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The Aarhus clearinghouse progress report & the integration of capacity building

This report highlights the progress of the Aarhus Clearinghouse and the integration of capacity building activities. It discusses the mandate extension, development of guidance materials, and training workshops. The report also showcases the national nodes and resource directory, as well as ongoing outreach and next steps. The goal is to facilitate timely sharing of capacity building information for the implementation of the Aarhus Convention.

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The Aarhus clearinghouse progress report & the integration of capacity building

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  1. The Aarhus clearinghouse progress report & the integration of capacity building November 2005

  2. 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) • “Welcoming … the establishment of a clearing- • house mechanism and the launch of the UNECE Aarhus Clearinghouse for Environmental Democracy”

  3. In Almaty, the Meeting of the Parties… • 2. Invites Parties, Signatories and other interested States to develop a national node of the clearing-house mechanism with legal and practical information on issues related to the Convention at national level, linked to the UNECE Aarhus Clearinghouse for Environmental Democracy, and invites other stakeholders to submit relevant information to the clearing house; …

  4. 3. Decides to extend the mandate of the Task Force on Electronic Information Tools with • the following programme of work: • . . . • (d) Maintenance and further development of the clearing-house mechanism, including development of guidance materials and a programme of training workshops in support of capacity building for the national nodes of the clearing house while avoiding duplication of work.

  5. “ 20 ” • Aarhus CH national nodes • have so far been designated

  6. The Resource Directory holds 730 separate entries. Each entry is ‘tagged’ with one or more thematic attribute: Access to Information 500 Public participation 330 Electronic Tools 225 Access to Justice 174 PRTRs 165 Convention Compliance 112 Strategic Decision-making 109 GMOs 82

  7. Resources entries by activity: Research 366 Legislation 297  Projects 266  Policy 195  Procedures 184 

  8. Source of entries by organizational type: NGOs 359 Intergovernmental organizations 223 Government 181 Academia 72

  9. 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

  10. Visits 2005 to date

  11. Next Steps underway… • Ongoing outreach with resource providers • Fresh News features • National node capacity building • Content management guidance Help page (for users) Upgrade web calendar of principle 10 related events • Clearinghouse information exchange • Integration of capacity building information

  12. 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?

  13. Framework for integrating capacity building into the Clearinghouse Access to Information Public Participation Access to Justice PRTR GMO Electronic tools Strategic Decision-making Convention Compliance Legislation Policy Procedures Research Government NGOs IGO Academia Regions Sub-regions Countries Capacity Building: Info and training materials Projects Events Experts Needs Build a Query Query Processing the query Result output

  14. Capacity building needs identified through reporting and other sources Aarhus Convention implementation Reporting, info sources (e.g. NIRs, TAI, UNITAR) Activities for building capacity Capacity building needs identification Assessment of the implementation

  15. 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.

  16. Further developments Modified GUI Database Submission mechanism Specific query Capacity Building Partners National Nodes Users Specific output

  17. Further developments UNEP UNITAR REC/CEE ECO-Forum WRI/TAI/ PP10 OSCE EC Milieukontact Oost Europa National nodes WB CAREC

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