CAN and

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CAN and Advisory Meeting 2001
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Structure
1.0 Background 2.0 Advisory Committee 3.0 Regional
Resource Centre ? Capacity Building ? Data
Management ? Assessment and Reporting 4.0 Additi
onal Projects ? Forest Fires ? Central Asia
REAP ? EANET ? ABC ? DPR Korea SoE ? WSSD ?
SEMIS 2 ? Indicators 5.0 RRC-AP
Finance 6.0 Centre and Staffing 7.0 RRC Strategic
Direction 8.0 Next Meeting
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Background
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Background
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History
?1.1
Background
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?1.2
Scope
Background
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?1.3
Facts
Background
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?1.4
Emerging Facts
Background
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Regional ? ESCAP every 5 years ? ADB every 3
years ? UNEP every 2 years
Needs ? Agency partnerships, build on the
sub-regional efforts
Sub-Regional ? Strengthened bodies ? Forum for
Environment ? Mandate for regular SoE
Needs ? Capacity for reporting, common
framework, address common and transboundary issues
National ? Increased awareness ? Establishment
of Environment Agencies ? Mandate for regular SoE
Needs ? Capacity for reporting - quantative
base - common methodology - participatory
approach - action oriented
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?1.5
Vision
Background
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Regional Resource Centre for Environment
Assessment
? Technical backstopping (IT), Data Archive
Function ? Cooperative Assessment Network ?
Database on SoE Framework (spatial, statistical)
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Advisory Com
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Advisory Committee
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?2.1
Progress
Advisory Com
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?2.2
Current
Advisory Com
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• CURRENT
• ? Manager, Environment. Div., ADB ? Director,
  UNEP DEIA/EW
• ? President, AIT ? Nay Htun, Regional Adviser
• ? Director, UNEP ROAP ? Ken Piddington, Regional
  Adviser
• ? R. Rajamani, Regional Adviser

? NORAD/SIDA
? NE CAR
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Regional Resource Centre
RRC
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Regional Resource Centre
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RRC
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Capacity Building
?3.1
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RRC
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Data Management
?3.2
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RRC
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Assessment and Reporting
?3.3
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RRC
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Early Warning
?3.3.2
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RRC
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Additional
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Additional Projects
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Background
?4.1.1 Forest Fires
Additional
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? Initiated in 1998 to combat fires/haze in
Indonesia and neighboring countries ? UNEP
assisted and coordinated international and
regional efforts to combat fires and enhance
regional capacity
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Progress
?4.1.2 Forest Fires
Additional
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? ASEAN agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution
implemented ? Activities, including technical
meetings and trainings ? A coordination and
support unit is established in the Secretariat.
The unit is now functional and active providing
daily haze update. ? GIS technical review meeting
and VC training were conducted in July 2001
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Background
?4.2.1 Central Asia
Additional
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• February 2000 - Request of CA countries to UN
  system to assist in preparation of REAP
• OutputUNEP Task Force on CA was appointed
• 2. May 2000 - UNEP Fact Finding mission to CA
• Outputs Approval of REAP concept and process by
  ISDC decision
• Five priorities Air pollution Land
  degradation Water pollution Waste management,
  and Mountain ecosystems degradation
• 3. June 2000 - Steering Committee (SC) National
  focal points (FP), ADB, UNDP Kazakhstan, and
  UNEP/RRC-AP.
• Strong partnership between Asian Development
  Bank (ADB), UNDP Kazakhstan, and UNEP/RRC-AP
• 4. July 2000 - Five National FPs selected
  Collaborating Centers (CCs) for each priority
• 5. Distribution of tasks between the countries is
  as follows
• - Air pollution Uzbekistan
• - Water pollution Kazakhstan
• - Land Degradation Turkmenistan
• - Waste management Kyrgyz Republic, and
• - Mountain ecosystems degradation Tajikistan
• 6. The total budget for the current project is
  627,125. ADB - 500,000. UNDP Kazakhstan
  (in-kind) - 25,000. Government of Norway -
  47,125. UNEP/RRC-AP - 80,000.

