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This roadmap for environmental and
natural resources law enforcement (ENRLE) sets forth a
course of action for the World Bank's ENRLE community
of practice for FY2013-15. It outlines for senior management
a strategy to mobilize and strengthen the Bank's
engagement in the fight against environmental and natural
resource crime. The roadmap also serves as a mobilizing tool
for staff and management in regional departments to
demonstrate the importance of ENRLE and to outline the menu
of solutions that the community of practice (COP) can offer
to strengthen clients' fight against environmental and
natural resource crime. Recent spikes in poaching, in
illegal logging, and in illegal, unreported, and unregulated
(IUU) fishing have amplified the already urgent need for
action. These crimes increase poverty, shrink prosperity,
and magnify social and political tensions that undermine
healthy communities and strong economies. Investment returns
in wise environmental and natural resource law enforcement
can be high. Criminal activities that affect the environment
and natural resources are on the increase and pose an
increasingly serious threat to development. Environmental
and natural resource crime is common, but in many countries
it is rarely prosecuted. This report discusses how the World
Bank Group (WBG) will mobilize to work better on ENRLE.
Recognizing the evolving global context, a new and fully
mobilized community of practice will put more emphasis on
building a constituency within the WBG to work on the range
of ENRLE issues, on building the capacity of WBG staff to
provide investment and technical assistance on ENRLE, on
strengthening analytical work to develop a pipeline of ENRLE
investments, and on fostering demand among clients for Bank
investment in ENRLE.
