Sarhad Provincial Conservation Strategy - IUCN

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the NEQS will require engaging the sector in a meaningful
and serious dialogue. The Business-Industry
Round Table should be re-activated, after being suitably
re-constituted. The SPCS focal point in the
Industries Department of the Government of NWFP
will work as a secretariat to the Round Table. In addition,
it would be useful if industry also set-up a corresponding
unit in the Sarhad Chamber of Commerce
and Industry. This unit would liaise with the NWFP
EPA and other entities to raise environmental awareness
among businesses, to help them identify technological
and investment needs and options to clean up
their operations, and to assess and provide for the
environmental research needs of the private sector.
16.7
I N S T I T U T I O N A L P R O C E S S E S
I M P L E M E N TATION COMMITMENTS
This section summarizes the commitments made in
three vital areas over the next three years.
Legislation
A commitment is made to:
■ develop, institute, and operate environmental
impact assessment procedures to integrate environment
and development;
■ enact a provincial environmental law, complementing
the Federal legislation;
■ make the SPCS a legal requirement to be repeated
several years before each Five-Year Plan;
■ review and reform forest laws, as well as laws
dealing with the urban environment; and
■ assess the needs and, if required, enact a law to
ensure the supply of clean drinking water and
sanitation facilities for the people.
Coordination
A commitment is made to:
■ remove the overlap in environmental coordination
structures by reconstituting the Provincial
Environment Protection Council and the Steering
Committee, to be coordinated by a focal point in
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the Chief Minister’s Secretariat or the PE&D
Department.
■ institute round tables and focal points in the key
sectors of environment;
■ reactivate the Business-Industry Round Table, and
seek the creation of an environment cell in the
Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industries;
■ open up DDACs and Social Action Boards to
grassroots input by providing for NGO representation;
■ assess the need for and institute Environmental
Coordination Committees at the district level;
■ integrate the SAP with the SPCS; and
■ improve coordination with NCS implementation at
the Federal level.
Build Capacity
A commitment is made to:
■ strengthen the PE&D Department to enable it to
effectively coordinate and oversee SPCS
implementation;
■ further strengthen the EPA to allow it to have a
regional presence outside Peshawar and to ensure
effective enforcement of environmental laws;
■ create a fund that Government departments could
use to hire short-term consultants for small sums
(up to Rs. 50,000), with short and simple procedures
to turn SPCS recommendations into project
proposals;
■ carry out institutional reform in the key sectors of
environment to combat corruption, increase efficiency,
and generate capacity for environmental
management;
■ place information about public-sector development
projects and programmes in the public domain;
■ dedicate a portion of the proposed Environmental
Information Management Centre to setting up a
data base on monitoring the SPCS; and
■ assess and provide for the needs of the traffic
police to combat vehicular pollution and to protect
its personnel against air pollution on the
r o a d s .