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Energy subsidies: Lessons learned in assessing their impact and designing policy reforms
… service and enhance utilities’ability to extend and expand capacity. Summary of Findings of Country Case Studies: Main … national policies and international agreements. UNEP’s capacity building work thus centers on helping countries strengthen …
Environmental Guidance Note for Disaster Risk Reduction - Healthy Ecosystems for Human Security
… out of choice. Environmental degradation is reducing the capacity of ecosystems to meet the needs of people for food … forms of flood protection, ecosystems have limits in their capacity to absorb large events, thus healthy coastal … habitat for fish and other marine species, firewood, building materials and medicine which support the needs of …
Wilderness Protected Areas: Management Guidelines for IUCN categories 1b protected areas
… drawn from across IUCN. Applied in the field, they are building institutional and individual capacity to manage protected area systems effectively, … at: www.cbd.int/protected/tools/ Contribute to developing capacity for a Protected Planet at: www.protectedplanet.net/ …
Montenegro and marine protected areas: Legal and insituttional framework assessment for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity and establishment of MPAs
… technical support in view of improving MPA management and building capacities of MPA managers and practitioners. 1 … it is still not performing managment functions with full capacity within Public Maritime Domain). — The Manager of … proclamation of an MPA in Montenegro ; — Build management capacity locally and raise public awareness on environmental …
ITTO/IUCN guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical timber production forests
… reduce the damage done to the forest by harvesting, road-building and other forest practices are likely to be … Principle 7: Knowledge, learning, technology transfer and capacity building Learning, experimentation, the … planning. Investments are needed to build national capacity for conducting field biodiversity surveys. National …
Integration of groundwater management into transboundary basin organizations in Africa - Training manual
… ■■ UNDP-CapNet – United Nations Development Programme Capacity Development Network in Sustainable Water Management … African basin organizations lack the technical skills and capacity to assess and manage transboundary groundwater … data, even in transboundary aquifer situations. Capacity Building: 1. Many TBOs do not have the skills, personnel, or …
Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment
… by the submitters, the Independent Expert had only limited capacity to verify the information provided in the … Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Montenegro, Serbia and Tajikistan. Building on the experience of the Aarhus Convention, nineteen … conducts a Sustainability School Programme that builds the capacity of local communities to seek transparency and …
Towards sustainable fisheries law: a comparative analysis
… of knowledge and the dissemination of information; • Capacity building and training; and • Technical ‘on-the-ground’ legal … often found antagonism between the fostering of fishing capacity and the restriction of fishing activities, reserve …
Statutory recognition of customary land rights in Africa - An investigation into best practices for lawmaking and implementation
… to opportunistic behaviours, "forum shopping" and weak capacity of either body of law to resolve conflicts … may not be well received, or the funding, technical capacity or other resources necessary to successful … to gather wood, soil and other materials for fuel and building construction from common areas. Rights to surface …