BACKGROUND
	PROJECT OBJECTIVES
	CURRENT STATUS

In March, 1995, USAID/Peru completed a Mission Environmental Strategy (MES) to analyze Environmental and Natural Resources (ENR) problems in the country and to identify priority action areas in which USAID would have a comparative advantage. Three areas were identified by the MES as those with the greatest potential for USAID interventions:

• normative reform;
• pollution prevention; and
• biological diversity and fragile ecosystems.

Prior to 1995, the Mission's ENR programs had been almost exclusively directed to "green" issues (e.g., biodiversity, forestry, soil conservation, etc.). In order to better respond in those areas in which USAID would have a comparative advantage, the MES recommended that future ENR programs establish a better balance between "green" and "brown" (e.g., clean production, urban and industrial pollution prevention, etc.) interventions.