Intergovernmental Strategic Plan for Capacity Building and Technology Support

Further to the request of the 8th Special Session of the UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GC/GMEF) in February of 2004, the EMG decided at its 7th meeting to take up the issue of the Intergovernmental Strategic Plan for Capacity Building and Technology Support (ISP) that is currently being developed under the aegis of a High level Working Group of the UNEP Governing Council.

At that meeting, the EMG decided to continue its work on capacity building in the areas of biological diversity and chemicals management and to provide the results as an input into the ISP process.

It was also decided to establish a new issue management group, co-chaired by UNDP and UNEP, to provide a further broad perspective to the process with regard to the work of UN Agencies and Organisations.

• Letter to the EMG on the Issue Management Group for UN System input into the Intergovernmental Strategic Plan for Technology Support and Capacity Building (IGSP) - June 14, 2004
• Outline of UN activities and initiatives on Environment Related Capacity Building and Technology Support 
• Report of the 1st meeting of the UNDP/UNEP Co-chaired Issue Management Group on IGSP, November 8, 2004 
• Contribution of the Environmental Management Group (EMG) to the 3rd Session of the High-level Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on an Intergovernmental Strategic Plan for Technology Support and Capacity Building (IGSP) 

Official UNEP hosted ISP website (contains useful information on ISP meetings and documents)