GEF Strategic Partnership on the Black Sea Danube Basin
Stocktaking Meeting (November 2004)
WORLD BANK INVESTMENT FUND
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ACHIEVEMENT OF STRATEGIC
PARTNERSHIP OBJECTIVES
GEF Strategic Partnership on the Black Sea Danube Basin
Stocktaking Meeting (November 2004)
World Bank Investment Fund Contribution to the Achievement of Strategic Partnership
Objectives
Introduction
The objective of this report is to contribute to the discussions at the Stocktaking meeting for the
GEF Strategic Partnership on the Black Sea / Danube Basin on progress made towards achieving
the objectives of the Partnership. Information is provided on the status and composition of the
portfolio of the World Bank GEF Investment Fund (IF). However, the report is not a mid-term
evaluation of the IF, since the IF implementation will reach its mid-point roughly in 2006.
Background
The World Bank-GEF Investment Fund (IF) is the investment arm of the GEF Strategic
Partnership on the Black Sea/Danube Basin which also funds two regional projects, the Black
Sea Ecosystem Recovery Project for the Black Sea littoral countries and the Danube Regional
Project in the Danube Basin, both focusing mainly on capacity building activities. IF constitutes
an envelope of US$70 million which was approved by the GEF Council in three tranches: US$20
million in May 2001, US$16 million in May 2002 and US$ 34million in May 2003. It partially
grant-finances investment projects in the Black Sea/Danube Basin that aim at nutrient reduction.
Eligible areas of intervention for IF support include investments to remediate and mitigate
nutrient pollution from municipal, industrial and agricultural sources, as well as policy and legal
reform and capacity building for enhanced monitoring and enforcement. The Investment Fund
provides a focused regional framework for country level investments aimed at the common goal
of combating eutrophication in the Black Sea and allows for a streamlined approach to project
processing by the GEF.
Process of IF portfolio development. In developing the IF portfolio, the World Bank followed
the first come first served principle which was stated in the Partnership Framework Brief
adopted by the May 2000 GEF Council. Furthermore, the Bank also considered it important that
individual projects were well adapted to individual country priorities with regard to nutrient
pollution as well as prospects of financial sustainability of prospective investments and
complementarities with ongoing or planned operations funded by the Bank, other bilateral or
multilateral financiers, the governments themselves or even the private and non-private sectors.
These considerations followed the IF guiding principle that GEF IF funds were to catalyze
investments in nutrient reduction. As first step, the team coordinating the IF prepared country
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Danube-Black Sea Basin Stocktaking Meeting
November 10-12, 2004
briefs based on National Reviews and Nutrient Action Plans that had been prepared by the
ICPDR and the Istanbul Commissions, World Bank sector reviews, Country Assistance
Strategies (CAS), discussions with the Black Sea and Danube Regional Commission and project
staff, and interviews with World bank task managers working in the environment and
infrastructure sectors of the countries in question. The latter discussions also aimed at raising
awareness on the part of task managers of the nutrient pollution problem in the Black Sea and
Danube and funding possibilities offered by the IF to address it. Task managers in turn
incorporated Danube/Black sea water pollution reduction objectives in their discussions with
their counterparts in national governments, NGO community and private sector representatives.
Project concepts that emerged from these discussions were evaluated in the CAS process from
the point of view of national priorities. The resulting portfolio is discussed below.
Further information resources were provided to World Bank task managers, basin country
governments and civil society organizations through i) a dedicated web site; ii) annual regional
workshops on agricultural pollution control; and iii) a Global Distance Learning event. The
website (www.worldbank.org/blacksea-danube) was launched in 2002 and includes information
on the Partnership, the IF portfolio and individual projects, specific technical, regulatory and
project operations related aspects of nutrient pollution control. Progress reports on the IF have
also been made public through this website. The website has proven a useful tool for
information dissemination in the international community working on water pollution control
issues.
Since 2002, the Bank has helped organize three annual regional workshops dedicated to the
exchange of information and lessons learnt among countries of the Black Sea, Danube River and
Baltic Sea Basins, implementing agricultural pollution control (APC) projects. The workshops
were organized in Poland (September 2002), Romania (September 2003) and Lithuania
(September 2004) and included presentations by project managers, national and local level
policy makers, environmental inspectors, agricultural advisors as well as academicians; study
tours to project regions and in-depth discussions on various aspects of APC. In addition to
project implementers from basin countries ranging from Georgia to Serbia and Montenegro and
from Latvia to Turkey, representatives from the European Commission working on the Nitrate
Directive Implementation and Black Sea Danube River Basin Pollution Control issues, other EU
member countries such as Sweden, and from the UNDP/UNEP implemented Partnership Black
Sea and Danube Regional Projects have participated in the workshops. Discussions at the
workshops shave focused on experiences in harmonizing with the EU Nitrate Directive, the
development of a Code of Good Agricultural Practices, monitoring of nutrient runoff and
discharges, the important role of public awareness raising and of mainstreaming nutrient
management in the advice provided by agricultural extension services and enforcement of
regulations on manure management and fertilizer application.
