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Lots of wetland all over the world are facing great challenges and so that in Iran such as Urmia Lake. These challenges mean that the classic methods of wetlands management and conservation must be changed. Approaching this massive shift needs several things that one of the most import infrastructures is CEPA plan (Communication, Education, Participation and Awareness).

The CEPA indicates that which vision, objectives, implementations and priorities should be set toward the sustainability of a specific wetland. The process of planning CEPA influences the outcomes and the optimum way that “Ramsar Convention” recommended is: participating of the whole stakeholders.

In a pioneer model of stakeholders’ participation, Abangah followed planning of CEPA at KAJI wetland at the East of Iran in 2018 autumn and as a brilliant accomplishment finished this process with finalizing a plan which all the actors (provincial and local government, the communities near the wetland with a great participation of women, NGOs and …) feel possession to it and hopefully it will be a base for synergy at improving and conserving the unique habitants of immigrant birds at the East of Iran.