Sustainable
Environmental Management Programme
(SEMP)
Sustainable Environment
Management Programme (SEMP) is the
first follow-up activity in the implementation
of NEMAP (National Environment Management
Action Plan). It is being executed
by the Ministry of Environment and
Forest (MoEF) from October 1998 and
is expected to be completed in December
2006. SEMP comprises of 26 components
(including PMU – Programme Management
Unit) for 25 different projects and
is being implemented by 21 Sub-Implementing
Agencies (SIAs) through a 26 million
US dollars grant from UNDP. SEMP is
the largest programme of UNDP in Bangladesh.
The objectives of SEMP are to build
and strengthen capacity for environmental
management at the Community (enable
the poor to have access to environmental
resources), Local (developing capacity
to project the interests of the poor),
and National (suggesting enactment
of necessary and reduce existing laws,
polices, etc.) levels. Along with
these, SEMP also aims to prevent and
reverse the present trend of environmental
degradation, to promote sustainable
development and reduce existing poverty
and raise the quality of life.
SEMP has 5 thematic
areas to fulfill its mission, which
are: (a) Policy and Institutions,
(b) Participatory Eco-System Management,
(c) Community-based Environmental
Sanitation, (d) Awareness and Advocacy,
and (e) Environmental Education. These
sub programmes have been created to
achieve success of the programme in
a more efficient way by creating synergy
amongst partner organizations. The
26 components of SEMP have been distributed
under these sub-programmes to maintain
proper communication with the Sub-Implementing
Agencies (SIAs).
SEMP is the first
programme approach being implemented
in Bangladesh involving 21 partner
organizations. The programme is almost
two-third complete in terms of its
implementations. On completion of
the programme in December 2006 major
impacts will be (a) Reversal of environmental
degradation in the intervention areas,
(b) Reduction of poverty through community-based
resources management and (c) Strengthened
capacity at community, local and national
levels
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of Bangladesh
Source: National Report On Implementation
Of United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification, Bangladesh (Final
Draft)
