Environment Management Capacity Building for Technical Assistance Project

The Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India is currently implementing, with the World Bank assistance, India: Environmental Management Capacity Building Technical Assistance Project. The objective of the project is to enhance environmental management capacity in specific areas of environmental management. The project also aims at broadening the ambit of ENVIS to include varying subject areas, themes, local conditions, issues, information/data needs of the country pertaining to environment and planned to be achieved through enlargement of participatory Organizations/Institutions, called EMCB-Nodes in various sectors, with the introduction of modern means of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).

This programme is a continuation of the Sustainable Development Networking Programme: India (SDNP-India) programme, funded jointly by the UNDP and IDRC, Canada.