Best Practices / Guidelines

The OECD Principles on Water Governance

These OECD Principles provides a framework for governments to put in place better water policies and they will be used to develop a broader OECD perspective on water management over the coming years.

Guidelines for performance-based contracts between water utilities and municipalities: Lessons Learnt from Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia

This paper presents a summary of the major lessons learnt from the review of five cases of performance-based contracting in the water sector in three countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA), namely Armenia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.

Руководство по системе комплексных природоохранных разрешений для стран ВЕКЦА, 2005

Integrated Environmental Permitting Guidelines for EECCA Countries (English)

These Guidelines include strategic and procedural guidance for EECCA environmental authorities in designing an effective and transparent integrated permitting system for large industry while simplifying the permitting regime for smaller polluters.

Issues Paper - Soft MEasures and Transport Behaviour

This paper's focus is on the use of soft measures to change transport behaviour towards Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST).

Core Performance Elements of ESM Guidelines

Technical Guidance for the Environmentally Sound Management of Specific Waste streams: Used and Scrap Personal Computers

The OECD developed this guidance report as a pilot set for the environmentally sound management of specific waste streams, in particular used a scrap personal computers.