ENRMMP. The Environment and Natural Resources Management and Mainstreaming Programme (ENRMMP) is an initiative of THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA that aims to bring improved coordination and implementation capacity to the environment and natural resource management sector. It was formulated under the guidance of a Joint Task Force led by MTENR. The task force included representatives from MTENR departments and statutory bodies and Cooperating Partners (CPs) interested in a joint mechanism for supporting the sector (Finland, Denmark, Norway and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)). MTENR intends to use the ENRMMP as the umbrella vehicle for all CP intervention in the Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources sector, and it is anticipated that other CPs seeking to participate in this sector may provide funding through ENRMMP, including for example for climate change interventions. ENRMMP is planned to cover the following 4 years. ENRMMP contains two main components: 1) a Capacity Development Component will build the internal capacity of MTENR to lead policy development in environment and natural resource (ENR) sector and will support mainstreaming of ENR in other government bodies; 2) support to the development and first four years of operation of an Interim Environmental Fund that will finance key environmental investments. The entry point of the programme will be the Planning and Information Department (PID) in MTENR. Therefore the designed inception phase of ENRMMP (July-December 2009) especially aims to give support in building PID’s capacity to coordinate national policy making and to provide the information which others will need for evidence based policy development. The work plan contains investments e.g. for ICT infrastructure and support to establish an Information and Knowledge Management Center at PID. In addition, ENRMMP aims to support the development of a new Forest Research and Extension Master Plan, designed to be ready till the end of 2009.
