The focus of UNEP’s regional delivery for the Asia and the Pacific is at the subregional level. For this delivery, UNEP will promote subregional cooperation on environment for sustainable development and strengthen environment community at the national level. Present trends of economic development have put enormous pressure on environment and natural resources. UNEP will work to enable the proactive and preventive measures towards promoting better management of ecosystem services.

UNEP will work closely with intergovernmental agencies, environment ministries/agencies, and civil society organisations at the subregional level to strengthen subregional cooperation. A strong partnership with intergovernmental organizations will be forged to strengthen collective environmental management in the subregion. The partnership will assist, facilitate and enable institutions to identify priorities and address the common and transboundary issues. Support will be provided to civil society organisations and networks for participation at subregional, regional and global environment and sustainable development forums.

UNEP will support government, environment agencies and civil society organisations at the national level to strengthen environment community. UNEP will assist governments to build a mechanism for participation of civil society organisations in the decision making process. Support will be provided to civil society groups, including young, private sector, parliamentarians, media and NGOs. UNEP will work closely with Collaborating Centres and Centre of Excellence to prepare the scientific base and address the priorities.

UNEP’s International Environmental Governance process recognized the need to develop a strategic plan for capacity building for the developing countries. To this end, the Bali Strategic Plan (BSP) for Technology Support and Capacity building was adopted in Bali, Indonesia, on 4 December 2004 by the Intergovernmental Working Group. The objective of the BSP is to provide systematic, targeted, long and short-term capacity building measures, taking into account international agreements and based on national or subregional regional priorities and needs. UNEP will provide support to build capacity of Environment Ministries and civil society under the BSP.

In pursuance of the above outlined strategy, UNEP will implement four programmes in the subregion:
• Programme 1: Promote subregional cooperation and address national level capacity building needs
• Programme 2: Assist to enable the environment knowledge hub (e-KH)
• Programme 3: Assist in the response to emerging environmental issues
• Programme 4: Enhance partnership to maximize effectiveness of delivery