Preparing national action plans for implementing Agenda 21

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends that the organs of the UN system should, on request, assist countries, in particular developing countries, in the preparation of national reports.

1. Reporting
2. Producing country studies
3. Developing national strategies for sustainability
4. Coordinating UNCED follow-up
5. Considering results of Agenda 21 reviews by NGOs

1. Producing environmental resource inventories

1. Integrating biodiversity conservation with rural development

1. Preparing capacity building strategies for implementing Agenda 21
2. Improving NGO participation in Agenda 21 review and evaluation
3. Establishing national mechanisms for coordinating implementation of Agenda 21
4. Ensuring support of United Nations system for national policies and programmes to implement Agenda 21

1. Developing national environmental health action plans
2. Developing action plans for biodiversity conservation

1. Support
2. Nonimplementation
3. Inactivity
4. Implementation
5. Action

1. United Nations System-Wide Web Site on National Implementation of the Rio Commitments
2. Earth Summit +5: Country Profiles