3.1: Access
Works with a broad-range of partners around the world to assess and improve the quality of procedures and institutions entrusted
with environmental decisionmaking.
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Our partners work with relevant government agencies to identify and fill gaps in policies and practice designed to ensure
the public’s right to access information, to participate in decisionmaking, and to access the courts. Target outcomes likely
before 2012 include: - Fuller implementation of ‘Freedom of Information Acts’ in several Latin American countries, including
Chile, Paraguay, Mexico, and India, providing affected communities access to key data on air and water pollution. - Enactment
of ‘Freedom of Information Acts’ in several African and Asian countries, including Philippines, Indonesia, and Cameroon and
of new laws and regulations strengthening public participation in decisionmaking in several countries including Ecuador, Sri
Lanka, Nepal, and Thailand. Communities will have a greater voice in decisions about natural resources on which they depend.
Additional projects under the Governance Goal: International Financial Flows and the Environment: Aims to improve the accountability
of international financial institutions for the social and environmental impact of their public and private investments. Place-based
work in Peru to protect community rights and the Amazon ecosystem in the face of oil and gas extraction complements core focus
on the multilateral development banks, export credit agencies, and private (Equator Principle) banks. Electricity Governance
Initiative: Supports strategies for greater public participation in reform of the power sector in emerging economies. Significant
improvements in electricity governance in Thailand and the Philippines have resulted. Efforts are now being expanded into
Southern Africa and Brazil. Governance of Forests Initiative: Provides a systematic and replicable framework for assessing
the governance of forests. Engages civil society, sector actors, and governments to ensure that Reducing Emissions from Deforestation
in Developing Countries (REDD) and other forest- related mechanisms approved under the Bali Action Plan promote good governance
of forests and demonstrate long-term emissions reductions.
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