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Strategy for Building Environmental Awareness
Mekong River Commission
The Mekong River Commission (MRC) is an intergovernmental
organization established in 1995 by the governments of Cambodia,
Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam to coordinate and promote "cooperation
in all fields of sustainable development, utilization, management
and conservation of the water and related resources of the Mekong
River Basin." As part of this initiative, the MRC formulated
a long-term Environment Programme. One component of this programme
was "Awareness Building," which aimed to help raise general
awareness of the economic and other values of the Basin's ecological
systems and natural resources.
Having recognized the need for a comprehensive
and clear strategy to support (and possibly supplement) these national
environmental awareness building activities and to guide future
activities, the MRC engaged ESSA to assist in its strategy development
efforts. ESSA's project team used information collected by riparian
experts pertaining to recent and on-going awareness building activities
at the national level to develop a basis and an outline for an MRC
strategy that would address issues of building environmental awareness
in the basin within the remit of MRC. The strategy provides direction
and outlines areas where MRC should develop activities in order
to increase environmental awareness of current issues (e.g., trans-boundary
impacts, basin-wide environmental issues, etc.), and is consistent
with the MRC Strategic Plan.
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