Global Links: Trisector solutions for sustainable development

As the site of the world’s largest Liquid Natural Gas processing plant, Sakhalin Island has been affected environmentally, socially and economically by the presence of a number of large multinational corporations, such as Royal Dutch Shell, Sakhalin Energy International Corporation (SEIC) and BP. This project aims to facilitate the formation of tri-sector partnerships to combat negative effects of resource extraction.

Programme Objectives

Living Earth’s aim has been to facilitate the formation of tri-sector partnerships, bringing together representatives from government, non-governmental organisations and the private sector with the goal of establishing multi-stakeholder development projects to promote socially, environmentally and economically sustainable development in the region.

Through this LEF is setting up a number of workshops across the region of Sakhalin to initiate such tri-sector partnerships in order to help the key stakeholders to define the main barriers and solutions to issues that concern them and to collectively initiate and formulate concrete sustainable development projects for Sakhalin

Programme Activities

The workshops bring together representatives from all three sectors; government, non- governmental organisations and the private sector and seek to;

  • Establish a local mechanism to reach consensus on major development themes

  • Identify perceived roles and responsibilities in sustainable development

  • Explore benefits and barriers to partnership

  • Identify key local issues and partnerships for sustainable development

  • Develop access to international funds to augment limited local budgets

  • Develop a mechanism to promote, develop and maintain local partnerships

One of the early workshops to take place was ‘Partnerships For Growth’, 25th May 2005. the workshop was sponsored by Living Earth and Rosbank (a Russian commercial bank) and was faciltated in partnership with Eco-Accord (Centre for Environmental and Sustainable Development, a Russian NGO). The programme of this workshop can be downloaded here.

Programme funding

The programme was initially funded by the UK Government’s Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs through its; Partners for Environmental Cooperation in Europe (PECE) initiative.

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