UNDP's
work on Energy and Environment is focused on six priority areas:
Frameworks and strategies for sustainable development
Effective water governance
Access to sustainable energy services
Sustainable land management to combat desertification and
land degradation
Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity
National /sectoral policy and planning to control emissions
of ODS and POPs
While in the past, the Country Office has supported the government
and people of the Gambia in almost all six priority areas, the new
Country Program will concentrate mainly on mainstreaming environmental
and disaster prevention and mitigation activities into national
and local development policies and strategies by linking economic
development to human welfare considerations. This will require capacity
building through strengthening the role of communities, particularly
women, to promote sustainable development in such areas as land
degradation, waste management and coastal zone protection.
The
Gambia