7. Support for programs aimed at encouraging conservation and sustainable harvesting e.g. trust
funds
8. Establishing professional networks and payment of salaries
5.3.2
Resource Owners and Users
Owners of the resources e.g. private land owners or local communities
1. Fees e.g. access fees, sample collected, licence and other fees for any services rendered
2. Royalties, Training / capacity building, Technology transfer
3. Licenses to manufacture / market resultant products
4. Development of supply industries or raw materials / extracts
5. Commercial products e.g. drugs at cost price
6. Joint ownership of patents and other intellectual property rights (IPR)
7. Support to small scale industries
8. Support for programs aimed at encouraging conservation and sustainable harvesting
Local resource users or community groups e.g. traditional healers, bee keepers, among others through
an association or through a national body tasked with handling such benefits. This should not focus
entirely on financial benefits alone. In some instances, the benefits should take the form of
infrastructure development or capacity building. These should be done through established community
efforts and structures.
1. Fees e.g. access fees, sample collected, licence and other fees for any services rendered
2. Royalties, Training, Technology transfer
3. Licenses to manufacture / market resultant products
4. Development of supply industries or raw materials / extracts
5. Commercial products e.g. drugs at cost price
6. Joint ownership of patents and other intellectual property rights (IPR)
7. Collaboration in education / training related to genetic resources management
8. Support to small scale industries
9. Establishing professional networks
Those who access the resource for research or commercial purposes
1. Training, Technology transfer
2. Joint ownership of patents and other intellectual property rights (IPR)
3. Collaboration in education / training related to genetic resources management
4. Supporting small scale industries based on accessing genetic resources
5. Collaborating / participating in research programs
6. Establishing professional networks
5.4
Mechanisms for Sharing Benefits
Agreements on the benefits to be shared, identification of persons with whom these benefits are to be
shared and how the benefits will be transferred from one party to the other must be concluded prior to
accessing the genetic resources.
The mechanism for sharing of any monetary benefits will be mutually agreed with beneficiaries in
advance, and may involve the transfer of funds to a nominated account. Other mechanisms will also be
agreed upon between the parties according to the type of benefits to be shared.
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