ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND DEVELOPMENT VISION OF ETHIOPIA

Mission

Enhancing good environmental governance through removing the constraints faced by public agents, individuals, civil society and the private sector to know, explore and utilize fully their own potentials to enlarge their choices for understanding their respective functions in an environmentally sound manner. This can be further achieved through the newly rearranged CB thematic areas.

1. Development of enabling policy and regulatory frameworks;
2. Preparation and implementation of proactive environmental management systems;
3. Enforcement and compliance mechanisms;
4. Community empowerment;
5. Improving education and awareness;
6. Availing information and fostering participation in decision taking;
7. Identification and availing of environmentally sound technologies and best practices and
8. Resource mobilization and channeling

VISION

Ensuring social sustainability:

• Improve the quality of life of the Ethiopians through the provision of environmentally sound social services
• Foster participation in decision making
• Foster good environmental governance and effective stewardship of environmental resources
• Protect and use cultural and natural heritage for education and tourism

Ensuring economic sustainability:

• Achieve a sustainable and diversified use of renewable and non-renewable natural resources and thus emancipate the population from dependency
• Achieve a sustainable and ethically acceptable use of natural and cultural heritage for a sustainable economic development
• Provide an equitable access to economic and environmental resources

Ensuring environmental sustainability:

• Achieve the sustainable and rational use of renewable and non renewable natural resources
• Rehabilitate and maintain ecosystems at maximum productivity
• Maximize the source and sink functions of the environment

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