Environmental Policy
               Implementation:
              Lessons Learned II
                   April 2001
                                                Task Order No. 17
                                     Contract No. PCE-I-00-96-00002-00
               Environmental Policy Implementation:
                         Lessons Learned II
                              April 2001
                                Prepared by:
                         EPIQ Technical Advisory Group
                               Prepared for:
                        USAID Global Environment Center
                 Environmental Policy and Institutional Strengthening Indefinite Quantity Contract (EPIQ)
            Partners: International Resources Group, Winrock International, and Harvard Institute for International Development
                Subcontractors: PADCO; Management Systems International; and Development Alternatives, Inc.
                 Collaborating Institutions: Center for Naval Analysis Corporation; Conservation International; KNB
            Engineering and Applied Sciences, Inc.; Keller-Bliesner Engineering; Resource Management International, Inc.; Tellus
                        Institute; Urban Institute; and World Resources Institute.
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                                                              Acronyms
                       AZB             Amman-Zarqa Water Basin
                       BAPEDAL         Environmental Impact Management Agency (Indonesia)
                       CBO             Community-Based Organizations
                       CDC             Commonwealth Development Corporation
                       CEE             Central and Eastern Europe
                       C4EP            Central and Eastern Europe Environmental Economics and Policy
                       CSI             Common Sense Initaitive
                       DEMO            Development of Environmental Management Organizations
                       EAPS            Environmental Action Program Support
                       EEAA            Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency
                       EMS             Environmental Management System
                       ENRAP           Environmental and Natural Resources Accounting Project
                       EPA             United States Environmental Protection Agency
                       EPAT            Environmental and Natural Resources Policy and Training
                       EPF             Egyptian Environmental Protection Fund
                       EPIQ            Environmental Policy and Institutional Strengthening Indefinite Quantity
                                       Contract
                       ESP             Environmental Support Plans
                       EU              European Union
                       FAO             Food and Agriculture Organization (United Nations)
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                       FSU             Former Soviet Union
                       FTPP            Forests, Trees and People Programme
                       GDP             Gross Domestic Product
                       GIS             Geographic Information Systems
                       GTZ             Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit
                       ICAS            Interstate Committee on Saving the Aral Sea
                       IFIs            International Financial Institutions
                       IFRI            International Forestry Resources and Institutions
                       IMF             International Monetary Fund
                       IMAZON          Institute for Man and the Environment of the Amazon
                       INEFAN          Institute of Forestry and Natural Areas
                       IPP             Independent Power Producer
                       JFM             Joint Forest Management
                       LEAP            Local Environmental Action Plan
                       MANRES          Natural Resources and Environmental Management for Sustainability
                       MoE             Ministry of Environment
                       MPWWR           Ministry of Public Works and Water Resources (Egypt)
                       MWI             Ministry of Water and Irrigation
                       NEAP            National Environmental Action Plan
                       NEPRA           National Electric Power Regulatory Authority
                       NGO             Non-Governmental Organization
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