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A third tool for information sharing and dissemination involved the Global Distance Learning
Network (GDLN). During April June 2003, three workshops were organized with 3 9 Black
Sea and Danube Basin countries and specialists of selected themes connecting them by video.
Participants included policy makers, project managers, thematic specialists, World Bank task
team leaders as well as local community leaders. The themes of the GDLN events were Water
Quality Monitoring and compliance with the EU Nitrate Directive. Presentations made in these
events were posted in the above-mentioned web site.
Coordination with the European Commission DABLAS Initiative. The World Bank has
supported the DABLAS Initiative which aims to focus available international funds on bankable
projects with high potential for pollution reduction, from its outset and has participated in its
meetings. The IF portfolio has been attached to the DABLAS list of priority projects. As such
IF projects are also eligible for project preparation funds under the EU Danube Investment
Facility and Black Sea Investment Facility.
WB IF Operations and Strategic Partnership Objectives
The Framework Brief approved by the GEF May 2001 Council identified six objectives and
accompanying indicators. These are reproduced in Annex 1. Objectives 2 and 5 are most
relevant to the IF operations, while the IF also contributes to the Objectives 1, 3 and 6. Below IF
contributions to each of these objective are discussed in turn.
Objective 1: In support of the implementation of the Black Sea Strategic Action Plan and the
"Common Platform for Development of National Policies and Actions for Pollution Reduction
under the Danube River Protection Convention", and taking into account the mandate of the
Sofia and Bucharest Conventions, Danube/Black Sea basin countries adopt and implement
policy, institutional and regulatory changes to reduce point and non-point source nutrient
discharges, restore nutrient `sinks', and prevent and remediate toxics "hot spots".
Indicator 1: By 2007, 100% of participating countries introduce one or more policy or
regulatory measures (including P-free detergents) to reduce nutrient discharges in the
agricultural, municipal, or industrial sectors, to restore nutrient sinks (wetlands, flood plains),
and to prevent and remediate toxics "hot spots", and 50% adopt multiple policy measures,
towards goals of maintaining 1997 levels of nutrient inputs to the Black Sea, and reducing toxics
contamination in the basin.
Most projects in the IF portfolio support and plan to support policy, institutional and regulatory
changes promote nutrient reduction. Notably, support to transposition of the EU Nitrate
Directive and the development of Codes of Good Agricultural Practices in the Agricultural
Pollution Control (APC) projects.
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Objective 2: Countries gain experience in making investments in nutrient reduction and
prevention and remediation of toxics "hot spots".
Indicator 2: 100% of participating countries initiate one or more investments in agricultural,
municipal, land use or industrial sectors for nutrient discharge reduction, nutrient sink
restoration, and prevention and remediation of hot spots of toxic substances, some with GEF
assistance, by 2007 to accompany expected baseline investments.
IF Investments. 14 countries of the Black Sea and Danube Basin are eligible for GEF funding
under the Investment Fund. These are Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech
Republic, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia,
Turkey and Ukraine. The IF portfolio includes 12 projects in 10 of these countries. Four of these
projects are under implementation and the rest at various stages of preparation. Table 2 provides
a list of these projects together with information on the dates of various steps of project
processing, GEF grant funding and co-financing. Annex 1 contains a table summarizing key
facts about each of these projects.
As Table 2 indicates, the portfolio is well diversified among eligible areas of investment that
were specified in the Partnership Framework Brief. Specifically, there are five Agricultural
Pollution Control (APC) Projects (in Moldova, Romania, Russia Krasnodar, Serbia and Turkey);
one wetland restoration project (in Bulgaria) and municipal wastewater treatment projects (in
Croatia, Hungary, Bosnia, Moldova, Russia Rostov and Ukraine). It should also be noted that
some of the projects include more than one eligible element. For example, the Moldova APC
Project and the Serbia Enterprise Pollution Reduction Project also support investments for
reducing nutrient discharges from agro-industrial enterprises, such as slaughterhouses and meat-
processing facilities, in addition to proper farm nutrient management. Furthermore, the Hungary
Nutrient Reduction Project will support the restoration of wetlands in the Danube-Drava
National Park Gernenc of the Beda-Karapancsa Region. This reflects the IF's flexible nature
that allows for tailoring project interventions to each country's specific conditions with respect to
nutrient pollution.
