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Integrating environment and development in Viet Nam: Achievements, challenges and next steps
Submitted by andrea on Wed, 2010-02-03 08:14
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Development and environmental management have, for too long, been treated as separate objectives in Viet Nam – as in most countries. Viet Nam’s extraordinarily rapid development has brought immediate and major benefits. But it has also led to poor people suffering pollution, climate change and soil infertility. It is time for development and environment to be considered together. This paper reviews what has worked well in integrating environment and development objectives in Viet Nam, as well as what currently constrains integration.
The challenges of environmental mainstreaming: Experiences of integrating environment into development institutions and decisions
Submitted by andrea on Wed, 2010-02-03 08:14Year:
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The Challenges of Environmental Mainstreaming’ is an initial synthesis of IIED’s work with partners in 13 developing countries. It reviews the rapidly changing context and challenges to environmental mainstreaming, discusses what it takes to achieve effective mainstreaming, and provides a roadmap for selecting operational methods and tools. It explores the current emphasis on getting environmental issues reflected in key government processes –
notably development plans, poverty reduction strategies and national budgets.
10 facts on children's environmental health
Submitted by andrea on Mon, 2010-01-04 09:19Year:
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a fact file titled “10 Facts on Children’s Environmental Health,” which summarizes environment-related causes and conditions of the nearly three million deaths of children under five years old every year. The Fact File underscores, among other things, that climate change increases the risk of disease especially for children in developing countries.
Samoa - National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA)
Submitted by andrea on Tue, 2009-06-23 00:18
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National adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs) provide a process for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to identify priority activities that respond to their urgent and immediate needs to adapt to climate change – those for which further delay would increase vulnerability and/or costs at a later stage. The following summarizes the NAPA for Samoa. The objective of the proposed NAPA project for Samoa is to develop a country-wide programme of immediate and urgent project-based adaptation activities that address the current and anticipated adverse effects of climate change, including extreme events.
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Activity 1.1: Achieving High Level Stakeholder Support for the NAPA Process Activity 1.2: Awareness Raising and Consultation Amongst Stakeholders Activity 1.3: Establish Institutional and Management Arrangements Activity 1.4: Establishment and Participation of Multidisciplinary Working Groups Activity 1.5: Capacity Building Activity 1.6: LDC Cooperation and Coordination Activity 1.7: Monitoring, Review, Evaluation, and Reporting Activity 2.1: Review and Strengthening of Vulnerability and Adaptation Methodologies Activity 2.2: Development of Methods and Criteria to Identify and Prioritize Urgent and Immediate Adaptation Activities
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* Project Steering Committee. * Informal broad network across government agencies at Department Head level. * At least two ministerial level briefings * NAPA endorsed by Government * Awareness raising materials in Samoan and English languages * Media campaign * Documentation on key stakeholders and relevant initiatives that complement the NAPA process * Briefings for, and consultation with, key stakeholders * Guidance and feedback from key stakeholders * Information shared with related initiatives and ongoing linkages established
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GEF operational focal point: Mr. Mose Pouvi Sua Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ministry of Foreign Affairs Climate change focal point: Ms. Violet Wulf Department of Lands Surveys and Environment
