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mariacallous · 2 months ago

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Years later, Luisa Connor and Vanessa Cárdenas would look back ruefully on the day foreigners visited their beachfront village with plans for a development next door. They had no idea the effort was backed by Silicon Valley billionaires who wanted to build a “startup city” or that a relatively new Honduran law would allow them to establish this semiautonomous enclave. They could not foresee they would lead a fight against it that would launch their village into national politics and prompt an international legal dispute, threatening to bankrupt the country. They thought it was just another hotel.

Crawfish Rock is a fishing village of a few hundred people on the island of Roatán. It is the kind of place where children roam free, scouring the forest for iguanas or catching crabs under the Caribbean’s glassy waters.

It is also the site of Próspera ZEDE, a libertarian experiment in market-driven governance whose backers are suing Honduras for up to $10.775 billion. Prospera’s Delaware-based creator, Honduras Próspera Inc., argues its project has a right to continue operating even though the law that enabled it was repealed two years ago, and that it should retain that right for 50 years. To make this claim, Honduras Próspera cited a trade agreement Honduras signed with the United States, where the investors are based, and an unrelated treaty with Kuwait.

Honduras Próspera’s is just one of 15 similar claims against the Honduran government, nearly all of which have been filed since February 2023. Collectively, investors who brought four of the claims are seeking up to $12.3 billion, nearly twice as much as Honduras’ entire public expenditures in 2022. The amount sought in the other 11 claims has not been made public. Should Honduras be ordered to pay any of those judgments, it will have no right of appeal.

How could this be?

The cases were brought under an obscure system in international law known as investor-state dispute settlement, or ISDS. Written into thousands of investment treaties and trade agreements, the system allows foreign investors to bring arbitration claims against states. While it was intended to protect investors against asset seizures or corrupt court judgments, critics say corporations now use ISDS to extract huge sums when governments tighten regulations or levy new taxes.

The cases are heard by ad-hoc tribunals of arbitrators who are generally corporate lawyers. There is no precedent and no appeal. Tribunals have issued billions of dollars in awards even in cases where corporations violated domestic laws, polluted the environment or trampled on basic human rights.

The ISDS system has also emerged as a threat to climate action. Fossil fuel companies have begun suing governments that try to phase out coal, oil and gas. In the case of poor, climate-vulnerable nations like Honduras, multibillion-dollar claims can worsen a poverty trap.

In a cruel cycle, climate change has contributed to Honduras’ soaring debt, according to a recent United Nations report, while more debt hampers the country’s ability to spend money protecting its people from extreme weather. As a result, “significant proportions of the population have been internally displaced or displaced across international borders.”

Honduras’ ISDS saga traces back to 2009, when a military coup toppled the government, and to 2021, when the wife of the deposed president was elected to lead the country, ending 12 years of rightwing authoritarian rule. Xiomara Castro ran for office pledging to reverse and reform many of the policies of the post-coup governments, widely seen as corrupt.

After Castro delivered on these promises—repealing the so-called charter cities law that enabled Próspera, for example, and enacting a law empowering her government to renegotiate electricity contracts—foreign investors brought ISDS claims.

Supporters of this process say companies filing claims are merely enforcing the rights given to them in trade and investment treaties. But many activists campaigning to reform or abolish ISDS say Honduras’ situation, and the Próspera case in particular, highlight the system’s injustices and failures.

“There are a few cases that are so egregious that I think could potentially bring down the system,” said Ladan Mehranvar, a senior legal researcher for the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment. She noted that key leaders of the government that enacted the charter cities law have since been convicted in US federal court of running the country as a narco-state, and that the case could hobble Honduras’ finances. “I feel like this one is just one of them, because it’s so crazy.”

Dozens of Democrats in Congress have been calling on the Biden administration to intervene in the Próspera case and to remove ISDS from the trade agreement on which the claim is based.

“The ISDS system is a scam snuck into trade deals to allow large multinational corporations to bypass domestic courts and challenge legitimate public policies,” with Honduras Próspera’s claim as a prominent example, US senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, told Inside Climate News in a statement.

While Biden administration officials have pledged that they would not include ISDS in future agreements, they have equivocated on whether they will strip it from the United States’ more than 50 treaties and agreements already in place. They have declined to weigh in publicly on the Próspera case.

Instead, the State Department has issued statements warning that the Castro administration’s policies could discourage foreign investment, comments many read as supportive of Honduras Próspera.

Nicholas C. Dranias, Honduras Próspera’s general counsel, said in a written statement to Inside Climate News that the Honduran government “has committed many illegal and expropriatory acts against residents, businesses, and investors in Próspera ZEDE.” (ZEDE is the Spanish acronym for Zones for Employment and Economic Development.)

He added that the company and its affiliates “remain willing to discuss a negotiated resolution” to its ISDS claim. “Whether the Government of Honduras is ultimately held liable for US$10.775 billion remains entirely in its own hands because it could simply honor the 50-year legal stability guarantee it made to investors in Próspera ZEDE.”

Gerardo Torres, Honduras’ vice minister of foreign affairs, said the country cannot afford to pay what the investors are seeking—nearly two-thirds of its people live in poverty and the nation is already saddled with $16.5 billion in debt. The government has decided to fight the claims rather than negotiate, he said, speaking from a couch in his office, with Tegucigalpa’s hodgepodge development sprawling in the window behind him.

In large part, the country’s strategy relies on an argument that this isn’t just about Honduras.

“If they somehow make us pay all the money that they’re talking right now, then they’re going to break a state,” Torres said. “And then you’re going to see how private corporations can destroy states.”

A 14-Story Tower, $25,000 Gene Therapy, and a Brawl

Crawfish Rock lies at the end of a largely unpaved road that terminates in the village center, within sight of the beach. Pastel wooden houses with corrugated metal roofs surround the clearing, raised high on stilts.

“Growing up in a community like Crawfish was really something desirous,” said Connor, whose first language is the Caribbean English known in Roatán as “island English.” Like many other villages in Roatán, Crawfish Rock is a community of Black Caribbean descendants.

Connor has spent her entire life here and she roams the village as if it were one large home, plucking wild almonds from trees lining the beach and mangos from an unruly orchard next to Cárdenas’ house. At a relative’s home off the village center, Connor emerged from the back with a length of sugar cane, which she peeled with a machete before chewing, then stopped to talk with her siblings, who were leaning against a blue wooden boat nearby, about to head out fishing.

“We have everything that a human needs to survive,” she said.

Connor and Cárdenas have been friends since childhood and now serve as president and vice president of the village patronato, or community council, positions they assumed when they realized that Próspera wasn’t just another tourism development.

By September 2020, villagers had learned that the project was operating under a law that allowed for a type of special economic zone known as a ZEDE. The ZEDE law drew on the ideas of Paul Romer, an American who would later serve as chief economist at the World Bank and who had been promoting the idea of charter cities as models of development. In 2011, the Honduran Congress passed a law based on Romer’s ideas, but the law was ruled unconstitutional by the country’s Supreme Court the following year. The president of the congress at the time then used a disputed legislative maneuver to replace four judges who had ruled against the law, and lawmakers enacted a new, slightly modified version in 2013.

The law allowed private investors to create their own, largely self-governing zones, with authorities far beyond other economic zones in Honduras and around the world that offer incentives for foreign investment. ZEDEs were empowered to write their own civil laws, enact their own regulations and building codes and create their own courts. Businesses would pay taxes not to municipal or national governments but to the ZEDE, which could set its own rates. Only a small portion of the revenue collected would be passed on to the central government.

The ZEDEs were overseen not directly by the government but by a committee appointed by Honduras’ president, and the initial members were stocked with foreigners, many American conservatives, including the son of former US President Ronald Reagan and the anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist.

Próspera became the first ZEDE in December 2017, funded by a venture capital firm founded to help launch charter cities around the world. The firm, Pronomos Capital, was backed by prominent billionaires, including Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen. Próspera began attracting biotechnology companies and other businesses by promising a “flexible and incentive-based regulatory environment designed to foster innovation while ensuring optimal levels of safety.” Companies could choose from a number of regulatory frameworks or propose their own. Próspera’s advertising promised “a favorable tax regime.” The company says it has registered more than 220 businesses, which can be established by “(e)Residents,” who do not necessarily live or work in Roatán.

Today, not far from Crawfish Rock’s wooden houses and unpaved paths, in a country where more than half the population lives on less than $7 a day, visitors can spend $25,000 to inject themselves with a gene therapy that aims to delay aging, available only on Roatán and in Dubai. A Bitcoin center perched on a ridge overlooking the Caribbean teaches locals about the benefits of cryptocurrency and how to use it—Próspera ZEDE has adopted the digital coin as one of its currencies. Another company offers “subdermal implantation services and a variety of cybernetic upgrades,” saying: “We help people become self-sovereign cyborgs.”

About 1,000 feet from the center of Crawfish Rock, a developer has cleared a section of forested hillside in the ZEDE and erected a 14-story mixed-use tower unlike anything else on the island. The developer did not obtain permits from the local or national government for the building but instead from Próspera ZEDE, which Honduras Próspera said “is a Honduran government authority” similar to a municipality.