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Progress
?4.2.2 Central Asia
Additional

• The project activities have been divided into
  five phases
• Fact-finding mission
• Manual, training, and MOUs
• EAP preparation and thematic workshops
• REAP consolidation and review workshop, and
• REAP launching.

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Proposed 2002/2003
?4.2.3 Central Asia
Additional
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Assessment Support ? September 2001 REAP
approved as a basis for further development ?
Early 2002 - REAP will be strengthened with
project proposals to address the identified
issues ? REAP SC will continue with a revised
mandate ? Regional Working Group (RWG) will be
established for finalization of REAP project
portfolio ? End 2002 - Regional Committee for
Sustainable Development (RCSD) to integrate
environmental, economic and social components of
sustainable development ? Regional Sustainable
Development Plan on the basis of REAP
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?4.3.1 EANET
Background

Additional
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Participation 10 countries in East Asian region,
which includes Northeast and Southeast Asia, that
expressed at the Second Intergovernmental Meeting
their intention to participate in the Network
Preparatory Activities Started the
preparatory-phase activities from April 1998.
Objectives of the Network to create a common
understanding of the state of the acid deposition
problems in the East Asia to provide useful
inputs for decision-making at local, national and
regional levels aimed at preventing or reducing
adverse impacts on human health and the
environment due to acid deposition
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?4.3.2 EANET
Progress

Additional
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Second Intergovernmental Meeting in Niigata,
Japan in October 2000 decided to start the EANET
activities on a regular basis from January 2001
and requested UNEP RRC.AP to host the
Secretariats from January 2001 Proposal to
establish the Secretariats has been developed
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Background
?4.4.1a ABC
Additional
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• Haze at 5km up to 3km high
• Size of continental US
• Covering Indian Ocean, South Asia, Southeast Asia
  and China

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?4.4.1b ABC
Background
Additional
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Atmospheric Issues
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?4.4.1e ABC
Background

Additional
Orissa, India Increasing frequency
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FLOODS 1834 1926 6 Major floods 1926
1955 1 in a decade 1962 2000 an annual
affair
DROUGHTS 1950s only 3 districts were
affected 1980s entire western Orissa
affected 1990s Southern Orissa also affected
Source Down To Earth, October 15, 2001
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?4.4.3 ABC
Proposed 2002/2003

Additional
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November 2001
Short-Term
Scientific Impact Assessment Report
Completed
Medium-Term
2 years
Build the Scientific Base Observatory
Stations Climate Impact Studies Agricultural
Impact Studies Comparative Health Studies
Long-Term
3 to 10 years
Expansion of Impact studies Field
experiments Climate-Ecological Systemic
Response Information for Policy-making
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?4.5.1 DPR Korea
Background
Additional
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• Background
• In collaboration with National Coordinating
  Committee for Environment (NCC), Government of
  DPR of Korea and UNDP, the Centre has initiated
  the project to a) strengthen environmental
  assessment and reporting in DPR of Korea by
  providing necessary training and guidelines b)
  prepare a policy relevant SoE report for DPR of
  Korea following the UNEP guidelines.
• Partners/Coordinating Agencies
• NCCE, Govt of DPR Korea
• UNDP
• UNEP

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WSSD Partnership
?4.6.1 WSSD
Additional
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Asia Pacific Region
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WSSD Secretariat
?4.6.2 WSSD
Additional
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Preparatory Process
?4.6.3 WSSD
Additional
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• Subregional
• Subregional Papers NE Asia, Pacific, Central
  Asia, South Asia and SE Asia
• Consultations
• Stakeholders Meeting (Day 1)
• Intergovernmental Meeting (Day 2 3)
  Representatives of Finance, Planning, and
  Environment Ministries
• 2001 Venue Beijing (26-28 July) , Apia (5-7
  Sept.), Almaty (19-21 Sept.), Colombo (27-29
  Sept.), Manila (17-19 October)
• Regional
• Regional Platform Report Regional Position Paper
• Synthesis Paper Synthesis of 5-Subregional
  Papers
• Consultation
• Stakeholders Meeting (Day 1)
• Intergovernmental Meeting (Day 2 3)
• Venue Phnom Penh, Cambodia (27-29 November 2001)

