Strengthening national environmental data assessment capabilities

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 strengthening the capacity of national institutions to analyse environmental data so that ecological change can be monitored and environmental information obtained on a continuing basis at the national level.

1. Structuring databases
2. Strengthening capacity

1. Extending scope of environmental data collection

1. Monitoring desertification
2. Costing environmental damage
3. Conducting natural resources damage assessments
4. Assessing environmental impacts