Summary

The partnership aims to support China's policies for a better environment in areas of mutual interest to China and Australia through a partnering approach. It is designed to respond to shifting policy priorities and emerging issues.

Description

The 2nd meeting of the ACEDP Joint Australia China High-level Roundtable (HLRT-II) proposed that the Environment Advisory Team (EAT) conduct a policy gap analysis of the program in early 2009 to (i) assess the potential contribution of ACEDP activities on agreed program policy outcomes, (ii) ascertain the continuing relevance of ACEDP activities to national policy/strategy objectives in the area of water resources management in Australia and China, and (iii) identify high priority policy/strategy gaps that the ACEDP is not currently addressing.

A fourth item was added by AusAID/MOFCOM, (iv) a review of overall program progress involving the Quality Assurance Advisor (QAA). The latter task was also to include a review of the optimal interface between the QAA and the program M&E Specialist. Note that this is not a 'program review' (where the review team would revisit the original PDD and analyse subsequent program/project responses relative to the PDD) but an initial review of 'progress' to assess alignment with the strategic directions and decisions of the owners and partners decided at HLRT meetings.

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