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Monitoring Environmental Agreement

Monitoring Unit (MEA MU)

The Monitoring Environmental Agreement Monitoring ha distributed across five focal landscape located in
Unit’s (MEA MU) mandate/core function is to strengthen five different Regions: Kunene (Omaoipanga), Omusati
the institutional coordination and governance (Ruacana), Ohangwena (Okongo), Kavango West
mechanisms for an integrated landscape management (Nkulivere) and Zambezi (Zambezi). Institutions to be
approach. members of this unit are the sections of Remote Sensing
and Multilateral Agreements within the Ministry of
Its overall outcome, is to be a vibrant functioning Environment, Forestry and Tourism (MEFT), the Ministry
intragovernmental coordination unit/technical working
group to improve the country’s capacity to report and of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform, the Namibia
design climate policy actions, to strengthen, and guide University of Science and Technology (NUST), and the
the implementation and monitoring of the National Departments of Geography and Wildlife Management
Monitoring System focused on reporting progress and Ecotourism at the University of Namibia (UNAM).
towards global environmental targets/spatial targets
on the various Multilateral Environmental Agreements Member institutions were part of a pilot LDN
(MEAs) to which Namibia is signatory. assessment study conducted in the Kunene, Omusati
and Otjozondjupa Regions in Namibia. Thus, MEA
MEAs here refers to the United Nation Convention on builds upon existing relationships. Being an inter-
Climate Change (UNFCCC), specifically the area under institutional task force, the unit will provide a framework
categories of carbon stocks (CS) within the Agriculture, to collectively improve each institution strengths,
Forestry and Other Land Use sectors (AFOLU), the weakness, opportunities, and threats. It addresses issues
United National Convention to Combat Desertification of sustainability during and post the end of the funding
(UNCCD), specifically the Land Degradation Neutrality
(LDN) and the Convention of Biological Diversity, cycle, human and infrastructure resources. For example,
specifically the area under biodiversity protection. The increased number of dedicated and adequately
Unit builds on ongoing processes implemented by the qualified personal and computing facilities, maximizes
line ministries. sharing of resources, and continuous capacity building.
The unit will be hosted at UNAM with MEFT remaining the
Monitoring will be primarily within an area of 860,079 overall responsible institution.

For more information, please contact:

Dr John Sifani, Email: jsifani@unam.na
( +264 61 206 3466
Dr. Simon Angombe
( +264 61 206 3023/3180
Email: sangombe@unam.na
Dr Christopher Mberema
( +264 65-223 5201
Email: cmberema@unam.na,

UNAM Projects Addressing National Priority Areas