The Rome Strategic Plan 2020-2030: Eradicating Illegal Killing, Taking and Trade in Wild Birds in Europe and the Mediterranean region is the strategic framework for the work of MIKT from 2020-2030.
It was developed during a Joint Meeting of the Bern Convention Network of Special Focal Points (SFPs) on Eradication of Illegal Killing, Trapping and Trade (IKB) in Wild Birds and the CMS MIKT in May 2019 in Rome.
The overarching long-term goal of the Rome Strategic Plan is the eradication of IKB within the geographic scope of the Bern Convention and MIKT. The goal of the Rome Strategic Plan for 2030 is a 50% reduction of the scale and scope of IKB compared to a 2020 baseline.
MIKT members adopted the Rome Strategic Plan as it was adopted by the Bern Convention Standing Committee in December 2019, with the clear understanding that a detailed and ambitious workplan would be developed for specific actions to be implemented by MIKT Members and Observers in the Mediterranean.
The Rome Strategic Plan, was developed as a continuation of the MIKT Programme of Work 2016-2020 which ended in 2020. The MIKT Workplan for the period 2021-2025 is fully aligned with the Rome Strategic Plan and was approved through online consultation following the MIKT meeting in June 2021.
MIKT members and Bern Convention Network of Special Focal Points on IKB, periodically use the Scoreboard to self-assess their progress on combating IKB. The Scoreboard was developed in 2017 but has been slightly adapted to be in line with the Rome Strategic Plan too.
The Rome Strategic Plan is structured around one process-oriented objective and five result-oriented objectives, which are:
Process Oriented objective: National IKB Action Plans
Result Oriented objectives:
No. 2: To establish an active prevention of the illegal killing, taking and trade of birds;
No. 4: To ensure that effective and efficient enforcement of relevant legislation is undertaken;
No. 5: To ensure effective and efficient justice for IKB-related offences.
The European Union was recognized as Champion Plus for their generous support and commitment towards addressing Illegal Killing, Taking and Trade of Migratory Birds in the Mediterranean for the period 2018 - 2028.