The ‘Developing and Implementing the National Framework on Access to and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge’ project was a 5-year project designed to address the importance of biodiversity conservation and fulfilling the objectives of the CBD through its facilitation of the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol. Furthermore, as a cross-cutting issue, it was designed to support the conservation of globally significant biodiversity and sustainable use of the components of globally significant biodiversity.

The aim of the Project was to create the legal and administrative underpinnings, as well as the practical capacity in China to authorize and enable providers of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge to share in the benefits from the utilization of those resources, in a manner that promotes improvement of the providers’ social welfare and provides a motivation for conservation and efforts to maintain the sustainability of those resources.