Other WB Investments in the Black Sea / Danube Basin. The World Bank has carried out a
variety of investment operations which are not formally in the framework of the Partnership IF,
either because they became effective before the begin of the Partnership or they were submitted
to the GEF under an operational program other than International Waters. However they either
were fully geared towards protection wetlands and biodiversity in the Black Sea/Danube Basin
or include components that target agricultural pollution control. Examples include the Romania
Danube Delta Biodiversity Project , the Ukraine Danube Delta Biodiversity Project , the Ukraine
Biodiversity Conservation in the Azov-Black Sea Corridor Project and the Georgia Agricultural
Research, Extension and Training Project , the Georgia Integrated Coastal Zone Management
Project and the Turkey Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management Project. Table 3
provides summary information on project objectives, funding and timing on these projects.
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Objective 5. Implementing Agencies, the European Union, other funding partners and countries
formalize nutrient and toxics reduction commitments into IA, EU and partner regular programs
with countries.
Indicator 5. Regular programs of IA's and EC support country nutrient and/or toxics reduction
commitments during 2001-2007 as part of expected baseline activities and incorporate them into
CCF (UNDP), GPA Office Support (UNEP), CAS (WB), and EU (Accession support) by 2005.
The World Bank bases its operations in a county, included those co-funded by the GEF, on three-
yearly "Country Assistance Strategies" (CAS) which lay out the country's priorities for
investment and policy operations that it would like to accomplish with World Bank assistance
and are prepared in partnership with the Government and in consultation with national
stakeholders.
The degree to which the GEF Strategic Partnership and its objective to reduce water pollution in
the Black Sea and Danube River have been reflected in the CASs of the basin counties that are
eligible for funding is reviewed below.
From 2001 to date, a new CAS was prepared in 9 of the 14 eligible countries. These include
Belarus (2002), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2004), Bulgaria (2002), Georgia (2003), Romania
(2001), Russia (2002), Slovak Republic (2004), Turkey (2003) and Ukraine (2003). Serbia and
Montenegro's (SAM) first CAS is being developed and expected to be submitted to the World
Bank Board in December 2004. On the other hand, in the case of Hungary, Czech Republic and
Slovenia the last CAS were prepared in the late 1990s. Seven of the nine CASs developed since
2001 and SAM's Transitional Support Strategy included a discussion of projects to be
implemented under the Investment Fund:
The 2004 CAS of Bosnia and Herzegovina points to competition within shared watersheds, flood
management, water pollution control, protection of aquatic ecosystems, and conservation of
wetlands". It notes that "[t]hese issues will require both improved inter-Entity coordination and
transboundary approaches to improving water resources management, especially regarding the
more effective used of shared rivers. To date, BH has been largely ineffective in addressing
these problems, due largely to ineffective, country-level institutional arrangements an d alack of
effective cooperation with Croatia and SaM, with which it shares key international waterways."
The CAS further recommends that "[t]o address these issues, a water resources management
strategy needs to be developed at the country level, including a viable institutional framework.
At the regional level, a strategic vision and cooperation framework needs to be developed for the
transboundary Neretva, Drina and Sava Basins." The latter recommendation is being addressed
through the proposed GEF Water Quality Protection Project. The part of the project which will
address the Danube Basin will be funded under the IF. The project is listed in the Lending
Program as a FY2005 deliverable.
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Bulgaria's 2002 CAS mentions that "Under the GEF supported Black Sea program, a GEF
Medium Sized Project (FY04) would be provided for wetland restoration and introduction of
environmentally friendly farming practices." (The Bulgaria GEF Wetland Restoration project
under the IF was described in the previous CAS).
The CAS prepared for Georgia in 2003 does not include new lending or GEF grant operation
addressing Black Sea pollution issues, however it recounts in two places the outcomes of two
ongoing projects, the Integrated Coastal Management Project (FY1999) and the Agriculture
Research, Extension and Training Project (FY2000), and other assistance in environment and
natural resources management: "[The International Development Association] IDA has assisted
Georgia in developing a National Environmental Action Plan, and a National Oil Spill
Contingency Plan to deal with the existing and future risks of oil pollution in the Black Sea
coast. However, institutional and financial constraints compounded by limited political will have
resulted in slow implementation of these plans. Assistance has been provided for the
establishment of operational protected areas: 46,000 ha for protecting and managing threatened
forest and wetland habitats along the Black Sea, and 184,000ha for protecting and managing
three areas in the Caucasus Mountains. Activities have been supported to enhance public
awareness and interest on the protection of critical wetlands along the Black Sea with some
visible results. Efforts to establish a sustainable and effective integrated coastal zone
management system has produced only modest results to date." In a separate section the CAS
notes that the GEF component of the FY00 Agriculture Research, Extension and Training Project
addresses agricultural non-point source pollution run-off into the Black Sea Basin.
