Recommendations of the Brisbane Conference

Recommendation 6.5 on Wetland manager training programmes

6th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties
Brisbane, Australia
19-27 March 1996

Recommendation 6.5: Establishment of further wetland manager training programmes

1. RECALLING Article 4.5 of the Convention which calls on Contracting Parties to "promote the training of personnel competent in the fields of wetland research, management, and wardening";

2. AWARE of the existence of training programmes for wetland managers and of the need to ensure that the benefits of such programmes are enjoyed as widely as possible;

3. RECOGNIZING that, for many developing countries and development agencies, personnel training has a very high priority; and

4. NOTING the development of the concept of Ramsar site twinning arrangements and the related information and personnel exchanges;

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5. URGES Contracting Parties to seek resources from their Governments, through development agencies or other national or regional bodies, to establish wetland manager training programmes;

6. REQUESTS the Convention Bureau to pursue with key aid donors the concept of a global training network for wetland managers, which would encourage the benefits of personnel exchange to be more widely shared;

7. DIRECTS the Convention Bureau to obtain curricula and organizational details from around the world and to advise Contracting Parties of the availability of such information; and

8. CALLS ON Contracting Parties to give priority in funding support under the Ramsar Small Grants Fund for Wetland Conservation and Wise Use in the 1997-1999 triennium to involvement by developing country representatives in appropriate wetland manager training programmes.

For further information about the Ramsar Convention, please contact the Ramsar Convention Bureau, Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland (tel +41 22 999 0170, fax +41 22 999 0169, e-mail ). Posted 8 December 1996, updated 23 March 2000, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.