Foreign
Donated Environmental Projects Implemented and Organized
by Foreign Techno-Economic Cooperation Division of Yunnan
Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau
¡¡¡¡¡¡The
regional technical assistance project RETA5783:Strategic
Environmental Framework (SEF) of GMS with a duration of
2 years starting October 1999.
¡¡¡¡A. The project was implemented by ADB, with a technical
assistance grant from the Swiss Agency for Development and
Cooperation (SDC). The six countries of GMS participated
in the project. The SEF project was executed by a team of
consultants lead by the Stockholm Environment Institute
(SEI), in partnership with the UNEP Environment Assessment
Programme for Asia and the Pacific (UNEP EAP/AP) and the
Mekong River Commission (MRC) based on cooperation of the
six countries.
¡¡¡¡B. The overall goal of the SEF project is to assist GMS
country governments and the ADB improve environmental protection
by helping to ensure the environmental and social sustainablility
of economic development undertaken with the GMS in general,
and in particular within energ/water resource and transportation
sectors of the GMS countries and the ADB¡¯S GMS programme.
¡¡¡¡C. The outputs. The identification and analysis of GMS
environment-development ¡°Hotspots¡± is one of the key approaches
being utilized in the SEF project. Hotspots are areas representing
the confict between economic development and environmental
and social goals. Through a participatory process five priority
GMS Hotspots have been identified, each Hotspot has been
analysed in detail, and a program of strategic operational,
policy and institutional recommendations formulated. The
results are presented in a series of SEF background documents
called GMS Priority Hotspot Profile and Strategic Program
Reports, and the results and findings have been incorporated
in the main SEF Project Report: Strategic Environmental
Framework for the Greater Mekong Subregion.