One UN Joint Programme on Environment
The programme that was started in 2008 entails starting and strengthening institutional mechanisms for integrated environmental management through collaborated projects between the Sindh government and the United Nations.
The meeting, presided over by the Sindh project implementation committee (PIC) secretary and environment secretary Mir Hussain Ali, reviewed the progress under the joint programme components which includes policies and institutional mechanisms for improved environmental management, access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation, integrated natural resource management, sustainable urbanisation and green industries, green waste management and green jobs.
Focal persons from the forest and local government departments briefed the participants about their respective progress. The forest department submitted six projects while the local government department was advised to submit their projects by December 24.
Mir Hussain Ali said it is necessary to prepare comprehensive project concepts before December 24 so that they may be brought up at the next meeting of the project implementation committee on December 28.
Meanwhile, Saleem Ullah, the One UN Joint Programme on Environment national programme coordinator, said that coordination must be maintained among different departments to avoid duplication of projects under various UN joint programme components so that exclusive projects could be developed.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 12th, 2010.
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