Romania's 2001 CAS lists the GEF funded Agricultural Pollution Control Project as one of the
operations related to environmental management. Similarly, Russia's 2002 CAS considers
sound management of arctic and riparian ecosystems as important problems, including the
preservation of World Heritage sites such as Lake Baikal, and the successful implementation of
regional environmental management agreements in the Caspian, the Black Sea, and the Baltics.
The CAS then goes on to specifically mention planned "GEF support to environmentally friendly
farming practices in Krasnodar and wastewater treatment in Rostov as part of the Regional Black
Sea Nutrient Reduction Program". Serbia and Montenegro's Transitional Support Strategy from
2004 mentions the GEF Serbia Danube River Enterprise Pollution Reduction Project is being
developed for FY05.
The CAS developed for Turkey in 2003 states that "pollution of the Black Sea should be
prevented" and lists the GEF Black Sea Agricultural Pollution Control Project (blended with the
Anatolia Watershed Management Project) under projects that would help attain the CSA
objective of "Strengthening Environmental Management and Disaster Mitigation". Similarly,
Ukraine's 2003 CAS discusses two relevant planned GEF operations under the objective
"Protection of Natural Environment": "In the area of Wetland and Coastal Zone Management,
the Biodiversity Conservation in the Azov-Black Sea Ecological Corridor project applies a
landscape approach to sustainable management of coastal resources, which are threatened by
unsustainable land use practices by untreated sewage and solid waste, especially in tourist related
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areas such as Crimea. The proposed Crimea Coastal Zone Management and Nutrient
Reduction Project (GEF) would build on this approach by supporting wastewater treatment and
improved land use planning in the Crimea and Black Sea region. This project would also
contribute to nutrient reduction in the Black Sea."
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Table 1: Objectives and Indicators of Success for the Danube/Black Sea Basin Strategic Partnership for 2001-2005 (From Box 2
of the Framework Brief GEF Strategic Partnership on the Black Sea/Danube Basin)
Objective Indicator
In support of the implementation of the Black Sea Strategic Action Plan and
By 2007, 100% of participating countries introduce one or more policy or regulatory
the "Common Platform for Development of National Policies and Actions
measures (including P-free detergents) to reduce nutrient discharges in the agricultural,
for Pollution Reduction under the Danube River Protection Convention",
municipal, or industrial sectors, to restore nutrient sinks (wetlands, flood plains), and to
and taking into account the mandate of the Sofia and Bucharest
prevent and remediate toxics "hot spots", and 50% adopt multiple policy measures,
1
Conventions, Danube/Black Sea basin countries adopt and implement
towards goals of maintaining 1997 levels of nutrient inputs to the Black Sea, and reducing
policy, institutional and regulatory changes to reduce point and non-point
toxics contamination in the basin.
source nutrient discharges, restore nutrient `sinks', and prevent and
remediate toxics "hot spots".
Countries gain experience in making investments in nutrient reduction and
2
prevention and remediation of toxics "hot spots".
Capacity of the Danube and Black Sea Convention Secretariats is increased
Payments of contributions by all contracting parties to the Danube and Istanbul
through, sustainable funding, and development of international waters
Conventions made for 2000 and 2001 and pledged for the period beyond project duration.
3
process, stress reduction and environmental status indicators adopted
Nutrient control, toxics reduction and ecosystem indicators assessing processes in place,
through Convention processes.
stress reduction, and environmental status, are developed, harmonized and adopted for
reporting to Secretariat databases by 2006.
Country commitments to a cap on nutrient releases to the Black Sea at 1997
Countries adopt protocols or annexes to their two conventions and/or develop legally
levels and agreed targets for toxics reduction for the interim, and possible
binding "Action Plans" regarding nutrients and toxics reduction commitments as part of
future reductions or revisions using an adaptive management approach after
their obligations under the GPA for Land-Based Sources of pollution to the Danube/Black
4
2004 are formalized into specific nutrients control and toxics discharge
Sea basin by 2006 towards agreed goal to restore the Sea to 1960's environmental status.
protocol(s) or Annex(es) to both Conventions.
