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The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide • a Green Audit “road show” to major towns in the county, marked with a media campaign highlighting Green Audit findings relevant to each part of the country; and • the circulation of 40,000 Green Audit leaflets to citizens, seeking their views on the audit findings and on priorities for action. The Forum’s Information Phase generated three important sources of information, namely: • the Green Audit; • Forum Stakeholders’ priorities for action; and • citizens’ priorities for action. These were used to underpin the forum’s next phase—policy making. 1992-1994: Poiicy - Making Phase The Environmental Forum’s policy-making phase began in 1992. The forum’s target was to produce a program of action to deal with the issues raised in the information phase. The program was to be based on building consensus through partnerships while making full use of the forum’s expertise. This new focus required a new organizational structure. The forum therefore established four multisectoral Specialist Working Groups, with representatives from its membership. Their mandate was to produce proposals for action in four topic areas over a nine-month period. The four Specialist Working Groups (SWGs) were: • SWG1: Air, Energy, Transport, and Noise; • SWG2: Water, Waste, Land, and Agriculture; http://www.idrc.ca/openebooks/448-2/ (28 of 180)18/10/2010 12:47:23 AM
The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide • SWG3: Wildlife, Landscape, Townscape, and Open-space; and • SWG4: Education and Public Awareness. The SWGs allowed the full range of expertise held by the forum organizations to be made available to the initiative. Giving all members a direct role provided increased ownership of the environmental action plan and enhanced the prospects of implementation. SWG activity was coordinated by the forum’s Steering Group. Each SWG chairperson reported back to the Steering Group, where matters of mutual interest were addressed and initiatives coordinated. Towards the end of the policy-making phase, all four SWGs held a combined seminar to discuss challenges and to defend each other’s draft proposals. University and sixth-form students were invited to provide input. The draft document was then launched and citizen input invited. The outcome was converted into the Lancashire Environmental Action Programme (LEAP), which was published in March 1993. This marked the start of a new phase for the Environmental Forum—implementation and action. 1994 Onwards: Implementation and Action Phase To meet the requirements of this new phase, the forum has created new Working Groups with distinct mandates. These Working Groups are: • The Green Audit Working Group, which oversees information aspects of the Forum’s work, including the selection of new indicators for sustainable development that will underpin Green Audit II; • The North-South Link Working Group, which is to oversee a developing link between the Forum and a municipality in Uganda; • The LEAP Implementation Working Group, which oversees the implementation of LEAP by the forum organization, monitors projects through annual reports, and tackles the “deferred issues” on which it was not possible to reach consensus during the first policy-making phase; and • The Centers of Environmental Excellence (CEE) Working Group which will coordinate and oversee the creation of a network of topic-based CEEs across Lancashire. The new Working Groups were established in May, 1994. It is too early to gauge their overall impact, but the signs are very promising. The new implementation phase has generated considerable enthusiasm from forum stakeholders for the Action Programme. In summary, the Lancashire Environmental Forum has matured since its creation in 1989. Its organizational evolution has reflected its ability to meet new challenges, the growth stages being in tune with the Local Agenda 21 policy making process of information— policy—action. Contact Graham Pinfield Head of Environmental Policy Lancashire County Council PO. Box 160, East Cliff County Offices Preston, England, PR1 3EX Tel: +44 177/226-4188 Fax: +44 177/226-4201 http://www.idrc.ca/openebooks/448-2/ (29 of 180)18/10/2010 12:47:23 AM
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