In Article II of the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds, Parties agree, as a fundamental principle, to take co-ordinated measures to maintain migratory waterbird species in a favourable conservation status or to restore them to such a status.

To this end, the Parties agree to apply within the limits of their national jurisdiction a number of general conservation measures prescribed in Article III of the Agreement, as well as a number of more specific actions determined in the Action Plan appended to the Agreement. In paragraph 7.3 of the Action Plan, the Agreement Secretariat is required to co-ordinate the development of a series of Conservation Guidelines to assist the Parties in the implementation of their obligations under the Agreement.

These Conservation Guidelines, which should be prepared in co-ordination with the Technical Committee and with the assistance of experts from Range States, were submitted to and adopted by the Meeting of the Parties (Article IV, paragraph 4 of the Agreement).

The Technical Committee keeps the guidelines under review, and formulates draft recommendations and resolutions relating to their development, content and implementation for consideration at sessions of the Meeting of the Parties (paragraph 7.6 of the Action Plan).

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	Guideline No.: 1 Guidelines on the preparation of National Single Species Action Plans for migratory waterbirds.
	Guideline No.: 2 Guidelines on identifying and tackling emergency situations for migratory waterbirds.
	Guideline No.: 3 Guidelines on the preparation of site inventories for migratory waterbirds
	Guideline No.: 4 Guidelines on the management of key sites for migratory waterbirds.
	Guideline No.: 5 Guidelines on sustainable harvest of migratory waterbirds.
	Guideline No.: 6 Guidelines on regulating trade in migratory waterbirds.
	Guideline No.: 7 Guidelines on the development of ecotourism at wetlands.
	Guideline No.: 8 Guidelines on reducing crop damage, damage to fisheries, bird strikes and other forms of conflict between waterbirds and human activities.
	Guideline No.: 9 Guidelines for a waterbird monitoring protocol.
	Guideline No.: 10 Guidelines on Avoidance of Introductions of non-native Waterbird Species
	Guideline No.: 11 Guidelines on how to avoid, minimize or mitigate impact of infrastructural developments and related disturbance affecting waterbirds
	Guideline No.: 12 Guidelines on measures needed to help waterbirds to adapt to climate change