CHM-GBIF Capacity Building program

During the last two years, the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and it Secretariat has been developing a new Content Management System for the Clearing House Mechanism (CHM) of the Convention. The tool, named "Bioland", is interoperable with others biodiversity databases.

The principle goals of this project is to reinforce links between CHM and GBIF communities, and to develop concrete synergies, for example a specific GBIF-compatible plugin for Bioland. National CHM teams in this project include: DR Congo, Cameroon, Mauritania, Madagascar, Bénin, Togo, Guinea, Belgium and France.