Partnership for Principle 10 (PP-10)

Background

Over a decade ago, Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration articulated public access to information, participation in decision-making, and access to justice as key principles of environmental governance. A decade later, one hundred governments reaffirmed these goals during the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

Strategy

Upon joining, all PP10 partners make specific commitments and agree to a set of shared commitments to improve access and participation in their country. The shared commitments set the parameters for the scope of work of the Partnership. All partners, by joining the Partnership, commit to support the accelerated and enhanced implementation of Principle 10 at the national level and in their own policies and practice related to access to information, public participation, and justice. PP10 encourages partners to make specific commitments to accelerating implementation of the access principles, and is designed to facilitate the provision of international financial and technical support. An Advisory Committee currently composed of members of the Government of Uganda, the Government of the United Kingdom, the World Bank, and civil society groups from Ecuador, Indonesia, South Africa and the United Kingdom, leads PP10.

Accomplishments

As of August 2007, PP10 Partners and Observers included:

Partners

Governments

• Bolivia
• Chile
• Hungary
• Indonesia
• Mexico
• Uganda
• Ukraine
• United Kingdom

International Organizations

• IUCN—The World Conservation Union
• UNDP—United Nations Development Program
• UNEP—United Nations Environment Program
• World Bank

Nongovernmental Organizations

• Advocates Coalition for Development and the Environment - ACODE (Uganda)
• Australian Network of Environmental Defender’s Offices Inc.
• ANEDO (Australia), Capacity Global (United Kingdom)
• Centro Ecuatoriano de Derecho Ambiental - CEDA (Ecuador)
• Centro de Derechos Humanos y Ambiente - CEDHA (Argentina)
• Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental, A.C. - CEMDA (Mexico)
• Coalition Acceso (Ecuador)
• Corporation ECOLEX (Ecuador)
• Corporacion PARTICIPA (Chile)
• CODESOSUR-SINERGIAS (Chile)
• Comunicacion y Educacion (Mexico)
• Cuidadana Presencia (Mexico)
• Cultura Ecologica (Mexico)
• EcoProvo-Kiev (Ukraine)
• Environmental Management and Law Association – EMLA (Hungary)
• Environmental Justice Networking Forum - EJNF (South Africa)
• Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development - FIELD (United Kingdom)
• Fundacion Ambiente y Recursos Naturales - FARN (Argentina)
• Indonesian Centre for Environmental Law – ICEL (Indonesia)
• INDE (Portugal), Instituto de Derecho y Economia Ambiental (Paraguay)
• OIKOS (Portugal)
• PRODENA (Bolivia)
• Research Centre RIDES (Chile)
• Thailand Environment Institute - TEI (Thailand)
• World Resources Institute - WRI (United States)

Observers

Governments

• European Commission
• Sweden
• United States

Nongovernmental Organizations

• TAI-Ireland (Ireland)
• European Environmental Bureau

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WRI’s PP-10 Commitments

• Specific Commitments for 2008-2010 (PDF, 8 pages, 73 Kb)
• PP-10 Funding List (Excel, 12 Kb)
• Articles of Incorporation & Bylaws
• Financial Status
• Meetings of Board of Directors (upcoming meetings and minutes of past meetings)