MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STRATEGY AND ACTION PLAN FOR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION 2002-2007.

Strategy and Action Plan for Biodiversity Conservation 2002-2007 is a nationwide policy document, which goal is to preserve, restore and rationally use the country's biological diversity for the present and the future generations. It identifies 12 national targets, which have allowed the country to clarify the global target for the period up to 2010 in accordance with the decisions taken by the Conference of the Parties and the Secretariat of the Convention. The effectiveness of conservation of national biodiversity was identified by a set of 55 actions and 253 activities under 14 strategic objectives aimed at reducing the current rate of biodiversity loss. The National Action Plan for Biodiversity Conservation is a long-term document of fixed-term planning in the field of environmental protection and sustainable development of the country, which made it possible to determine the specific steps required to implement the chosen strategy during 2002–2010. Specific objectives for separate activities have become a criterion for assessing success, allowing to determine the degree of completeness of certain type of activity.
The main task of the legislative regulatory framework is to ensure development of the country's environmental policy aimed at environmental protection, rational use of natural resources and improvement of ecological situation. The state environmental policy of the country is formed by departments that carry out coordinating, regulating, controlling and managing functions in the field of environmental protection, biodiversity and rational nature management.
Turkmenistan is one of the centers of origin of a number of species of the most important crops, possessing rich genetic resources, including the number of wild relatives, cultivated and ancient varieties of agricultural crops that have adapted to local conditions. Ex situ conservation of wild relatives of cultivated plants (agrobiodiversity) - this is one of the measures of regulated extraction of biological resources (agrobiodiversity) from natural habitats. The priority of the country is also to solve the issues of coordination of activities and storage of data on agrobiodiversity.
The problem of the sustainable use of components of biological diversity is usually considered in conjunction with issues of the impact of food from genetically modified crops for human health. However, with the growth in financing of activities related to the use of genetic resources, appears the problem of the commercialization of knowledge and, in particular, traditional knowledge, when the rights of not only an individual personality, but also indigenous peoples, are infringed.
The Strategy envisages adoption of the following measures: (a) assessment of the status of biodiversity in agricultural areas; (b) ensuring that biodiversity interests are integrated into agricultural practices in the country; and (c) intensification of the process of attracting funds from international cooperation to sustain the economic viability of agricultural ecosystems rich in biological and landscape diversity.
In Turkmenistan, the system of sectoral collection of information on the state of used biological resources in agriculture, forestry, fisheries and hunting, quarantine and epidemiological service etc. is partially reflected in the departmental reporting, but it is not adapted to the biodiversity monitoring process.