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| What is AEIN? |
The Africa Environmental Information Network (AEIN) is a multi-stakeholder
capacity building process that aims to harness and enhance access to information
and knowledge to support the management of Africa's environmental resources
as assets for sustainable development.
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Goal
"to strengthen the capacity of African countries to use good quality
information on environmental assets to make informed investment choices
at sub-national and national levels, and manage these assets on a sustainable
basis".
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Africa Environment Information Network (AEIN) is a direct outcome of the
AEO process, a response to political and technical needs expressed by African
Ministers of Environment, who endorsed the AEO process at the 9th Session
of AMCEN (1-5 July, 2002) as "a monitoring and reporting tool for sustainable
environmental management, as well as to provide a framework
for national and sub-regional integrated
environmental assessment and reporting."
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AEIN Objectives and Outputs
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AEIN is designed to provide a broad framework for the effective harnessing of information and knowledge on environmental resources, and how people are affected by changes in the environment. This knowledge will be channeled into decision-making processes, particularly within the framework of national socio-economic development priorities, as well as the implementation of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).
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Implementation strategy and plan |
AEIN is conceived as an
integrated framework programme that will be implemented through partnerships.
It is founded on best practices and lessons learnt over the past decade
developing environmental information systems.
The AEIN implementation strategy focuses on three key platforms, which
define project activity areas:
- Capacity building for harnessing professional skills and methodologies
for analysing data and generating policy-oriented and targeted environmental
information, and for integrating such information into sustainable development
decision making;
- Supporting and catalysing networking and the development of the infrastructure
and support mechanisms for a comprehensive and harmonised national sustainable
development data foundation. The AEIN focus in this regard will be on
core datasets for integrated
environmental assessments and reporting; and
- Using information and communication technologies (ICT) to manage
data and information, and to facilitate access to information, and also
to communicate this information to decision makers at various levels
of society, as well as the wider public.
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AEIN activities |
The AEIN implementation strategy focuses on three key platforms, which define
project activity areas:
- Enhancing Analytical Capacity
- Enhancing Environmental Information Networking
- Information Packaging and Dissemination
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AEIN phase 1
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Phase 1 Implementation
The implementation of the Africa Environment Information Network (AEIN)
initiative to support the Africa Environment Outlook (AEO) reporting process,
started with 13 countries fully involved in the pilot phase and the whole
region participating in capacity building activities. The goal of AEIN,
which is being coordinated by the UNEP Division of Early Warning and Assessment
(DEWA), is to enhance accessibility to more reliable environmental data
and information at national level for the environmental assessment and reporting
in the region.
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Phase 1 Objectives
The first phase of implementation (2003 - 2004) is essentially a proof of
concept, focusing on the "core mandate" as contained in AMCEN's
Kampala Declaration in respect of the establishment of AEIN. In this regard
the thrust of implementation within UNEP will be on integrated environmental
assessment and reporting, leading to the production of AEO-2.
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Outcomes, results and lessons learnt from AEIN phase 1
The outcomes of AEIN phase 1 have been divided into two main areas
- National level
The main achievement of AEIN at the national level is the establishment
of 12 national focal institutions, identified by the individual governments.
- Sub regional level
The main achievement of AEIN at the sub regional level is the establishment
of an institutional network comprising six sub-regional GEO/AEO collaborating
centres.
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AEIN Meetings |
AEIN meetings respective meeting reports |
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AEIN stakeholders meeting, February 2003, Pretoria South Africa
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AEIN international steering committee meeting, October
2005,
Accra, Ghana
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AEIN phase 1 review and phase 2 launch, October 2006, Nairobi,
Kenya
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