SALIENT
FEATURES OF THE WORKSHOP
TOPIC
1
1.1 PROPER
IDENTIFICATION, DOCUMENTATION OF MEDICINAL
PLANTS
1.2 Sustainable conservation and use of
biodiversity
(medicinal plants)
Monitoring and assessment of wild population and
marketed plants
Recommendations:
· Community gardens
· Initiate media programmes for awareness
· Collection of genetic resources
· Policy formation
1.3
· Use community based participatory
research method to identify existing
(threatened) cultural practices that promote sustainable use, management and
conservation of medicinal plants.
Recommendation:
· To undertake participatory/studies in
this regard.
1.4
· Promote and enforce equitable sharing
of benefits arising from the exploitation of local knowledge.
· Implementation of articles 8(j).
Recommendation:
· Undertake research on policy issues
related to article 8(j) of CBD in order to make it applicable within the African
context.
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1.5
· To promote better cooperation and
collaboration between the two systems.
1.6 Perceptions
and Attitudes:
·
Mutual recognition and clear consciousness of both medical
systems so that they can operate in
equal relationship.
TOPIC
2
PARTICIPATORY
RESEARCH AND INVOLVEMENT OF LOCAL COMMUNTIES
AND TRADITIONAL HEALERS
2.1 PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH APPROACHES FOR
COMMUNITY
PARTICIPATION
· Develop and implement participatory
research methodologies (PRM)
Recommendation:
· Organize training sessions in
participatory research, methodologies for all stakeholders.
2.3 VALIDATION (LABORATORY) OF TRADITIONAL
MEDICINE/ MEDICAL
PREPARATIONS
AND PRACTICES
· To develop acceptable methods to
validate traditional medicine.
· Collection and documentation of methods
for validation of traditional medicinal practices.
RECOMMENDATION:
To
collect,document and implement methods of validation of traditional medicine
practices and products.
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2.4 PREPARATION
AND DEVELOPMENT OF WRITTEN NATIONAL
PHARMACOPEA
OF MEDICINAL PLANTS THROUGH INVOLVEMENT
OF ALL
STAKEHOLDERS
· To establish a broadly accessible
pharmacopoeia to assist all those concerned with medicinal plants.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
· Establish a coordinating body/ “steering
committee
· Establish a multidisciplinary research
team
· Evaluate the OAU pharmacopoeia ‘s
relevance/adequacy for the country (e.g. in terms of species coverage; coverage
of the major applications of the various plants)
· Identify and collate key sources of
other relevant information (databases; other pharmacopoeia)
· Conene key actors involved: through a
national workshop/meeting
· to identify key areas for research
· to agree on and implement the national
work plan
· to set up regional groups.
2.5 BIOPIRACY,
BIO-DIVERSITY PROSPECTING & CONSERVATION IN
THE
DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS FROM TRADITIONAL MEDICINES
RECOMMENDATIONS:
· To establish equitable terms of trade
pertaining to medicinal plants.
· Develop benefit sharing models.
·
Increasing value-addition production of phytomedicines at
local and regional levels.
TOPIC
3
3.1 STANDARDIZATION
Development of Standardization
procedures that are adaptable to the
situation(s) at community level to
address the issues of efficacy, safety
and quality of phytomedicines. In this respect, to also include capacity
building amongst African research
institutions.
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3.2 RECOMMENDATIONS:
·
To monitor/regulate and organise market forces for
sustainable conservation through recognition and support of traditional
medicinal plant trade.
3.3 Collate and harmonize legislation
pertaining to Biodiversity use and
related indigenous knowledge systems.
TOPIC
4
4.1 To
facilitate organizational management of traditional medicine health
care systems.
4.3 Initiate networking, training and
information exchange and disseminate in
order to achieve complementarity
between the two systems.
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1. Develop
networking to facilitate regional and international
cooperation
in medicinal plants, traditional medicine and
pharmacopoeia
research and development and to link up with
other
medicinal plant programmes in other region (eg. TRAMIL
etc.).
2. All research programmes in traditional
medicine and medicinal
plants
should have a gender component.
3. As a follow up to the workshop convene a
regional meeting in order
to
sensitize interested donors and other international organizations
to the
plan of action in view of possible support and to examine
closely
policy issues in this area.
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