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The Aarhus clearinghouse progress report & the integration of capacity building. November 2005. Clearinghouse’s Renewed Mandate DECISION II/3 On Electronic Information Tools and the Clearing-house Mechanism adopted in Almaty at Second Meeting of the Parties (May 2005) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The Aarhus clearinghouse progress The Aarhus clearinghouse progress report & the integration of report & the integration of
capacity buildingcapacity building
November 2005November 2005
Clearinghouse’s Renewed MandateClearinghouse’s Renewed Mandate
DECISION II/3 On Electronic Information Tools DECISION II/3 On Electronic Information Tools and the Clearing-house Mechanism adopted in and the Clearing-house Mechanism adopted in Almaty at Second Meeting of the Parties Almaty at Second Meeting of the Parties (May 2005)(May 2005)
““Welcoming … the establishment of a Welcoming … the establishment of a clearing-clearing-
house mechanism and the launch of the house mechanism and the launch of the UNECE UNECE Aarhus Clearinghouse for Aarhus Clearinghouse for Environmental Environmental Democracy” Democracy”
In Almaty, the Meeting of the Parties…In Almaty, the Meeting of the Parties…
2.2. InvitesInvites Parties, Signatories and other Parties, Signatories and other interested States to develop a national node interested States to develop a national node of the clearing-house mechanism with legal of the clearing-house mechanism with legal and practical information on issues related and practical information on issues related to the Convention at national level, linked to to the Convention at national level, linked to the UNECE Aarhus Clearinghouse for the UNECE Aarhus Clearinghouse for Environmental Democracy, and invites other Environmental Democracy, and invites other stakeholders to submit relevant information stakeholders to submit relevant information to the clearing house; …to the clearing house; …
3. 3. DecidesDecides to extend the mandate to extend the mandate of the Task Force on Electronic of the Task Force on Electronic Information Tools with Information Tools with the following programme of work: the following programme of work: . . .. . .(d) Maintenance and further (d) Maintenance and further development of the clearing-house development of the clearing-house mechanism, including development of mechanism, including development of guidance materials and a programme guidance materials and a programme of training workshops in support of of training workshops in support of capacity building for the national capacity building for the national nodes of the clearing house while nodes of the clearing house while avoiding duplication of work.avoiding duplication of work.
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Aarhus CH national nodes Aarhus CH national nodes have so far been designatedhave so far been designated
The Resource Directory holds The Resource Directory holds 730730 separate separate entries. Each entry is ‘tagged’ with one or entries. Each entry is ‘tagged’ with one or more thematic attribute: more thematic attribute:
Access to Information Access to Information 500500Public participation Public participation 330330Electronic Tools Electronic Tools 225225Access to Justice Access to Justice 174 174 PRTRs PRTRs 165 165 Convention Compliance Convention Compliance 112112 Strategic Decision-making Strategic Decision-making 109 109 GMOs GMOs 82 82
Resources entries by activity:Resources entries by activity:
Research 366366
Legislation 297 297
Projects 266 266
Policy 195 195
Procedures 184 184
Source of entries by organizational type:
NGOs NGOs 359 359 Intergovernmental organizations 223Intergovernmental organizations 223 Government Government 181 181 Academia Academia 72 72
Leaders’ entries among Parties and Signatories All sources United Kingdom + — 63 European Commission + — 30 Kyrgyzstan + — 19 Armenia, Georgia + — 17 Kazakhstan +/ — 16 Azerbaijan + — 14 Germany + — 11 Belarus +, Ireland +, Ukraine — 10 * Bulgaria +, Italy + — 9 * Republic of Moldova +, Switzerland — 8 * Norway, Tajikistan + — 7 * Romania, Spain, FYR Macedonia — 6 *___________
* each + designated Aarhus website / not operational
Visits 2005 to dateVisits 2005 to date
2004 Visits (24 weeks of operation) 30,000
2005 Visits (44 weeks of operation) 200,000
Next Steps underway…Next Steps underway…
Ongoing outreach with resource providersOngoing outreach with resource providers Fresh News features Fresh News features National node capacity building National node capacity building Content management guidance Content management guidance Help page (for users)Help page (for users) Upgrade web calendar of principle 10 Upgrade web calendar of principle 10 related eventsrelated events Clearinghouse information exchangeClearinghouse information exchange Integration of capacity building informationIntegration of capacity building information
Capacity building for implementationof the Aarhus Convention
Aim: to coordinate capacity building activities
How: by sharing information and by cooperation
Challenge: timely and efficient sharing of information on past, on-going and future capacity building activities
A solution: develop a framework to share capacity building information, i.e. through the Aarhus Convention Clearing House.
Other solutions?
Framework for integrating capacity building into the Clearinghouse
Access to InformationPublic ParticipationAccess to Justice
PRTRGMO
Electronic toolsStrategic Decision-makingConvention Compliance
Query
Capacity Building:Info and training materials
ProjectsEventsExpertsNeeds
GovernmentNGOsIGO
Academia
RegionsSub-regionsCountries
LegislationPolicy
ProceduresResearch
Result output
Build a Query
Processing the query
Capacity building needs identified through reporting and other sources
Reporting, info sources
(e.g. NIRs, TAI, UNITAR)
Activities for building capacity
Aarhus Conventionimplementation
Capacity building needs identification
Assessment of the
implementation
Further developments
Identify and agree on the way/mechanism for the partners to provide information.
Develop a user-friendly uploading
mechanism, a database and a GUI integrating the capacity building components into the Clearinghouse.
Provide access (login and username) to the partners to enable the submission of available information on capacity building.
Further developments
Database
ModifiedGUI
Specific query
Submission
mechanism
Specific output
Capaci
ty B
uild
ing P
art
ners
Nati
onal N
odes
Use
rs
Further developments
UNEP
MilieukontactOost Europa
UNITAR
WRI/TAI/PP10
EC
National nodes
OSCE
WB
ECO-ForumREC/CEE
CAREC
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