WECF Work Programme 2007
Planned Activities of the WECF Network for the Year 2007
06.03.2007 |Sascha Gabizon
WECF Work Programme 2007
Objectives
The environmental and environmental health challenges in the EU and the EECCA region are great and diverse, requiring different instruments and approaches to address them.
WECF aims at achieving a Healthy Environment for All by 2020 in 4 thematic areas, Safe Chemicals and Waste, Safe Water and Sanitation, Safe Energy and Climate Change and Safe Food Production and Sustainable Rural Development. Achieving a Healthy Environment requires improved Public Participation in environmental policy development and implementation (Aarhus Convention), as well as Poverty elimination through Sustainable Development (MDGs).
Through WECF’s Work Programme 2007 WECF aims at building the capacity of the 80 WECF member organisations in 32 countries for effective policy participation and implementation, at demonstrating environmental sustainable solutions, at supporting policy implementation and improving the lives of more than 30,000 citizen’s in 20 countries, at formulating policy recommendations from lessons learned in project implementation and presenting them to EU and international policy makers, and finally, at achieving a balanced participation of women and men in policy making for and management of natural resources and health (Gender).
Actions and means involved
WECF works through 2 Secretariats with 25 part-time staff and local implementation partners in 20 countries.
WECF’s Health and Environment programmes will implement activities with partners from Armenia, Hungary, France, Greece, Germany, Netherlands, UK .
The Safe Energy and Climate Change working group will implement activities of capacity building, implementation, policy development and gender with partners in Armenia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Germany, Georgia, Kyrgystan and Ukraine.
The Safe Food production and consumption and rural development working group will implement activities with partners in Armenia, Germany, Georgia, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
WECF’s Safe Water, Waste Water and Sanitation working group will implement activities with partners from Germany, Sweden, Finland, Bulgaria, Romania, Spain, Moldova, Armenia, Afghanistan, Georgia, Kazakstan, Kyrgystan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.
WECF’s Safe Chemicals and Waste management will implement activities with members in Armenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Germany, Netherlands, Lithuania, Latvia, Armenia, Kazakstan, Ukraine.
WECF organisational and institutional development will focus on Internal Quality Control, Network strengthening (General Members Meeting) and increasing Visibility (press, PR, public campaigns).
Results
• The capacity of 80 WECF members will have been built on:
• Policy recommendations will have been formulated and presented to policy makers from 32 countries in the areas of:
• 30,000 citizen’s will have started to benefited from demonstration project in the area of:
• Women and men’s participation in policy making will have become more balanced in:
(1) Energy poverty in Eastern Europe and challenges for climate change policies
Results
• The capacity of 80 WECF members will have been built on:
• Policy recommendations will have been formulated and presented to policy makers from 32 countries in the areas of:
• 30,000 citizen’s will have started to benefited from demonstration project in the area of:
• Women and men’s participation in policy making will have become more balanced in:
(1) Energy poverty in Eastern Europe and challenges for climate change policies
(2) Renewable energy and energy saving for EU and EECCA
(3) Health risks of nuclear energy
(4) Protection of Biodiversity and conserving of traditional regional agricultural species
(5) Developing regional sustainable food production and consumption
(6) Biofuels – GMOs – Biodiversity
(7) Lisbon Strategy - integrating environmental health into the EU economic strategy
(8) Children’s Environmental Health (CEHAPE)
(9) EU Environment and Health Action Plan
(10) Environment for Europe
(11) United Nations civil society involvement
(12) Nesting – Safe and Healthy Environment for new born babies
(13) Drinking water and water source protection
(14) Waste Water and Sanitation, reuse of wastewater and nutrients
(15) Public participation in river basin management
(16) REACH implementation: phasing out of chemicals of very high concern
(17) SAICM
(18) Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
(19) Rotterdam Convention & Asbestos
(20) Promoting Household Composting
(21) Reducing household waste burning and obsolete pesticides stockpiles.
