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National Institute for Environment and Development in Suriname

NATIONAAL INSTITUUT VOOR MILIEU & ONTWIKKELING IN SURINAME

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT IN SURINAME


Address:

Onafhankelijkheidsplein 2

Paramaribo- Suriname

Tel: (597) 520045

Fax: (597) 520042

P.O. box: 12547

Email: [email protected]


MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of the National Institute for Environment and Development in Suriname is to initiate the development of a national legal and institutional framework for environment policy and management in the interest of sustainable development.


INTRODUCTION

The World Conferences on Environment and Development in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and also in 2002 in Johannesburg, South Africa have emphasized the enormous pressure put on our environment. Likewise in Suriname this view seems to be based on truth, this according to some

of the identified national environment problems namely:

com­munities.


At the regional and international level there are problems, among others, concerning cross‑boundary diseases and plagues, oil spills and drainage of various waste streams in the open sea, climate change decline of biodiversity and land degradation. Raise the alarm and implementation of a sound and sustain­able environmental policy was widely accepted by the world community through the approval of Agenda 21, the environmental agenda of the 21st

century.


In order to implement a sustainable environmental policy in Suriname, the Government with the support of the Inter American Development Bank (IADB) and the European Commission (EC) established an Environ­mental Management Structure in 1998.


ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE

The Constitution of the Republic of Suriname provides for a legal basis for a national environmental policy. Article 6g states that the social objective of the State is directed towards the creation and stimulation of conditions necessary for the protection of nature and the maintenance of ecological balance. For the implementation of this constitutional obligation an innovative and promising Environmental Manage­ment Structure was chosen. This was realized with the establishment of the National Council for the Environment (Nationale Milieuraad, NMR) as a policy en advisory body, after which in 1998 the National Institute for Environment and Development in Suriname (Nationaal Instituut voor Milieu & Ontiwikkeling in Suriname, NIMOS) as the implementing and research institute was estab­lished.


NATIONAL COUNCIL for the ENVIRONMENT (NMR)

The NMR, which has been installed by Presidential Order on June 9th 1997, has the mandate to support the Government of the Republic of Suriname by means of advises concerning the preparation of environmental policy at the national level and exercise of control in the implementation thereof. According to this Order, the NMR will be assisted in the implementation by NIMOS. The regulations for the NMR states that it will consist of 10 members who are appointed by the President of the Republic of Suriname for two years.


Besides the five experts who are nominated by the government, representatives from the trade and industry, labour unions, Indigenous- and Maroon communities and consumer organizations are seated in the NMR


NIMOS

NIMOS was established on March 15th, 1998 as the executing agency of the National Council for the Environment (NMR). The NIMOS is a foundation with the following objectives:


A General Director is responsible for the daily coordination of the tasks of NIMOS and is assisted by eight offices:

  1. Administration

  2. Environmental & Social Assessment

  3. Environmental Monitoring & Enforcement

  4. Environmental Legal Services

  5. Environmental Planning & Information

  6. Environmental Public Education & Outreach

  7. Environmental Funding & Investments

  8. Environmental Research


An Office Director heads each Office; each Office has corresponding environment-technical tasks and reports to the General Director. In the initial phase the first four Offices are operational:


Office of Administration

The tasks of this Office are among others:


Office of Environmental and Social Assessments

The tasks of this Office are among others:


Office of Environmental Monitoring & Enforcement

The tasks of this Office are among others:


Office of Environmental Legal Services

The tasks of this Office are among others:


INTER-MINISTERIAL ADVICE COMMISSION (IMAC)

The NIMOS is working via the Inter-Ministerial Advice Commission (IMAC), on basis of a MoU, closely with the ministries that according to their portfolio are involved in environment. Currently, MoUs have been signed with the Ministries of Natural Resources, Public Works, Social Affairs & Public Housing, Public Health and Defense.


Besides the ministries there are other important organizations/institutions in relation to environment management in Suriname:

department Environmental Sciences, the Natural Resource Department for Environmental

Assessment (NARENA), Center for Agricultural Research in Suriname (CELOS)


NIMOS has an information and documentation center where students, scientists and other interested people can freely search and ask for environment related information.


Source: NIMOS / Library Anton de Kom University of Suriname






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