Umanotera Slovenian Foundation for sustainable development

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UmanoteraSlovenian Foundation for sustainable
development

• Barbara Skaberne
• Milano, Seveso, 9 November 2007

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Umanotera

• Esteblished 1994
• Structure - Managing Board,
• - Managing Director,
• - Staff (6) and volunteers (30)
• Annual income (2006) 445.000 EUR
• Key sources of funding 2004-06
• Trust for the Civil Society in CEE,
• self-financing,
• EU Delegation in Slovenia,
• British Embassy,
• Dutch Embassy,
• WWF,
• Friends of the Earth,
• Slovenian Ministry of Environment and Spatial
  Planning,
• Office of Information

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Mission

• to implement the principles of sustainable
  development in practise, particularly those aimed
  at
• preserving natural resources and biodiversity,
• balancing the human society with the environment
  and
• promoting environmental ethics.

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Vision

• Slovenia will become a country of people that
  position sustainable development as their key
  value in 10 years
• and
• Slovenia will become a sustainable society in 30
  years.
• Umanotera wishes to be
• a good spirit of this development by helping in
  overcoming hindrances and spreading good
  practices.

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Objectives

• promotion of sustainability principles as defined
  by Agenda 21 through
• publications,
• events,
• website and
• envionmental e-news,
• capacity building for sustainable development and
  participatory democracy
• NGOs,
• municipalities and business
• strategic networking and partnerships with
  organisations with similar goals in Slovenia and
  internationally,
• participation in the process of creation of
  policies and legislation related to sustainable
  development issues,
• monitoring of the implementation of sustainable
  development policies and legislation at national
  level.

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Topics

• In the last couple of years Umanotera has been
  focused on
• climate change,
• chemicals (policy work),
• nature conservation (Natura 2000),
• social responsibility (Fair trade shop, Good
  gifts)
• capacity building of NGOsS
• (before also waste prevention and GMOs)

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Scope and forms of activities

• international (especially EU accession related)
  and
• national projects,
• training workshops,
• publications,
• information centre,
• lobbying,
• networking and coalition-building,
• lectures
• facilitation

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Member

• Umanotera has been a full member of
• European Environmental Bureau - EEB (since 2001)
• a national partner of the Trust for the Civil
  Society in CEE in 2002 (programmes for
  strengthening the NGO sector in Slovenia.
• the first Fair Trade shop in Slovenia (in
  Ljubljana) was opened by Umanotera in partnership
  with Humanitas in 2004.

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Main achievements

• Agenda 21 for Slovenia - joint project with 19
  Slovene NGOs in 1995 (Networking with NGOs and
  experts in Slovenia and internationally)
• Green Budget Reform conference and book in
  partnership with the Wuppertal Institute in 1996,
  
• Secretariat for the European NGO Coalition for
  the Aarhus Conference 1998,
• Plan B for Slovenia 1.0, alternative development
  scenario for Slovenia focused on ambitious
  climate targets, 2007).
• Publications
• Green Pages 1998 and
• 2000 Almanac (Directory and Who-is-Who in
  Environment in Slovenia),
• weekly E-news since 2001
• over 20 other publications on topics ranging from
  mainstreaming sustainable development and green
  public institutions to waste management and GMOs.
  
• Successful pioneering work in capacity building
  for facilitation of group processes in Slovenia,
• Innovative examples of encouraging communication
  between sectors in the society (EU Tuesdays, Club
  Umanotera) and
• promoting public participation in decision-making
  (Mirror to the Government Report 2006).

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• Thanks!
• www.umanotera.org