• Enhance education and awareness of a range of other stakeholders, on participatory conservation,
• Support research, documentation, and dissemination,
• Establish participatory monitoring and evaluation mechanisms,
• Develop electronic database and establish mechanism to share data, experiences and best practices through network,
• Develop networking and exchange in South Asia to share experiences and best practices,
• Support transboundary conservation activities involving stakeholders,
• Encourage voluntary relocation of communities within CMPA framework

II: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND LIVELIHOODS
Having considered the experiences of initiatives on achieving sustainable development and providing sustainable livelihoods, Participants suggest:

For Scaling up the experiences,

• Establish a network of Traditional Knowledge (TK) and associated knowledge systems, including information exchange, to enable marketability and replication of processes, products,
• Ensure multi-lingual documentation of experiences, lessons learnt and best practices (in English & other
  national languages),
• Encourage the linkages between communities who have successful activities in order to facilitate knowledge exchange with those who wish to replicate the initiatives,
• Support a bottoms-up decision-making and participatory planning approach, considering importance of gender representation,
• Use community experience to inform/influence the government,

For achieving equitable sharing of benefits from Traditional Knowledge at both national and international levels,

• Enable benefit sharing by collecting, assessing, and documenting traditional knowledge,
• Promote use of traditional knowledge, primarily for health care besides others, amongst local communities,
• Assess the usefulness of an electronic database on classical and oral traditional knowledge,

Having recognized the role of women in biodiversity conservation, the participants urge,

• Enhanced training on gender issues, especially on issues of time and resource management,
• Initiation of exchanges between women's groups,
• Fostering knowledge enhancement and other activities aimed at identifying alternate livelihood options,

III: ACCESS AND BENEFIT SHARING, BIOSAFETY RELEVANCE OF ISSUES TO TRADE AND IPR

Access To Genetic Resources And Benefit Sharing (ABS)

• Develop an electronic database/ inventory of biological resources, beginning with those actually used to sustain livelihoods or with potential for such use,
• Promote community-based small and medium sized enterprises producing pharmaceutical products to
  assist local communities in adding value to their genetic resources,
• Use the CBD's Bonn Guidelines on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) to establish a national framework for regulating access and benefit sharing,
• Create awareness of market value of biological resource products, particularly genetic resources,