3. Encouraging Mozambique’s accession to international organizations relevant for safeguarding genetic resources and traditional knowledge; 4. Introducing mechanisms for recognizing and developing the intellectual property rights of individuals and local communities possessing traditional knowledge; 5. Promoting policies and legislation to allow access to and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits resulting from the exploitation of genetic resources, and the associated traditional knowledge, at the level of local communities. STRATEGIC AREA V: TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND BIODIVERSITY Goals Strategic Goal 17 for 2012 Encouraging the acquisition and safeguarding of intellectual property rights by local communities Results anticipated Support system for local communities. by 2012 SHORT TERM Actions 1. Incentivizing the acquisition of intellectual property rights by local communities and ensuring their protection; 2. Developing model contracts and memorandums of understanding on the exploitation of intellectual property rights that safeguard the interests of local communities and the fair sharing of benefits; 3. Introducing monitoring mechanisms to allow and impose the legal acquisition of traditional knowledge; 4. Where genetic resources or traditional knowledge are used, making it a duty to reveal their source in order to obtain