Control of eutrophication, hazardous substances and related measures for rehabilitating the Black Sea ecosystem

Project Title :

Control of eutrophication, hazardous substances and related measures for rehabilitating the Black Sea ecosystem (Tranche II) (GEF-IW FSP)

Organisation :

GEF, UNDP (Implementing Agency), UNOPS (Executing Agency)

Partner(s) :

World Bank, UNEP, Commission on the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution, ICPDR, Danube Regional Project

Region :

Black Sea

Counrtries: Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russian Federation, Turkey, Ukraine

Project Number :

RER/01/G33/A/1G/31 (UNDP/GEF PIMS 3065)

Duration :

2004-2007

Financing (US$) :

Total: 11,332,106 (GEF 6,000,000; Governments/others 5,332,106)

(Total Tranche I: 8,402,366)

Status :

Under implementatin

URL :

http://www.blacksea-environment.org/home_content.html

IW:LEARN entry

Description :

The project (BSERP) supports regional aspects of nutrient control in the Black Sea coastal countries. It also aims to strengthen the role of the Black Sea Commission to ensure the formulation, adoption, and implementation of a suite of harmonized legal and policy instruments for tackling the problem of eutrophication and release of certain hazardous substances; and to facilitate ecosystem recovery, including through sustainable use of living marine resources. It encourages broad stakeholder participation. This will be achieved by inter-sectoral consultations, provision of small grants to local initiatives, support for release of information to the public and environmental training/education. The project will employ a new set of indicators for monitoring the effectiveness of the measures taken by the countries. These indicators, together with targeted scientific studies, will help to set new regional nutrient control targets and to adopt action plans which will be implemented through an adaptive management scheme. Although a two-years phased approach had to be taken for the implementation of the overall strategy owing to funding constraints, meaningful progress in the attainment of these objectives would require at least five years of concerted action at the basin-wide level so the overall project is designed as a 5 year intervention, funded by GEF in two tranches.

Lessons Learned :

LESSONS LEARNED from PIR Report 2005:

a. Coordination of activities of GEF-funded programmes and regional environmental Commissions. This was a recognised issue for the Black Sea in Phase I. This issue also relates to the establishment of inter-ministerial committees in the countries. Since normally regional environmental Commissions are coordinated by the Ministries of Environment, involvement of other Ministries requires a special effort.

b. Participation of the wider public in the decision making process on the regional level, developing regional environmental Commissions as public-oriented, transparent management body. Mechanisms of such involvement are to be further developed for the Black Sea.

c. Increase of the countries buy-in into the process of implementation of SAPs at the national level, mechanisms of moving from the programme development (TDA/SAP) to the implementation of their provisions (nutrient management plans, programme of measures, investments, etc.)

Contact :

UNDP-GEF Black Sea Ecosystem Recovery Project, Project Implementation Unit. Dolmabahce Sarayi, II. Hareket Kosku 80680 Besiktas, Istanbul - TURKEY

Tel: 90.212.310 29 23 (direct), 90.212.310 29 27 (Mob. 90.533.748 19 50; Fax: 90.212.227 99 33)

e-mail: Yegor Volovik

 :

• BSERP Phase II ProDoc New Ver18 - CEO resubmit v1.doc

• D-BS report Nov05.zip