The ceremony started with an introduction from the CHM Cameroon focal point. He indicated that this protocol phase will be punctuated by two speeches: namely that of the representative of the Royal Institute of Natural Sciences of Belgium in the person of Mr. HAN de Koeijer, also Focal Point of the CHM of Belgium, and that of the personal representative of the personal representative of the Minister of the Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development of Cameroon, namely that of the representative of the Minister of Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development of Cameroon, Mr. ONDOUA Serge Hervé, and that of the personal representative of the Minister of Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development of Cameroon, Mr. ONDOUA Serge Hervé, and that of the personal representative of the Minister of Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development of Cameroon, Mr. ONDOUA Serge Hervé, also Head of the Information and Documentation Center on the Environment. Then he passed the floor to the CHM focal point in Belgium for his speech.

The CHM Focal Point from Belgium took the floor to welcome the effective participation of the majority of invited countries. In his remarks he will recall that this training workshop is the second of its kind organized in Cameroon. The first workshop saw the participation of Chad, CAR and Cameroon. He asked the members who participated in the first training to contribute to the success of this workshop. He will then mention that since this last training, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention has made it clear through a recent decision that sharing information is essential to monitor the evolution, conservation and fair and equitable sharing of biodiversity resources. He continued his speech by urging participants to advance the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity by sharing information held by their countries. He will conclude his remarks by saying that this training can only be a success if at the Conference of the Parties (COP12) to be held in October 2014 in South Korea, the representatives of the various countries participating in the training can show other stakeholders through their additions to the Information Exchange Center that activities on the conservation of their country's rich biodiversity have increased.

In his opening remarks, the representative of the Minister welcomed the various participants. He took this opportunity to extend his best wishes to all stakeholders at this workshop. He particularly congratulated the representatives of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences for the financial contribution of their Institute to the success of this workshop. He welcomed the excellence of this bilateral cooperation between Cameroon and Belgium, which is a real success in sharing information on biodiversity. He continued his remarks by defining the CHM and by generally outlining the genesis of this information exchange center. In order to achieve the objectives set during this workshop, he urged participants to pay attention to the lessons that will be given during this workshop and especially to take an active part in it. In this regard, he declared open the subregional workshop for CHM managers from Chad, Gabon, Congo and Cameroon, not without having expressed regret that the Central African delegation had not been able to travel from Yaoundé due to reasons of instability in that country.