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enhance equitable resource use promoting human welfare. At the Rio +
20 Conference in 2012, countries, including Sudan, agreed to promote
the Green Economy in the context of sustainable development. The
document presented by Sudan at Rio + 20 reflected its commitment
to incorporate the principles of the Green Economy into its Five-Year
Plans.
Being party to these conventions, Sudan has set national priorities
regarding them and implemented programmes for capacity building
on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and National Adaptation
Programmes of Action (NAPA) to address priority activities on climate
variability and climate change, within the context of economic development priorities.
Sudan’s willingness to embrace the principles of global thinking
through the adoption of international agreements is to be applauded.
However, the limited capacity, resources and weak coordination mechanisms have undermined implementation, with few projects that resulted
from these conventions reaching the local or state level. An important
exception is the UNDP/HCENR-led NAPA process, whose implementation is donor-funded and driven with good civil society and grassroots
involvement in some states (for example, South Darfur). Several initiatives were made, but the main point remains that a tremendous effort is
needed to translate international initiatives to action on the ground.
Most of the projects, such as Agenda 21 and the Nile Basin Initiative, have implemented small projects and capacity building activities
at the state level through community-based organizations (CBOs). The
Agenda 21 project succeeded in involving a broad cross-section of
Sudanese societies in defining their local agendas and priorities and
to implement small-scale projects through funding from international
agreements. The project played an important, catalytic role in promoting
community-level environmental protection.
31
Through the Agenda 21 Project, an attempt was made to decentralize environmental actions, through building capacities at state levels
and preparing action plans. The project, through mobilizing state-level
authorities and technical staff and local leaders, managed to prepare
31 Lindner, Chip. “Agenda 21.” In The Way Forward , pp. 3–14. Routledge, 2019.
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enhance equitable resource use promoting human welfare. At the Rio +
20 Conference in 2012, countries, including Sudan, agreed to promote
the Green Economy in the context of sustainable development. The
document presented by Sudan at Rio + 20 reflected its commitment
to incorporate the principles of the Green Economy into its Five-Year
Plans.
Being party to these conventions, Sudan has set national priorities
regarding them and implemented programmes for capacity building
on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and National Adaptation
Programmes of Action (NAPA) to address priority activities on climate
variability and climate change, within the context of economic development priorities.
Sudan’s willingness to embrace the principles of global thinking
through the adoption of international agreements is to be applauded.
However, the limited capacity, resources and weak coordination mechanisms have undermined implementation, with few projects that resulted
from these conventions reaching the local or state level. An important
exception is the UNDP/HCENR-led NAPA process, whose implementation is donor-funded and driven with good civil society and grassroots
involvement in some states (for example, South Darfur). Several initiatives were made, but the main point remains that a tremendous effort is
needed to translate international initiatives to action on the ground.
Most of the projects, such as Agenda 21 and the Nile Basin Initiative, have implemented small projects and capacity building activities
at the state level through community-based organizations (CBOs). The
Agenda 21 project succeeded in involving a broad cross-section of
Sudanese societies in defining their local agendas and priorities and
to implement small-scale projects through funding from international
agreements. The project played an important, catalytic role in promoting
community-level environmental protection.
31
Through the Agenda 21 Project, an attempt was made to decentralize environmental actions, through building capacities at state levels
and preparing action plans. The project, through mobilizing state-level
authorities and technical staff and local leaders, managed to prepare
31 Lindner, Chip. “Agenda 21.” In The Way Forward , pp. 3–14. Routledge, 2019.