7th Meeting of the Sectoral Council on Environment and Natural Resources Management underway in Dodoma, Tanzania

Written on 04 February 2020. Posted in Environment & Natural Resources

East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 4^th February, 2020:  The 7^th Meeting of the EAC Sectoral Council on Environment and Natural Resources is currently underway in Dodoma, United Republic of Tanzania.

The objective of the five-day meeting is to review progress and provide policy guidance on the implementation of Environment and Natural Resource Management matters.

Among the items on the agenda of the meeting are: Policy, Legal and Institutional Matters; Terrestrial Ecosystem matters; Aquatic Ecosystems matters; Pollution Control Matters; Climate Change matters; Disaster Risk Reduction Matters, and; Consideration of EAC Participation in regional and international fora (namely, the UN Climate Change Conference in 2019 and the 17^th African Ministerial Conference on the Environment).

The 7^th Sectoral Council meeting started on Monday, 3^rd February, 2020 with the Session of Senior Officials which runs from 3^rd to 5^th February, 2020 followed by the Coordination Committee (Session of Permanent/Principal/Under Secretaries) on 6^th February 2020 and the Ministerial Session on7^th February 2020.

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For more information, please contact:

Simon Peter Owaka
Senior Public Relations Officer
Corporate Communications and Public Affairs Department
EAC Secretariat
Arusha, Tanzania
Tel: +255 768 552087
Email: sowaka [at] eachq.org

About the East African Community Secretariat:

The East African Community (EAC) is a regional intergovernmental organisation of six Partner States, comprising Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, with its headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania.

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