The Action Plan documents the specific activities which need to be completed to achieve the overall aim and objectives of the Biodiversity Strategy for Armenia. The actions are organised around the framework of the 14 Strategic Approaches outlined in the biodiversity strategy (section 3.2.3). Within each action, a series of more specific activities are listed. The actions and activities have been developed within an integrated, holistic structure, and therefore may link to activities listed under separate Strategic Approaches.

Each of the columns in the table of the Action Plan are explained below:

Number of the action or activity: each action and activity has a unique code to allow it to be identified and cross-referenced within the plan.

Name of the action or activity: a brief heading or description of each action and activity.

Related activities: other closely associated activities elsewhere in the plan are indicated here. This information (using the individual reference numbers for activities) also allows cross-referencing to other related or similar activities throughout the whole plan.

Related objectives: this column indicates which of the objectives each activity is expected to contribute towards and hence how each activity will help to meet the overall aim of the plan. The numbers in this column relate to the numbering of objectives in section 3.2.2.

Duration (time-scale): this indicates when during the four years of the plan (2000-2004) each activity should take place.

Estimated budgets: The likely cost of each activity is indicated using rough budget categories. These categories are roughly indicative of relative cost as follows:

· I indicates a budget in the range US$1,000-US$100,000
· II indicates a budget in the range US$100,000-US$500,000
· III indicates a budget over US$500,000

Outputs: The verifiable achievements for each activity are listed, and these provide a basis for evaluation of success or completion. These outputs are proximal achievements, but completion of any activity is also expected to have impacts on wider indicators of success (see section 3.4), including the general objectives of the plan.

Priority: The relative priority of each activity is provided, where I indicates the highest priority, and III the lowest. Priority may not necessarily indicate importance, it may rather indicate that other activities may need to be completed first before it can be initiated.