Sarhad Provincial Conservation Strategy - IUCN

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E X E C U T I V E S U M M A R Y
IMPLEMENTATION IN PERSPECTIVE
The basic challenge for the SPCS is to make the
Strategy fully operative. Thus, detailed arrangements
for its implementation have been set out. These
include the institutional processes and mechanisms
necessary for the Strategy’s adoption, the availability
of finances required in each sector, and methods to
monitor and assess progress towards sustainable
development in the NWFP.
Institutional Processes
The dynamic and recurrent nature of the SPCS
demands that strategic planning continues in conjunction
with implementation—the one benefiting from the
other. The SPCS believes that a plethora of new structures
is not necessary, and that the existing institutions
can be relied upon for its implementation, provided
they are suitably reformed and strengthened.
To that end, the SPCS makes several recommendations.
These include:
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
the Chief Minister’s Secretariat or the PE&D
Department;
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■ institute Round Tables and focal points in the key
sectors of environment;
■ open up District Development Advisory
Committees 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 Social Action Programme with the
SPCS; and
■ improve coordination with the National
Conservation Strategy’s 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 roads.
Financing
The total financial requirement for carrying out the
SPCS is an estimated Rs. 65.578 billion, of which
Rs. 14.787 would be needed in the short term
(1995-1998). These are ballpark figures, worked
out on the basis of costs of comparable projects