<p>RSCN has adopted in the last two decades scientific research, where different research programs were carried in the protected areas to guide its management, and monitor the changes in both ecological and social integrity. These accumulative studies have left behind a huge set of information, in many aspects of biological and ecological directions, unfortunately poorly set in an organized and easy accessed kind of archives.</p><p>This issue was not neglected in the transformation process that RSCN went through in 2010-2011, where management information system (MIS) was on top key recommendations both as an IT platform and as a unit within the RSCN. The MIS fulfils a number of critical objectives for the organization which justify the submission of such a proposal.</p><p>At the national level, the lack of such information management system increases the load on RSCN to prepare the data every time when these data are requested.</p><p>The national needs-including RSCN interest to build up the MIS- met the priority of the GEF/UNPD project entitled: “Biodiversity in Tourism Sector” under the output 2.1: “Biodiversity Information Management System (BIMS), founded on initial ecological surveys to inform Land Use Plans, serve as a platform for decision-making, and as a source of up-to-date knowledge on biodiversity” and output 2.3: “Biodiversity Monitoring System to update and maintain the BIMS, identify trends and ensure that any changes in biodiversity-important areas remain within acceptable limits; to include remedial measures that will be triggered by the monitoring” based on this an agreement was signed between the GEF/UNDP and the RSCN to develop a national “Biodiversity Information Management System and Monitoring Program”.</p><p>The project is to develop and maintain a national system for biodiversity information and a monitoring system, to be led and maintained in the future by the RSCN in close collaboration with all key national stakeholders and beneficiaries.</p><p>The assignment will be dealing with four integrated and parallel connected components. These components are: the building of management information system, ecological and socio-economic baseline surveys for three sites: Jerash Governorate (with particular focus on the Dibeen Forest Reserve and its associated ecological units), PDTRA territory, and the Wider Wadi Rum Landscape within the boundaries of the Aqaba Region, establishing a monitoring system based on clear and well identified indicators, and finally, train the onsite personnel and relevant stakeholders to run, update, and monitor the system.</p>