Respondents also referred to other barriers including lack of support for NFPs, lack of cooperation mechanisms and different convention NFPs being located in different government ministries or agencies. Table 3 below presents a summary of identified challenges, potential response options and links these to case studies presented in this sourcebook. Generally policy processes on higher political levels need to aim at identifying synergies and overlaps in order to help those sub-national entities to incorporate and implement all biodiversity related policy objectives on the ground. By ensuring internal collaboration synergies can be ensured in support of member countries/ NFPs.