Report: Participatory Environmental Monitoring Committees

Lessons from Argentina, Bolivia, Panama and Peru

By Environmental Governance Programme (EGP)

This report presents the results of simultaneous investigations about participatory environmental monitoring in mining contexts in Argentina, Bolivia, Panama and Peru.

It identifies the contexts in which Participatory Environmental Monitoring Committees have been created, their membership, and the relationships to government systems in order to prevent and mitigate environmental degradation. Likewise, this report shows practical examples of leading practices to overcome the challenges, and also action-based policies that can strengthen monitoring committees as an approach contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The report has been jointly prepared by UNDP, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and the Canadian International Resources and Development Institute, under the Environmental Governance Programme (EGP). It was launched during the 1st International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding.