Promoting Sustainable Development Through More Effective Civil Society Participation in Environmental Governance. A Selection of Country Case Studies from the EU-NGOs Project.

The brochure "Promoting Sustainable Development Through More Effective Civil Society Participation in Environmental Governance. A Selection of Country Case Studies from the EU-NGOs Project" has been developed within the project "Strengthening Environmental Governance by Building the Capacity of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)”, funded by the European Union, implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and delivered by the GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP).

The publication presents a wealth of examples of on-the-ground initiatives, achievements and lessons learned from the EU-NGOs Project in countries to the East and South of the EU. These community-led initiatives include directly tackling sustainable waste, water and forest management; providing environmental information to raise public awareness and inform local and national decision-making and policy processes; and creating multistakeholder monitoring committees to facilitate more effective environmental management and accountability, among others. EU-NGOs country programmes placed a large focus on involving communities and civil society in environmental decision and policy making processes, aiming to create a more enabling regulatory framework for civil society engagement and to influence and facilitate suitable local and national environmental policies across different sectors, promoting participatory sustainable development.