Capacity building is a critical component of UNEP's environmental assessment and early warning sub-programme. The task of keeping the global environmental situation under review depends on having reliable, relevant and timely environmental data available in order to support integrated environmental assessment and reporting from the global to the local level. Providing access to information for decision-making enables policy-makers, decision-makers and concerned citizens to take appropriate action to protect the environment at the relevant level.
The Bali Strategic Plan for Technology Support and Capacity Building calls upon UNEP to strengthen national capacities for data collection, research, analysis, monitoring and integrated environmental assessment; developing institutional capacities, staff training and support for appropriate and adaptable technologies and methodologies; support for assessments of environmental issues of regional and subregional importance and for the assessment and early warning of emerging environmental issues; support for scientific exchanges and for the establishment of environmental and inter disciplinary information networks; and promotion of coherent partnership approaches.
In response to the Bali Strategic Plan, DEWA has developed a draft strategy.
