Transparency is given throughout the setup of the project. This is due to the participation of governmental and non-governmental staff members, the progress reports for administrative and scientific authorities as well as the accessibility to the facilities used by the project (e.g. study site, laboratory, herbarium).

This setup allows sharing experiences, ideas and achievements with and within the country of origin already in their process of emerging. Beyond the basic research striving for the conservation of the local biodiversity, priority is put on the evaluation and projection of possibilities of economic use of natural herbal plants within and by the country of origin.
Across all these levels, the project follows the guidelines of the Rio-Convention:

“The objectives of this Convention, to be pursued in accordance with its relevant provisions, are the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources, including by appropriate access to genetic resources and by appropriate transfer of relevant technologies, taking into account all rights over those resources and to technologies, and by appropriate funding.” (© UNEP 2001-2004) (http://www.biodiv.org/convention/)