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Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power
… environment and conservation 43 Box 9. The concept of “institution” 47 Box 10. Economic and biodiversity values from … constraints (particularly institutional limitations) and building opportunities; • identify causes of environmental … under rapidly changing conditions. Challenges include institution building and strengthening the internal capacity …
Ecosystems protecting infrastructure and communities - Lessons learned and guidelines for implementation
… Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) through the International … NGOs, local government agencies and a national research institution. The Climate Resilience Evaluation for Adaptation … local government, 10 technical partners and one research institution) were provided training on Eco-DRR using …
Synergies Success Stories - Enhancing cooperation and coordination among the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions
… the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions Capacity building at the regional and national levels Developing … countries with economies in transition rely on capacity building activities, such as workshops and projects to … and more efforts to promote the joint delivery of capacity building activities for the conventions . The Secretariats of …
Integrated coastal management law: Establishing and strengthening national legal frameworks for integrated coastal management
… • coastal management objectives can best be achieved by building co- operative and co-ordinated approaches to … extend into the jurisdiction of more than one existing institution. Examples include: (a) the development of harbour … administered by a government department but by another institution such as a trust fund or statutory body. Despite …
Publication - An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing
… this Guide an adaptable tool for future ABS capacity-building and awareness raising initiatives, as well as an … and what will be acceptable to the party (government institution or private enterprise) seeking access, varies in … those resources, such as an individual, a company, or an institution. In the case of a successful negotiation, this …
Climate Change- International Legal Regime - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… with international standards on e-Learning for capacity building. The contents of the course “Climate Change … Environment Facility (GEF), an independent financial institution which provides grants to developing countries for … The Marrakesh Accords provide for the creation of a new institution, the Compliance Committee, charged with promoting …
From the MDGs to Sustainable Development for All - Lessons from 15 years of practice
… gaps, for example, a timeline of steps might include building schools, training and attracting teachers; improving … in extreme poverty by 2015[5]. A study by the Brook- ings Institution found sub-Saharan African countries responsible … where the health sector was posi- tioned as a core social institution deeply embed- ded in its local context and where …
Assessing the international forest regime
… instruments. There is, however, enough of a basis to begin building synergies. As such, Dr. Skala-Kuhmann makes a number … where possible, the following: • The mandate of each institution and its relationship to the conservation and … for these programmes; • The strength and weakness of each institution with respect to matters such as the technical …
Sharing Information with Confidence. “The Biodiversity Commons”: past experience, current trends and potential future directions
… in people’s minds. Information can contribute to capacity building, education and science, but benefits can be … includes five models of information sharing Challenges to building the commons: it has been argued that access to … the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. Ecoport states that: “Open, unfettered access to …
Energy law and sustainable development
… generating fees sufficient to pay for the investment in building and operating the energy systems, (b) providing a … major obstacle to adoption of this legal regime and to the institution of the market-based approach is the US refusal to … W. Hough, Fire as an Agent in Human Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. T. Vale (ed.), Fire, Native …