Draft resolutions/decisions prepared by the Committee of Permanent Representatives to the United Nations Environment Programme for consideration by the first session of the United Nations Environment Assembly

This policy was prepared by the secretariat of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) pursuant to Governing Council decision 27/2 on the implementation of paragraph 88 of the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, adopted by the Governing Council of UNEP at its first universal session, held in Nairobi from 18 to 22 February 2013. That decision called for the active participation of all relevant stakeholders, particularly those from developing countries, to be ensured, drawing on best practices and models from relevant multilateral institutions, and for new mechanisms to be explored to promote transparency and the effective engagement of civil society in the work of the governing body of the United Nations Environment Programme and that of its subsidiary organs, building on best practices in multilateral organizations.* This policy therefore sets forth the proposed new mechanisms for the promotion of transparency and the effective engagement of civil society with the Assembly and its subsidiary organs, to be submitted to the Assembly at its first session, to be held in Nairobi from 23 to 27 June 2014.