Perhaps most alarming for people in Crawfish Rock, the law created a process for Honduras to expropriate land on behalf of the ZEDEs through eminent domain in order to expand. Honduras has a dark history of land conflict, including the forced sale of farmers’ land to large corporations and violent attacks on those who resisted.

Honduras Próspera says its ZEDE has forbidden itself from expropriating land with a resolution it passed in August 2020, and the ZEDE has assured residents that it “will not, and cannot, legally expropriate properties to expand its boundaries.” But Connor and Cárdenas do not trust them.

As the two women began fighting Próspera and organizing against the ZEDEs, their relationship with the company grew increasingly contentious. In September 2020, as Honduras was grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic, the company’s chief executive Erick Brimen sent Cárdenas’ mother a voice message. Brimen wanted to hold a public meeting in the village, but the patronato had sent him a letter urging him not to, in light of social distancing requirements. The women were violating his rights, Brimen said in the message, adding, “they can end up in jail.” If Connor and Cárdenas didn’t retract their letter within hours, he said, “we’re going to take action, which again could result in legal action against your daughter.”

Brimen held the meeting, and it ended in a scuffle with him being ushered off the stage as police arrived, video shows.

Honduras Próspera said “the informational meeting, with appropriate social distancing, was essential to present a project that currently provides opportunities to the community, ensuring their rights are exercised in a safe, outdoor environment.”

Próspera employs residents in the village and has drawn some local support. Ariel Webster, who grew up in Crawfish Rock and does not work in the ZEDE, said Próspera has helped people there.

The situation has caused division within Crawfish Rock, pitting local employees against Connor, Cárdenas and those who support their fight. Last year, when the patronato hosted a group of ministers and delegates from the capital without inviting representatives from Próspera, some of the company’s supporters arrived at the meeting and clashed with those in attendance. The meeting ended in a brawl and a bloodied nose for Cárdenas.

Most concerning for Connor is that with the ISDS case filed, even a government that supposedly supports their fight against Próspera has done little to stop it from operating. She wonders if anything will stand in the way of the ZEDE’s expansion.

“If they don’t obey the central government,” Connor said, “what would they do to us?”

A Violent History

When the ZEDE law passed in 2013, Honduras was in crisis. The post-coup administrations cracked down violently on dissent. Protesters and dissidents were kidnapped, raped and murdered. In some cases, gunmen killed the children of activists rather than dissidents themselves, to inflict maximum fear.

These crimes were rarely investigated. With the homicide rate soaring, Honduras became one of the most violent countries in the world.

At the same time, the rightwing governments accelerated a trend begun in the 1990s, at the urging of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, of privatizing state services and cutting public expenditures. Congress broke up the national energy company and began contracting with private enterprises to build new power generation, especially dams and solar farms. A new law eased the approval process for mines.

The flurry of private contracts became part of a “kleptocratic” regime, according to one 2017 report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Nearly all of the ISDS claims have their roots in contracts, laws or other agreements made during this period.

For the farmers and villagers being pushed off their land, or having their water resources privatized, the development rush converged with spiraling violence.

“Nowhere are you more likely to be killed for standing up to companies that grab land and trash the environment,” the international watchdog group Global Witness wrote in 2017, “than in Honduras.”

An opponent of a project that became the subject of two ISDS claims was murdered the following year.

At the center of these new laws and contracts was Juan Orlando Hernández, who was president of the congress when the ZEDE law was passed and was elected president of Honduras later in 2013. Hernández would serve two terms as president—a step prohibited by the Constitution. The US Department of Justice would later charge that Hernández used millions of dollars in payments from drug cartels to help buy off local officials to secure his electoral victories.

Eventually, Hernández, his brother and his chief of the national police would be extradited to the United States and convicted of drug trafficking and weapons charges. Hernández, US Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said, used his time in power to run “one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world.”

Hernández was convicted in March of this year and sentenced to 45 years in prison, while the former national police chief was sentenced to 19 years. His brother is serving a life sentence. Hernández did not reply to a request for an interview from prison.

Brimen, Honduras Próspera’s CEO, who immigrated to the United States from Venezuela, has said his goal is to provide a model that would foster prosperity, helping alleviate poverty by streamlining unnecessary bureaucracies that hobble governments, especially in parts of Latin America.

Honduras Próspera said it “has no connection to any corruption in Honduras whatsoever.” The company has not been publicly accused of being involved in corruption or in passing the ZEDE law. But some residents, activists and members of the current government criticize the company for taking advantage of the law, given how it was passed, and for working with Hernández’s administration.

“They came and did business with the darkest side of our country,” said Rosa Danelia Hendrix, speaking in Spanish. Hendrix serves as president of the federation of patronatos for Roatán and the other Bay Islands, and helped lead the fight against the ZEDEs.

Up Against an Economic Superpower

The Castro administration’s fight against the ZEDEs is being waged from Tegucigalpa’s Government Civic Center, a set of gleaming buildings erected by Hernández’s government. The neat, modern plaza sits next to the presidential palace and houses many government offices, but its pedestrian entrance opens onto a busy street without a turn-off, resulting in a chaotic scene of double-parked taxis and honking, as if its architects failed to imagine that citizens would visit.

There, Fernando Garcia and a team of half-a-dozen young staffers compile documents and compose fervent social media posts denouncing the ZEDEs—there are two others apart from Próspera, focused on agricultural exports and mixed-use development, neither of which has filed an ISDS claim.

Garcia operates from a glass-walled conference room on a mostly empty floor, surrounded by stacks of folders, articles and books, including heavily earmarked copies of the Honduran Constitution and the Bible. He speaks passionately of his decades of service to the Honduran people—he served as economy minister and in other positions before the coup and is now presidential commissioner against the ZEDEs.

Garcia began his ZEDE fight as a member of the opposition to the post-coup administrations, soon after the law was enacted. He spent his time driving around the country to raise awareness and round up opposition, he said, mortgaging his home to help pay for gas and hotel rooms.

People would look at him in disbelief when he described what the ZEDEs were, “like I was a weirdo, or some strange animal,” he said in Spanish.

It was only once he was back in government that he realized how difficult the fight would be. Garcia said he met with leaders of the ZEDEs and requested information detailing their relationships with the government, but received little beyond heavily redacted documents. He said he asked what concessions they would like to continue operating in the country to replace the special status afforded by the repealed ZEDE law, but got nowhere.

Honduras Próspera said it sought negotiations with the government but received no response and has not received offers to switch to an alternative type of special economic zone. It added, “None of the other special regimes in Honduras offer similar levels of stability, international competitiveness, or compatibility” with the company’s business model.

Garcia said he does not even know whether there is still a commission in place to manage the ZEDEs. Próspera and the other ZEDEs would need such a commission to oversee their operations, yet Garcia and his team have been unable to uncover any documents indicating the existence of such a commission or identifying its current members.

Today, the ZEDEs appear to be operating in a cloud of legal uncertainty. The law that enabled them was repealed in April 2022, yet that law contained language providing a minimum 10-year transition if such a repeal were to take place. This month, Honduras’ Supreme Court ruled that the law and a set of constitutional amendments that accompanied it were unconstitutional and that the decision would affect existing ZEDEs. But it has yet to publish the ruling so the full implications remain unclear.

Honduras Próspera argues the ZEDE has the right to continue operating for decades. That claim is based on the 2014 investment treaty Honduras signed with Kuwait, which included language that guarantees the legal status of the ZEDEs for 50 years in the event their enabling law was repealed. Honduras Próspera says it gained access to this through the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement, signed by the United States and Honduras, which includes a so-called “most-favored-nation” clause. The controversial clause allows foreign investors like Honduras Próspera to cut and paste more favorable provisions from other investment treaties, regardless of whether their home governments are parties to the other agreements.

The full nature of Honduras Próspera’s ISDS claim remains unclear because the pleading is confidential, as are those for each of the other 14 cases against the country. But Honduras Próspera told Inside Climate News that the government has acted illegally by pressuring banks to close accounts for businesses registered in the ZEDE and forcing companies in the zone to pay taxes and fees on goods they purchase or import, among other steps.

In other ways, however, the ZEDE keeps operating, collecting its own taxes, allowing construction according to its own regulations, baffling and frustrating officials and residents of the country in which it is located.

Many of the people who made the fight against the ZEDEs a national issue blame not only Próspera but the Castro administration, too.

“We feel a great abandonment,” said Christopher Castillo, an environmental and human rights activist in Tegucigalpa, who said Castro and many others owe their electoral victories in part to the ZEDE fight. Speaking in Spanish, Castillo said the government should block companies from running clinical trials at Próspera, for example, or order construction halted at the 14-story tower, built largely after the ZEDE law was repealed.

Garcia, the presidential commissioner, insisted the ZEDEs are operating without legal authorization, but he acknowledged that the government has done little to enforce that perspective. He argued that Honduras is outmatched and needs to proceed cautiously.

