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The essence of this strategy is to make all parties realize that EESD is
everybody’s business, that they are already involved in EESD to some extent, and they
could contribute more. Various groups should see the opportunity and value of their
contribution as well as how to cooperate with others toward the EESD objectives.

2. Institutional development
A strong institutional base is needed to reassure potential partners that
there will be an effective management system to support EESD development.

Among fundamental institutional structure are: 1) a clear policy/plan to place
EESD agenda at the national level, and to provide guidelines for the parties concerned

to develop action plans; 2) designated responsibilities among the parties concerned,
particularly the main responsible agency or “lead agency”, “supporting agencies” and
“network organizations”; 3) coordination mechanism to liaise among relevant agencies
and organizations, notably among the lead agency, supporting agencies and key
network organizations; 4) resources, including personnel and budget as well as a
resource mobilization plan; 5) an information system on related agencies/organizations,
activities and progress, etc, for the purpose of coordinating activities and sharing

information among various parties; 6) laws, rules and regulations that require
improvement or amendment to support EESD development.

3. Mainstreaming EESD in natural resources and environmental policy and other
public policies.
First of all, EESD should not be promoted separately, but should become an
important part of national resources and environmental policies, such as garbage and
wastewater management. This means that the “human management” aspect would
receive more attention and could contribute more to environmental management. EESD

should also be mainstreamed into other public policies, such as tourism, transportation
and industry, so that the public understand the relations and impacts between such
policies and the environment. With such understanding, public policies for sustainable
development would find strong supporters among the public.

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