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National Environmental Action Plan (NEAP) Introduction • The first effort to introduce specific legislation for environmental protection in Pakistan was made in 1977. ... These include, among others, the creation of the Ministry of Environment and environmental protection agencies, promulgation of the Pakistan Environmental Protection Act in 1977 and the Pakistan Environmental Protection Ordinance in 1983. In 1992, the Pakistan National Conservation Strategy (NCS) was developed, and in 1999 the NCS was subject to mid-term review. The NEAP was approved by the Pakistan Environment Protection Council chaired by the Chief Executive in February 2001.The development objective of the NEAP is to initiate actions and programmes for achieving a state of the environment that safeguards public health, promotes sustainable livelihoods, and enhances quality of life of the people of Pakistan. ... Based on the lessons learnt from projects that have attempted to address the issues of poverty-environment nexus, the NEAP strategy calls for shifting the focus, capacities and resources in a limited number of core areas where a high level of impact can be achieved in the near term. ... Programme Objectives • The NEAP is based on poverty-environment nexus and it is planned to take the following measures to achieve its objectives: The focus will be shifted from completion of activities and delivery of services to alleviating poverty, through environmental projects. Under the umbrella of 1997 Environmental Protection Act, policy development and enforcement efforts will be directed towards reducing health risks and vulnerability in the poorer segments of the population. ... Programme Components • The NEAP will implement the above measures and actions through the following major sub-programmes. ... The other areas of concern included in the NEAP are: (ii) management of fresh water resources; (ii) marine pollution; (iii) toxic and hazardous substances; (iv) energy conservation and management; and (v) compliance with international treaties and protocols. The major beneficiaries of NEAP will be the poor in rural and urban areas who are suffering from air and water pollution and degradation of natural resources, especially the women and children. The private sector will also benefit from NEAP activities because of exposure to economical and eco-friendly production processes which will result in creation of job opportunities. The second line of beneficiaries will be the institutions at various levels and NGOs whose capacities will be strengthened as a result of NEAP activities. Last but not the least, the beneficiaries of NEAP will be several species of animals and plants, which are under severe threat due to degradation of their ecosystems. While the institutional/implementation mechanisms for the individual programmes will inevitably vary, a common institutional framework has been proposed by NEAP for efficient utilization of available resources. ... National Environmental Action Plan - Support Programme (NEAP-SP) • The GOP and EAD have joined UNDP to implement NEAP through a support programme. The development objective of NEAP-SP is environmental sustainability and poverty reduction in the context of economic growth. For this purpose, the programme’s focus is on core areas of NEAP and the environmental aspects of the Poverty Reduction Strategy, aiming towards an economic growth without costs in the form of environmental losses or increased poverty, and rather with gains in the form of improved environment and reduced poverty. ... Policy coordination and environmental governance b. ... Grassroots initiatives The NEAP implementation strategy calls for raising mass awareness at different levels. ... The proposed programme goes much beyond the technical scope of NEAP. It will provide support in the implementation of main sub-programmes outlined above, strengthen the implementation and monitoring arrangements envisaged in the NEAP, and will further cover areas such as environmental disaster management in dry-land (drought prone) areas, environmental governance, energy generation, and strengthening capacities of CBOs in environmental management and natural resources conservation. ... A high level Programme Steering Committee(PSC) chaired by the Secretary Environment would provide vision for long-term sustainbable environmental management and poverty alleviation agenda, improve the qualityof decision-making sector efficiency and managerial performance in planning and implementation of poverty/environment related programmes and projects, as well s advocate inter-ministerial coordination. The long-term objective of the programme is to assist GOP in its on-going efforts to mobilize technical and financial assistance to meet its targets on poverty alleviation, natural resource conservation and environmental management. ... Sub-Programme -1 Policy Coordination and Environmental Governance • Introduction This sub-programme is really the hub of NEAP-SP. It will focus on bringing policy change to conserve environment and combat poverty as well as promoting inter-ministerial coordination to influence the national planning process. Environmental education, accounting, monitoring and regular publication of the state of environment report will be the other features of this sub-programme to bring an attitudinal change. • Sub-Programme Objective Sub-Programme-1 “Policy Coordination and Environmental Governance” of the NEAP-SP is “to strengthen national institutions for environmental policy formulation, coordination and governance so as to address issues related to poverty-environment nexus in a coordinated and integrated manner”. The sub-objectives include: (i) To coordinate the environmental policy formulation and implementation process at the federal, provincial and local levels; (ii) To establish a “Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development Facility” to influence the policy making and planning process to address the issues of sustainable development; (iii) To promote the goal of SHD by facilitating capacity building for a higher quality of decision making; and (iv) To expand the environmental knowledge base as a mean of securing basis for environmental and natural resource management. • Sub-Programme Components The main components of the sub-program include policy planning and coordination, environmental information management system and environmental education and awareness. Environmental accounting and monitoring and regular publication of state of environment report will be other features of the sub-program. A brief description of the main components of the Sub-Program is as follows: (i) Policy Planning and Coordination The MoELGRD is expected to assume greater responsibilities with respect to environmental policy formulation. ... This component will provide assistance in establishing an environmental policy analysis unit in the MoELGRD for policy research. ... (ii) Environmental Information Management System This component will facilitate the highest level decision making by providing an objective analysis of the country’s environmental situation and its impacts on different sectors of the economy. Under this component, an environmental accounting and monitoring system (EAMS) will be established which will consist of: (i) information system; (ii) decision support system; and (iii) coordination and reporting system. |
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