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Strengthening environmental governance and development of sustainable environmental policies plays an important role in the achievement of many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Countries of the South-East Europe are now undertaking the SDG nationalization process. However the national capacities in evidence-based environmental governance in these countries require further strengthening to ensure effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda. Although some progress has been achieved with the integration of environmental requirements into sector-specific policies, much more needs to be done to enhance the environmental dimension of sectoral policies and ensure implementation and enforcement of environment-related provisions in sectoral policies and legislation.
The project supports five countries of the South-East Europe in formulating actions on the basis of their Environmental Performance Reviews (EPRs) in order to achieve relevant SDGs. The project assists national stakeholders, in particular the ministries responsible for environmental issues, to contribute to the revision of sector-specific and crosssectoral strategies aligning them with the SDGs. This is achieved by building the national capacities to assess priority needs in environmental governance and facilitating the national action to integrate evidence-based environmental policies into sector-specific and cross-sectoral strategies aimed at the achievement of SDGs. The key outcome of the project are national action plans/policy packages for implementing recommendations coming from EPRs in line with the SDGs that are developed through a participatory and inclusive process and benefit from an exchange of experience, knowledge and best practice at subregional level.
The project is expected to enhance national capacities of beneficiary countries to assess the most critical aspects and priority needs in their environmental governance and policies and to increase national capacities to develop and integrate evidence-based coherent environmental policies into sector-specific and cross-sectoral strategies aimed at contributing to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda.