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III. THE WAY FORWARD
12. EIS-AFRICA’s ambition is to positively influence development policies for a better tomorrow on the continent trough a responsible use and management of the natural resources and the environment, driven by environmental information-based decision making. This ambition is reflected in the following vision and mission:
III.1. VISION AND MISSION
14. To help Africans attain this vision, the mission of EIS-AFRICA is the following: Through its network of institutions and practitioners EIS-AFRICA will facilitate the emergence and strengthening of African capacity to generate, manage, and freely disseminate reliable environmental data, in the framework of adequate institutional settings for a strategic management of environmental information in Africa.
III.2. RESULTS
- Wide-spread and strengthened national EIS’s, involving governmental agencies, NGO’s, private sector, universities and research centers and the media, providing the required environmental information and EIS services to all the users country wide and outside;
- Emergence of national environmental information/data policies regulating the collection, integration, storage, analysis, dissemination of results, maintenance of environmental data;
- National EIS Programs in place in Africa, taking into account, in addition to national needs, these related to sharing data at sub-regional, continental and global levels; These national EIS programs will include, but not be limited to the deployment of the World Bank’s “country at a glance” and the OSS/UNITAR’s “Systčme d’information et de suivi de l’environnement sur Internet (SISEI)” as means of integrating and harmonizing data, and building strong synergy at national level, making use of the opportunities offered by the new technologies of information and communication.
- Availability in every country of national core datasets to support environmental management needs (topographic spatial databases, LU/LC, socio-economic datasets, soil, vegetation, geological, meteorological datasets, etc.)
- EIS trained data custodians, capable of responding individually and collectively to national and external demand for EIS information and services, in support of sustainable development (planning of national resources management, implementation of national, regional and local environmental projects, national SOE reporting, EIA studies, implementation of the international conventions, etc.);
- Active role of the private sector, including NGO’s, in supporting EIS activities in collaboration with the Governments and the others components of the EIS community
- Effective contribution by national EIS’s, through harmonized spatial data and data products, to the running of present and future sub-regional, continental and global environmental programs and projects like the Regional SOE reporting program for West Africa, the Africa and Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Program, the African Information Society Initiative, the Global Environment Outlook, the Sustainable Food Production in Central West Africa Program, etc.;
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