This small scale funding agreement supports implementation of the CBD COP decision XIII/8. This decision requests the Executive Secretary, in collaboration with other members of the CPW , “to further elaborate technical guidance for better governance towards a more sustainable bushmeat sector, with a view to supporting Parties’ implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020”. It also requests to “build on the road map on the role of bushmeat in food security and nutrition and the results of the Symposium on Beyond enforcement: Communities, governance, incentives, and sustainable use in combating illegal wildlife trade, held in South Africa in February 2015, as well as the workshop on Sustainable use and bushmeat trade in Colombia: operationalizing the legal framework in Colombia, held in Leticia, Colombia, in October 2015, taking into account the perspective and knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities in customary sustainable use of biodiversity