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Subregional Preparations
?4.6.4 WSSD
Additional
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• NE Asia
• Multi-stakeholders meeting 98 participants
• Intergovernmental meeting 45 participants
• Priority areas Natural disaster, role of science
  and technology, freshwater management, poverty
  eradication, desertification and land
  degradation, unsustainable production and
  consumption
• Pacific
• Multi-stakeholders meeting 98 participants
• Priority areas Oceans management, natural
  resources management, impacts of climate change,
  island vulnerability, energy development,
  peoples welfare, capacity building
• Central Asia
• Stakeholders meeting 55 participants
• Priority areas Develop legislations, regional
  cooperation, poverty eradication, land
  degradation, capacity building, NSDS

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Subregional Preparations
?4.6.5 WSSD
Additional
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• South Asia
• Stakeholders meeting 71 participants
• Intergovernmental meeting 66 participants
• Priority areas Poverty eradications, good
  governance, subregional cooperation,
  unsustainable production and consumption,
  spiritual dimension
• Southeast Asia
• Stakeholders meeting 70 participants
• Intergovernmental meeting 90 participants
• Priority areas Environment and natural resource
  management-food security, land management,
  sustainable forestry management, integrated
  watershed management, integrated coastal
  management, development of renewable energy,
  reverse rural-urban migration, urban carrying
  capacity governance and institutional
  mechanism-participation of major groups,
  empowerment of local government and cross
  cutting, economic and social issues-unsustainable
  production and consumption pattern, poverty
  eradication, international commitments on ODA,
  review WTO principles

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What is Different?
?4.6.6 WSSD
Additional
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• Partnership
• ? ADB, ESCAP, UNDP, UNEP, Intergovernmental
  Agencies/Process
• Stakeholder Participation
• ? 9 major groups
• National Governments
• ? Planning, Finance, Environment Ministries
• Focus on Implementation
• Focus as Integrated Sustainable Development
• Forward Looking

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Background
?4.7.1 SEMIS
Additional
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• Following up from achievements of SEMIS -I
• A defined core datasets
• A conceptual database design (spatial)
• Technical capacity for exchange of data
• And recognizing the need for follow-up support
• GMS requested for follow-up in WGE-4 (Mar 98),
  which was endorsed by Ministerial meeting
  (Sep98), and SEMIS-II approved by ADB in Dec 99
• Some interim supports from SEF/GMS for defining
  and information on GMS Hotspot areas
• Partners ADB, UNEP RRC.AP, Participating GMS
  Countries, MRC
• Project duration 2 yrs.

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Progress
?4.7.2 SEMIS
Additional
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• Inception phase
• established a project office at UNEP RRC.AP
• detail work program (IP) completed
• prepared a position paper on the availability,
  accessibility and usefulness of available data
  and data gaps
• subregional inception workshop held
• agreement on the overall project IP
• IEEDP concepts/background presented
• Project inception report prepared
• Implementation phase
• National workshops in each country held
• to discuss on data generation, availability,
  sharing mechanism among different
  departments/agencies
• assess capacity building needs
• Acquired coarse and Large resolution RS data for
  land use/cover monitoring in GMS
• Preparation of IEEDP manual (in Progress)
• Data Collection and Management Guidelines (in
  Progress)

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Background
?4.8.1 Indicators
Additional
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Environment Performance Review Indicators
(i)   Need to develop consistent information base
across the region to keep track of environment
performance environment concerns are integrated
in economic development and raise awareness of
the public.

