Building capacity for environmental management

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.

1. Constructing

1. Undertaking environmental management measures to control disease vectors
2. Training mountain communities in integrated environmental management
3. Training integrative approaches to environmental management and planning
4. Supporting regional training programmes on environmental planning and management
5. Supporting national efforts on integrated management of marine and coastal areas
6. Strengthening national capacities for environmental health interventions
7. Increasing public participation in environmental management
8. Including environmental management in activities of local authorities

1. Using environmental management techniques

1. Establishing institutional capacity for national environmental action plans
2. Developing national environmental policy studies
3. Demonstrating sound environmental management

1. Undercapacity
2. Overcapacity
3. Mismanagement
4. Capacity

1. Environmental Management Capacity Building for Local Government
2. ENHANCING CAPACITY: A basis for greening development
3. Capacity building and the environment
4. Capacity Building in Sustainability and Environmental Management
5. Asian Development Bank: Viet Nam: Capacity Building on Environmental Management to Power Sector
6. Regional Environmental Center: Strengthening Institutional Capacity for Environmental Management in Turkey
7. Phases of Capacity building - multilateral environmental agreements (ACP-MEAs Programme)
8. National Capacity Needs Self-Assessment for Global Environmental Management – Argentina
9. Building Capacity for Social Learning in Environmental Management