Inception Workshop 1
Inception Workshop 2
Workshop Group Photo of Workshop Participants
Trans-Jurisdictional Water Pollution Management Project - Inception Workshop
The Trans- Jurisdictional Water Pollution Management Project launched its Inception Workshop in Beijing on 13~14 January 2009.
More than 50 specialists from Australia and China attended, including program owners AusAID and MOFCOM; the four Chinese core partners MEP, MWR, NDRC and SFA; the Program Coordination Office (PCO); international donors such as the World Bank (WB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the European Union (EU); representatives from the four provinces along the Zhangweinan river basin (Hebei, Henan , Shandong and Shanxi) along with a number of senior experts from Chinese institutions and universities.
The project will focus on the Zhangweinan sub-basin of Haihe River System in NE China. The joint project team, comprising the China Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES), Australia’s Cardno Acil Pty Ltd and the Foreign Economic Cooperation Office of the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP-FECO), presented initial findings, exchanged experience with other donor projects in the same geographic or thematic area and identified the demands of the four participating provinces. A detailed workplan was discussed and agreed upon that will guide project implementation. The project team will produce a final Inception Report incorporating all comments and discussions and submit it to the PCO by early February.
One of the key components of the project is training in Australia during April 2009. It will provide Chinese pollution managers with an opportunity to learn Australian practices of trans-jurisdictional water and environment management, identify new partners and enhance existing partnerships between and among Australian and Chinese environmental agencies and institutions. Participants will include delegates from the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Science (CRAES) and the four provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus (EPB) from Hebei, Henan, Shandong and Shanxi Provinces.