The mission report give information on travel for work to participate, organise, give training to the following countries: Madagascar (February 2012, CHM training), Burundi (March 2012, follow up on the Institutional collaboration with INECN/Burundi), Benin (April 2012, organising of a regional meeting), Canada (May 2012, Participation in the Belgian delegation to the fourth Working Group on the Review of Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity), India (October 2012, Participation in the Belgian delegation to the eleventh Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity), Denmark (November 2012, Participation in the EU biodiversity Clearing House Meeting) and Niger (December 2012, giving a CHM training)