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CEPA is currently implementing a number of projects and these include:-
Enhancing capacity of CEPA and its Partners' Engangement in Consituency Environmental Management and Natural resources Advocacy: Towards Enhanced Constituency Representation for Sustainable Livelihoods
The goal of the project is to ensure that Government of Malawi and donor policies and programmes in environment and natural resources management become increasingly responsive to the needs of rural communities with the long term objective of sustainable socio-economic development. CEPA's partners under this inwawaitiative are Wildlife and Enviromental Society of Malawi, Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, Mothercare Foundation and Foundation for Community Support Services. This project is being supported by the European Union.
Policy and Practice Around
Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in Malawi
The project is being implemented within the framework agreement
between CEPA and Action Aid International Malawi. Its Objective is to
influence policy and practice around disaster risk reduction and climate
change adaptation in Malawi.
Enhancing
Capacity for Sustainable Environment and Natural Resources Management
Policy Making and Implementation
The overall goal of the project is to achieve sustainable development
through sound management of the environment and natural resources.
Southern Africa Biodiversity Policy Initiative (SABPI)
The main mandate of the initiative is to implement complimentary activities
pertaining to national policy on biodiversity, biotechnology, food
security, international trade and intellectual property rights including
the linkages between and among these.
The Land and Agrarian Reform Initiative
The project seeks to influence land and agrarian reform in Malawi to
address several existing imbalances in land ownership, advocate for
pro-poor land policies, appropriate institutional frameworks to support
people centered land and agrarian reform, and share best practices on land
and agrarian reform across the region.
The Access Initiative (TAI)
TAI is an initiative of a global coalition of NGOs that seeks to
enhance implementation of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration 1992, to
which the state parties re-committed themselves in Johannesburg 2002 at the
World Summit on Sustainable Development. Under this initiative, CEPA is currently working on enhancing access to environmental information and justice in matters relating to the environment by facilitating enactment of the revised framework of the Environment Management Bill and the Access to Information Bill. A review of the draft revised Environment Management Bill and the draft Access to Information Bill have been undertaken to ensure that they address the access principles. Efforts to engage the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture, Land and Natural Resources are still ongoing.
Previous Projects
Climate Change and Rural Livelihoods
The project seeks to assist in development of appropriate policy responses
to enable local communities to cope better with adverse impacts of climate
change.
Legislative Representation in Environment and
Natural Resources in Malawi
This project seeks
to open political space for constituencies to use their legislators to
effectively represent their environment and natural resources interests.
This project is implemented with funding and technical support from World
Resources Institute (WRI), Washington DC.
Biodiversity and Access and Benefit Sharing
of Genetic Resources
Involves biodiversity policy lobbying and networking. The aim is to
advocate for the development and management of biodiversity policies and
legislation that promote biodiversity conservation and local livelihood
issues. Currently CEPA is supporting development of an Access and Benefit
Sharing Bill for Malawi.
Biotechnology Policy Lobbying and
Advocacy
CEPA is currently involved in advocacy work relating public
awareness on modern biotechnology products and how they affect biodiversity
conservation especially agro-biodiversity in Malawi.
Distributional Equity in Natural Resources
The Distributional Equity project objective is to promote fair access to
environmental benefits for poverty reduction and sound natural resource
management.
Consultancy Assignments
CEPA has undertaken
a number of consultancy assignments relating to review and reform of
environment and natural resources policies and legislation in Malawi. Among
the on going assignments are:
- Right to Food Assessment
- Review of the Science and Technology Policy
Previous Consultancies
- Assessing the Implementation of Community Based
Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) policies and laws in Malawi;
- The harmonization of Malawi's environment and
natural resources policies;
- Drafting of the revision of its National
Environmental Policy;
- The legal framework for phase out of Methyl Bromide
in the tobacco industry in Malawi;
- Revision of the Environment Management Act (EMA);
and
- Review of the Access and Benefit Sharing of genetic
resources policy and legal framework which is part of the Southern
Africa Biodiversity Support Program.
- Providing legal
advice to implementation of Community Based Forest Management.
- Development of the Biotechnology and Biosafety
Policy for Malawi.
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