• NEED CONCENTRATION ON
• Network at national sub-regional regional
  global
• Data collection
• Analysis link to policy
• Data issue compatibility
• Linked to ongoing activities

Pyramid is often inverted and many indicators and
indices are generated on the basis of a limited
amount of data and needs to focus on generating
good primary data
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Progress
?4.8.2 Indicators
Additional
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Environment Performance Review Indicators
A concept paper has been developed together by
ADB, Japan and UNEP The Concept has already been
discussed with the major players in the indicator
development like OECD and IISD
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Finance
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RRC.AP Finance
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Finance 2001-2002
?5.1a
Finance
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Table 1. Income Estimates
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Finance 2001-2002
?5.1b
Finance
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Table 2. Revised Income Estimates
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Finance 2001-2002
?5.2b
Finance
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Table 5. Revised Expenditure Estimates
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RRC Direction
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RRC Strategic Direction
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IDG 2015
?7.1.1a Background
RRC Direction
International Development Goals 2015
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• Poverty Half between 1990 and 2015
• Primary school enrolment 100
• Gender disparities in education Complete
  elimination
• Infant mortality 2/3 reduction from 1990 to
  2015
• Maternal mortality Reduction by 3 quarters
• Health service Access to all
• National sustainable strategy Implementation
  by 2005
• Loss of environmental resource Reversal by 2015

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Asia Indicators
?7.1.1b Background
RRC Direction
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Selected Development Indicators in Asia
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Asia Total GNP 1999
?7.1.2a Background
RRC Direction
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Put chart here
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Regional Resource Centre
?7.1.3 Background
RRC Direction
Need for global sustainability
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NSDS
SoE
What have we done?
Quantitative base
Needs for innovative ideas
Local national needs
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Core Competence?
?7.1.4 Background
RRC Direction
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• Network Capacity Building
• IT and data/information processing
• SoE type events
• Early Warning

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?7.2.1 Vision
RRC Vision?
RRC Direction
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Now, that is what I call a vision!
Vision with action

• RRC Vision
• Enhance Strategic Alliance with key players in
  assessment arena
• Increase core competence in data/information
  integration towards sustainable development
• Develop intellectual leadership in the
  development of sustainable development strategies
  and action plans.

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?7.2.2.a Vision
Current
RRC Direction
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• Current
• All countries have an assessment agency
• All countries are required to produce SoERs
• Capacity is being developed for SoERs

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?7.2.2.b Vision
Future
RRC Direction
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• Future
• IDG goals include completion of a sustainable
  development strategy by 2005
• IDG goals state revising the negative trends on
  assessment by 2015
• Most developing countries do not yet have
  capacity to meet these goals

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?7.2.2.c Vision
Opportunity
RRC Direction
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• Opportunity
• Many are giving serious thoughts to IDG
• UNEP has a track record
• - Intellectual leadership in science and
  translation to action
• - networking with agencies, governments and
  stakeholders
• Other key players include ADB, World Bank, ESCAP,
  UNDP Earth Council
• Strategic alliance with key players, governments
  and stakeholders

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?7.2.3 Vision
Sustainable Strategy
RRC Direction
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?7.2.4.1a Vision
Future Direction
RRC Direction
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• Ambition
• By 2005 assist/facilitate the completion of NSSD,
  SSSD
• By 2005 assist with clean national/subregional,
  intergovernmental targets for air, water and land

• Capability Creation
• Strategic alliances ADB, World Bank, UNDP,
  ESCAP, Earth Council
• Enhance CAN in the region
• Network with academic leaders in indicators
  strategy development

Position Client Stakeholders (NGO, Youth,
Business) Governments (Environment, Planning
Finance) Intergovernmental Agencies Value
to Clients Cost effective, high reliability
focused time, broad capacity development

• Organization
• Guidelines from Advisory Committee
• RRC with relevant staff (economics, social)
• Staff Qualities technically competent good
  health, aware of own culture, sensitive to
  others, able to cope with uncertainty, tolerance
  to difference, emotionally mature, stable family,
  interpersonal skills

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?7.2.4.1b Vision
Future Direction
RRC Direction
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• Cost effective
• Reliable technical support
• Innovative methodology
• Participatory process
• Specific use of consultations
• Good Brand, Good Dye
• Plan for continuity regular update

• Low cost
• High reliability
• Focused time bound
• Capacity development
• Quantative scientific base
• Network support