Author Shine C.

Year of publication 2008

The primary aim of the toolkit is to provide a user-friendly guide to strengthening national policy, legal and institutional frameworks in this field. It provides detailed guidance on how to mainstream invasive alien species into planning and policy-making and draft new or amended legislation for all aspects of prevention and management. However, no blueprint is proposed. Countries need to find the best way forward for their particular needs, depending on their biological situation, the status of invasive-species science and the way in which the national legal system already operates. The toolkit has been produced as a stand-alone resource that can also be used for in-country and regional training courses. Although it is concerned with law, it recognises that some of the people involved in strengthening national frameworks will have little or no formal legal knowledge of law and others will have little or no understanding of invasion biology. The toolkit therefore avoids the use of legal or technical jargon and tries to explain key concepts and legal approaches in a clear and accessible way. The main audience for this toolkit is likely to include: governments, national legislative draftsmen, legislators, ministry decision-makers and implementing agencies and officers who apply the legislation.