The Regional Strategy consists of the following three broad strategic areas. First, enhancing the region’s economic and business base by adding value to and commercializing its biological resources; and broadening and diversifying its industrial and manufacturing base. Second, ensuring that economic opportunities that emerge from “biotrade” and economic diversification do not lead to the unsustainable use of the region’s biodiversity and result in the loss of
biological resources and ecological processes. Third, developing and implementing biodiversity awareness, information and capacity building programmes; research and development initiatives; and sustainable financing arrangements.