Protecting and enhancing our natural capital while advocating sustainability governance on a national, regional (CEE) and EU level

Introduction

CEEweb's Work Plan, proposed under the LIFE NGO Operating Grant scheme for the year 2022, aims to build a framework for CEEweb, in collaboration with its 32 Central and Eastern European member organisations. The goal is to continue its active participation in the EU policy dialogue, as well as to support the implementation and enforcement of the Union’s environmental and climate objectives.

Objectives

We envision achieving this through three main objectives, which also constitute our three Work Packages (WPs), in addition to our activities for organisational development. Our proposed activities in 2022 will focus on:

1. Protecting our natural environment
   Advocating better policies for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration, and calling for an integrated approach to development with improved protected area and water management (WP2).

2. Advocating sustainable practices
   Promoting sustainable farming practices, nature-based solutions, and policies to protect and restore resilient, biodiverse rural and urban ecosystems for a healthy climate, carbon-rich soils, and sustainable food production (WP3).

3. Promoting governance structures
   Advocating governance structures, financial mechanisms, and participatory policy-making methods which ensure prosperity, fairness, and well-being within planetary boundaries (WP4).

Organisational Development

With regard to developing our own organisation and membership, we aim to reinforce CEEweb’s role as an influential regional environmental NGO through:

• Internal capacity-building
• Increased visibility
• A renewed lobbying and fundraising strategy
• Strengthening and diversifying our membership (WP1)

Unique Themes

In 2022, CEEweb will continue working on unique themes that are rarely covered by other NGOs, including:

• Operationalising resilience in agro-environmental policies and post-COVID recovery plans
• Protecting and restoring soil biodiversity for healthy ecosystems and sustainable food production
• Sustainability-proofing EU and national budgets and development plans