UN


Home
Basic Info
What's New
Calendar
Preperatory Process
Documents
Major Groups
Media Info
Sustainable Development In Action
- Type 2 Partnership
>Initiatives

- List of Partnerships
- Related Activities
- Case Studies

Links
Conatact Us
Joahannesburg Summit 2002
Sustainable Development in Action
 
MEANS OF IMPLEMENTATION
[Project proposals where the organisers are looking for partners and/or funding are highlighted in red]

cluster Science and Education  Updated: 05/11/02

Leading Partner


Type 2 Partnerships/Initiatives

LEAD Japan Program
(Kanagawa, Japan)
cluster Asia-Pacific Initiative: Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) Japan Program

Peace Child International
(United Kingdom)
cluster Be The Change!– youth-led action for sustainable development

Links: capacity-building

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
Biofortified Crops for Improved Human Nutrition

Cluster: Agriculture/food security/rural development
Links: Health ¦ Capacity-building


JICA
(Japan)
Capacity Development for science and mathematics

Cluster: SD in Africa
Link: capacity-building

Sustainable Development Programme, Royal Institute of International Affairs
(UK)
Centres of Excellence for Technological Innovation for Sustainability in Africa (CETISA)

Cluster: Sustainable Development in Africa

International Center for the Environmental Management of Enclosed Coastal Areas
(Japan)
Comprehensive environmental assessment for the Asian coastal zone

Cluster: Oceans/coastal areas/fisheries
Links: information for decision-making ¦ capacity-building


Department of Environment and Heritage (Australia)
Ministry of the Environment (Japan)
Wetlands International (Malaysia)
Conservation and Sustainable Use of Sites of International Importance to Migratory Birds in East Asia, South East Asia and Australasia

Cluster: Biodiversity
Links: Capacity-building


Global Water Partnership (GWP), UNDP, ICLEI
Dialogue on Effective Water Governance

Cluster: Activities to Initiatie partnership processes
Links: freshwater¦ capacity-building

European Space Agency (as current chair of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Earth Observation Education and Training

Links: Information for decision-making

Eco Idea, Wroclaw
(Poland)
Ecological Activate of Local Communities

Cluster: Local Authorities and Urbanisation
changing usustainable patterns of production and consumption

Stakeholder Forum
(London)
Education for our Common Future

Links: information for decision-making

Earth Charter Initiative
(Costa Rica)
Educating for Sustainable Living with the Earth Charter

Links: Capacity-building¦ Information for decision-making

tbd Energy Literacy Initiative

Cluster: Energy

J. Walter Thompson Company
(Canada)
Engaging the Advertising Industry to help Communicate Sustainability Around the World

Cluster: science and education
Links:
changing unsustainable patterns of production and consumption

International Association of Universities
(Paris)
Global Higher Education for Sustainability partnership (GHESP)

Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(Italy)
Global Information System and Land Surface Analysis, Monitoring, and Mapping for Sustainable Development

Cluster: information for decision-making

WHO
(Geneva)
Healthy Environments for Children: A Global Alliance on Children's Health

Cluster: Activities/processes undertaken to initiate partnerships
Links: Health & SD

International Association of Hydrogeologists
(Oxon, UK)
Initiative on the Internationally Shared (Transboundary) Aquifer Resource Management

Cluster: Freshwater

Directorate General for Development Cooeration
(Italy)
Institutional consolidation for systemic planning and management towards poverty alleviation and environmental conservation in the framework of the regional sustainable development in the Hindu Kush – Karakorum – Himalaya mountain complex

Cluster: Mountains
Links: capacity-building


Malta Environment and Planning Authority
Integrated Framework of Tools for Implementing Sustainable Development in Small Islands (SUSTIS)

Cluster: SIDS
Links: information for decision-making

ESA, UNESCO
(Paris)
Integrated Global Observing Strategy (IGOS)Partnership

Cluster: information for decision-making

US Governement
International AIDS Education and Training Program

Cluster:Heath
Links: capacity-building


Pro-Natura International
(Paris)
International Center for Carbon Sequestration and Biomass Energy (ICSS)

Cluster: climate change
Links: Energy


International Coastal and Ocean Organization (ICO)/ Coastal States Organization (CSO)
(USA)
International Network of Practitioners and Academics to Support Implementation of Coastal and Ocean Management Programs

Cluster: oceans/coasts/fisheries
Links: Information for decision-making


Centre for International Sustainable Development Law
(Montreal, Quebec)
International Sustainable Development Legal Partnership

Cluster: SD Law
Links: capacity-building

French Government
(University of Lyon)
International University for Sustainable Development (UMDD)

Links: information for decision-making

Global Youth Nework
( Durban / South Africa)
International Youth Dialogue on Sustainable Development

Cluster: Activities/processes undertaken to initiate partnership
Links: capacity-building

