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Roundtable of Abbottabad Conservation Strategy
Objectives:
- To enhance communication and coordination
among various stakeholders thus creating an environment for moving
towards sustainable development.
- To act as an intellectual forum
to debate, promote and further refine the Abbottabad Conservation
Strategy (ACS)
- To debate sectoral issues and constraints
and identify interventions required for sustainable development;
- To identify innovative financing
mechanisms to foster sustainable development of key sectors in
Abbottabad; and
- To provide a forum for interface
between the public sector and the civil society to debate and
develop a consensus on issues of Environment and Sustainable Development;
- To promote awareness and advocate
for:
- Controlling air and noise pollution
- Solid Waste & Water Waste
Management
- Municipal issues;
- Conservation of natural resources
(forests, national parks, biodiversity, etc.)
- Promoting environmental awareness
Major Achievements:
- Stakeholders input into ACS document
approved by the Zilla Council as Integrated Sustainable Development
Vision
- Linkage between TMA and Urban Union
Councils
- Anti-encroachment drive in Abbottabad
city
- Cleanliness campaign in one of the
Urban Union Councils
- Formal request to UNDP funded NEAP
to design & execute Integrated SWM Programme for Abbottabad
- Plantation around the solid waste
disposal site at Salhad
- Spring tree plantation through schools
- Awareness and sensitization on enterprise
development and credit programmes of ZTBL and SME Bank
- Resolutions on encroachments and
traffic hazards to the Zilla and Town Council on recommendations
of the Roundtable
Constraints:
- Lack of interest of members to
attend meetings
- Convening of meetings through members
- Follow-up of decisions by the members
- Broad mandate and the risk of spreading
thinly
- Secretariat and funding for sustainability
Way-ahead:
- Institutionalization of the mechanism
through establishment of secretariat within the district government
for continuity of the mechanism
- To monitor the ACS implementation
through ACS Roundtable
- To use the ACS RT as consultative
forum for debate on development issues of the district
Institutional Home:
Finance and Planning Department,
District Government Abbottabad
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