5.2 SACEP (South Asia Cooperative Environment Programme)

SACEP (the 1982 Colombo-based inter-governmental body — the eight Afghan-to-Maldivian members; Nepal a founding face): the mandate — the regional environmental cooperation's promotion (the knowledge-sharing, the capacity-building, the regional projects' facilitation); the Governing Council's structure (the ministers' meetings); the programmes' families: the waste management (the regional-and-marine-litter faces), the biodiversity-and-ecosystem cooperation, the climate-and-air faces (the Malé declaration's air-pollution network), the environmental-education line. The character: the small secretariat's world — the projects'- and-platforms' body (not the treaty-maker); the UNEP-and-donors' partnership dependence; the honest verdict: the modest machinery (the region's cooperation's under-institutionalisation's symptom — the SAARC-and-SACEP pair's shared limits).