“We are up against the greatest economic power in the world,” he said. Beyond the billionaires backing Próspera, he said, “you need to recognize that the United States government always protects two groups: Its soldiers and its businesspeople.”

Two weeks after Honduras Próspera notified Honduras of its intent to file its ISDS claim, in September 2022, its executives met with Roy Perrin, deputy chief of mission at the US embassy in Tegucigalpa “to talk about the investment climate in Honduras, the legal guaranties that allow entrepreneurs to create jobs and how sustainable investment can create economic opportunities for all Hondurans,” according to an embassy post on X written in Spanish.

The following month, Laura Dogu, the US ambassador to Honduras, gave a speech to the Honduran American Chamber of Commerce in Tegucigalpa in which she criticized some of the Castro administration’s policies on investment: “Without a doubt, all these actions are sending a clear message to companies that they should invest elsewhere, not in Honduras.” She added that the United States “will continue to exercise our right to meet with US investors and advocate for the resolution of trade disputes in accordance with the state of trade law.”

Honduras Próspera began rounding up support back home, too, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby Congress and the White House, according to filings. The State Department issued an investment climate statement for Honduras in 2022 saying new policies, including the repeal of the ZEDE law, an energy law and an employment law, “have dramatically increased the uncertainty of investment returns.”

Senators Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.) sent a letter in October 2022 to Secretary of State Antony Blinken asking him to “encourage the Republic of Honduras to honor legal guarantees with respect to US investments made” in the ZEDEs.

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) introduced a bill that would have directed the US president to suspend foreign assistance to any government that failed to “engage in good faith consultations” with any US national who sought negotiations with that government, a reference to Honduras, according to one of Honduras Próspera’s lobbying reports.

The State Department declined to make anyone available for an interview for this article but issued a written statement saying it “seeks fair treatment of US investors and encourages adherence to the rule of law in Honduras as a key enabling factor for its economic development.”

Garcia said that even apart from the US government’s economic and diplomatic heft, Honduran officials are wary of taking action against Próspera because of the ISDS claim. Under the arcane rules of international arbitration, Garcia noted, companies can claim “indirect expropriation” when governments take actions that harm an investment’s profitability.

“We have to act very carefully,” Garcia said.

This outcome may be no accident. It speaks to what critics of ISDS call “regulatory chill,” where a claim or even the threat of a claim can intimidate a government into reconsidering the policies in question. Dranias, Honduras Próspera’s general counsel, said in a recent podcast interview that ISDS “can be very effective to, let’s just say, create the right incentives for good behavior.”

“An Example for the World”

ISDS was meant to remove disputes from the political realm, but claims often become deeply partisan. Honduras has long been dominated by the United States and its commercial interests—it is where the term “Banana Republic” was coined to describe the domination of the United Fruit and Standard Fruit companies—and the country’s fight against international arbitration comes as part of the leftist government’s larger orientation away from its neighbor to the north.

In response to the ISDS claims, Honduras withdrew from a World Bank treaty that helps govern the system, though that decision does not affect existing claims and foreign investors can still lodge ISDS cases using separate, similar rules overseen by the UN and others. The country has been negotiating a new trade agreement with China and strengthening ties with Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

Torres, the vice foreign minister, said the government has been revising and ending contracts that gave private corporations overly favorable terms, saddling the Honduran state and its people with high costs.

The previous administrations, Torres said, were not simply privatizing state assets but funneling public wealth to corporations and banks. Now that the Castro administration is trying to take that wealth back, he said, investors have turned to ISDS.

Torres’ large office is decorated with memorabilia and books that reflect an odd mix of Anglo pop culture and leftist politics. Framed prints of the album cover for Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and The Godfather share space with books like “Capitalism’s Deadly Threat” and “Xi Jinping: The Governance and Administration of China.”

The Castro administration’s critics—in Honduras and the United States—say it is turning toward communism and demonizing foreign investors. The country’s largest business group called the government’s withdrawal from the World Bank convention “economic self-sabotage,” a position that was recently printed across the front page of the country’s largest newspaper.

The business group’s manager of legal affairs, Gustavo Solorzano Diaz, said in an interview in Spanish that investors have turned to ISDS because they don’t trust the Honduran legal system and because the government’s new policies in the energy sector and others threaten to expropriate assets.

The Castro administration has been plagued with its own corruption scandals, alleged ties to drug traffickers and accusations of nepotism. While overall violence in the country has declined, violence against women, human rights defenders and journalists increased last year, according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The administration has also been accused of suppressing dissent and using the military to fight crime.

And even some on the left have criticized the Castro administration’s handling of the ISDS claims. Castillo, the human rights activist, noted that the government failed to appoint an arbitrator in the Próspera case, leaving the spot to be filled by the World Bank.

Honduras’ solicitor general, Manuel Díaz-Galeas, who is handling the cases, declined to be interviewed or answer questions for this article. “I don’t care what the opponents and the plaintiffs’ spokespeople say,” Díaz-Galeas said in Spanish in a text message to Inside Climate News. “Tell them, if possible, that we will meet in court.”

All of this background, while deeply important to Honduras’ political leaders and many of its citizens, could prove largely irrelevant when and if the tribunals start hearing the ISDS claims.

“There is no rule that requires a law to be adopted in a democratic or transparent process,” said Yarik Kryvoi, a lawyer who specializes in international dispute resolution, including ISDS.

Torres said Honduras is prepared to lose some of the ISDS claims, even expects to, but that the country will use them to expose what he calls the hypocrisy of developed nations, especially on climate change.

“They’re talking about climate change and the impact of climate change, but when a government or a community or a population tries to defend their resources, they most likely are defeated in international courts that always prioritize the interests of the private companies,” Torres said.

Multimillion- or billion-dollar ISDS awards would inflate Honduras’ debt, and if it tried to avoid paying, investors could move to seize any foreign assets the country holds and close it off from capital markets.

“We cannot go to more environment summits without talking about the economics behind that,” Torres said.

He added, “The only strategy we have is to make our case an example for the world: ‘This is what they’re trying to do to a poor country that is one of the most vulnerable to climate change.’”

Back in Roatán, where rising seas are nibbling away at the coastline and heavy rains recently flooded parts of Crawfish Rock, the central government’s defiance is hard to see. If the country loses the ISDS cases, it would be taxpayers—the people of Crawfish Rock among them—who would pay, Cárdenas observed. Meanwhile, workers put the finishing touches on the 14-story tower. Próspera continues to hold weekly bonfires at its beach club, with live music and mixed drinks. And Connor and Cárdenas wonder what will happen next.

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thebibliomancer · 1 year ago

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Essential Avengers: West Coast Avengers #39: UPSET!

December, 1988

Swordsman’s Corpse: “So, Avengers, you thought you’d buried me for good, but you were wrong -- DEAD WRONG!”

Damn but if this isn’t the type of cover I love. A superhero team reacting to something and with dialogue right on the cover.

This is also the end of Englehart’s run. Or half of this is the end of Englehart’s run. I’ll get into it.

Lets last time so we can dig in.

Last time on West Coast Avengers: Well, directly last time Wonder Man just sat remembering stuff we’ve never seen before for the entire issue.

But in a broader sense.

Mockingbird hiding some cowboy manslaughter blew up in her face when the ghost of the cowboy revealed it to her husband/boss Hawkeye. Irreconcilable differences ensued and Mockingbird quit and took half the team with her. Scarlet Witch, Vision, and Mantis cycled in so the West Coast Avengers wouldn’t just be two sad dudes. Also, Mantis is here now. She has amnesia and wants the Avengers to help her find the son she may or may not have. Its pretty potent amnesia.

But in a narrower sense, last time, after Wonder Man remembered some new stuff for a while, the Quinjet started crashing.

As the Quinjet tumbles, rattling the Avengers around like peas in a tin there’s one of those action scenes I can’t help but love. Where each member of the team does their own thing in a situation.

Here, Mantis just has the reflexes to grab onto the seat belt that she should have had buckled. Scarlet Witch can use her hex to float in place long enough for Wonder Man to grab her using his belt jets. And Vision just intangibles enough to float but not so much he falls out of the Quinjet.

Good job everyone.

So what caused this aviation near-disaster?

Hawkeye was calling in a Savage Land report to the East Coast Avengers team (but who though?) and they said they’d already heard about it from Mockingbird.

And hearing Mockingbird’s (code)name was enough for this pre-divorcee to almost crash a jet into the ocean.

Hawkeye, I don’t think you’re okay.

I would also like to know who you spoke with since the East Coast Avengers disbanded thanks to Thor. Mostly Nebula and Dr Druid but some Thor.

There was an ad hoc team for the purposes of Evolutionary War and that’s going to get super funny in a second.

Wonder Man correctly guesses that Mockingbird somehow got involved in the Savage Land business and Hawkeye gets into a funk about it.

Vision asks whether the West Coast Avengers will work with the East Coast Avengers and Hawkeye goes “I’d rather not!”

His thought is that if Mockingbird’s group is already helping, the West Coast Avengers can get on with helping Mantis.

