BIOPAMA stands for Biodiversity and Protected Areas (PAs) Management programme in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States. The objective of the second phase of this project (see BIOPAMA in past projects below) managed by the JRC and the IUCN is to further enhance existing local institutions and networks by building their capacity to strengthen policy and to implement well informed decisions on biodiversity conservation and protected areas management, and access and benefit sharing. A new component of this Programme is the funding of projects led by local communities, NGOs and other key actors, enabling them to enhance livelihoods through the sustainable use of resources in protected areas.The contribution of the IUCN is focusing on capacity building while the JRC provides the technical and scientific assistance to set up regional observatories for the 3 regions, observatories that are supported by the DOPA.

EuroGEOSS, a European approach to the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). The project was about building an initial operating capacity for a European Environment Earth Observation System in the three strategic areas of Drought, Forestry and Biodiversity. It has undertaken the research necessary to develop this further into an advanced operating capacity that provides access not just to data but also to analytical models made understandable and useable by scientists from different disciplinary domains. DOPA was be the core element of the Biodiversity operating capacity.

BIOPAMA (June 2011-July 2016) stands for Biodiversity and Protected Areas (PAs) Management in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States. The objective of this project managed by the JRC and the IUCN is to enhance existing local institutions and networks by building their capacity to strengthen policy and to implement well informed decisions on biodiversity conservation and protected areas management, and access and benefit sharing. The contribution of the IUCN is about capacity building while the JRC provides the technical and scientific assistance to set up regional observatories for the 3 regions, observatories that are largely derived from the DOPA.

PACSBio (Programa de Apoyo a la Conservación Sostenible de la Biodiversidad). The EU is funding in Bolivia a Sector Budget Support Program to support the enforcement of the National System of Protected Areas and through it, the preservation of the natural and cultural patrimony, Sustainable economic development, Social participation in PAs management and improvement of PAs management capacities. In this context, the Joint Research Centre of the EC has been asked to develop a Digital Observatory for Bolivian protected Areas (BOPA) which is partly inspired from the DOPA. PACSBio includes a specific training and capacity building component on Protected Areas Management.

The DOPA uses various datasets acquired from a wide range of biodiversity stakeholders worldwide and from remote sensing information. The current model of eHabitat, DOPA’s core modeling service suffers however from the absence of any means to capture and document the various sources of uncertainties that are associated to the habitat data. Coupled with climate change web services, the propagation of the uncertainties between habitat - climate change data and models is likely to generate impact assessments of little value. It was the purpose of the Workpackage 4 of the UncertWeb project to implement the developed uncertainty framework to describe and quantify uncertainties in the habitat models as well as to document uncertainty in impact assessments of climate change when coupling eHabitat with a climate change model service.