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Environmental Law, Policy and Governance Program

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Past Projects

• Environmental Assessments and Capacity Building for Trade Liberalization in the Americas
• Trade and Environment in the Americas Project
• Caribbean Emergency Legislation Project

Resources

• Publications
• FIDA Network
• Public Participation
• Courses
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• Environmental Law Advisory Group

Public Participation

A crosscutting feature of all programs and projects of the OAS is to support proactively public participation. In the process of developing policies at the hemispheric level, a standard practice of the Department is to solicit civil society input, through regional consultations and virtual on-line forums.

 

Opportunities for public participation

• Hemisferic Consultations
  • Civil Society participation on the preparatory process for the second ministerial meeting
  • Civil Society participation on the preparatory process for the first ministerial meeting
     
• Regional consultation
  • Pathways to Prosperity Dialogue opn Public Participation in Sustainable Development
• Publications
  • Inter-American Strategy for the Promotion of Public Participation in Decision-Making for Sustainable Development (2001)
  • Report of the Secretary General on Bolivia Summit Implementation (1998)
  • Role of Local Governments and Public Participation in Environmental Management (1997)
  • Recommendations from civil society and indigenous peoples presented to the Ministers and High Level Authorities on Sustainable Development.