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OCEEA Activity Report 2006 - 2007

Document number
1889
Date
2007
Title
OCEEA Activity Report 2006 - 2007
Author/publisher
Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Economy in transition, Youth employment, State socialism, Socio-Economic transition, Discrimination, Unemployment, Poverty, Community development, Social security, Social exclusion, Health care, Drugs abuse, Health, HIV/AIDS, Globalisation;
Summary
The overarching goal of the OCEEA is to promote more effective co-operation between OSCE participating States (and, where appropriate, their Asian and Mediterranean Partners) to counteract threats and challenges to security and stability caused by economic and environmental factors. In order to better meet these targets my Office elaborated an Action Plan (SEC. GAL/25/07), which has proven to be a helpful tool. Whenever the OCEEA engages in a discussion aimed at prioritising its activities, two inter-related issues almost always come to the fore: the question of the added value of the activities being considered as well as efforts not only to avoid the risk of duplication but also to achieve the best synergies with other organisations involved at a more technical level in corresponding economic and/or environmental activities. The activities presented here reflect this thinking, underlining the role the OSCE can play in both the economic and environmental fields.

Many of our activities target particularly vulnerable groups of society, such as people living in environmentally affected areas or ethnic minorities. One example in this context is a project aimed at providing life and vocational skills to Ukrainian orphans, or a project in Albania which provided training on business development to women.
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