In 2010-2011, within the Environment for Europe Process, the Europe’s Environment Assessment of Assessments which focus on the Inland water resources and the Green economy was implemented towards the Pan-European Ministerial Conference EfE-7 (Astana, Kazakhstan, 2011). This Assesment of assessment project was implemented in two countries: Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan on air, wastes, biodiversity and climate change topics.
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Setting up the project team from national experts and coordination of their work;
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Guiding the process of identification and analysis of available assessments and filling the review template for the most relevant assessments;
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Development of country fiches for each target country on each theme;
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Development of final AoA Report in close consultation with national focal points and experts;
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Discussion of the assessment findings at national and international platforms
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Presenting the outcomes of AoA at regional and international conferences and WG meetings.
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Working groups (WGs) in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are established,
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Two national focal points from countries are nominated, 4 experts for 4 thematic fields from both countries are nominated;-
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Enhanced capacities of involved experts and members of WGs on the process of applying existing methodology and tools available on the EE-AoA portal http://aoa.ew.eea.europa.eu/virtual-library-viewer;
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Under the guide of a key expert national experts collected, analyzed relevant and available assessments;
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Country fiches (one fiche for each subject for each country) has prepared and agreed with WGs
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Assessment reviews for Kazakhstan and for Kyrgyzstan that cover each focus theme are prepared;
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Findings with all relevant national stakeholders have been identified;
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Assessment of assessments report was presented at 14th session of the UNECE Working Group on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment in Geneva, November 2013.