SO THE REASON WHY THE WEST COAST AVENGERS DIDN’T HELP THE AD-HOC AVENGERS AND DIDN’T RESPOND TO THE SPECIAL ALERT

was because Hawkeye felt it would be too awkward if his soon-to-be-ex-wife was there.

Fucking amazing.

Remember how a big deal was made out of the Avengers being so hard up for people responding to the super special emergency beacon that Yellowjacket II was a good option to bring along?

Turns out that the West Coast Avengers got the same alert and Hawkeye just ignored it.

The world was almost turned into furries because Hawkeye can’t be an adult.

Regarding helping Mantis, Scarlet Witch chimes in to say that if they’re doing that, they really need to stop in Paterson, New Jersey. They’ve been having Ma Williams watch the twins and one of them really should relieve her.

Scarlet Witch: “We don’t mean to slight your problem, Mantis!”

Mantis: “Of course not, Wanda! This one became the Celestial Madonna to have a child, though she doesn’t know now if she did or not! Naturally, you must see to yours!”

“As a potential mother, I understand your mother concerns. I potentially have a child!”

Cool contribution, Mantis.

Anyway. New Jersey!

Vision tells Ma Williams that they’re relocating to Los Angeles to join the Avengers and of course taking the kids. But Ma Williams is welcome to move with them.

Ma Williams: “I’m a little old to join the Avengers, Wanda -- and a little old to tear up my roots here! No, I’ll watch you on TV -- but don’t forget to call!”

Cool old lady.

Wanda takes the time to announce out loud to the audience and to Ma Williams, that she and Vizh aren’t going to sell their house in Leonia since they like it too much. But they will rent it out while they’re in LA.

Hawkeye gets so bummed out at seeing a family scene that he sighs and goes outside for some air.

Refusing to read the room, Mantis follows him and tells him that they can be miserable together.

Although she also insists that her misery is worse because she has no idea what she’s lost. Could be one-hundred children wondering where their mom is! So clearly she has it worse than Hawkeye who knows exactly what he lost out on by being too stubborn for couples counseling.

Thanks, Mantis.

The team jets out in the Quinjet but Wanda stays in New Jersey, probably to arrange the move.

And apparently she told Ma Williams all the hot goss because the old lady asks wasn’t that the Mantis homewrecker lady?

Which Wanda confirms but she’s not worried that Vision is going off with Mantis (and also Hawkeye and Wonder Man) because she trusts their marriage is solid.

Meanwhile, elsewhere, Newark Airport, Tigra complains. Because the East Coast Avengers didn’t let them land at Hydrobase.

Considering the East Coast Avengers don’t exist right now...

Who do you guys keep talking to??

Giant-Man Bill Foster asks whether they should have helped fight against the High Evolutionary and Mockingbird says she doesn’t want to deal with Hawkeye if he showed up so she made the executive decision to skip the event.

Oh my god.

Both Hawkeye’s team and Mockingbird’s team decided helping stop the Gene Bomb was someone else’s problem and just went on with their day.

Amazing.

Giant-Man Bill Foster is still giant so Tigra asks... why? Bill explains the thing with the cancer. And being giant isn’t supposed to cure the cancer that should have already been cured. But all this extra mass from the mass dimension will replace his damaged tissue or something if he stays big long enough. Or something.

Look, they wanted the “stuck big” status quo for a size-changing character. That’s all.

Bill Foster Giant-Man takes off, going to find Hank Pym and help him cure his giant-brained wife. Aw, what a good friend.

Meanwhile, Moon Knight sounds racist by saying Giant-Man is not their kind. But what he means is that this is the murder is good group and Bill is too idealistic.

And they’ll need to be ruthless to stop Phantom Rider! Who is still totally haunting her and oh hey speak of the devil.

Seriously. Was he just hanging around invisibly waiting for someone to mention him so he could pop out and go boo?

This is a stupid way to spend an afterlife.

Tigra didn’t know about Mockingbird being haunted by Phantom Rider. She’s just confused by this new detail. I love her surprised kitty face.

She asks why Phantom Rider helped in Budapest if he’s a revenge-fueled dick but Phantom Rider said that was helping himself.

Phantom Rider: “I only pretended to help you, TIgra -- in order to destroy Barbara’s marriage!”

And then he shoots Tigra a whole bunch with ghost bullets.

What a dick.

The bullets don’t injure her. Because they’re ghostly. But she’s stunned.

Although, it’s unclear whether that’s an inherent property of them or whether getting shot a whole bunch will just throw you off your game.

Moon Knight tries to get Phantom Rider but the ghost punches him in the face and then has his horse kick him.

What a dick.

But getting clobbered knocks Moon Knight the fuck out and Khonshu pops out to play.

Which is actually good. Khonshu possessing Moon Knight can’t do a lot against a ghost. But freed of his meat puppet, he’s a lot more mighty.

Phantom Rider even recognizes it, fleeing when this new factor joins the battlefield. But he muses to himself that he wasn’t prepared for Khonshu this time but he’ll definitely be ready other times!

Unable to see Khonshu, Mockingbird comments that Phantom Rider sure fucked off a lot sooner than she expected.

Moon Knight wakes up and announces he knows how to solve Mockingbird’s Phantom Rider problem.

Over in Connecticut, the West Coast Avengers search the home of Mrs. Mandy Celestine trying to find clues about Mantis’s lost memories.

Mantis woke up in this house and Mandy Celestine is the kind of name Mantis, Celestial Madonna, might come up with if she had absolutely no imagination at all.

Which, I guess she doesn’t.

Someone knocks on the door so Mantis turns her green skin to be human Vietnamese/German skin tone instead to answer.

Yeah, she can do that. She just wants to be green. Are you going to tell her she can’t be green?

Anyway, it’s just the mailman needing her to sign for a package. And him recognizing her as Mrs. Celestine confirms she’s been living a life here.

So, that’s useful.

But Hawkeye is tired of this location and proposes they go and visit

The Vietnamese temple of the Priests of Pama.

Remember Mantis’ wacky backstory?

She was taken as a child and raised by the Priests of Pama (who were secretly Kree pacifists who were friends with tree people), trained in martial arts and MIND POWERS, mindwiped on her 18th birthday and given false memories of growing up as an orphan, before dumping her in a city where she eventually became a sex worker? This last part was essential because it meant she stayed humble unlike Moondragon. Or something. Anyway, she met Swordsman and swooned over the broken man, helped him clean himself up and join the Avengers, and then started trying to hit on Vision instead because he was emotionally unavailable.

Yadda yadda, Avengers stuff, Kang tries to figure out if Mantis, Scarlet Witch, or AGATHA HARKNESS is the Celestial Madonna by kidnapping them all and trying to decide which one he should date. Avengers stuff, Avengers stuff, Swordsman dies, Mantis learns she’s the Celestial Madonna, Immortus shows up to dump a whole bunch of exposition, Mantis marries a tree possessing her dead boyfriend in a double marriage with Vision and Scarlet Witch, then Mantis and Tree Boyfriend blast off into space.

God, Mantis’ life is weird.

So, remember how I said this is half of the end of Englehart’s run? Or I guess more specifically that half of this issue is the end of Englehart’s run?

Englehart himself has complained that half of this issue was re-written by editorial against his wishes. He has also complained that he was fired from West Coast Avengers supposedly for deadline issues but that also Marvel wouldn’t send him the pages he needed to work.

So I don’t even know if the back half of this book was even in Englehart’s script.

At least according to Englehart, Tom DeFalco had it out for him. And would do stuff like withhold the letters column.

Given that he also cites the missing text bubbles for Mantis in the previous annual, I dunno, he may be onto something.

That said.

If half of the book was rewritten, I’m guess that Marvel Unlimited pg 13 is where it starts. Because it has that hallmark of retcons.

The walls of text.

The West Coast Avengers and Mantis find where Swordsman was buried and have to clear the area since its overgrown. Hawkeye cracks a joke about the Priests of Pama not being much for lawn maintenance, perhaps forgetting the big plot point that they all died.

Wonder Man gets a bee in his bonnet about the specific way that the tree marriage and tree honeymoon played out, claiming that despite what everyone saw that day, it made a lot more sense that Swordsman’s body was just left to rot on Earth instead of being turned to energy.

And this is important because, somehow, Wonder Man has cracked this whole case wide open.

But first,

A corpse, of course.

I guess the body was left to rot. And not turned into pure thought or energy or whatever.

I hate it when Wonder Man is right about things.

Cotati Swordsman is here to Explain It All.

By stabbing Mantis.

She doesn’t much like that so she dodges out of the way and now there’s a fight. A fight that the West Coast Avengers jump into to protect their good friend Mantis.

Cotati Swordsman is one dude against a team and has a gimmicked up sword so he’s in full on stomp mode. Its like conservation of ninjas.

He shoots nerve gas out of the sword at Mantis that works on skin contact so she can’t just hold her breath. He hits Wonder Man with a force blast to mess up his ionic body. And when Vision blocks the disintegrator beam with a SOLAR BEAM, Cotati Swordsman just hits Vision with another force blast. Good enough for Wonder Man, etc.

