International and Regional Documents

This study assesses the biogeographic classification of the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) on the basis of the species diversity and distribution of reef-building corals. Twenty one locations were sampled between 2002 and 2011.

To address the problem of underfunding of health systems in SSA the Abuja Declaration of 2001 set a target to allocate 15% of a country’s budget to public health expenditure. However there is no empirical evidence on whether SSA countries are converging or diverging from the target and whether there is significant effect of the Abuja instrument on other health expenditure indicators...

The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity organized a capacity-building workshop for small island developing States (SIDS) with a view to facilitate achievement of Aichi Biodiversity Target 9 on invasive alien species through enhanced capacity-building and technical and scientific cooperation (Montreal, Canada 14 to 15 June 2014).The workshop identified existing challenges in capacity development, in particular, in the area of technical and scientific cooperation in SIDS during the process of developing project proposals.

Evaluation of large scale patterns of coral communities in the Western Indian Ocean