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Report: Learning Hub on Participatory Environmental Monitoring

By Environmental Governance Programme (EGP)

Key Messages

Participatory Environmental Monitoring (PEM) has the potential to aid governments, communities, and companies in promoting more inclusive and responsive governance of the extractive sector in general, and more specifically the mining sector. By enabling communities impacted by mining and other stakeholders to collect information on the environmental problems and concerns that affect them, and feed that data into the decision- and policy-making processes, PEM can deliver results towards improved environmental, social, and human rights outcomes in the mining sector.
The EGP has kicked off a collaborative process for developing an evidence-based Global Guidance Note on PEM, anchored in the needs, experiences and tools of practitioners at the country level. The Guidance Note will be co-designed with EGP Country Teams and partners in Argentina, Colombia, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Mongolia, and Peru. The Guidance Note will be rooted in tangible examples from across regions on how to work with a broad range of stakeholders, including government agencies (national and local), companies and communities. It will offer a variety of actionable policy and programmatic options for development partners across all settings and will be rooted in knowledge from different country-level approaches and practices.
The new PEM channel on Microsoft Teams & SharePoint was launched during the meeting, seeking to offer a forum for continued learning, sharing of experiences and insights from PEM implementation at the country level as well as serve as a key space for co-developing the Global Guidance Note. EGP Country Teams and key country partners and stakeholders are all invited to access this new learning channel. New members and guests can request access via this online form.

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Report: Learning Hub on Participatory Environmental Monitoring

Participants at the PEM National Workshop, organized by UNDP Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar on 30 November 2021. Photo credits: UNDP Mongolia.

Herder women and environmental monitors from Airag District, Dornovi Province, attending the PEM National Workshop in Ulaanbaatar. Photo credits: UNDP Mongolia.

Herder women attending PEM meeting at Min Li Da mining company site office in Mongolia’s Dornogovi Province. Photo credits: UNDP Mongolia.

Environmental monitors from the Departments of Cajamarca, Arequipa and Ancash attending the PEM Workshop organized by UNDP Peru in Huarmey, Ancash in February 2021. Photo credits: UNDP Peru.

Footnotes

Cover photo: PEM in Dornogovi Province, Mongolia. Credits: UNDP Mongolia.

FootNotes

Cover photo: PEM in Dornogovi Province, Mongolia. Credits: UNDP Mongolia.

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