Transcript The Access Initiative and the Partnership for Principle 10 World Resources Institute Nathalie Eddy.

The Access Initiative and the
Partnership for Principle 10
World Resources Institute
Nathalie Eddy
The Access Initiative
A global civil society coalition promoting
access to information, participation, and
justice in national decision-making that
affects the environment.
6 organizations jointly lead The Access Initiative
Global Growth of TAI Network
The Access Initiative Strategy
• Develop and refine an indicator-based
tool to assess government
performance
• Support civil society teams in an
increasing number of countries to
conduct TAI assessments
• Urge governments to act on results
• Encourage collaboration between civil
society and government on access
What does TAI assess?
Law and practice related to:
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Access to information
Public participation
Access to justice
Capacity building
TAI Version 1.0
A CD-ROM tool from The Access Initiative
What is the TAI methodology?
• Web-based database
• 148 indicators
• Facilitates national assessments
conducted by civil society
• Guides civil society to form research
teams & plan assessment strategies
• Enables researchers to run queries to
identify trends in strengths and
weaknesses
• Global database of findings for public
access
• Provide information in multiple
languages
With what results?
• Governments respond to TAI
recommendations
• Body of global access information
and experiences continues to grow
• Global TAI network continues to
grow
• TAI methodology further refined
Partnership for Principle 10
• Platform for Principle 10 activities
worldwide
• PP10 Partners: governments, NGOs and
international organizations committed to
Principle 10
• More than 25 Partners and growing
PP10 Strategy
• Develop strategies to implement Principle 10 at the
national level
• Exchange information, share best practice & produce
collective outputs
• Serve as a mechanism for monitoring and selfevaluation
• Mobilize financial resources for Principle 10
implementation
• Promote recognition & implementation of Principle 10 in
international agreements, processes & initiatives
PP10 Global Database
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Keep it simple!
Electronically upload draft partner commitments (not publicly accessible)
Review draft commitments on line or offline & record comments from peer
reviewers
Review & finalize commitments (&track changes) based on peer review
comments
Revise commitments based on rolling commitment process agreed upon
by the CoW
Include “impact” and “products” fields in progress function. This should
include indicators for success
Ability to link PP10 commitments to findings in TAI assessments in that
country
Ability for public to view commitments and changes on web-based
database
PP10 – Potential Collective Products
• Best Practice - case studies (General and
sectors)
• Model access laws and regulations. (General
and Sectors)
• Commitments and tracking progress on web
• Aarhus tracking - with special reference to PP10
commitments, UNITAR format reports and
Aarhus self reports.
Potential Synergies with Aarhus
TAI
- TAI indicators measure efforts relevant Aarhus
Articles
- TAI findings cover some same areas as
Aarhus Compliance reports
PP10
- Aarhus Clearinghouse and planned PP10
Global Database both will cover information on
Principle 10 initiatives worldwide
- PP10 commitments provide a possible avenue
for addressing weak point in Aarhus selfreporting
Potential Synergies with PP10 Database
& Aarhus Clearinghouse
Aarhus country
reports & reports in
UNITAR format
Best
practices
Global
resources
Tracking to PP10
commitments
Tracking to TAI reports
Collective
products such as
best practices
Global resources