Thematic Programme Projects

The Japan Biodiversity Fund (JBF) has supported and managed a portfolio of thematic programme projects implemented by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity in collaboration with a myriad of partners. Many of these projects have been supported in consecutive phases throughout the decade of operations of the JBF and have produced numerous outputs, had multiple impacts, and have laid the foundations for further progress in implementation of the Convention in the coming decades.

A total of 96 thematic programme projects have been supported to date in the following areas:

Biodiversity and Health
Business and Biodiversity
Capacity Building for Implementation of Regional Assessments
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
CBD Website Translations
Clearing House Mechanism
Climate Change and Biodiversity
Decision Tracking
Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction
Forest Biodiversity
Gender and Biodiversity
Global Taxonomy Initiative
Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities and Traditional Knowledge

Invasive Alien Species
Island Biodiversity
Legal Preparedness
Mainstreaming Poverty Eradication
Marine Biodiversity
Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing
National Ecosystem Assessments
Plant Conservation
Protected Areas
Resource Mobilization
Sub-national Implementation
Technology Transfer
United Nations Decade on Biodiversity
Youth