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Project
Scope
These grants will help NGOs to manage projects that:
- Directly contribute to the reduction of point and non-point sources
of pollution;
- Contribute to overall improvement of the monitoring system;
- Address trans-boundary and/or national problems present in identified
hotspots;
- Prevent pollution generation by increasing public awareness;
- Facilitate the flow of information;
- Assist in the prevention of accidental pollution;
- Promote the production and use of phosphate-free detergents and organic
fertilisers; and
- Aid democratic processes by ensuring public involvement and participation
in decisions affecting environmental quality in the Danube River Basin.
For more information on the nutrient and toxic pollution of the Danube
River Basin, please refer to the project experts'
presentation (PowerPoint, 4 MByte).
Further information can be found on the International
Commission for the Protection of the Danube River website. Of particular
interest is the
Transboundary Analysis.
Eligibility
Registered NGOs in the following Danube Basin countries are eligible
to apply: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary,
Moldova, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.
Grant Types
Grants will be distributed at two different levels:
Methodology
Grants at national and regional levels will be selected through a competitive
process to be coordinated by the REC with the involvement of independent
experts, NGO Danube Environmental Forum representatives, and ICPDR representatives.
The REC, through its network, will monitor implemented NGO projects at
the national and regional levels in accordance with its standard monitoring
procedures. This includes reporting, field visits, and direct contact
with NGOs. Additionally, the REC will assess the results and measure the
impact of the grants.
Partners
Time Frame
See the Time Frame (MS Excel, 16 KByte) document
for the detailed project timeline.
Expected Outputs
This will enable approximately 60 NGO projects, bringing different stakeholders
together to address different nutrient- and toxin-related issues at the
national level in 11 countries of the Danube River Basin.
There will also be eight regional grants, enabling approximately 20 NGOs
from different Danube countries to work together in reducing regional
levels of nutrients and toxic pollution generated through land-use and
agriculture, water management, industries and municipalities.
Indicators
Some of the indicators that the project will be evaluated upon are:
Qualitative
- models for best practices;
- media coverage;
- examples of changing behaviour and attitude;
- examples of successful dialogue among government officials and NGOs;
- stronger roles and positions of NGOs in Danube pollution-related issues;
and
- multiplier effects.
Quantitative (numbers of)
- environmental assessments conducted at the regional or national
level in cooperation with stakeholders;
- educational projects targeting different community issues, raising
awareness of the existing pollution problems and promoting solutions;
- meetings and roundtables to facilitate stakeholder dialogue and cooperation
in pollution-reduction actions (no. of stakeholders, public- and
target groups involved);
- activities promoting and facilitating river-basin risk-assessment
of potential toxic hazards (lobbying, campaigns, monitoring actions);
- successful public involvement processes that have an impact on the
decision-making process;
- community-based projects to raise public awareness of the health risks
of toxic substances;
- hotspots addressed (industrial, municipal or agricultural)
- projects promoting the best agricultural practices;
- projects dealing with wetlands restoration;
- projects promoting the construction of wetlands for local wastewater
treatment;
- projects aiming for policy change; and
- projects aiming for behaviour change.
Reports
Projects
Funded
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list of projects.
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