ABSTRACT

CONTENTS 15.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................ 279 15.2 Project for Human Resources Development

for Eco-Partnership Building in Local Governance ..............................................281 15.3 Initial Training during 1999-2000 for the Africa-Asia

Eco-Partnership Building Project ........................................................................ 285 15.4 Immediate Actions Followed and in Prospect ...................................................... 288 15.5 In Retrospect: Temporary Summing Up ............................................................. 289

Notes ............................................................................................................................. 290 Bibliography .................................................................................................................. 290

15.1 Introduction “Eco-Partnership” is a concept addressed to facilitate urban environmental improvement in partnership with many actors in cities and has been designed for the improved solutions to urban

environmental governance issues by the intergovernmental organization (i.e., United Nations [UN] in this case) and a local government (i.e., Tokyo Metropolitan Government). Th is concept has been created and used by these two entities that cooperated to work for the better local environmental governance. Th e 1992 Rio Summit and the 2002 Johannesburg Environment Conference of the United Nations reaffi rmed the need for stronger partnership among governance actors in resolving the global and local environmental issues. A case of international cooperation for the big cities will highlight the challenges experienced in the process of a project implementation to build the intracity and intercity cooperation partnership with particular reference to the training of local environmental governance leaders in selected developing cities.