This project revitalizes the National Floristic Center (CNF), the state institution responsible for plant biodiversity studies and host of the national herbarium, by setting up a mechanism for plant data management in Côte d'Ivoire. Agreements for collaboration and research are being developed between the four project partners — the CNF; the Swiss Center for Scientific Research, a leading research institute in the country; the Jean Lorougnon Guédé University which surveys plant biodiversity in protected areas in the country and the Aké-Assi Botanical Institute in protected areas in the country and the Aké-Assi Botanical Institute in Andokoi, which has significant holdings of academic and research data.