The report provides recommendations on how Myanmar's Environmental Conservation Department (ECD) can improve its monitoring and compliance functions in the short and long term. Recommendations around linking the post-Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) approval permitting to monitoring and compliance and how to use civil society and other participatory mechanisms, as well as self-reporting mechanisms, are also provided.
The recommendations are based on a comprehensive baseline assessment of ECD’s monitoring and compliance activities with inputs from the ECD and critical stakeholders. This report is part of a broader initiative to strengthen ECD’s environmental regulatory role under the UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Action for Sustainable Development Goals (PEA).
The Poverty-Environment Action for Sustainable Development Goals project (PEA) in Myanmar is being implemented as part of the UNDP’s "Governance for Resilience and Sustainability Project" (GRSP).