IIED is currently developing a Guide to Environmental Mainstreaming Part 1 will analyse the contextual and institutional issues that are of critical concern and provide a perspective on the challenge of environmental mainstreaming. In part 2 will discuss the broad range of mainstreaming approaches/tools related to particular challenges and decision-making tasks, provide some guidance on when particular approaches might best be used, and profile a few key approaches/tools that are most commonly used in environmental mainstreaming. This guide will be of interest and use to all those who are struggling to address environmental issues in development policy-making and decision-taking.

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Acknowledgements

Executive Summary

Preface

1          Introduction: 

1.1  Why do we need to’ mainstream’ the environment?

1.2  What is environmental mainstreaming?

1.3  Who should be concerned about environmental mainstreaming?

1.3.1 The actors in environmental mainstreaming

1.3.2 Responses and international mandates for environmental mainstreaming

2        The challenges of environmental mainstreaming

2.1 The institutional context for environmental mainstreaming

2.2  Drivers of mainstreaming

2.2.1 Major drivers of mainstreaming from IIED’s country surveys

2.2.2 Moderately important drivers of mainstreaming from IIED’s country surveys

2.2.3 Other drivers of mainstreaming from IIED’s country surveys

2.3       Constraints to environmental mainstreaming

3        Effective mainstreaming; what it takes

3.1 A framework and indicators of effective environmental mainstreaming

3.2 Capacity for environmental mainstreaming

3.3 Work towards a systematic approach

3.4 Communications

3.5 Building a platform

3.6 Basic steps in environmental mainstreaming

References

Part 2:  Profiles of key approaches

4          A roadmap to approaches for environmental mainstreaming

4.1 What approaches are available?

4.2 Choosing appropriate approaches

5          Profiles

Annexes

1          Some international initiatives in environmental mainstreaming