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MALAYSIA, FORMULATION OF A BIODIVERSITY COMPONENT UNDER THE MALAYSIA-DANIDA ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION PROGRAMME
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17/10/2005 |
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A review of the Malaysia-Danish Environmental Cooperation Programme in 1993 recommended designing a programme with four thematically defined components: Solid Waste, Hazardous Substances, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and Biodiversity. In addition, a crosscutting component on Strategic Environmental Planning will link the programme together. Each component has a set of immediate sector specific objectives, which are derived from sector specific objectives presented in the 8th Malaysian Plan.
The purpose of this mission was to formulate the Biodiversity Component as part of the overall Environmental Cooperation Programme.
Through a consultative process Grontmij | Carl Bro facilitated the work of a Component Preparation Group established under the Malaysian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
This group was charged with overall responsibility for formulating the Biodiversity Component. The role of Grontmij | Carl Bro was to enable this group to lead this process. The assignment was split into three visits by the Consultants:
- The first visit was a reconnaissance visit to collect information and to facilitate the establishment of the Component Preparation Group (CPG). During this visit the Team Leader facilitated a larger Stakeholder meeting and from this meeting a smaller and tighter CPG was established.
- During the second visit the Consultant Team assisted in preparing an overall Component Concept Paper outlining the overall ideas and thrust for a component to improve biodiversity management on Peninsular Malaysia. Subsequently this concept paper was presented to the Malaysian – Danish Programme Steering Committee and accepted.
- During the third visit of the Consultant Team, the details of the component was facilitated and agreed in the CPG, The outcome was a USD 6.7 million Component designed to incorporate biodiversity concerns into the spatial planning process in Malaysia by strengthening the Town and Country Planning Department, the Forestry Department and the Department of Wildlife and Natural Parks as well as the Economic Planning Unit in its efforts to secure funding for biodiversity conservation in Malaysia.
Significant issues in the design were to strengthen the vertical link in key institutions from the National Policy level to State and Local level and at the same time to facilitate inter and intra-institutional coordination and cooperation using the existing land use planning process as a holistic ecosystem approach to biodiversity conservation.
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