The Environmental Governance Programme (EGP) focuses on responsible mining for a green and just transition. The objective is to minimize negative environmental and social impacts from mining, including extraction of critical raw materials.
EGP organizes its activities in thematic areas that cut across the mining cycle:
EGP was launched in 2014 and has now entered its third phase (2025–2028). The programme is a joint initiative of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SwEPA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), fully funded by the Swedish Government.
During the current phase, EGP provides direct support to public agencies and other key stakeholders involved in mining governance in Argentina, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya and Zambia. The programme also provides indirect support to many more countries through its learnings, including a network consisting of countries from previous EGP phases.
EGP works with ministries, public agencies, human rights institutions, civil society organizations, local communities, the private sector and other stakeholders in the mining sector. The programme aims to have an impact on the drivers of conflict, environmental degradation, inequality, exclusion, and poverty.
Nationally, EGP encourage locally led processes that bring stakeholders together to advance and improve effective laws, regulations and institutional frameworks. At the community level, EGP works to enhance participation in decision-making and environmental monitoring. Regionally and globally the programme supports the exchange of innovative policy approaches and good practices across countries and regions.
The EGP Newsletter is sent out roughly 4 times a year with updates of the program’s learnings, key outputs, and activities and events.
EMAIL: egp@swedishepa.se
The Environmental Governance Programme (EGP) is a joint initiative of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and UNDP supporting countries to integrate environment and human rights into the governance of the mining sector.
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency/Naturvårdsverket
Virkesvägen 2, Hammarby Sjöstad
SE-120 30 Stockholm, Sweden
UNDP Bureau for Policy and Programme Support/Global Policy Network
304 East 45th St 9th floor
New York, NY 10017, United States of America
© 2026 Environmental Governance Programme (EGP)
.jpeg?auto=webp)
.jpeg?auto=webp)
.jpeg?auto=webp)
/1x.jpeg?auto=webp)
/1x.jpeg?auto=webp)
/1x.jpeg?auto=webp)
/1x.jpeg?auto=webp)
/1x.jpeg?auto=webp)
/1x.jpeg?auto=webp)