AsiaProEco

Promoting sustainable solutions for the environment

There are a number of common challenges shared across the Asian region, which in the view of their general nature make sense to address in multi-country programmes. Environmental protection and sustainable development is one of these challenges. Pollution respects no boundaries and its effects are increasingly global. Environmental problems at local and regional levels can be prevented by sharing information, using the right technology, by endorsing corrective and preventive policies as well as effective regulations. In this context, Asian countries conduct a policy dialogue on environment in international frameworks that may be fed with European experience, expertise, and technology. In short, these issues are best addressed by multi-country programmes, as they provide opportunities that purely national programmes often lack.
Asia Pro Eco is one of the four Asia-wide programmes* that are implemented supplementary to the EC Bilateral initiatives in a) individual countries b) in every country. It is a five-year multi-country European Union initiative, launched in 2002, which is based on experience and inputs provided by the former Asia Eco Best Programme, building on the world's growing concerns about environmental issues.
Asia Pro Eco is designed to strengthen the environmental dialogue between Asia and Europe through the exchange of policies, technologies and best practices that promote more resource-efficient, market driven, and sustainable solutions to environmental problems in Asia. The programme aims to support a series of preventive and corrective actions, which materialise in technical solutions that contribute to both quality of life and economic prosperity in Asia.
The implementation of the programme concentrates on specific projects under the Call for Proposals mechanism accessible to public or non profit organisations in Asia and EU. The Programme provides support through grants.


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