East Asia and Pacific
Environmental Initiative
USAID and State working with partners
protecting the environment and
improving livelihoods

Technical Links
Governance and the Environment
See also EAPEI Conflict and the Environment links

USAID Democracy and Governance
    The Asia and Near East (ANE) region
    Center for Democracy and Governance
    Anti-corruption Resources   Distance Learning Module

Winbourne, Svetlana. Nov 2002. Corruption and the environment sector. Management Systems International, Inc. (MSI), USAID. Bur. for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance. Ofc. of Democracy and Governance PN-ACT-876 93 KB PDF

ICRAF Negotiation system support for natural resource conflict resolution funded by EAPEI

illegal-logging.info provides a central point of information about efforts to stem illegal forest practices and the associated trade in forest products.

World Resources Institute  Environmental governance and institutions

Biodiversity Support Program (BSP) 
   
Environment-Democracy Governance Exchange - The EDGE Roundtable Series
   
Greening Democracy And Governing The Environment - USAID Experiences from the Field
   
Workshop Summary: "Greening Democracy & Governing the Environment: Managing for Cross-Sectoral Results"
   
Governance and Biodiversity: Weaving Resilience into the Web of Life  pdf
    Disasters and Biodiversity: Finding ways to mitigate the impact of armed conflict on African biodiversity
    KEMALA is a five-year, $10 million program in Indonesia that supports decentralized biodiversity management  in West Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, North                 Sulawesi, Maluku, and Irian Jaya.
    People, Forests & Reefs:  Building capacity for local management of forests and coral reefs worldwide
    BSP's Asia & the Pacific Program

ODI Forest Policy and Environment Group (FPEG) is working to demonstrate how progress in the forest sector, in areas such as public participation, accountability, the rule of law, public sector service delivery and decentralisation, can leverage far wider gains in good governance, environmental stewardship and pro-poor change.

Brown, David, Gill Shepherd, Kathrin Schreckenberg, Adrian Wells. 2002. Forestry as an Entry Point for Governance Reform

FAO Community Forestry Devolution and decentralization

The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is an independent, international campaigning organisation committed to investigating and exposing environmental crime

The System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action (CAPRi) is one of several Inter-Center Initiatives of the CGIAR. These initiatives seek to draw together relevant resources from multiple centers, national research institutes, and centers of excellence, and bring them to bear, in a coordinated manner, on a problem of global or inter-regional importance.

Updated November 30, 2004