Hawkeye is able to fight him for a bit due to his familiarity with the guy but the same is true reversed. Swordsman easily cuts a bunch of arrows out of the air.

Vision pops out of the grave intangible-style to grab Cotati Swordsman’s ankles so Wonder Man can try to disarm him.

But remember the conservation of ninja? Swordsman is able to bat Wonder Man out of the air with his sword - just the sword, not any of its built-in powers - and smack him into Vision.

Both fall against the Swordsman’s grave so Wonder Man can have a moment where he rehashes his fear of death.

Well, I guess fears don’t just go away.

Mantis recovers from the nerve gas and side kicks Cotati Swordsman.

Mantis: “You have something this one wants, Prime One -- desist in this pointless scuffle and deliver!”

I mean, she has a point. I looked ahead and there’s no reason he couldn’t just explain what he’s going to explain without all of this fight scene.

What he does do is promise what she wants is in the temple and baits her into following.

Then he traps her and throws his sword into her gut.

Oh no!

Good thing she has an extra guy!

So apparently the real Mantis has been buried alive in a grave this whole time.

Half of this book being an uncredited rewrite, I’m pretty sure this is a retcon.

Mantis going around in a plant simulacrum is from Englehart. In his Silver Surfer book, that’s how she was hanging around in space. Formed a body out of alien plants to go on space adventures.

But when she blew up and ‘died’ in the fight against the Elders, she woke up in her Connecticut home with AMNESIA. The implication is that the body in Connecticut was her real body because why wouldn’t it be? Why make this convoluted?

Well, we’re making it convoluted.

Also, Mantis is not green anymore. She could turn herself not green. But since this is her original body, I guess she’s just not green.

Except later, when she helps form the Guardians of the Galaxy. Where she’ll be green again.

Shrug.

Since Mantis has her memories back, she Explains It All.

After the tree wedding, Mantis and Prime Cotati ditched their bodies and flew off into space to fuck a Celestial Messiah into being.

Mantis: “Love, after all, is for souls, not bodies.”

Well, you clearly don’t know how fucking works. Because that’s very much for the bodies.

While Mantis and Prime Cotati are off in space fucking with their souls, the Priest of Pama bury the abandoned bodies.

The Priests of Pama were definitely dead by this point but we’re in uncredited rewrite territory. The goal is to wrap this up and fire Englehart.

After getting soul pregnant, Mantis returned to Earth to make herself a plant body because her special hybrid baby is part tree so needs a tree womb.

Sure!

Then the rest of what’s happened since the tree wedding happens.

Mantis gives birth to Sequoia, her future dirtbag son. She raises him in a Connecticut suburb so her former superhero life doesn’t disturb the air of tranquility she’s going for.

When Sequoia is old enough, the Cotati come and take him off Mantis’ hands to teach him his tree heritage.

Left with nothing to do, Mantis decided to go exploring space. We know this part. She made a plant body to hang out with Silver Surfer. Died in one of his adventures and woke up in her original plant body in Earth with AMNESIA.

The Cotati Swordsman explains that he was pretty sure that killing her near her meat body would jog her memory and force her spirit back into her original body.

Cotati Swordsman: “I am glad I surmised correctly.”

Hell of a thing to gamble on, asshole.

Then he tells Mantis to go live her best life. Because she’s done Celestial Madonna-ing. She made the Important Baby she needed to make. She took care of that pesky baby stage of things. Now she’s not needed anymore. “The child no longer needs a mother.”

And Prime Cotati wearing Swordsman is basically telling her to fuck off, she doesn’t get anything to do with her kid anymore.

Mantis tries to object or ask follow-up questions but Cotati Swordsman just moves on to talking to Hawkeye.

He bequeaths Swordsman’s sword to Hawkeye and then immediately crumbles to corpse dust and plant matter.

Hawkeye is clearly a bit perplexed by the ending of this Mantis quest but, well, it did end. Amnesia cured. He implicitly invites her to keep hanging out with the West coast Avengers.

But she needs time to process all this biz so she stays in Vietnam to meditate on a grave.

I have no doubt that if Englehart had remained as writer, Mantis would have stayed on the team. It also seems likely that if he remained as writer, the Mantis quest would not have been wrapped up this quickly. Not a single subplot in this book has wrapped up quickly.

What’s there to say here?

The rewritten part of this issue was meant to get Mantis out of the book as soon as possible because nobody likes her but Englehart and he has a habit of putting her in one of his books if he can get away with it and even if he can’t.

I like Mantis.

Mostly, that’s from her later Guardians stuff. But even in her time with the Avengers, even despite the stupid love triangle and the Celestial Madonna stuff, I liked her there too. And I liked when she got silly plant powers in Silver Surfer from fucking a tree man. And I like the tree wedding, as a joke. As a silly thing to tell people about that happened in comics.

There’s a lot of problems with the character and with Englehart’s writing for her. But I still like her.

So it is a shame that she’s in West Coast Avengers for, like, two issues.

And. Eesh. This isn’t a great wrap-up for her. Her amnesia is solved but mostly its nothing that hadn’t already been covered in her Silver Surfer appearances.

There’s a lot of problems with Englehart’s West Coast Avengers run so I’m not necessarily sad to see him go. He’s had 30ish some issues, some clunker stories, and it really is time for something new. But he’s being followed up by John “I’m going to mess up Vision” Byrne. And I don’t like that either.

So at the end of Englehart’s run, wherever it fell in this specific issue, it feels like out of the frying pan and into the fire. Because I’m gonna get Byrned. That’s the joke.

Follow @essential-avengers because I’m not a tree puppeting around a corpse of a supervillain turned superhero. And I think that gives me a lot of credibility. Like, reblog, and comment if you please. I’m lonely down here in the italics.

#avengers #essential avengers #west coast avengers #hawkeye #wonder man #the vision #scarlet witch #mantis #she's not listed as an avenger for this issue on marvel wiki #very rude #mockingbird #moon knight #tigra #swordsman #cotati swordsman #not a lot going on here #just some tree murder

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4 Strategies to Unify Sales and Marketing for Sustained Growth

Sales professionals today are up against rising customer acquisition costs and a highly competitive environment, making prospecting increasingly difficult. Improving the alignment between sales and marketing is one crucial strategy to overcome these obstacles. Yet, sales and marketing teams often work in silos or only communicate on an ad hoc basis, resulting in higher costs, longer sales cycles, and lower conversion rates that stifle a business’s growth potential.

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As a sales leader, you and your team know better than anyone that understanding your buyers is paramount. And that work never ends, as there is plenty of data to capture, analyze, and work from at each level of the sales funnel. This is where marketing and sales alignment can really shine. Whether your business is B2B or B2C, both teams should understand the total addressable market (TAM) or marketable universe and work together on co-creating detailed buyer personas. Working together on buyer personas benefits marketing, too, as they need accurate, detailed information to get their campaign targeting and messaging right—and there’s little room for error as lead acquisition costs continue to rise.

To create these profiles, your sales team should work closely with marketing to combine intelligence and distill the prospects’ firmographics, demographics, pain points, decision-making habits, preferred content, online behavior and more at every stage in the buyer journey.

Both teams bring something different to the table here. Sales colleagues will contribute valuable qualitative data from direct customer feedback and on-the-ground insights, while marketing will have quantitative data from social, website and content engagements and primary targeted research campaigns or secondary research. This joint effect will allow you to focus on the buyer segments most likely to convert and identify personalization strategies to attract and nurture the right leads effectively.

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3. Champion Sales Enablement

Sales enablement is another area where marketing and sales can collaborate. Typically, sales enablement materials are created by the marketing team as a way to highlight a brand’s valuable owned content and media wins. Marketing teams will package these up as easy-to-personalize sample emails or social media posts with trackable links driving back to the website. The sales team can use the template as an engagement point for prospects or to help maintain existing customers.

If your marketing team already provides sales enablement materials, champion them and encourage your colleagues to use them. If not, talk to your marketing team about the potential. Emphasize how these tools can help achieve mutual goals by driving website traffic and boosting engagement with marketing materials while also enhancing the sales and nurture process.

4. Prioritize Ongoing Collaboration

The overarching lesson to be learned is that the work between sales and marketing should never stop. You should have continuous feedback loops to discuss progress from high-level goals to specific campaigns, leveraging the unique vantage point that both teams have in the sales funnel.

For example, when kicking off a content campaign, your sales team can advise on certain messaging that resonates well with that audience group to help guide the content creation. Then, once the campaign is live, you can share timely feedback on the quality of leads, how the nurture process is going, and any pain points that have been shared by the prospects. Marketing will be able to share insights into market trends, customer preferences and helpful data on audience engagement.

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5 Common Business Process Management Challenges and How to Overcome Them

Business Process Management (BPM) is a vital strategy for organizations looking to enhance efficiency, streamline operations, and achieve business objectives. However, like any transformative initiative, BPM comes with its own set of challenges. Here, we'll explore five common BPM challenges and provide practical solutions for overcoming them.

1. Lack of Clear Goals and Objectives

One of the most common challenges in BPM is a lack of clear goals and objectives. Without a clear understanding of what the organization aims to achieve through BPM, it's challenging to develop effective processes and measure success. To overcome this challenge, start by aligning BPM initiatives with overarching business goals. Clearly define specific, measurable objectives that the BPM initiative aims to accomplish. This could include improving operational efficiency, reducing costs, enhancing customer satisfaction, or accelerating time-to-market. Regularly revisit and communicate these goals to ensure alignment across the organization.

2. Resistance to Change

Implementing BPM often requires significant changes to existing processes, workflows, and organizational structures. Resistance to change from employees and stakeholders can pose a significant challenge to BPM initiatives. To address this challenge, focus on building a culture of change and innovation within the organization. Clearly communicate the benefits of BPM to employees, emphasizing how it will improve their work lives and contribute to the organization's success. Involve employees in the BPM process by soliciting their input, addressing their concerns, and providing training and support to help them adapt to new processes and technologies.

3. Siloed Data and Processes

In many organizations, data and processes are siloed across different departments and systems, making it difficult to achieve end-to-end visibility and efficiency. To overcome this challenge, take a holistic approach to BPM that breaks down silos and fosters collaboration across departments and systems. Invest in integrated BPM software that allows for seamless data sharing and process orchestration across the organization. Establish cross-functional teams to identify and map out end-to-end processes, identifying opportunities for optimization and integration. Implement robust data governance policies and standards to ensure data consistency, quality, and security across the organization.

4. Lack of Automation and Scalability

Manual and ad-hoc processes can slow down operations, introduce errors, and hinder scalability. However, implementing automation at scale can be a daunting challenge for many organizations. To address this challenge, start by identifying repetitive and time-consuming tasks that can be automated to improve efficiency and accuracy. Leverage BPM software with built-in automation capabilities to streamline workflows, reduce manual intervention, and ensure consistency and compliance. Start small with pilot projects to demonstrate the value of automation and gradually scale up as confidence and capabilities grow.

5. Measuring and Improving Performance

Effective BPM requires continuous monitoring, measurement, and improvement of processes to ensure they align with organizational goals and deliver desired outcomes. However, many organizations struggle to establish meaningful metrics and performance indicators for BPM initiatives. To overcome this challenge, start by defining key performance indicators (KPIs) that align with BPM goals and objectives. These could include metrics such as cycle time, process efficiency, error rates, customer satisfaction, and cost savings. Implement BPM software with built-in analytics and reporting capabilities to track and analyze process performance in real-time. Use this data to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and areas for improvement, and iterate on processes to drive continuous improvement and innovation.

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Understanding the Essence of an Human Resources Management System (HRMS)

An HRMS, also known as a human resources management system, encompasses a suite of software applications utilised for overseeing human resources and associated processes throughout the employee lifecycle. Its implementation enables a company to gain comprehensive insights into its workforce while ensuring adherence to evolving tax laws and labour regulations.

While HR leaders and staff serve as the primary users, overseeing daily workforce operations and ensuring compliance and performance reporting, it's worth noting that other departments also reap significant benefits. Companies can empower managers and employees alike with self-service functionalities, particularly appealing to younger hires. Additionally, executives leverage HRMS to derive valuable data on workforce trends and their implications for business strategies.

Given that HR-related costs rank among the largest expenses incurred by a company, integrating HRMS with the accounting system proves indispensable for finance teams. Leading providers offer advanced functionalities beyond basic accounting, enabling companies to extract deeper financial insights from HR data.

The Essence of HRMS

Because of the shift to a work-from-home paradigm, HR expenses—especially those related to office space—are changing, but firms still need to precisely measure labour costs in order to maintain revenue per person KPIs.

Companies with overburdened HR departments should also implement self-service alternatives. An HR specialist doesn't need to spend time helping a manager get regular updates on hours worked or giving workers access to papers like W-2s.

Thankfully, a modern human resources management system offers two advantages: safe self-service and precise financial data reporting.

HRMS Features

HRMS feature sets can widely differ among providers, and assembling various products together might constrain the overall system. Therefore, HR, IT, finance, and other stakeholders must meticulously evaluate which of these HRMS features are indispensable for the company.

1. Benefits Administration: Helps HR specialists create plans, set up eligibility requirements, and carry out deposits or payments to benefit suppliers. Additionally, it facilitates self-service open enrollment and seamlessly integrates benefit costs with accounting.

2. Centralised Employee Records: Establishes a unified repository where all employee records are stored, updated, and managed. This enables better reporting, reduces compliance costs, and facilitates audit preparation.

3. Learning Management: Designed to aid employees in acquiring or enhancing skills through course administration, curriculum development, testing, and certifications. It also facilitates the rollout and monitoring of mandatory compliance training.

4. Reporting and Analytics: Equips users with the capability to generate operational reports, track HR information, complete compliance reporting, develop key performance indicators (KPIs), and embed HR metrics into financial dashboards for comprehensive company-wide analysis, planning, and decision-making. Additionally, look for the ability to create ad-hoc reports.

5. Rewards: Calculates salaries, hourly wages, variable payments for bonuses, overtime, sales commissions, shift differentials, and merit increases while managing regulatory and elective deductions. This ensures accurate net payments to employees at regular intervals. Benefits such as matching retirement fund contributions or mobile phone reimbursements may also be included in this feature set.

6. Talent Acquisition: Empowers recruiters to construct career pages on the company website and intranet, create job requisitions and descriptions, manage positions, integrate open positions with job boards, handle resumes, track applicants throughout the recruitment process, extend job offers, conduct background checks, administer pre-employment screenings, and generate job application forms.

7. Talent Management: Enables HR professionals to develop and assess employees through performance reviews, goal management, and competency and skills test administration.

8. Time and Attendance: Facilitates the processing of time-off requests, management of time-off balances, employee scheduling, absence management, and integration of timecards with payroll and projects.

9. User Interface: A user-friendly interface is crucial as HRMS is accessible to the entire workforce. Modern systems feature employee and manager self-service, mobile apps, localisation, personalised dashboards, workflow automation, role-based access controls, and notifications to ensure employee engagement and minimise inquiries into HR or IT departments.

10. Workforce Planning: Provides tools for planning and budgeting workforce costs, comparing them against actual expenditures for current and future scenarios. It may also aid in identifying skill gaps, creating succession plans, and prioritising recruitment efforts.

In a Nutshell

Companies seeking the best human resources systems must carefully evaluate their specific needs and requirements. By selecting an HRMS with a comprehensive feature set tailored to their organisational goals, you can optimise workforce management, drive operational efficiency, and unlock greater strategic insights into their human capital.

So, what are you waiting for? Leverage the power of HRMS, a promising solution by LDT Technology. It will streamline the employee lifecycle and lessen the burden for your recruiters. Let’s enhance your HR operations and maximise organisational efficiency!

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UnlockingBusinessGrowth: Four Crucial Financial Analytics Advantages for Your Business Expansion

Originally Published on: Quantzig|Four Financial Analytics Benefits Which You Must Know to Make Your Business Grow

Financial Analytics in the Era of Digitization

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, analytics has become a cornerstone for organizations striving to maintain competitiveness and relevance. Financial analytics plays a pivotal role in helping businesses comprehend their current and past performance while predicting future scenarios to facilitate informed decision-making. The utilization of financial analytics software expedites report generation and enhances data presentation through easily interpretable graphs.

Deciphering Financial Analytics

Financial analytics involves the creation of ad hoc analyses or business intelligence studies that address specific business questions and aid in predicting financial scenarios. It serves as a vital tool for assessing and addressing the financial challenges faced by businesses, ultimately enhancing overall performance.

Significance of Financial Analytics

Financial analytics has gained paramount importance due to the dynamic shifts in business models and the evolving needs of traditional financial departments. It revolves around managing and measuring tangible assets, a crucial aspect for all organizations. The core principles of financial analytics lie in making intelligent business decisions and minimizing financial losses.

Four Key Benefits of Financial Analytics

Analytics of Customer Profitability: Customer profitability analysis distinguishes between customers contributing to profits and those causing losses. Following the 80/20 rule, understanding that 20% of customers generate 80% of profits and 20% incur 80% of customer-related costs is crucial. This insight aids in optimizing strategies for each customer group.

Analytics of Sales Prediction: Predictive sales analytics enhances the accuracy of sales forecasting, enabling businesses to refine predictions through various methods such as analyzing past trends or correlations. This predictive analysis equips businesses to navigate fluctuations in sales effectively.

Analytics of Product Profitability: To stay competitive, businesses must identify areas of profit and loss. Product profitability analytics helps uncover the profitability of individual products or services, offering insights across the product range and fostering continuous profit improvement.

Analytics of Cash Flow: Monitoring the movement of cash within a business is essential for assessing its health. Cash flow analytics, utilizing real-time or retrospective indicators like working capital ratio, enables businesses to prioritize customer needs, ensuring a steady flow of cash.

In Conclusion: Empowering Business Growth Through Financial Analytics

Financial analytics stands as an indispensable tool for businesses of all sizes, allowing owners to gauge and enhance their business growth while adapting strategies as needed. The integration of financial analytics ensures accuracy and reliability in financial reports.

