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REGIONAL TRAINING WORKSHOP AND WORKING SESSIONS ON Panama City - Panama, May 17-21, 2010
UNEP’s project on ‘Promoting Sustainable Consumption and Production in Developing Countries for Another project on ‘Promoting Resource Efficiency in SMEs (PRE-SME) in Developing Countries has led to the production of a toolkit on promoting resource efficiency in SMEs. The Responsible Production Handbook has also provided a valuable input to the toolkit on ‘Promoting Resource Efficiency in SMEs (PRE-SME) which is being developed in the broader context of the Global Programme on Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production that is being implemented with the active participation of the Network of the National Cleaner Production Centres (NCPCs).
This Regional Training on Resource Efficient and Responsible Production is being organized as part of scaling-up the dissemination and utilization of the above tools.
Additional initiatives developed within the framework of the Global Programme on Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production will take place during the week, which include the identification and elaboration of business opportunities/proposals for RECP services and the Good Organization, Management and Governance Practices.
The Regional Workshop and Working sessions will also build on the experience already developed in the region through the Regional Cleaner Production Network in Latin America, which brings together 12 countries of the region.
To present the recently developed tools and strengthen the regional capacities on promoting resource efficient and responsible production and enable NCPCs and other technical service providers to use them as part of their technical support service tools.
Besides the wider dissemination of the Responsible Production Handbook, the PRE-SMEs Toolkit and of the other tools to potential users, experts from NCPCs and relevant national institutions and industry/business associations in the LAC region are expected to be trained on the basic principles and approaches of resource efficient and responsible production and on how to use the available toolkits on this subject. The expected outcome is more enhanced integration of resource efficiency and responsible production in the technical support service provided by the NCPCs and other technical support providing institutions which will ultimately result in concrete and measurable economic, environmental and social gains. This will also be coupled with a strengthening of the initiatives carried out within the Regional Cleaner Production network in Latin America and the activities under development within the Marrakech Process at regional level.
The Regional Training Meeting Workshop and Working Sessions on RECP will take place from May 17 - 21, 2010 at Hotel Country Inn & Suites Panama Dorado in Panama City, Panama. The meetings will be consisted of the following sessions:
The language of the meeting will be English, except for the activities planned on 17 May which will be carried out in Spanish language. The reference documents for the meeting and those discussed and approved during the meeting, such as: Toolbox for Analyzing Sustainable Ventures in Developing Countries and SCP Indicators in Developing Countries, are available at the following website: http://www.redpycs.net/?lang=1
It is strongly advised the revision of the material prior to the meeting.
Additional training materials will be made available for consultation in a private access area within the Information Network on SCP (www.redpycs.net), only for the participants in the training.
Participants in the meeting involved in the delivery of presentations will be directly contacted by the meeting organizers, to ensure their timely availability for the meeting.
Whenever possible, it is advisable that participants in the training carry along their laptops to facilitate the development of certain sessions of the training or working sessions.
The participants in the regional workshop and working sessions include technical institutes including NCPCs of the Joint UNIDO-UNEP Programme on Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) in Developing and Transition Economies. Representatives of 16 countries have been invited to the event.
Those participants, who will be receiving direct financial support, will receive in advance a flight itinerary and a reservation number in order to pick up his or her travel e-ticket. Details on the travel arrangements should be coordinated with Mr. Elvis Jaén (please refer to point 10 – Contact information). Please notice that flight itineraries will correspond to the most direct and economic route of transportation from the country of residence to Panama City. It is expected that participants should be reaching Panama City on 16-17 May 2010 depending on their participation in the sessions and leaving Panama on 21 May 2010 in the evening or with the earliest possible connection available with the airlines next morning. Costs for any additional stay in Panama will not be covered by UNEP or UNIDO.
Each participant will receive a Daily Subsistence Allowance (DSA) according to UN rules, which in the specific case amounts to around 70 US$. It will cover the costs of: dinner, local transportation, taxes and miscellaneous expenses. Please notice that UNIDO and UNEP will be covering the costs of hotel lodging, breakfast and lunch. Any other expenses should be covered by the participant. DSAs will be distributed on the afternoon of the 18th of May.
In order to distribute the DSA and in accordance to UN procedures, the following documentation is needed from the sponsored participants:
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