Background documents.

• 8th Global Civil Society Forum - List of documents.
• Updated water policy and strategy of the United Nations Environment Programme: progress report on the implementation of decission 23/2. Report of the Executive Director distributed on 9th January 2006.
• Updated water policy and strategy of the United Nations Environment Programme. Report of the Executive Director distributed on 9th January 2006.
• Chemical management. Report of the Executive Director distributed on 9th January 2006.
• Progress report on the implementation of the Governing Council decision 23/11 on gender equality in the field of the environment. Report of the Executive Director distributed on 9th october 2006.
• Background paper for the ministerial consultations Globalization, Ecosystem services and human well being. Discussion paper by the Executive Director.
• List of documents being submitted to the Twenty-Fourth Session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environmet Forum. Note by the Executive Director N/A.
• Global civil society statement to the Governing Council/global ministeral environment forum. Note by the Executive Director N/A.
• Initial activities and planning in support of the strategic approach to international chemical management.Note by the Executive Director(N/A.)
• Interim reviews of scientific information on lead and calcium. Note by the Executive Director(N/A).
• Status report on partnerships as one approach to reducing the risks to human health and the environment from the release of mercury and its compounds into the environment and report on supply, trade and demand information on mercury.  Note by the Executive Director(N/A).
• Regional meeting on implementation of the strategic approach to international chemical management. Note by the Executive Director(N/A).
• Enhancing civil society in the work of the United Nations Environment Programme - Draft implementation plan(annexes).
• Enhancing major groups and engagements in the works of the United Nations Environment Programme: Draft implementation plan.
• Follow up to the outcome of the millenium summit.
• NGO' proposal for a global mercury strategy at the 2007 UNEP Governing Council meeting January 2007.
• Evaluation form - Global Civil Society Forum.