Itincludesreviewingprogrammes, adopting quality criteria for the coreareas and developing a federation-wideevaluationsystem that monitorsprogressin these areas and in capacitybuilding.
Because the link between people and plants is so fundamental to the conservation of both biological and cultural diversity, it concentrates on the core of our capacity building: training in applied ethnobotany, providing people with inter-disciplinary skills highly relevant to conservation action.