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AECEN 2007
UPDATE
AECEN MISSION
AECEN – Established in 2005 in Manila
Mission – To promote improved compliance with
environmental policies, laws and regulations
through the exchange of innovative policies and
practices
Objectives:
 Promote development and implementation of
improved policies and institutions
 Strengthen practitioner capacity
 Support regional sharing of best practices
AECEN MEMBERSHIP
Members – national and sub-national agencies responsible
for identifying, monitoring and correcting non-compliance
with environmental laws and other requirements
Other participants – judges, lawyers, civil society, business
leaders, experts, and representatives from international
organizations join AECEN activities as participants and
observers
New Members:
 Japan joined AECEN at the end of 2006
 Nepal joined AECEN at the end of 2007
AECEN MEMBERS
11 Members
10 national environmental
agencies
People’s Republic of China,
India, Indonesia, Japan,
Nepal, Philippines, Singapore,
Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
1 sub-national environmental
agency
Laguna Lake Development
Authority, Philippines
THE AECEN
SECRETARIAT
 Supports the AECEN Executive Committee
 Supports development of country and regional activities
through technical assistance, program coordination, small
grants, and exchanges
 Knowledge management and outreach through website
 Establishes linkages with international organizations and
other networks
 Reaches out to new members and promotes network
sustainability
 Organizes the AECEN Regional Forum and Asian
Justices Forum on the Environment
NETWORK ACTIVITIES
 Regional Principles
 Rapid Country Program
Assessments
 Country Pilot Activities
 Regional Forum
 Asian Justices Forum on the
Environment
 Regional Cooperation and
Training
 AECEN Website
REGIONAL PRINCIPLES
 Support development of more effective
compliance and enforcement programs, and
provide framework for AECEN activities
 Reflect national experiences in Asia and
worldwide
 Organized in six categories
 Secretariat worked with Members to develop
draft principles through consultative process
using Internet
 Principles now in final form and Secretariat
will develop publication in 2008
RAPID COUNTRY
PROGRAM ASSESSMENTS
 Assessments follow template to enable cross-country
comparison
 Assessments provide basis for pilot activities on
priority country topics
 To date, AECEN has completed rapid assessments in
India, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
 In 2007, Indonesia Ministry of Environment completed
rapid assessment in partnership with Indonesian
Center for Environmental Law
 In 2008, World Bank will support assessment in Nepal
COUNTRY PILOT
ACTIVITIES
 AECEN Secretariat and other partners support
country pilot projects that demonstrate Regional
Principles in priority areas
 Results include adoption of innovative policies and
practices, and increased practitioner capacity
 Pilot projects link Member countries
 Pilot projects in 2006 included initiatives in:
Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
 In 2008, India and Indonesia will initiate pilot
projects
COUNTRY PILOT
COUNTRY
PILOT ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES
Philippines – Compliance Promotion
 Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) developed
compliance assistance center for commercial hog farm and
slaughterhouse industries
 LLDA and National Meat Inspection Service launched
compliance assistance website in October – first of its kind in
the Philippines
www.slaughterhousecac-phil.org
 Shared experience with Thailand, Chinese Taipei and United
States
COUNTRY PILOT
COUNTRY
PILOT ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES
Thailand – Compliance Promotion
 Pollution Control Department (PCD) and Kasetsart
University establishing compliance assistance
center for the swine sector serving the Tha Chin
and Bang Pa Kong River basins
 Center to provide training,
technical guidance, and
technical and regulatory
information via website
 Shared experience with
Philippines, Chinese
Taipei and United States
COUNTRY PILOT
ACTIVITIES
Sri Lanka – Incentives-based
Program
 Developing a wastewater
discharge fee program
 Established
intergovernmental technical
committee
 Targeting textile and tanning
sectors with COD as the
main parameter
 Established linkages with
LLDA of the Philippines
COUNTRY PILOT
ACTIVITIES
Vietnam – Compliance Inspection
 Ministry of Natural Resources and
Environment established
environmental inspector training
program
 Conducted nationwide hands-on
training of over 300 inspectors in
three workshops
 Technical exchanges with
counterpart inspectors from Japan,
Philippines, Singapore, Chinese
Taipei, and United States
 Developing national procedures for
further training nationwide
REGIONAL FORUM
Hanoi, Vietnam – 2006
 Hosted by Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
 Presented draft Regional Principles and common indicators
 Developed regional priorities and strategies for compliance
promotion, incentives and public participation
ASIAN
JUSTICES
FORUM
ASIAN JUSTICES FORUM ON THE
ON THE ENVIRONMENT
ENVIRONMENT
 Supreme Court of the Philippines and Philippine Judicial
Academy hosted regional forum in July
 Senior justices from Australia, India, Indonesia, Philippines,
Sri Lanka, Thailand, and U.S. shared experiences
 Philippines presented new
institutional options for
environmental adjudication –
e.g., green benches and
training initiatives
 Key regional partners include
United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP) and Asia
Pacific Jurist Association
(APJA)
REGIONAL COOPERATION
AND TRAINING
 Participated in 2006 Better Air Quality Conference of
Clean Air Initiative in Indonesia in December 2006
 Organized two workshops on public participation, and
enforcement and compliance in partnership with U.S. EPA
 In 2008, support International Network for Environmental
Compliance and Enforcement (INECE) 8th International
Conference in South Africa
AECEN WEBSITE:
WEBSITE: WWW.AECEN.ORG
WWW.AECEN.ORG
 Continued to
strengthen
AECEN website
 Developed Best
Practices
Inventory to
enable Members
and others to
upload and
download best
practices
NEW INITIATIVES FOR
2008
 Member-to-Member Twinning Program
 Annual Awards for Excellence
 Announcement on 2008 Regional Forum
PRINCIPAL FUNDING
PARTNERS
United States Agency for International Development
(USAID)
Through its regional program Environmental CooperationAsia (ECO-Asia), USAID works to promote the adoption and
implementation of improved environmental laws, polices and
institutional arrangements in seven Asian countries –
Cambodia India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka,
Thailand, and Vietnam.
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
A multilateral development finance institution, promotes
economic and social progress by fighting poverty in Asia and
the Pacific. Established in 1966, ADB is a multilateral
development finance institution owned by 59 members,
AECEN PARTNERS
 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 World Bank
 Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD)
 Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia)
 Asia Pacific Jurist Association (APJA)
 International Network for Environmental Compliance and
Enforcement (INECE)
 Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Network for
Accession (ECENA)
THANK YOU