Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 7 October
2011 – Representatives of the Post-WOW Flyway
Partnership presented the newly published French version
of the Wings Over Wetlands (WOW) Project’s Flyway
Training Kit (FTK) to the participants at the African Regional
Preparatory Meeting for Ramsar COP11, which took place in
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, from 3-8 October 2011.

The FTK and the Critical Site Network Tool
(CSN Tool) are two of the main products developed in the
context of the WOW, one of the largest flyway conservation
projects ever carried out in the African-Eurasian region.
The CSN Tool was also presented to the participants of the
Ramsar meeting who were strongly encouraged to ensure greater
national and international use of both these valuable flyway
instruments to support the conservation of wetlands and
migratory waterbirds.

The first copy of the French language
FTK was presented to the Ramsar National Focal Point for
Burkina
Faso, Ms. Andrea Ouedraogo at the meeting by Dr. Aimé
J. Nianogo, Regional Director for the IUCN Central and
Western African Programme, Mr. Stephen Flink from Wetlands
International
and Ms. Evelyn Moloko from the UNEP/AEWA Secretariat, who
assured participants that further distribution of the
FTK
was currently underway for the National Focal Points and
other target institutions.

Representatives of Wetlands International,
BirdLife International, the Ramsar and AEWA Secretariats
used the Ramsar African Regional Preparatory Meeting to
jointly promote the continued use of these valuable tools
under the framework of the WOW Flyway Partnership, which
was established to carry forward the work which began under
the WOW Project.

The production of the new hardcopy version
of the FTK was made possible thanks to the voluntary contributions
from the Governments of Germany (through the AEWA Secretariat)
and the Netherlands (through Wetlands International).

For more information, please contact Ms.
Evelyn Parh Moloko, Coordinator for the AEWA
African Initiative who attended the meeting on behalf of
the AEWA Secretariat.

Further Information

The Wings Over Wetlands (WOW) Project
was a USD 12 million initiative funded by The Global Environment
Facility (GEF), the German Government, the UNEP/AEWA Secretariat
and many other donors. The project was successfully implemented
from 2006 - 2010 and was a joint effort between Wetlands
International, BirdLife International, the UNEP/AEWA Secretariat,
the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN),
the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, UNOPS, UNEP World Conservation
Monitoring Centre and a range of other local partners in
Africa and Eurasia.

Electronic versions of the FTK can be downloaded
on the following website: wwww.wingsoverwetlands.org/flywaytrainingkit

The Critical Site Network (CSN) Tool: www.wingsoverwetlands.org/csntool

The WOW Project's Website can be found
here:

• Wings
  Over Wetlands (WOW) UNEP-GEF African-Eurasian Flyways
  Project (www.wingsoverwetlands.org)
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