Second Aarhus Centres Meeting
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The Aarhus Centres Meeting brought together the Aarhus Convention national focal points, Aarhus Centre managers and the OSCE economic and environmental officers from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Government and OSCE representatives from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkmenistan were also present.
The meeting aimed to provide an effective platform for sharing experiences, lessons learned, best practices and challenges in putting the Aarhus Convention into practice. In addition to the Aarhus Centre practitioners from the countries listed above, representatives of the UNECE Aarhus Convention Secretariat, the UNDP, the Regional Environmental Centre and several experts participated.
The recently-developed Aarhus Centre Guidelines were presented, and the preparations for the 2011 Aarhus Convention Meeting, and the Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference were discussed. Participants devoted particular attention to organizational and legal aspects of Aarhus Centres, to planning, monitoring and evaluation of Aarhus Centre activities, to Aarhus Centre communication strategies, and to measures for enhancing partnerships with the private sector and youth.