Actually, sad to say, this was done with funding -- as part of a larger project funded by the World Bank. The project, launched in 1999 and finished a few years later, aimed at setting a grand national environment policy and priorities (institutional, personnel, training, monitoring, regulation/guideline setting, etc.) once the Environment Law was passed. Part of the exercise involved cateloguing and assessing what environmental problems the DR faced, which ones should be given priority attention, and what were the cost/benefits of the various policy approaches. The final product was not the worst I have seen in Latin America, but it was certainly not the best.
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