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• Number of cases where a community
has learned and replicated from good
practices from other communities.
Collaborating with partners:
Development Alternatives, India; National Environmental and Monitoring Authority (NEMA), Uganda; Online community and environmental platform,
ELPIS;
Countries/regions assisted:
India, East Africa
COMMUNICATION AND OUTREACH:
GRID-Arendal’s goal under this programme area is to clearly and openly communicate information about the environment to decision mak-
ers and the general public, making the best possible use of modern communication technologies to enhance the impact of both GRID-Arendal’s and UNEP’s work. GRID-Arendal
works closely with partners and networks and with international and national media to reach as broad an audience as possible.
A. Communication and Outreach
Description
Indicators
2011 Activities/Outputs
1. Enhance the impact of UNEP work
through development of effective, in-
novative communication and outreach
products on findings of environmental
assessments; organize outreach events
and exhibitions at conferences; facilitate
lectures and media events; and provide
technical and publication services.
Sub-programme 1: Climate Change 1(e)4,
1(e)5
Sub-programme 3: Ecosystem Manage-
ment
3(a)6
Sub-programme 4: Environmental Gov-
ernance 4(d)1
Sub-programme 5: Harmful Substances
and Hazardous Waste 5(c)7
Sub-programme 6: Resource Efficiency
6(a)1, 6(c)3
• Number of vital graphic packages and
reports produced and disseminated:
4 (2010), 4 (2011)
• Number of Environment & Poverty
Times produced and disseminated in
ODA countries: 1
• Number of e-books and other multime-
dia products produced: 8 (2011)
• Tenfold increase in the number of en-
tries in the media library (2011)
• Number of outreach packages pro-
duced and disseminated; media cover-
age facilitated
• Support to UNEP through report preparation, production and dissemination:
1. Towards a Green Economy - Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty
Eradication
2. Coalland: Faces of Donetsk
3. Green Hills, Blue Cities: An Ecosystems Approach to Water Resource Management
for African Cities
4. West African Continental Shelf - UNCLOS Article 76 (French) Regional Desktop
Study
5. Africa Environment Outlook 3 – Authors’ guide
6. Environment and Security in the Amu Darya River Basin
7. Climate Change in Eastern Europe (Russian)
8. Orangutans and the Economics of Sustainable Forest Management in Sumatra
(English and Bahasa Indonesian)
9. Living Planet: Connected Planet – Preventing the End of the World’s Wildlife Mi-
grations through Ecological Networks
10. Continental Shelf - The Last Maritime Zone - Update (Status in September 2010)
11. Vital Caspian Graphics 2: Opportunities, Aspirations and Challenges
12. Women at the Frontline of Climate Change: Gender Hopes and Risks
13. Vital Waste Graphics 3
14. Biofuels Vital Graphics: Powering a Green Economy
15. Environment and Poverty Times Issue 7
16. Changing Taiga: Challenges for Mongolia’s Reindeer Herders