Capacity Assessment Reports on ABS and TK
• List of UNDP's ABS and TK projects
• UNDP Side Event at CBD COP7 on ABS & TK, 16 February 2004, Kuala Lumpur
• The Convention on Biological Diversity's Working Group on Access and Benefit Sharing