Mobilization and strengthening of biodiversity data for conservation to support sustainable development in Côte d'Ivoire

The main objective of the National Flora Center (CNF) is to carry out all botanical studies in Côte d'Ivoire. Faced to the many challenges of remobilization of actors and data, the CNF, in 2016, as part of a consortium, received a BID funding (BID-AF2015-0025-NAC) to mobilize, digitalize and publish several datasets on the GBIF portal (https://www.gbif.org/search?q=Côte d'Ivoire).
Based on the results obtained and surveys conducted during the previous project, the CNF, through this new call for projects, proposes to increase the biodiversity data available for Côte d'Ivoire. Thus, Ivorian universities and institutions such as the UFR of Biological Sciences of the Universities Félix Houphouët-Boigny and Pelefero Gon Coulibaly, the Ministry of Environment through its Biodiversity and IPBES focal points will contribute to the data to be mobilized. Apart from plants, the data will also cover other groups of organisms that are very poorly represented on the GBIF Côte d'Ivoire portal such as fungi, bacteria and viruses and fauna.
Thus, this project will contribute to the national mobilization of biodiversity data to support decisions supporting sustainable development in Côte d'Ivoire. Specifically, it will first mobilize relevant biodiversity data for decision-making in support of sustainable development, and then use and extend best practices for the mobilization and digitization of other biodiversity data. The third step is to apply biodiversity data to support decision-making and research. Finally, in a fourth step develop sustainable national, regional or thematic networks to support data sharing and reuse.