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The presence of IUCN in Eastern Africa goes back more than 40 years when it first carried out wildlife conservation projects in the region. Membership grew in the 1970s and early 1980s and the range of IUCN activities expanded, such that a programme of work was required and the East Africa Regional Programme was developed in mid 1980. Since then, the IUCN Secretariat has expanded to include activities in almost all parts of the region and the EARP now includes a large and comprehensive set of initiatives guided by regional Conservation Goals, Mission and Objectives. More
The programme operates in ten countries in East Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Western Indian Ocean. The scope includes Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Comoros and the Seychelles. Recently, the EARP has been cooperating with the IUCN Regional Office for Central Africa (BRAC) to implement additional activities in Burundi, Rwanda and the DRC.
EARP also interacts with programmes in Egypt and West Africa. IUCN has 22 members in the region and includes representatives of all the IUCN Commissions with regional Commission structures in place for the Commission on Environmental Law, the Commission on Education and Communications the World Commission on Protected Areas and the Sustainable Use Initiative. The regional programme consists of four ecosystem related thematic areas:
Drylands,
Forests and Woodlands,
Marine and Coastal , and
Water and Wetland Resources
Six service thematic components are central to the EARP including:
Social Policy,
Biodiversity Economics,
Species and Biodiversity,
Conventions Implementation,
Environmental Planning, and
Support to Environmental NGOs
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IUCN works towards its conservation and sustainable development goals through a programme of conservation which is developed every three or four years through the compilation of many component programmes from its regions, global themes and Commissions. The next programme term begun in the year 2005 and will last for four years to the end of 2008. This programme forms part of the Global Programme Framework that was prepared in 2003 and 2004 for discussion and approved by the general assembly of IUCN’s members at the third Word Conservation Congress – held in Bangkok, Thailand in November, 2004. |
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