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The highlights featured in this report showcase a variety of IUCN's engagement with business, but it is only a sampling of the outreach underway with its Members, volunteer experts, and colleagues around the world. 

This report aimed at understanding resource use and dependence, perception of marine conservation policies, and adaptive capacities of communities of North Ari atoll, Maldives. It provides information on the social resilience of 8 local community islands in North Ari atoll, and identifies differences in gender role, in resource use and perception of enironmental issues. This study is key in understanding the value of ecosystem services in one atoll in the Maldives.

The project "Facilitating REDD+ benefit sharing in Peru" (2013-2016) aimed to implement early REDD+ actions enabled by appropriate, efficient and equitable benefit-sharing mechanisms that are sufficiently robust to be mainstreamed into long-term national and international REDD+ frameworks.

IUCN collaborates with business at the company and sector level as well as across sectors. It also works with key associations and organisations concerned with promoting good business practices. Throughout 2016, the Business and Biodiversity Programme has continued to advance partnership activities. This latest issue of the Highlights report features some of the recent initiatives by IUCN’s Business and Biodiversity Programme.