"Strengthening National Capacities in Environment Statistics, Indicators and Accounts Project" (ESIAP) in support of progress toward achieving the internationally agreed development goals in the ESCWA and ECLAC Regions" is a development account project that aims to strengthen National Capacities of ESCWA and ECLAC countries in the collection, coverage, dissemination and exchange of reliable, timely and comparable environment statistics, indicators, and accounts taking advantage of an integrated environmental statistical system approach (IESS) to provide policy makers with tools to monitor and ensure environmental sustainability in line with national and internationally agreed development goals (IADGs) such as WSSD and MDGs.
The 2-years project includes missions to countries, expert group meetings, regional and sub-regional workshops, fellowships, development of database and docubase, and the development of a network for experts and institutions in the field to learn from their peers and exchange success stories and lessons learned.
Fellowship to Tunisia, June 2010
