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environmental information networks, climate change indicators, best practice case studies on national processes, assessment training sessions, and publications); • Provide assistance in disaster risk reduction, mitigation of potential impacts of extractive industries and prevention of potential environmental conflicts (for Africa, Latin America Caribbean, West Asia); • Support the exchange of information among global communities, including coordination of a network to develop effective, responsive community-driven methodologies; • Establish exchange programmes to strengthen North-South and South-South cooperation in environmental information management; • Produce a series of vital graphics publications on priority global and regional environmental issues; • Produce and publish electronic environmental information resources, UNEP communication and outreach materials and programme information, accessible and promoted through GA’s website; and, • Provide outreach, publication and media support services to UNEP, such as development of visualization materials, organization of outreach events on findings of assessments, exhibitions for conferences, facilitation of lectures and media events, and technical publication services. Contribution to UNEP’s Medium Term Strategy: All activities under this Work Programme contributed to the outputs of individual activities in UNEP’s Programme of Work (PoW) and were performed in collaboration with UNEP staff members. GA’s work within its Regional Field Programme contributed in particular to the following UNEP Medium-Term Strategy priorities: • Ecosystem management; • Environmental governance; • Disaster and conflict; • Climate change. Contribution to the UNEP Programme of Work Contributions were made to the UNEP Programme of Work for: • Division of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA) on implementation of the Bali Strategic Plan through environmental assessment reports on biodiversity, ecosystems and cross-cutting thematic issues (A4) and environmental challenges and emerging issues for decision makers (A5); outreach and communication materials on findings of environmental assessments (A6); consultations on assessments (A8), meetings of environmental data and information working groups (B10); strengthening networks and partnerships (B4); advisory services (C2) and technical assistance (C3) to Governments; training of experts (C4); training of trainers (C410) and producing training and outreach materials (C6); • Division of Environmental Policy Implementation (DEPI): on environmental assessment and progress reports for post-conflict countries and countries affected by disasters (A1); • Division of Communication and Public Information (DCPI) on dissemination of the environmental message of UNEP (A5); audio-visual exhibitions and presentations (A7); celebrations and public events (B5); campaigns and public events (B7). • Division of Regional Cooperation and Representation (DRC) on DRC A1: Substantive servicing of intergovernmental meeting - Support to EECCA / SEE countries in the framework of the Environment and Security initiative (ENVSEC). See also Annex 1. Partners and leveraged resources: Besides the recipient countries (central and local government authorities) and UNEP, main project partners included the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe (REC), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Environment Agency (EEA), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Educational Organization (UNESCO), the World Resources Institute (WRI), the World Wide Fund for Nature Germany (WWF), Rainforest Foundation, Norway and FK Norway. In addition to Norway, donor countries included: Austria, Canada, Finland, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland. In the recipient countries of the focal regions South Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe, South Caucasus, Central Asia, Southern Mediterranean and Africa, the activities were implemented in collaboration with focal points appointed by the relevant government ministries.

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