Second National Environmental Project - Phase II

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Closed

The objective of the Second National Environmental Project (Second Phase) is to contribute to strengthening environmental capacity in key Brazilian institutions. This will be accomplished by enhancing the environmental management capacity of institutions at the federal, state, federal district, and municipal levels and by demonstrating the effectiveness of targeted subprojects focused on defined priorities. There are three components to the project, the first component being institutional development. This component has evolved from first phase. Given the growing challenges for environmental licensing at the federal, state, federal district and municipal levels, and growing demands for investments and infrastructure, environmental licensing has become an urgent and sometimes contentious issue for Ministry of Environment (MMA) to address and improve. In second phase, strengthening the capacity for environmental licensing at the federal, state and federal district levels will have greater emphasis. The second component is the integrated management of environmental assets. The principle behind the Environmental Assets (EA) component is to provide an incentive to, federal agencies, states and the federal district, through project partners to identify rank and address some of their most pressing environmental challenges, and provide support for adoption of integrated management sustainable practices. Finally, the third component is the coordination, dialogue, and communication. This component includes a small communications unit that will develop and implement a strategy to disseminate lessons learned from current and past project activities and help to build support and understanding for environmental programs among various stakeholder groups.

FY17 - Public Administration

World Bank Group

Project

Water Supply and Storage, Biomass, Commercial, Waste Processing and Treatment, Government