Emphasizing national capacity building for sustainable development

Agenda 21 indicates that there must be active cooperation and collaboration among the United Nations regional commissions and other relevant organizations, regional development banks, non-governmental organizations and other institutions at the regional level. UNEP and UNDP, together with the regional commissions, would have a crucial role to play, especially in providing the necessary assistance, with particular emphasis on building and strengthening the national capacity of member states.

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the UN Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. Improving capacity for national development
2. Focusing
3. Emphasizing
4. Building capacity for sustainable development

1. Using UNDP field offices to support capacity building strategies for Agenda 21
2. Strengthening national capability to assess global climate change
3. Seeking national consensus on capacity building strategies for implementing Agenda 21
4. Providing financial resources for facilitating national capacity-building
5. Mobilizing funds through UNDP to support national capacity building for sustainable development
6. Mobilizing donor resources for national capacity building on sustainable development
7. Improving capacity to develop environmentally sound technology
8. Establishing institutional capacity for national environmental action plans
9. Developing consultative processes on international funding for national capacity building in sustainable development
10. Designating national units to coordinate technical cooperation for capacity building for sustainable development
11. Building national capacity for monitoring and evaluation
12. Building environmental capacity in governments
13. Assessing contribution of technical cooperation to national capacity building for sustainable development

1. Unsustainable
2. Undeveloped
3. Underdevelopment
4. Undercapacity
5. Overdevelopment
6. Overcapacity
7. Development
8. Capacity

1. Capacity 21
2. AGENDA 21