Abdul Bakarr Salim is a national facilitator with the NBSAP Accelerator Partnership, supporting Sierra Leone in advancing implementation of the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) and strengthening coordination across biodiversity-related policies and actors. With twenty 20 years of experience in facilitating the drafting of a climate change policy, environmental policy, biodiversity policy, environmental governance, sustainable development, developing different environmental frameworks such as climate change strategy and action plan, national adaptation plan, national communications, and low emission resilient strategy, Abdul has worked with multilateral agencies, international non- governmental organizations, government institutions, civil society, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, academia, UN agencies to support inclusive, country-driven planning processes. In this role, Abdul supports national coordination processes, stakeholder engagement, technical inputs, capacity-building activities, designing of project for both matchmaking and mobilization of funds beyond the NBSAP matchmaking process, helping translate global biodiversity commitments into practical, context-specific action at national and subnational levels.