APPENDIX
ENVIRONMENT AGENCY INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME
Our international programme supports UK Government's
international priorities for sustainable development. The UK sustainable
development strategy highlights our contribution in terms of technical
advice and practical support on water management, environmental
governance, regulation and enforcement. Our international projects
have to date been largely funded through the EU PHARE, DFID, FCO
and Defra funding programmes. We also participate in DTI missions
in priority countries.
IN AFRICA:
Kenya
We are working with DFID and the National Environment
Management Authority (NEMA) in Kenya on DFID's PEAK (Pathway to
Environmental Action in Kenya) programme. This aims to build environmental
governance capacity in the country over the period July 2005-July
2007. We will be helping NEMA to develop systems and incentives
of environmental compliance that facilitate pro-poor growth strategies.
Several other donors, including the EU and the World Bank are
also supporting environmental management in Kenya and we will
be working within this co-ordinated framework. We undertook a
scoping study in March 2005 that identified the following outputs
to be delivered over the course of the two years specifically
within the waste-water and solid waste sectors:
— Supporting NEMA with the introduction
of a risk based environmental policy and regulatory framework
for delivering the Environment Management Coordination Act.
— Supporting NEMA in engaging their
partners in government, industry and civil society in delivering
environmental improvements.
— Supporting NEMA in delivering environmental
planning and influencing tools.
— Developing NEMA regulatory capacity
through the adoption of a risk based approach to permitting and
a business planning model to resource this.
— Developing NEMA national incident
management capacity.
We have recruited a project manager, based in
Nairobi, to oversee the implementation of this two-year work programme.
Budget = £305,938.00; July 2005-July 2007 funded
by DFID
South Africa
— We are working with the Department
for Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT) on a Foreign Commonwealth
Office (FCO) Global Opportunity Funded project—entitled
the Green Scorpions. This aims to support DEAT in the implementation
of new environment legislation and develop a framework for training
Environment Management Inspectors (EMIs) across the country. In
February 2005 Agency staff attended a national enforcement symposium
in South Africa, alongside the USEPA, to assess the training needs
of EMIs and assist with the drafting of an EMI training framework.
A training syllabus has now been put together and the first cohort
of EMIs was trained in February 2006, supported by our staff.
We also attended a parallel national enforcement conference, media
conference and are supporting the training of magistrates. Other
opportunities, such as trans-frontier shipment of waste and enforcement
of water pollution, are being discussed as possible areas of expansion
within the context of the UK Sustainable Development Dialogues.
Budget approximately £180k; April 2005-Mar 2008.
FCO Global Opportunities Fund
— We are partners in the Defra-led
PAWS (Partnerships for Water and Sanitation) initiative, which
aims to help African countries achieve the MDG & WSSD targets
in water and sanitation. We are currently involved in a project
that supports the South African Department for Water Affairs and
Forestry (DWAF) in its plans to strengthen the new catchment management
agencies (CMAs) in the country. South Africa are also going through
a process of Water Allocation Reform and our work with them complements
their thinking on how to tackle issues related to this. A scoping
study that took place in April 2005 identified key project areas
to take forward as well as regular information exchange at both
a national and regional level. We have initiated an institutional
strengthening project to support DWAF in developing the CMAs,
to encourage stakeholder engagement and to include a twinning
of catchments (possibly with the Ribble). The other component
is a series of workshops to share the tools, techniques and lessons
learned from the Water Framework Directive.
Budget—Staff time in kind to the value of approximately
£20,000 (2005-06) PAWS cover travel and subsistence.
Tanzania
— We have strong links with the Tanzanian
National Environment Management Council (NEMC) having hosted two
of their Directors on the Commonwealth Programme (see below).
During their time in the Agency they developed the content for
a series of workshops that we delivered in Dar-Es-Salaam in February
2005 funded by the FCO. We shared our regulatory systems and techniques
and raised awareness of NEMC's critical role in enforcing the
new Environment Management Act amongst key environmental stakeholders.
— During the above visit to Tanzania
we explored with WWF UK and Tanzania the possible support we could
offer a water resource management project in the Ruaha river basin.
The river-bed has been drying up over the past few years, largely
due to unsustainable rice farming practices.
— We have also participated in an Environmental
Industry Strategy Unit (EISU) DTI mission to Tanzania and Kenya
in February 2005 sharing our waste management expertise.
— We would like to develop a further
capacity building programme in Tanzania but as yet have found
no substantial funding options.
Budget: February workshops £20,000 2004-05 funded
by FCO country office
Ghana
— We have strong links with the Ghana
EPA having hosted eight senior staff on the Commonwealth Programme.
We also carried out a scoping visit in Jan 2004 and visited again
in November 2005 to identify key priorities for future work. This
is under discussion.
— We have also participated in a recent
Environmental Industry Strategy Unit (EISU) mission to Ghana in
waste management in February 2006.
Budget—staff time in kind and part funded through
Commonwealth Commission administration fees
Commonwealth Professional Fellowship Programme
— We have hosted 22 mid career professionals
from sister organisations in Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and
South Africa over four rounds of the Commonwealth programme. The
commonwealth fellows are placed with mentors within the Agency
for three months, these work placements are based around learning
objectives that are relevant to their home organisation. Our approach
is to host staff from organisations which we are working with
and their learning objectives feed into longer term projects.
Budget—2005-06 = £16,950.00 Commonwealth
Commission (which itself is funded through FCO and DFID). Staff
costs in kind approximately £4,800 in addition.IN
EU ACCESSION COUNTRIES
Bulgaria
— We are undertaking a water quality
project in Bulgaria working to strengthen the capacity of Health
Authorities to implement the EU directives on drinking water,
bathing water and surface water for the abstraction of drinking
water. We have a full time Project Manager based in Sofia.
— Budget = September 2005-August 2006.
€448,705.00 = £308,321.90 EU PHARE programme
Poland, Malta, Czech Republic
— Past projects, which concluded in
2004, include the Nitrates Directive in Poland, a capacity building/institutional
strengthening project in Malta and a project on the IPPC (Integrated
Pollution Prevention Control) Directive in the Czech Republic.
— Future participation in PHARE is
likely to be a project on the Water Framework Directive in Turkey.
— We are accompanying a EISU mission
to Turkey in March 2005 on Air Quality.
In Central Asia and the Caucasus
— We have recently joined the Defra
led PECE initiative that aims to contribute to the protection
and improvement of the environment in the Eastern Europe, Caucasus
and Central Asia (EECCA) region. The network and projects are
part funded by Defra's Environment for Europe fund, we have not
participated significantly in any projects as yet but aim to contribute
our technical expertise to future projects in either Russia, Ukraine
or Georgia.
In China and India
— We are currently exploring with Defra
how we can contribute our technical expertise to the UK government
Sustainable Development Dialogues in China and India. It is likely
that we will explore priority areas with our sister organisations
in both countries.
— In 2002 we participated in DFID funded
work in Bangladesh to strengthen the capacity of the Environment
Ministry and mainstream climate into development activities.
March 2006
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