GMS Environment Operations Center's Functions

The EOC's five main tasks are:

• GMS environmental information and knowledge management
• Maintaining and sharing environmental information (from various sources including environmental assessments of development projects and sector strategies)
• Keeping track of trends and problems in subregional environment reporting
• Analyzing and planning strategies to address current and emerging issues (such as climate change and air pollution) related to environmental and natural resource maintenance
• Taking an active part in communications and information networking


• GMS environmental management and conservation
• Managing the GMS Core Environment Program
• Setting the framework of environmental safeguards and codes of practice for key development sectors
• Preparing the GMS environment action plan, and reviewing and revising it regularly, in keeping with GMS development programming cycles
• Implementing the BCI
• Attracting finance for new environmental initiatives to meet changing needs


• Sustainable development design, environmental assessment, and oversight
• Performing strategic environmental assessments of sectors
• Contributing to the design and sustainability of development projects
• Carrying out environmental reviews of strategies and plans
• Monitoring and reporting on performance


• Coordination and liaison
• Convening regular consultative meetings of development partners and stakeholders to keep them informed of progress, and nurturing the GMS environmental partnership for the implementation of the GMS action plan and the Core Environment Program
• Convening regular consultative meetings with civil society to engage them in program development, implementation, and monitoring


• Serve as secretariat of the Working Group on Environment