Connect with Quantzig's seasoned financial analytics experts to explore how financial analytics can propel your organization ahead of the competition, significantly improving efficiency and profitability.

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Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) Market Look a Witness of Excellent Long-Term Growth – Worldwide Survey by 2028

Latest Report Available at Advance Market Analytics, “Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) Market” provides pin-point analysis for changing competitive dynamics and a forward looking perspective on different factors driving or restraining industry growth. The global Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) market focuses on encompassing major statistical evidence for the Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) industry as it offers our readers a value addition on guiding them in encountering the obstacles surrounding the market. A comprehensive addition of several factors such as global distribution, manufacturers, market size, and market factors that affect the global contributions are reported in the study. In addition the Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) study also shifts its attention with an in-depth competitive landscape, defined growth opportunities, market share coupled with product type and applications, key companies responsible for the production, and utilized strategies are also marked.

Some key players in the global Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) market are:

Qorvo (United States)

Wirepas (Finland)

Early Warning Services (United States)

Abb Ltd. (Switzerland)

Cisco Systems (United States)

Aruba Networks (United States)

Ruckus Wireless (United States)

Strix Systems (United States)

Firetide (United States)

Wirepas (Finland)

Wireless Mesh Network is a network in which all the devices are interconnected. It is also called mesh topology and is a low mobility centralized form of wireless ad hoc network. Usually Laptops, cell phones and other devices are connected. The network is reliable and offers redundancy. It has the advantage that if one of the node dysfunctions others can still operate. The rise in technologies in electronic devices and the increasing usage of this network in developing countries is driving the market.What's Trending in Market: Adoption of Internet of Things in the Market

The Key Players are Focusing on Reducing the Cost and Easy Handling

Challenges: Increasing Number of Devices Increases the Complexity

Lack of Skilled Labor Required to Install the Network

Market Growth Drivers: Increasing Climatic Disasters has Created the High Demand in Mesh Networks

Rising Adoption of Wireless Networks

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Self Service Financial Reporting

In the fast-paced world of modern business, data-driven decision-making is paramount. Companies need access to accurate financial information at their fingertips to respond swiftly to market changes and make informed choices. Self-service financial reporting has emerged as a game-changer in this regard, empowering organizations to harness the power of data without being dependent on IT teams or financial experts. In this article, we will explore what self-service financial reporting entails and the significant benefits it offers to businesses.

Understanding Self-Service Financial Reporting:

Self-service financial reporting refers to a system that allows users to access and analyze financial data independently through intuitive and user-friendly interfaces. It liberates non-technical users, such as managers, analysts, and executives, from the need to rely on IT professionals or finance experts to generate customized financial reports. These tools offer a wide range of features, including data visualization, ad-hoc querying, and interactive dashboards, providing users with real-time insights and the flexibility to explore data on their own terms.

Benefits of Implementing Self-Service Financial Reporting in Businesses:

1. Faster Decision-Making: One of the most significant advantages of self-service financial reporting is the acceleration of decision-making processes. With the ability to access real-time financial data and generate customized reports instantaneously, business leaders can make timely and well-informed decisions. This agility is crucial in today's competitive landscape, where every moment counts, and opportunities can quickly vanish.

2. Enhanced Productivity: By reducing the dependency on IT or finance teams for generating reports, self-service financial reporting significantly enhances productivity. Employees across various departments can quickly retrieve the information they need, allowing them to focus on critical tasks and strategic initiatives rather than spending valuable time waiting for data requests to be fulfilled.

3. Improved Data Accuracy: Manual data entry and report generation can introduce human errors that may lead to costly mistakes. Self-service financial reporting minimizes the risk of data inaccuracies since it pulls information directly from integrated and standardized data sources. This ensures a single version of the truth and promotes data integrity across the organization.

4. Empowering Business Users: Self-service financial reporting empowers non-technical users by putting them in control of their data. Managers and executives can explore financial trends, drill down into specific details, and conduct ad-hoc analysis without relying on data specialists. This democratization of data allows employees at all levels to gain valuable insights to drive performance and growth.

5. Cost Savings: Traditional reporting processes involving IT teams or external consultants can be expensive and time-consuming. Self-service financial reporting reduces these costs by streamlining report generation and analysis, eliminating the need for specialized resources for routine data requests.

6. Enhanced Data Visualization: Data visualization is a powerful tool for interpreting complex financial information. Self-service financial reporting tools often come with built-in data visualization capabilities that transform raw data into easily digestible charts, graphs, and dashboards. These visual representations enable stakeholders to grasp financial trends and patterns at a glance, facilitating quicker comprehension and data-driven decision-making.

7. Increased Transparency: Self-service financial reporting fosters a culture of transparency within the organization. With data readily available and accessible to authorized users, decision-making becomes more collaborative, as employees from different departments can collaborate and contribute insights based on a shared understanding of the data.

8. Scalability and Flexibility: As businesses grow and evolve, their reporting needs change as well. Self-service financial reporting tools offer scalability and flexibility, allowing organizations to adapt their reporting structures and analyses to meet new requirements and challenges seamlessly.

9. Compliance and Auditing: Accurate and well-documented financial reporting is essential for compliance with regulatory standards and internal auditing processes. Self-service financial reporting facilitates easy access to historical data and provides detailed audit trails, ensuring regulatory compliance and simplifying the audit process.

Conclusion: Self-service financial reporting is a transformative approach that empowers businesses to harness the power of data effectively. By providing real-time access to financial information and democratizing data analysis, organizations can make faster and more informed decisions, enhance productivity, and foster a culture of transparency. As the business landscape continues to evolve, adopting self-service financial reporting will be crucial for staying competitive and thriving in the data-driven economy.

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Are you a recent graduate looking to kickstart your career in pharmaceutical writing? Fortrea, a global contract research organization (CRO), is offering Safety Writer fresher vacancies in Mumbai, India. This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic team and contribute to groundbreaking clinical development projects. Safety Writer Fresher vacancies - Fortrea Safety Writer Apply Locations: Mumbai, India Time Type: Full-time Posted on: Posted Yesterday Job Requisition ID: 2370185 As a leading global contract research organization (CRO) with a passion for scientific rigor and decades of clinical development experience, Fortrea provides pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device customers a wide range of clinical development, patient access, and technology solutions across more than 20 therapeutic areas. With over 19,000 staff conducting operations in more than 90 countries, Fortrea is transforming drug and device development for partners and patients across the globe. Job Description: Perform allied activities such as data collection for report planning, developing strategy, and leading kick-off meetings and round table discussions for comment resolution. Write various safety reports (or part of such reports) for global regulatory submissions, including but not limited to Annual Reports (IND and other), Periodic Safety Update Reports, Periodic Adverse Drug Experience Reports, Development Safety Update Report, Risk Management Plans, and other documents. Take ownership of the assigned deliverables and collaborate with internal/client stakeholders and the client to get the required inputs. Perform quality review of the safety reports prepared by junior or associate medical writers. Author or contribute to ad hoc reports, benefit-risk evaluation reports, justification/supporting documents for label updates. Write Common Technical Document Summaries including Non-Clinical and Clinical Overviews, Clinical Summaries, and other regulatory documents as assigned. Prepare medical information responses for HCPs. Author/contribute to signal reports (ad hoc & periodic) & safety issue analysis reports. Write subject narratives for adverse drug reactions and serious adverse events. Internal and external (client) communication & coordination to get the required inputs. Participate in creating and updating labels, e.g., Core Data Sheets, USPI, centralized SPCs, Med Guides. Conduct literature searches for authoring various types of reports or routine surveillance activities. Review and propose updates needed if any to the search strategies. Review the articles selected by other medical writers/junior writers. Author literature abstracts/summaries and propose Company comments. Implement and promote the use of consistent, efficient, and quality processes to meet timelines and deliverables according to requirements and standard operating procedures and assume accountability for the deliverables. Ensure compliance of operations with governing regulatory requirements. Create, maintain, and assume accountability for a culture of high customer service. Perform any additional activities as per the project requirement or manager’s discretion on completion of relevant training. [caption id="attachment_75223" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Safety Writer fresher vacancies available at Fortrea[/caption] Fortrea is actively seeking motivated problem-solvers and creative thinkers who share our passion for overcoming barriers in clinical trials. Our unwavering commitment is to revolutionize the development process, ensuring the swift delivery of life-changing ideas and therapies to patients in need. Join our exceptional team and embrace a collaborative workspace where personal growth is nurtured, enabling you to make a meaningful global impact. For more information about Fortrea, visit www.fortrea.com. Fortrea is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. As an EOE/AA employer, Fortrea strives for diversity and inclusion in the workforce and does not tolerate harassment or discrimination of any kind.