Technical University of Denmark, Kgs.Lyngby
(Lyngby. Denmark)
Linked University Consortia for Environment and Development - Industry and Urban Areas (LUCED-I&UA)

Links: Transfer of Technology ¦ capacity-building

Italian National Agency for Environmental Protection
(Rome)
MeditAIRaneo

Cluster: Climate Change/Air pollution
Links: capacity-building

Government of Greece, MIO-ECSDE/UNESCO Mediterranean Education Initiative for Environment and Sustainability (MEDIES)

Links: changing unsustainable patterns of production and consumption ¦ Freshwater

Geological Survey of Canada/CIDA Multinational Andean Project: Geoscience for Andean Communities (MAP:GAC)

Cluster: Information for Decision-Making

Association of American Geographers
(Washington)
My Community, Our Earth (MyCOE)

Links: information for decision-making

Novartis
(Basel, Switzerland)
Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD)

Cluster:health

The City of Knowledge Foundation Panama Center for Sustainable Development

Links: information for decision-making

International Center for Research in Agroforestry, Southeast Asia Regional Programme (ICRAF-SEA)
(Bogor, Indonesia)
Partnership on the Program for Developing Mechanisms to Reward the Upland Poor in Asia for Environmental Services they Provide (RUPES)

Cluster: Agriculture

Partnership for Observation fo the Global Oceans
(Canada)
POGO-IOC Initiative for Intelligent Use and Management of the Oceans

Links: oceans/coastal areas/fisheries ¦ information for decision-making ¦ capacity-building

tbd Pacific Umbrella Initiative: Capacity-Building through Education and Training for the Sustainable Use and Management of natural resources and the Environment in the Pacific (2002-2012)

Cluster: SIDS
Links: Capacity Building ¦ Science & Education


East African Community Secretariat (Arusha, Tanzania) Swedish International Development Cooperation (Stockholm, Sweden) Promotion of Sustainable Development in the Lake Victoria Basin

Links: agriculture/food security/rural development ¦ biodiversity ¦ transfer of technology ¦ Freshwater

COREN asbl
(Brussels)
Quality Schools: school network on sustainable development systems

Links: changing patterns of consumption and production

European Commission, Directoral General Environment Regional Sustainable Cities and Towns Campaigns promoting Local 21

Cluster: Local Authorities & Urbanisation
Links: information for decision-making

Pacific International Centre for High Technology
Research
(Hawaii)
Renewable-Energy-Based Rural Electrification Initiative (RERE)

Cluster: Energy

French Government SIRMA: Water economy in irrigated Systems in North Africa

Cluster: SD initiative for Africa
Links: Freshwater ¦ agriculture


National Academy of Sciences
(USA)
Strengthening Science-Based Decision-Making

Links: Information for Decision-making ¦ Capacity-Building
International Atomic Energy Agency
(Vienna, Austria)
Science and technology, application of isotope techniques for sustainable water resources and coastal zone management (SWARCOZM)

Links: oceans/coasts/fisheries

Ministry of the Environment
(Japan)
Scientific Capacity-Building for Sustainable Development in Developing Countries

Links: capacity-building

Stakeholder Forum
(London)
Strengthening Multi-stakeholder research partnerships for irrigation and efficient water management

Cluster: Freshwater

Directorate General for Development Cooperation
(Italy)
Sustainable Biotechnology and Agriculture in Africa

Cluster: SD Initiatives for Africa
Links: biodiversity ¦ Agriculture


UNESCO-EOLSS Joint Committee
The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS)

Links: information for decision-making ¦ capacity-building

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Unlocking Genetic diversity in Crops for the Resource-Poor

Cluster: Agriculture/food security/rural development
Links: capacity-building ¦ Tranfer of technology


Univerity of F. Palacky
(Olomouc, Czech Republic)
Visegrad Group Countries' Summer School fo Development Aid and Cooperation

Links: capacity-building

IHE
(Geneva)
Water Education and Training Cluster (WET) on Demand Assessment and Articulation Systems

Cluster: Freshwater
Links: capacity building

US Department of State
(Washington)
White Water to Blue Water: A Crosscutting Approach to Regional Oceans and Coastal Ecosystem Management

Cluster: Activities/processes undertaken to initiatie partnerships
Links: biodiversity ¦ capacity-building ¦ oceans/coastal areas/fisheries

VZBV Federation of German Consumer Organisations
(Berlin)
Youth Dialogue on Consumption, Lifestlyes and Sustainability

Cluster: changing unsustainable patterns of production and consumption
Links:capacity-building


Sub Clusters{short description of image}


{short description of image}

__________________________________________________________________
FAQs | Site Map| contact us

Copyright © United Nations
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Division for Sustainable Development
Comments and suggestions
24 August 2006