Mekong River Basin Wetland Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use Program

The project will involve Lao PDR, Cambodia, Thailand (funded through non-GEF sources) and Vietnam, assisting them to conserve and sustainably use biological diversity in the lower Mekong wetlands. The project will establish a multi-sectoral planning process at national and regional levels, to strengthen macroeconomic and policy frameworks for wetland biodiversity conservation and sustainable use, to provide adequate information to support sound policy, planning and management, to improve human and technical capacity to better conserve and sustainable manage wetlands; and to improve community-based natural resource management of wetlands.