Capacity Building among environmental organizations and professionals

Two capacity building activities were successfully completed on august 29th and august 30th in Guiyang City, aiming at increasing awareness and knowledge regarding environmental justice among court officials, local lawyers, officials from Provincial EPD and local EPB of Guizhou, local NGO’s and journalists.

 A course in basic environmental science was  followed by a seminar on negotiation techniques. The training sessions were attended by 23 respectively 29 participants.

Over the following months, further training activities will follow covering subjects such as seminars on environmental forensics and monitoring and case study workshops on local best practices of environmental damage assessment.

For more information on the two events, see: Documentation from EGP-Guizhou events

Two articles covering the training sessions can be found at:

2013-09-04, GEPD's offical website 

2013-09-04, ACEF