This Thursday, March 29, 2018, a meeting of Interinstitutional Focal Points (PFIs) took place in the premises of the Liaison Office of the Burundian Office for Environmental Protection (OBPE) located in Quartier Jabe, Avenue de l'Imprimerie, No. 12, in the premises of the Liaison Office of the Burundian Office for Environmental Protection (OBPE). This meeting is part of the integration of biodiversity issues in the various sectors of the country's life.

This meeting started with an opening statement by Mr. Alphonse Fofo from OBPE in place of the National Focal Point who was not present in this meeting. In his opening remarks, he spoke of the objective of this meeting, which is none other than to post information on biodiversity produced in the various institutions that control biodiversity. He took this opportunity to give a brief overview of the Burundi Information Exchange Center of the Convention on Biological Diversity. He did not fail to welcome the new PFIs letting them know that an introduction to posting information on the CHM-Burundian website will be given to them by the management assistant of the CHM-Burundian. He ended his speech by thanking all the PFIs and inviting them to post the information.

During this meeting, two new PFIs from respectively the Ministry of the Interior and Patriotic Education and the Ministry of Energy and Mines underwent training on posting information on posting information on the site of the CHM-Burundians.

This training consisted of presenting the CHM-Burundian site in general, reading the information posted on the site, posting news and events, inserting images, creating links, directories and web pages as well as posting files. The new PFIs were able to create their own directories. This training was followed by the creation of accounts for these two PFIs by the ABS-CH Focal Point, Mr. Masabo Onesphore.

The activities of this meeting were closed by Mr. Masabo Onesphore thanking the PFIs for having responded to this meeting and invited them to double their efforts to post more information on the site being in their respective institutions. During this meeting, a recommendation was made concerning the addition of two PFIs from the Burundian Office of Mines (OBM) and the Department of Energy.