1.0 About: Author's remarks
This training manual on environmental governance and management aims to equip both practicing and aspirants professional with the relevant knowledge, skills and practices to analyze, plan, implement and monitor development policy, strategies, plans, programmes and projects to ensure that they result promote an inclusive, equitable and sustainable development of the county.
The manual is thus suited for organization with direct and indirect mandate on environmental conservation, protection and management. Thus the target group could include government ministries, departments, agencies, private sectors and civil society organizations or institutions of higher learning. The manual has been development through a protracted review of relevant documentation on the best practices from environmental protection agencies around the world, consultations with environmental practitioners with long and wide experience in the subject, and from the authors first hand experiences of working with multiple and diverse organizations, programmes, and projects dealing with environmental governance and management.
The manual consist of six competence levels that include: (i) Environment and Development; (ii) Environmental Management Practices; (iii) Environmental Governance; (iv) Environmental Management Standards; (v) Environmental Management Tools; and (vi) Environmental Management Systems. The structural design of the EGMT manual adopts a modular design approach. The competence levels are broken down into modules and further into units and topics. In order to ensure a consistent instructional approach, the manual provides the facilitators and trainers with well-structured instructional materials that include: Facilitators guidelines and power points while trainers are provided with notes, glossaries, references, assessment exercises, and field visit instructions.
Although the manual is systematically and logically structured in a way that competence levels and modules build on each other, the independence and flexibility of each of these materials is ensure so that facilitators and trainees can use what suits their training need better.
The authors hope that this training manual will be of some benefit to the careers persons and organisations wishing to improve their environmental governance and management practices.
We encourage you to provide us with any constructive suggestions that can help in improving this training manual.
Suggestions could be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Thank you
Julius Muchemi
Governance and Development Studies
The manual is thus suited for organization with direct and indirect mandate on environmental conservation, protection and management. Thus the target group could include government ministries, departments, agencies, private sectors and civil society organizations or institutions of higher learning. The manual has been development through a protracted review of relevant documentation on the best practices from environmental protection agencies around the world, consultations with environmental practitioners with long and wide experience in the subject, and from the authors first hand experiences of working with multiple and diverse organizations, programmes, and projects dealing with environmental governance and management.
The manual consist of six competence levels that include: (i) Environment and Development; (ii) Environmental Management Practices; (iii) Environmental Governance; (iv) Environmental Management Standards; (v) Environmental Management Tools; and (vi) Environmental Management Systems. The structural design of the EGMT manual adopts a modular design approach. The competence levels are broken down into modules and further into units and topics. In order to ensure a consistent instructional approach, the manual provides the facilitators and trainers with well-structured instructional materials that include: Facilitators guidelines and power points while trainers are provided with notes, glossaries, references, assessment exercises, and field visit instructions.
Although the manual is systematically and logically structured in a way that competence levels and modules build on each other, the independence and flexibility of each of these materials is ensure so that facilitators and trainees can use what suits their training need better.
The authors hope that this training manual will be of some benefit to the careers persons and organisations wishing to improve their environmental governance and management practices.
We encourage you to provide us with any constructive suggestions that can help in improving this training manual.
Suggestions could be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Thank you
Julius Muchemi
Governance and Development Studies
