On August 19, 2015, within the premises of the Burundian Office for the Protection of the Environment (OBPE), an expert workshop was held to organize the collection of data and information available from all possible sources relating to the national objectives of the National Strategy and Action Plan on Biodiversity (OBPE) implementing goals 5 and 14 of Aichi in relation to the questions formulated.

This workshop is organized as part of the “Indicators Project for monitoring the trend of biodiversity in Burundi”. The highlights of the workshop were:

- Welcome and presentation of the workshop program;
- Session to explain the components of the project and questions for clarification;
- Presentation of the methodology for collecting information;
- Identification of stakeholders, sources of information and ways to access them.

The work of the meeting began with a welcome speech and the presentation of the workshop program by the co-promoter of the project and responsible for overseeing the team of experts in collecting information. In her speech, she thanked the participants for the work of the workshop and then invited them to contribute richly in identifying possible sources of information and the ways to access them. She ended by presenting to them the agenda of the workshop, which consisted of the following items:

- Identify and inform key stakeholders on the questions formulated;
- Analyze the questions formulated and the targets chosen and list the information and data needs useful in order to formulate indicators also based on the indicators already formulated in relation to the national objectives concerned.

After the welcome and welcome speech, the project promoter took the floor to explain to the participants the components of the project. In his intervention, he said that the project was timely because the indicators formerly formulated were not based on known quantitative data. This is due to the fact that in Burundi, there is no system for collecting and recording data on a daily basis. Thus, the indicators formulated do not allow the biodiversity trend to be analyzed from several points of view. This is because several indicators are simply sources of verification.

He thus indicated that the overall objective of this project is to set up indicators to measure, monitor and report the state of biodiversity. This session was followed by the presentation of the methodology that will be followed during the collection of information by the co-promoter of the project at the same time as the supervisor of the team of experts who will be responsible for collecting this information mentioned above. This methodology was designed taking into account the questions formulated.

This exploitation of the methodology went hand in hand with the identification of the information to be sought and the stakeholder or source who can provide it. This session was characterized by rich and intensive exchanges as well as discussions between the participants. After discussions and exchanges, quite a few stakeholders and the nature of the information they can provide were identified and the work of the workshop was concluded at 14:00 p.m.