Protecting and enhancing our natural capital while advocating sustainability governance on a national, regional (CEE) and EU level

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CEEweb's Work Plan, proposed under the LIFE NGO Operating Grant scheme for the year 2022 aims to build a framework for CEEweb, in collaboration with its 32 Central and Eastern European member organisations, to continue its active participation in the EU policy dialogue, as well as to continue supporting the implementation and enforcement of the Union’s environmental and climate objectives. We envision to do so along three main objectives, that also constitute our three Work Packages (WPs), in addition to our activities for organisational development. Our proposed activities in 2022 will focus on: Protecting our natural environment by advocating better policies for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration and calling for an integrated approach to development with an improved protected area- and water management (WP2); Advocating sustainable farming practices, nature-based solutions and policies to protect and restore resilient, biodiverse rural and urban ecosystems for a healthy climate, carbon-rich soils and sustainable food production (WP3); Promoting and advocating governance structures, financial mechanisms and participatory policy-making methods which ensure prosperity, fairness and well-being within planetary boundaries (WP4); and finally, with regard to developing our own organisation and membership, we aim to reinforce CEEweb’s role as an influential regional environmental NGO by internal capacity-building, increased visibility, a renewed lobbying- and fundraising strategy, and by strengthening and diversifying our membership (WP1). In 2022, CEEweb will continue working on unique themes that are rarely covered by other NGOs, among them: operationalising resilience in agro-environmental policies and post-COVID recovery plans; protecting and restoring soil biodiversity for healthy ecosystems and sustainable food production, and sustainability-proofing EU and national budgets and development plans.