TAI Europe is the regional platform of TAI seeking to ensure that people have a voice in the decisions that affect their environment and their communities. TAI Europe partners promote transparent, participatory, and accountable governance as an essential foundation for sustainable development.

Includes non-governmental organizations from ten countries of Europe. These are Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Portugal and Ukraine. TAI Europe is represented in TAI Global by the Core Team Member Environmental Management and Law Association (EMLA) (Hungary).

Full national TAI assessments using the Version 1.1 of the assessment methodology were completed in 8 countries (Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Ukraine), and in 2 countries (Estonia, Ireland) the new assessment methodology Version 2.0 was pilot tested on the water management sector.

Currently there are 2 countries in Europe (Ireland and Macedonia) where a full-scale TAI assessment using the Version 2.0 methodology is running.

NEW PROCESS: Environmental governance and international development

From the beginning of 2008, European partner organizations of The Access Initiative (TAI) work together in a new project with colleagues from Africa and Asia related to the conditionality in international development decision-making. For more information about this process please visit: http://emla.hu/englishsite/index.shtml?x=1534

Europe Regional Contact:

Csaba Kiss
Environmental Attorney
Environmental Management and Law Association
Budapest, Hungary
tel: 36 – 1 – 3228462 / 15
fax: 36 – 1 – 3228462 / 12
drkiss@emla.hu