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OFFICE ADMINSTRATIVE JOB IN CANADA

Brandt is currently seeking an Office Administrator in our Regina location. This position is responsible for administrative, financial, and organizational assistance to contribute to the efficient operations of the organization Duties & Responsibilities Act as liaison and first point of contact for internal and external customers Provide confidential and effective administrative and technical support to the branch Respond professionally or make administrative scheduling and communication decisions to internal and external inquiries Coordinate, order, and receive office goods and supplies; maintenance of copiers, scanners, and printer Prepare routine correspondence, screen and process incoming mail, and make arrangements for meetings as required Assist with processing of accounts payable and receivable items Maintain and contribute to the development of departmental policies and procedures by identifying opportunities for process improvement or new standard operating procedures Coordinate, type, sort, and file documentation Travel booking and expense reporting Attend meetings, record minutes as required and assist management with various projects and ad-hoc requests Purchasing of Cell Phones for Employees as needed (New and Upgrades) Writing PO’s in multiple Business Systems as needed for Hardware Purchasing Answering and directing Branch Phone Calls when needed Other duties as assigned Required Skills Specialized and comprehensive knowledge of administrative work methods, procedures, approaches, and operations Demonstrated proficiency with all Microsoft Office programs is essential Team player with good intuition and strong sense of urgency about solving problems and getting work completed Adaptable and organized in a fast-paced environment Punctual with exceptional customer service and prioritization skills Strong business communication skills for creating correspondence, presentations, documents, and reportsYour Full Name

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Social Media Content Writer - Remote

Company Description SSENSE (pronounced ) is a global technology platform operating at the intersection of culture, community, and commerce. Headquartered in Montreal, it features a mix of established and emerging luxury brands across womenswear, menswear, kidswear, and Everything Else™. SSENSE has garnered critical acclaim as both an e-commerce engine and a producer of cultural content, generating an average of 100 million monthly page views. Approximately 80% of its audience is between the ages of 18 to 40. It is privately held and has achieved high double digit annual growth and profitability since its inception. Job Description Reporting to the Senior Manager, Head of Digital Content, the Social Media Content Writer plays an essential role within the content team. The Social Media Content Writer’s key role is to collaborate with the content team, with guidance from the Social Media team and key stakeholders, to develop compelling social media storytelling informed by industry news and trends, data-based insights, social media trends, and community engagement. The Content Writer will execute end-to-end social-first projects, producing multiple projects per week, ensuring SSENSE communicates our brand values and grows our audience exponentially. RESPONSIBILITIES Content Creation 80% - Concept, pitch, and create multimedia content for SSENSE’s social media platforms to meet monthly posting and KPI objectives. - Write SSENSE’s Social Media copy to meet publish dates, prioritizing innovative, exciting language that will engage SSENSE’s social media audience - Collaborate with Design and Visual team members to execute visuals for social media content, ensuring that content is optimized for best performance on its channels - Create shot lists, storyboards, and content concept presentations with visual copyrights that present a clear and coherent thought process and plan for execution - Contribute to Social Media team meetings and collaborate with cross functional partners. - Leverage data, community feedback, and industry trends to inform pitches and content creation. - Collaborate with the Social Media team to ideate and develop new social media concepts, driving positive engagement and audience development across all relevant social media platforms Ideation, Workflow, and Engagement 10% - Remain reactive, respond, and engage in real time cultural moments to ensure SSENSE is part of the conversation. Keep the Social Media team abreast of breaking news and industry trends. - Stay informed of trends in social media, fashion, art, literature, and pop culture to develop strategies that will grow the SSENSE community at scale. - Be responsible, on an exceptional or ad hoc basis, for working outside of normal working hours to meet the needs of the team when covering news and events around the world. - Speak with authority on all topics related to SSENSE’s content and the content of our industry peers. - Experiment with new media. Reporting and Benchmarking 5% - Support with routine audience audits and competitive benchmarking to optimize growth - Compile and conduct reporting, monitoring, and analyzes to meet social media KPIs Engagement and Listening 5% - Contribute to monitoring public and private engagement on all active social media platforms, escalating certain issues to PR, Customer Care, or the relevant team when needed Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in a related field such as Communications, Marketing, Journalism, or English Literature - A minimum of 3 years professional experience managing a brand and/or company’s social media presence, with a proven track record for developing and executing successful social media campaigns that achieved positive growth and engagement - Strong understanding of visual trends, design trends, and video trends - Passion and expertise for emerging and established social media platforms and digital communities (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Wechat, Weibo, TikTok, Pinterest, Snapchat, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Digg, Kik, Tumblr, etc.) - Proficient with Microsoft Office, OS X, and Google products - Experience with Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, an asset - Experience using social monitoring/listening tools to compile insightful and actionable reports - Flexible schedule according to the social media life cycle, including evenings and weekends as required - Excellent copywriting and communication skills in English and French SKILLS - Employ flawless written communication skills, thorough internet culture understanding, and extensive pop culture, art, and fashion knowledge to continue to shape the distinct SSENSE social media tone of voice for both a global and local audiences - Be a team player and a resource for the team, listening and respecting your colleagues and supporting the team through thick and thin - Ability to research, gather, and interpret data, as well as test and iterate ideas - Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, performance-driven, cross-departmental environment - Creative and strategic thinker who is genuine, self-motivated, collaborative, and proactive - Ability to multitask and manage projects to meet deadlines - Strong interpersonal skills with a natural ability to build relationships; maturity, discretion, discipline, and professionalism are essential - A proficiency with and interest in photography and capturing visual content - Healthy obsession with pop culture, editorial/journalistic content, and current events - Demonstrates a keen sensibility and knowledge of fashion, retail, technology, and marketing trends - Mastery of grammar and tone APPLY ON COMPANY WEBSITE Disclaimer: - This job opening is available on the respective company website as of 14th May 2023. 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Decision adopted by the conference of Parties to the convention on Biological Diversity at the COP15.

The Conference of the Parties, Recalling its decision 14/34, in which it adopted the preparatory process for the development of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework and decided to establish an open-ended intersessional working group to support its preparation, Noting the outcomes of the first, second, third, fourth and fifth meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, of the regional and thematic consultations and workshops conducted based on decision 14/34 and of the intersessional work conducted on digital sequence information on genetic resources; Noting also the outcomes of the eleventh meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions, of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth meetings of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice and of the third meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation; Expressing its gratitude to the following Governments and organizations for hosting these consultations, as well as for their financial contributions: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czechia, Kenya, European Union, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malta, Monaco,Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Republic of Korea, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Uruguay, as well as the African Union, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Environment Programme, the United Nations Development Programme and Tourism Montreal; Expressing its gratitude to the Co-Chairs of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, Mr. Basile van Havre (Canada) and Mr. Francis Ogwal (Uganda), for supporting the development of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework; Welcoming the submissions by Parties, other Governments, indigenous peoples and local communities, United Nations organizations and programmes, other multilateral environmental agreements, subnational governments, cities and other local authorities, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, women’s groups, youth groups, the business and finance community, the scientific community, academia, faith-based organizations, representatives of sectors related to or dependent on biodiversity, citizens at large, and other stakeholders and observers providing views on the development of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework; Alarmed by the continued loss of biodiversity and the threat that this poses to nature and human well-being, Emphasizing therefore the need for a balanced and enhanced implementation of all provisions of the Convention, including its three objectives,

Adopts the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, as contained in the annex to the present decision;

Notes that the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework will be supported by the following decisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its fifteenth meeting and affirms that these decisions are of equal standing to the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework; (a) Decision 15/5 on the monitoring framework for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework; (b) Decision 15/6 on planning, monitoring, reporting and review; (c) Decision 15/7 on resource mobilization; (d) Decision 15/8 on capacity-building and development and technical and scientific cooperation; (e) Decision 15/9 on digital sequence information on genetic resources; (f) Decision 15/13 on cooperation with other Conventions and international organizations.

Also notes that the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework will be supported by relevant decisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocols, in particular the Implementation Plan for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the Capacity-building Action Plan for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety;

Urges Parties and other Governments, with the support of intergovernmental and other organizations, as appropriate, to implement the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, and, in particular, to enable participation at all levels of government, with a view to fostering the full and effective contributions of women, youth, indigenous peoples and local communities, civil society organizations, the private and financial sectors, and stakeholders from all other sectors, to that end;

Invites Parties and other Governments to cooperate at the transboundary, regional and international levels in implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework;

Reaffirms its expectation that Parties and other Governments will ensure that the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities are respected and given effect to in the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework;

Invites the General Assembly of the United Nations to acknowledge the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and to take into account the progress in its implementation when monitoring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals;

Decides that the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework should be used as a strategic plan for the implementation of the Convention and its Protocols, its bodies and its Secretariat over the period 2022–2030 and that, in this regard, the Framework should be used to better align and direct the work of the various bodies of the Convention and its Protocols, its Secretariat and its budget according to the goals and targets of the Framework;

Requests the Executive Secretary to conduct a strategic review and analysis of the programmes of work of the Convention in the context of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework to facilitate its implementation, and, on the basis of this analysis, to prepare draft updates of these programmes of work for consideration by the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice and by the Subsidiary Body on Implementation, as appropriate, at meetings during the period between the fifteenth and sixteenth meetings of the Conference of the Parties, and to report on this work to the Conference of the Parties at its sixteenth meeting.

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