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1. POLICIES TO IMPROVE THE USE OF DOMESTIC PUBLIC ENVIRONMENTAL EXPENDITURE

Speaker: Cielito F. Habito (Director, Ateneo Center for Economic Research and Development, Ateneo de Manila University; Former Secretary of Socio-economic Planning, Republic of the Philippines; former Chair, UN Commission on Sustainable Development, 1998)

Key issues and background papers:

• Introducing long-term (mid-term and inter-generational) framework into the budget process and into the allocation of the public expenditure for capital investments;
• Integrating environmental sustainability considerations into public expenditure management;
• Integrating fiscal, economic and social considerations into management of public expenditure by environmental agencies

- keynote speech and presentation
- panel presentations
- background documents
- other related documents

2. INSTITUTIONS TO MANAGE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PURPOSES

Speaker: Stanislaw Sitnicki, Polish Ecofund (debt for environment swap fund)

Key issues and background papers:

• International experience with innovative institutional set-ups for managing public environmental expenditure;
• Special purpose environmental funds in transition economies and developing countries (Latin American, Central and East European, Asian and African models);
• Experience with earmarking and extra-budgetary mechanisms.

- keynote speech and presentation
- panel presentations
- background documents
- other related documents