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Achievements On the Regional
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RAED has attended the
following:
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The Arab NGO
Meeting for the Water Problems in the Arab region,
Morocco, 1996
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The Second
Conference on The Arab Non- Governmental
Organizations, 1997.
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The Arab
Specialists Meeting for the Environmental Management
for the Cities and Villages in the Arab World, Cairo,
1996.
RAED publishes monthly
an environmental and developmental newsletter in the
name of “Montada Al Biah”.
The aim of this newsletter
is to disseminate and exchange information with regards
to the activities of the Arab Network NGOs and
non-member NGOs in the region; to inform NGOs as to the
latest in environment/development trends,
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strategies and
technologies adopted by each other and
internationally; to focus on problem issues shared
in the region; to provide a calendar of the events
taking place regionally and internationally and to
facilitate NGO participation. In 1996-1997, RAED
has published Montada Al Biah with IULA
(International Union for Local Authorities)
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Also, RAED has
organized the Regional Consultation for North Africa and
the Middle East in preparation for the Rio + 5 forum
held in Rio de Janeiro, March‘97. In preparation for
this consultation, RAED has coordinated for the
organization of National Consultations on the status of
the environment in each country regarding the Agenda 21.
All these national
reports were compiled and discussed in the Regional
Consultation in order to form one document on the status
of the environment in the Middle East, the obstacles and
the recommendations.
In this consultation, members
from NGOs, government representatives, and from donor
organizations from all over the Middle East gathered to
produce this valuable assessment.
Currently, the
network is preparing the Arab Environmental Directory
for the NGOs in the Arab region. This directory will
facilitate the communications and exchange of
information among the non-governmental organizations
working in the Middle East region. This will also,
encourage the NGOs concerned with the environment to be
more efficient on the level of urban areas.
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RAED has also, organized the “Regional
Consultation on the Arab Youth Strategy for
Environmental Action” (15-16 May 1997) which was
convened in cooperation with the UNEP and Friedrich
Ebert Stiftung.
The consultation was a means to
produce a regional report on the Arab youth point of
view which was submitted in the UNEP Global Youth Forum’97,
Seoul, South Korea 3-8 June 1997.
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In
addition to the above, RAED has participated in
several workshops and meetings on the regional
level in the different countries in which RAED
National Coordinators were the representatives.
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