strategy
Building capacity for environmental management
Context:
Developing countries suffer from underinvestment in institutional capacity and infrastructure for environmental management. The problem is one of underinvestment, in that the averted damages and costs would generously repay the needed expenditures. It is often implicitly overlooked that the costs of environmental degradation, in terms of increased sickness or reduced productivity, are real costs to the economy, although they may not be adequately captured by market valuations.
Although many African countries are implementing new national and multilateral environmental policies, their effectiveness is often low due to lack of adequate staff, expertise, funds and equipment for implementation and enforcement.
Broader:
Constructing Narrower:
Increasing public participation in environmental managementTraining mountain communities in integrated environmental managementIncluding environmental management in activities of local authoritiesStrengthening national capacities for environmental health interventionsUndertaking environmental management measures to control disease vectorsTraining integrative approaches to environmental management and planningSupporting national efforts on integrated management of marine and coastal areasSupporting regional training programmes on environmental planning and management Facilitates:
Using environmental management techniques Facilitated by:
Demonstrating sound environmental managementDeveloping national environmental policy studiesEstablishing institutional capacity for national environmental action plans Subjects:
Environment → Environment Industry → Construction
Management → Management
Type Classification:
C: Cross-sectoral strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
