Estratègies per al desenvolupament sostenible - Generalitat de ...

By proposing and assessing benchmarks of performance in the above areas,the Access Initiative aims to promote their establishment as good practicesand common standards for all countries.The Access Initiative will build on the momentum created by Europe’s AarhusConvention, and will provide support to civil society organizations in otherregions seeking to promote similar norms of environmental governance. It ispursuing a two-track approach involving parallel strategies:A short-term strategy targeting the World Summit on SustainableDevelopment in August 2002 as an opportunity to assess progress towardsimplementation of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration.A long-term strategy designed to develop an inclusive, decentralized andsustainable institutional framework to accelerate the implementation ofPrinciple 10 in the years following the Summit.In implementing its short-term strategy, the Access Initiative works at threelevels:At the national level in nine pilot countries (Chile, Hungary, India, Indonesia,Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, USA), the Initiative will support localgroups to conduct assessments and monitor the extent to which structuresand practice of government agencies are consistent with commitments toaccess to information, participation and justice in environmental decisionmaking.At the regional level, the Initiative will promote the adoption of best practicesand implementation of regional instruments and/or commitments to accessto information, participation and justice in environmental decision making.Examples of such commitments include the Aarhus Convention and theOrganization of American States’ Inter-American Strategy to PromoteParticipation in Sustainable Development.At the global level, the Initiative will support a coalition of organizations tocollaborate on the development of indicators of implementation, and providea platform for institutionalization of the Initiative in the long term. To achievethis long-term outcome the Initiative will:159