Ensure the full integration of biodiversity and its multiple values into policies, regulations, planning and development processes, poverty eradication strategies, strategic environmental assessments, environmental and social impact assessments and, as appropriate, national accounting, within and across all levels of government and across all sectors, in particular those with significant impacts on biodiversity, progressively aligning all relevant public and private activities, fiscal and financial flows with the goals and targets of this strategy.

1. Promote and adopt biodiversity-inclusive whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches in planning, development and implementation of policies, regulations and strategies
2. Integrate biodiversity into national accounts reporting
3. Develop, adopt, implement and finance a biodiversity policy
4. NBSAP updated and endorsed by government
5. Sensitize and build capacity on biodiversity issues across all tiers of government, and across society
6. Strengthen and enhance capacity of the National Biodiversity Secretariat and Forum (NBSF), and that of environmental committees at village, ward, council, district and provincial level.
    

These considerations were taken into account through a participatory and consultative process. The process involved an inception workshop, a series of stakeholder consultations, technical working group meetings, and validation workshops. The process was coordinated by the Ministry of Environment, Climate and Wildlife (MECW), through the Department of Wildlife and Forestry Resources Management.

Contribution to KM-GBF Global Goals

1. Global Goal D – Means of Implementation and Enabling Conditions (Primary Contribution)

• Serves as Zimbabwe’s core enabling target for delivering the KM-GBF by embedding biodiversity considerations across governance systems, public institutions, and financial flows.
• Promotes whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches to biodiversity mainstreaming, ensuring coordinated action across ministries, local authorities, civil society, academia, private sector, and Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs).
• Strengthens institutional frameworks for biodiversity governance through enhanced functionality of the National Biodiversity Forum (NBF) and decentralised environmental committees from village to provincial levels.
• Integrates biodiversity into national planning, budgeting, and investment decision-making by aligning fiscal and financial flows with NBSAP and KM-GBF goals.
• Builds national capacity for biodiversity-inclusive policy design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting through sustained training, CEPA programmes, and governance tools.

2. Global Goal B – Sustainable Use and Nature’s Contributions to People

• Ensures that biodiversity and ecosystem services are systematically considered in poverty eradication strategies, national development plans, and sectoral policies, safeguarding nature’s contributions to livelihoods, food security, health, and resilience.
• Promotes biodiversity-inclusive development pathways that reduce trade-offs between economic growth and ecosystem sustainability, particularly in high-impact sectors such as agriculture, infrastructure, mining, energy, and urban development.
• Enhances public awareness and societal understanding of biodiversity values, strengthening social support for sustainable use and conservation outcomes.

3. Global Goal A – Ecosystem Integrity and Resilience

• Reduces indirect drivers of biodiversity loss by integrating biodiversity safeguards into Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs), Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIAs), and land-use planning processes.
• Improves the effectiveness of conservation outcomes by ensuring that policy, planning, and investment decisions maintain ecosystem integrity, connectivity, and resilience across landscapes and seascapes.
• Supports systematic monitoring of biodiversity outcomes through biodiversity-inclusive indicators embedded in national planning and reporting frameworks.

4. Global Goal C – Fair and Equitable Benefit-Sharing (Supporting Contribution)

• Strengthens inclusive governance and participation by ensuring IPLCs are represented in national and sub-national biodiversity forums and decision-making structures.
• Enhances transparency and accountability in biodiversity governance, creating conditions under which benefits from biodiversity use and conservation are more equitably distributed.
• Supports awareness and capacity building on biodiversity rights, responsibilities, and governance processes, indirectly reinforcing equitable benefit-sharing mechanisms.

1. Baseline assessments and studies on biodiversity 
2. Produce knowledge products in vernacular language
3. Capacity building for policy makers