 |
Environment Task Force |
The Regional Environmental Reconstruction Programme for South
East Europe (REReP)
Members: The
REReP Task Force consists of Ministries of Environment from Albania,
Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Macedonia,
the State Union Serbia and Montenegro and Kosovo (territory currently
under interim UN administration) - observed by representatives
of donor countries, international organizations, institutions
and NGOs. Secretariat: The
Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (www.rec.org)
provides the Secretariat for the REReP Task Force. Objectives: The
RERePTask Force’s main objective is to facilitate the implementation
of the priority policy components of the Regional Environmental
Reconstruction Program (REReP) for South Eastern Europe. In particular:
- Institutional
strengthening and policy development
- Environmental
civil society building
- Emergency
assistance for combating war damage
- Reinforcement
of existing cooperative mechanisms and structures and development
of regional cross-border projects
- Support
to priority national and local environmental projects
The
priority areas were revised and agreed to in Sarajevo on September
7, 2001 at the 3rd Task Force meeting and included in the document
on revised REReP mechanism:
- institutional
building;
- supporting
environmental civil society;
- supporting
environmental regional cooperation mechanisms and crossborder
projects; and
- reducing
environmental health threats and loss of biodiversity.
After
a REReP Task Force reviewed its entire operating mechanism, REReP's
focus was redirected to supporting stabilisation and association
processes (SAP). Furthermore, it was firmly embedded into an evolving
international framework to ensure its continued existence. REReP
is now developing into a vehicle to assist the countries of South
Eastern Europe in their long-term goals of European Union integration. Work
Program To
achieve these objectives, the Task Force develops and implements
a work program, with clear priorities, designed to yield practical
results. Activities
aim:
- to assist
the South Eastern European countries to cooperatively identify
and address regional, transboundary, environmental priorities,
as well as national priorities, in partnership with the public
and the independent sector;
- to facilitate
integration of environmental considerations into the process
of economic reconstruction in order to promote stability and
long-term sustainable development; in particular in sectors
having a significant impact on the environment and human health
(e.g. industry, transport and agriculture, in partnership
with the public, and the independent sectors);
- to support
regional, national and local project preparation and investments
bodies, in particular their capacity to plan, assess and implement
projects and to mobilize the required resources;
- to facilitate
the transfer of technology and information from the current
EU Candidate Countries of Central and Eastern Europe to the
countries of South Eastern Europe;
- to assist
the South Eastern European countries to effectively strengthen
environmental institutions and to build capacity for environmental
policy development;
- to provide
assistance to the development of a viable civil society throughout
South Eastern Europe;
- to provide
guidance and support for environmental education and training;
- to establish
effective communications and information dissemination networks
among partners;
- to provide
a forum for implementing the REReP.
Implementation REReP
has become fully operational; its status has gone from donors'
commitment to more than 100 currently implemented projects including
both projects developed as part of the Quick Start REReP package
and those supported through bi-lateral programmes, IFI loans or
community instruments such as ISPA, CARDS and LIFE -Third Countries.
REReP
Projects Database The
project database for the Regional Environmental Reconstruction
Programme for South Eastern Europe (REReP was created to improve
access to information on the implementation of REReP projects,
thus enhancing the transparency of the project and facilitating
regional networking and cooperation. http://www.rec.org/REC/Databases/REReP/Default.html
|
RSS feeds
