18 September 2003: A Workshop on “Governance for the Implementation of the Outcomes from the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Countries with Economies in Transition” convened in Istanbul, Turkey from 16-18 September 2003.

The State Planning Organization of Turkey hosted the meeting, which the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN/DESA) helped organize. Eighty individuals from 24 countries helped develop the workshop’s recommendations to help improve governance structures for implementing the WSSD outcomes.

Recommendations included calls to increase: awareness of sustainable development, transparency of decision-making processes, and engagement of civil society in the implementation process. The meeting report, including the recommendations, will be presented to CSD-12 at its April 2004 session.

For more information visit: http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/csd/csd12/Istanbul_workshop.htm