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A useful way to start addressing the challenge of environmental mainstreaming or to add emphasis and impetus to existing efforts can be to establish a small ‘learning group’ (of national environmental ‘champions’, key leaders and decision-makers from different stakeholders). Such a group can work informally to, for example, examine what environmental mainstreaming means in the country context, identify examples of approaches used to date in the country, consider drivers, opportunities and problems, and make recommendations. This approach has recently been used by IIED with some success in Malawi, Philippines, Tanzania, Zambia and Vietnam (see below).
Following an awareness-raising and training workshop on environmental mainstreaming in Botswana in April 2011 (see below), IIED is continuing to provide support on environmental mainstreaming to PEI Botswana. As part of this work, and with the SADC Secretariat as an additional partner, options are being explored for a regional learning group workshop on environmental mainstreaming and national sustainable development strategies for the countries of the Southern Africa Development Community. And IIED will be facilitating a Green Economy Dialogue Workshop in Gaborone on 5-7 September 2011.
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