1. Roberto MARTÍN-HURTADO OECD/EAP Task Force Secretariat
Assessing Progress in Achieving the Objectives of the EECCA Environment Strategy –
The EECCA Report
Roberto MARTÍN-HURTADO
OECD/EAP Task Force Secretariat

2. EECCA Environment Strategy
KIEV 2003
Strategy adopted
TBILISI 2004
Strategy implementation discussed
BELGRADE 2007
Strategy implementation to be reviewed
KEY OBJECTIVES
AREAS FOR ACTION
FACILITATING ORGANISATIONS
Improve environmental policies and institutions
OECD/EAP TF, UNECE
Pollution prevention and control
Urban air pollution
WHO, UNECE
Water supply and sanitation
OECD/EAP TF, WHO
Waste and chemicals management
UNEP-SBC
Sustainable management of natural resources
Integrated water resources management
UNECE, UNEP
Biodiversity and ecosystem protection
UNEP, Council of Europe
Environmental policy integration
Overall issues of sectoral integration
OECD/EAP TF, UNDP
Integration in the energy sector
UNECE
Integration in the transport sector
Integration in agriculture and forestry
World Bank
Mobilisation and allocation of financial resources
OECD/EAP TF, PPC
Environmental information and awareness
Monitoring and information management
Public participation in decision-making
UNECE, RECs, UNDP
Environmental education
Co-operation on transboundary issues

3. Assessing Progress Establishing a “baseline”: Stocktaking Report
Structured around the Strategy objectives
Desk study, use of available information (databases, Kiev reports)
Little involvement of EECCA countries and Facilitating Organisations
Assessing progress: EECCA Report
Focus on actions taken
Case studies, country profiles, recommendations
Inter-agency effort: different inputs from World Bank, UNDP, UNEP, WHO, EECCA RECs, PPC,…
Close co-ordination with EEA’s Belgrade Assessment
Important EECCA involvement:
sub-regional consultations May/June05
regional workshop May06
questionnaire June/Sept06
review Feb07

4. Report structure Introduction: Environment and Development
Progress across Objectives [15 chapters, policy brief style]
Why is the issue important?
What can be done about it?
What has been done since Kiev?
What are the barriers to progress?
What are the information gaps?
Recommendations
Where can the reader find further information / deeper analysis?
Country Profiles
Socio-economic context
Formal environmental priorities
International cooperation/partnerships
Implementation highlights or Case studies
Policy matrix
Conclusions/recommendations

5. Timetable Concept development
Consultations with EECCA countries May-June 2005
Contacts with facilitating organisations Feb-April 2006
Information collection
Design of reporting tool/questionnaire April-June 2006
Regional Workshop May 2006
Information from countries June-Sept 2006
Inputs from facilitating organisations March-Nov 2006
Analysis, writing and review
Analysis Aug-Dec 2006
First draft for internal review mid-Dec 2006
Second draft for EECCA review end-Jan 2007
Final draft end-April 2007
Production, launch, dissemination May-Dec 2007

6. Input from UNECE WGEMA
Concept of report presented in the 5th Session of the WGEMA (June 2005)
Informal input from the Secretary of the WGEMA (March 2006)
Participation of the Secretary of the WGEMA in Regional Meeting (May 2006)
We would appreciate if the WGEMA could let us know their expert opinion on:
a) Main trends in improving information management in EECCA since 2003
b) A case study of good policy practice (BEL institutional arrangements, UZB indicators, others?)
c) Barriers to improving information management in EECCA

7. Вклад от ЕЭК ООН РГМООС (UNECE WGEMA)
Мы были бы признательны, если бы члены ЕЭК ООН РГМООС выразили свое мнение по вопросам:
a) Основных тенденций в информационном менеджменте в области окружающей среды в регионе ВЕКЦА с 2003 года
b) Ситуационного исследования по примерам наилучшей практики в области природоохранной политики (институциональные меры в Беларуси, индикаторы в Узбекистане, другие?)
c) Препятствия на пути улучшения информационного менеджмента окружающей среды в ВЕКЦА