3. Encouraging Mozambique’s accession to international
organizations relevant for safeguarding genetic resources and
traditional knowledge;
4. Introducing mechanisms for recognizing and developing the
intellectual property rights of individuals and local communities
possessing traditional knowledge;
5. Promoting policies and legislation to allow access to and the
fair and equitable sharing of the benefits resulting from the
exploitation of genetic resources, and the associated traditional
knowledge, at the level of local communities.
STRATEGIC AREA V: TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND BIODIVERSITY
Goals
Strategic Goal 17
for 2012
Encouraging the acquisition and safeguarding of intellectual
property rights by local communities
Results anticipated
Support system for local communities.
by 2012
SHORT TERM
Actions
1. Incentivizing the acquisition of intellectual property rights by
local communities and ensuring their protection;
2. Developing model contracts and memorandums of
understanding on the exploitation of intellectual property rights
that safeguard the interests of local communities and the fair
sharing of benefits;
3. Introducing monitoring mechanisms to allow and impose the
legal acquisition of traditional knowledge;
4. Where genetic resources or traditional knowledge are used,
making it a duty to reveal their source in order to obtain