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Upcoming Events
1st December 2008: 3rd WGE Semi Annual Meeting (WGE SAM-3), Vientiane, Lao PDR.
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The information on Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is also available at the
Asian Development Bank (ADB) GMS program webpage
Last update:
29th October 2008
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GMS Core Environment Program (CEP) 2006-2015
Vision: A poverty free and ecologically rich GMS
Goal: To promote sustainable and equitable development in the GMS
Purpose:
To enhance the development potential, performance, and impact of the GMS Economic Cooperation Program
Future Directions and Plans
- Strengthening planning and monitoring capacity at the central/provincial levels in ANR, Transport, energy and tourism sectors
- Climate Change Risks and Vulnerabilities for GMS
- Carbon Neutral Transport Corridors
- Capacity building in Multi Criteria planning for transport and energy sectors
- Capacity building for resource use efficiency assessments
- Conference on GMS environmental sustainability and economic competitiveness
- Developing protocols and codes of practice
- Private sector funding for environmental technologies
- GMS Atlas
The Environment Operations Center (EOC) Implementation Structure
| Component |
Task Leader |
| Component 1: Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs) of GMS Economic Corridors and Priority Sectors |
Pavit Ramachandran |
| Component 2: Biodiversity Conservation Corridors Initiative (BCI) |
Dr. Hasan Moinuddin |
| Component 3: Environmental Performance Assessments (EPAs) |
Iain Watson |
| Component 4: Capacity Building for Environmental Management |
Prof. Dawood Ghaznavi |
| Component 5: Program Development, Delivery and Sustainable Financing |
Prof. Dawood Ghaznavi |
GMS Economic Corridors
For implementation purpose, 6 GMS Economic Corridors have been created:
- EWEC: East West Economic Corridor
- NSEC (Eastern): North South Economic Corridor (Eastern)
- NSEC (Eastern Ext.): North South Economic Corridor (Eastern Extension)
- NSEC (Western): North South Economic Corridor (Western)
- SEC (Northern): South Economic Corridor (Northern)
- SEC (Southern): South Economic Corridor (Southern)
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