TY - BOOK TI - Afghanistan : : National Capacity Needs Self-Assessment for global environmental management (NCSA) and National Adaptation Programme of Action for climate change (NAPA) : final joint report / AV - Pamphlet GE320. A33. PY - 2009/// CY - Nairobi, Kenya : PB - United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), KW - Environmental management – Afghanistan KW - Environmental assessment – Afghanistan KW - Environmental protection – Afghanistan KW - Climatic changes – Afghanistan KW - Humanitarian assistance – Afghanistan KW - Afghanistan – Environmental conditions KW - Afghanistan – Politics and government – 2001- N1 - Cover title. “February 2009”. “UNEP ; NEPA ; GEF”—at head of title ; Contents: Foreword from NEPA—Foreword from UNEP—Executive summary—List of tables—List of figures—Acronyms and abbreviations—1. Introduction—2. General country characteristics—3. Methodology—4. Institutional and policy architecture for convention implementation—5. Stocktaking : activities realized in Afghanistan that improve compliance with the Rio conventions—6. Cross-cutting capacity constraints and opportunities for compliance with the Rio conventions—7. NCSA action plan—8. Framework for the national adaptation programme of action—9. Identification of key adaptation needs—10. Priority NAPA projects—Annexes N2 - Summary: “Up to 80 percent of Afghan people rely on the country’s natural resource base for their livelihoods. Natural resource management is therefore of paramount importance to sustainable development and improved local livelihoods. However, in developing countries and particularly in post-conflict countries such as Afghanistan, natural resource management is greatly affected by limited human, institutional and physical capacities. In the light of this situation, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) supports the implementation of the National Capacity Needs Self-Assessment for Global Environmental Management (NCSA) and National Adaptation Programme of Action for Climate Change (NAPA) Projects…”—(page 6) ER -