BIOPAMA’s capacity-development strategy in Central and West Africa aims to encourage the managers and administrators of the protected areas (PA) to use the regional information system, or Regional Observatory for Protected Areas and Biodiversity. For 2015 2016, it calls for the training of “BIOPAMA coaches for protected areas” (hereby referred to as “coaches”) to incite PA field managers, as a matter of priority, and then the managers at the national and regional levels, to understand and use the Decision Support System (DSS) for the analysis, planning, monitoring and evaluation of biodiversity and PA management and governance. The present document (Coach Observatory Mission Information Toolkit (COMIT) of the Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management (BIOPAMA) programme) is a pedagogical support tool aimed at helping coaches to carry out their training/support assignments.