In accordance with the decision of the conferences of the parties, the governing body of the Convention on Biological
Diversity, Benin carried out for the fifth time the periodic review of the status
of implementation of the Convention in order to contribute to the mid-term evaluation of the implementation
of the Strategic Plan for Biological Diversity 2011-2020. The process of preparing this report was
based on the participation of all actors in the search for information, evaluation and validation.
This document is the report; it is organized in 3 main parts and two appendices in accordance with the guidelines of the
Convention on the subject