Jordan Times
Monday, May 22, 2006
Training Course Starts for Iraqi Environment Ministry Employees
Amman, May 22 (Petra)--A training course started
on Monday at the Jordanian Environment Society for a number of employees from
the Iraqi Environment Ministry on Environmental awareness.
The one-week course is designed to get participants acquainted with
environmental management, sustainable development, obstacles facing
environmental awareness and ways of drawing up planning programs for
Environmental awareness.
The training course comes within the training program and capacity building that
is implemented by the society in cooperation with the office of the World Health
Organization (WHO) in Iraq.
The Jordanian Environment Society, established in 1988, was one of the earliest
societies in the Middle East to produce non-governmental associations and
institutions for preserving the environment, thereby conforming with the
international scientific and ethical trend which appeared in the early 1980s to
protect the environment and natural resources from pollution and
over-exploitation.
In this field, Jordanian civil society institutions, headed by the Jordan
Environment Society, succeeded in attracting numerous qualified scientific and
academic members over and above ordinary citizens (youth school and university
students in particular) to pioneer the development of environmental awareness
that characterized Jordanian society in the last decade. This effort was
reflected positively in several successful activities and environmental projects
carried out by these associations and covering a large segment of Jordan’s urban
as well as rural society.