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Agency Strategic Goal:

The World's Environment Protected for Long Term

Sustainability

Indicators:

National environmental management strategies and

international treaties

Source:

World Development Indicators (Table 3.9); USAID

calculations

Performance Goal 1:

National

YEAR

1997*

1999**

environmental management strategies

prepared and international treaties

PLANNED

10.6

participation (see comments below).

ACTUAL

10.4

AFR

PLN

12.4

ACT

12.2

ANE

PLN

11.5

ACT

11.3

LAC

PLN

13.2

ACT

12.9

ENI

PLN

7.9

ACT

7.7

Comment(s):

A 19 point scale was developed to assess a government's

commitment to the environment.

A low level of commitment was

considered to be 0 7, a medium level of commitment 7.5 14, and a high

level 14.5 19.

The information was compiled and averaged for USAID 

assisted countries in four regions.

The scale was based on whether a

country had prepared any of four types of national environmental

management strategies or whether it had participated in any of five

major international environmental treaties.

This scale does not

indicate the degree to which an environmental strategy has been carried

out or an international treaty was followed.

Averaging this scale

across regions serves only to give a general idea of political

commitment to environmental issues.

The strategies and treaties

include:

 National Environmental Action Plans

 National Conservation Strategies

 Country Environmental Profiles

 Biological Diversity Profiles

 Frequency of reporting on trade in endangered species

 Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES)

 Framework Convention on Climate Change

 Vienna Convention on the Protection of the Ozone Layer

 Montreal Protocol for CFC Control

 Law of the Sea

* Data are current through 1997 as per World Development Indicators

(Table 3.9) and other sources.

** For the sake of demonstrating a trend, a one percent per year

increase (two percent over two years) is given for 1999.