| TITLE |
PURPOSE
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| FORMAL UK-LED |
Renewable Energy and
Energy Efficiency Partnership
(REEP)
| A collection of Governments, businesses and organisations that are committed to accelerating the development of renewable energy and energy efficiency systems.
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| Partners for Water and Sanitation |
This initiative was launched in Bonn in December 2001. It will involve joint working between Governments, the private sector and NGOs. It will work alongside existing water and sanitation programmes in partner countries and match the skills and expertise of UK partners to areas of identified need.
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Centres of Excellence for
Technological Innovation for
Sustainability in Africa
| Led by the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA). This partnership aims to establish a network of Centres of Excellence in Africa. The centres will use a multi-disciplinary, participatory approach to technology development and base their work on country-specific assessments of technology needs and opportunities.
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| Sustainable Tourism Initiative |
The STI aims to create a step-change in the implementation of sustainable tourism practices by the UK outbound tourism industry and to build foundations for continual improvement and engagement.
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| FORMAL UK-SUPPORTED |
EU Water Initiative:
"Water for Life"
| Led by the EC. Focuses initially on Africa and the Newly Independent States. Aims to: reinforce political will/commitment to action; make water governance effective/build institutional capacity; improve co-ordination/cooperation and increase efficiency of existing EU aid flows.
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Global Village Energy Partnership
(GVEP)
| A 10-year programme to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development through increasing access to modern energy services. Key deliverables will include input to the energy component of NSSDs /PSSPs; development of enterprises to deliver energy services in rural markets; and provision of credit services. UNDP are the lead partner.
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Partnership for Principle 10
(PP10) |
This extends the NGO coalition "The Access Initiative" which aims to promote environmental democracy; access to information; access to justice; and public participation in environmental decision-making.
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Global Alliance for Building
Sustainability (GABS)
| Instigated by the RICS Foundation to accelerate the achievement of sustainable development in the land, property, construction and property development sectors. The focus is to build and strengthen partnerships between policy makers and practitioners.
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Congo Basin Forestry
Partnership | US/, South Africa and France led initiative to focus on monitoring and evaluation of forest ecosystems (including illegal logging), protected areas, training, agro-forestry etc. There is scope for part of this initiative to build on the UK/Indonesia Memorandum of Understanding.
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| Asia Forest Partnership |
Japanese-led partnership to promote sustainable forest management in Asia, focussing on: good governance and forest law enforcement; capacity building; illegal logging; forest fires; rehabilitation and restoration of degraded lands. Will build on UK/Indonesia Memorandum of Understanding.
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Oceans, White Water to
Blue Water |
US lead partnership focussing on the Caribbean: aims to increase coastal state and regional capacity for cross-sectoral approaches to the management of watersheds and marine ecosystems
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| Oceans: High seas biodiversity |
Australian led partnership on conservation of high seas biodiversity: aims to develop international framework for future protective action based on analysis of institutional/legal obstacles and how they can be overcome, and initial identification of prospective areas/biodiversity.
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Great Apes Survival Project
(GRASP) |
UNEP-led partnership. Key objectives are to: lift the threat of imminent or medium-term extinction faced by the four great apes; strengthening capacity for conservation in range states, building sustainable livelihoods for communities who traditionally depend on ape habitats.
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| INFORMAL UK PARTNERSHIPS[111]
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Extractive Industries
Transparency Initiative
(EITI)
| A partnership of governments, companies, NGOs and international institutions committed to developing a framework to promote transparency of payments in the extractives sector.
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| London Principles | A set of seven principles backed up by a casebook of current best practice and blue sky approaches to ensuring that City institutions apply their capital and services in ways that support rather than defeat sustainable development.
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FORGE Group Corporate
Social Responsibility Guidance
| Sector specific guidance on the management of and public reporting of CSR issues developed by a consortium of the major UK retail banks and insurance companies. Follows guidance produced by the same group in 2001 on environmental management and reporting.
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| Darwin Phase II | Innovative small grants scheme, launched at Rio, which puts UK expertise together with local partners to improve conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in countries poor in resources. Annual funding increasing from £3 million 2002-03 to £7 million 2005-06.
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| UK Forest Partnership |
Five priority areas for action; forest certification, illegal logging, forest restoration and protection, promotion and timber procurement.
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