Improving ENVSEC coordination in Central Asia

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Improving ENVSEC coordination in Central Asia

• Ben Slay, Director
• UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre
• Third regional meeting
• Local environmental officials
• Bishkek, 13 February 2006

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Khudjand meeting Positive outcomes

• Attention focused on major hot-spots, disaster
  management challenges
• REHRA presentation
• Taboshar excursion
• Strong project portfolio emerging
• REHRA
• NATO uranium tailings
• Environmental journalism
• Disaster management
• Engagement of Aarhus centres

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Khudjand meeting Work to be done

• Issues of organisation, coordination, information
• Many stakeholders not fully informed about ENVSEC
  activities in their countries
• ENVSEC focal points need more support
• Stakeholder meetings too infrequent
• UNDP as ENVSEC Central Asia coordinatorto
  address these issues

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General response

• ENVSEC Programme Coordination paper
• Available here, in English and Russian
• Working draft, can be changed
• Three key response elements
• People
• Institutions
• Instruments
• Remainder of todays morning session to focus on
  assessing, correcting this response
• Did we get it right?

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Response People

• ENVSEC regional desk officer for Central Asia
  Inkar Kadyrzhanova
• Function Support national focal points, teams
• Partners Please keep Inkar informed!
• Coordination officer Coordination between ENVSEC
  partners at headquarters level
• Located in UNEP headquarters, Geneva
• Junior professional officer requested, to be
  outposted in either Osh or Khudjand

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Response Institutions

• Aarhus centres
• Information clearing houses
• Information support to national focal points
• UNDP ENVSEC back office
• Other partners freer to focus on
• Substance
• Communications
• UNECE invited to join ENVSEC, first as associate
  member

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Response Instruments

• Three meetings in 2006
• February
• June
• October
• Web sites
• ENVSEC http//www.envsec.org/
• CARNet www.caresd.net

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For working groups

• Coffee break 10.30 11.00
• After coffee break Divide into country teams
• Goals for working group meetings
• Assess strengths, weaknesses of ENVSEC Programme
  Coordination Central Asia
• Offer suggestions for improvements
• Aarhus centres How to best engage?
• National focal points
• How can this help your work?
• Please facilitate discussion
• Reconvene here at 12.00

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