The five biodiversity-related treaty secretariats and UNEP commissioned WCMC to undertake a Feasibility Study to identify opportunities for harmonising information management. The study responds to the growing realisation that decisions on development and sustainability depend on access to well organised information, and that the secretariats could collaborate more closely to gain synergies, avoid duplication and reduce the burden of reporting carried out by the Parties to the conventions. 

The feasibility study identified three programmes of work to improve information management: development of a harmonised conventions information resource; streamlined national reporting to facilitate national reporting to, and implementation of the Conventions; and development of a shared lessons-learned network.