For the Danube, such a commitment will be contained in the revised Nutrient Reduction
Plans (coherent with the ICPDR Joint Action Programme) and developed in accord with
the application of the relevant EU Water Directives.
Implementing Agencies, the European Union, other funding partners and
Regular programs of IA's and EC support country nutrient and/or toxics reduction
countries formalize nutrient and toxics reduction commitments into IA, EU
commitments during 2001-2007 as part of expected baseline activities and incorporate
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and partner regular programs with countries.
them into CCF (UNDP), GPA Office Support (UNEP), CAS (WB), and EU (Accession
support) by 2005.
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Pilot techniques for restoration of Danube/Black Sea basin nutrient sinks and All countries in basin begin nutrient sink restoration and non-point source discharge
reduction of non-point source nutrient discharges through integrated
reduction by 2007 through integrated river sub-basin management of land, water and
management of land and water resources and their ecosystems in river sub-
ecosystems with support from IA's, partners and GEF through small grants to
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basins by involving private sector, government, NGO's and communities in
communities, biodiversity projects for wetlands and flood plain conservation, enforcement
restoration and prevention activities, and utilizing GEF Biodiversity and
by legal authorities and holistic approaches to water quality, quantity and biodiversity of
MSP projects to accelerate implementation of results.
aquatic ecosystems. Plans (coherent with the ICPDR Joint Action Programme) are
developed in accord with the application of the relevant EU Water Directives.
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Table 2: Portfolio of Black Sea/Danube Nutrient Reduction Investment Fund Projects
Funding
(US$
million)
GEF Grant
Co-funding
Title Status
Co-financing(*)
Funding
ratio(**)
Under Implementation
GEF PDF-B Grant Approval: 1/5/2000
Romania Agricultural Pollution
GEF CEO Endorsement: 11/2/2001
5.15
5.65
1 : 1.1
Control
WB Board Approval: 12/13/01
GEF PDF-B Grant Approval: 11/9/2000
Bulgaria Wetlands Restoration
GEF CEO Endorsement: 5/17/2002
7.50
6.00
1 : 0.8
and Nutrient Reduction
WB Board Approval: 06/13/2002
GEF PDF-B Grant Approval: 8/29/2001
Moldova Agricultural Pollution
GEF CEO Endorsement: 1/29/2004
4.95
5.75
1 : 1.2
Control
WB Board Approval: 02/26/2004
Turkey Anatolia Watershed
GEF PDF-B Grant Approval: 6/12/2001
7.00
38.11
1 : 5.4
Rehabilitation
WB Board Approval: 06/1/2004
Sub-total
24.60
55.51
1 : 2.3
Under Preparation (Included in GEF Pipeline)
GEF PDF-B Grant Approval: 08/22/2002
Hungary Nutrient Reduction
7.85
17.00
1 : 2.2
Expected WB Board Approval: 10/27/2005
Russia Krasnodar Agricultural
GEF PDF-B Grant Approval: 11/04/2002
5.00
7.00
1 : 1.4
Pollution Control
Expected WB Board Approval: 9/5/2006
Russia Rostov Reduction of
GEF PDF-B Grant Approval: 1/30/2000
Nutrient Discharges and
5.85
16.00
1 : 2.7
Expected WB Board Approval: 7/5/2005
Methane Emissions
Croatia Zagreb Municipal
GEF PDF-B Grant Approval: 5/22/2003
8.50
200.00
1 : 23
Nutrient Reduction
Expected WB Board Approval: 6/21/2005
Serbia Danube River
GEF PDF-B Grant Approval: 6/5/2003
9.00
9.00
1 : 1
Enterprise Pollution Control
Expected WB Board Approval: 7/7/2005
Bosnia Water Quality
GEF PDF-B Grant Approval: Not Yet Submitted
5.30
12:00
1 : 2.3
Protection
Expected WB Board Approval: 7/1/2005
Sub-total
41.50 261.00 1: 6.3
Pending GEF Pipeline Inclusion
Moldova Environmental
PDF-B Grant Request Submission:
4.40
10.00
1 : 2.4
Protection
Not Yet Submitted
Sub-total
4.40
10.00
1 : 2.3
Total
70.50 326.50 1:4.6
(*) Co-financing indicates only financial contributions from the World Bank or other sources that are confirmed prior
to CEO endorsement. For projects under preparation, these figures are only indicative.
(**) This is the co-financing ratio at CEO endorsement. Projects under the Investment Fund are also expected to
leverage additional financing during implementation as part of the demonstration effect and replication potential.
Recently the Romanian Ministry of Agriculture approached the World Bank with a project proposal that would
replicate and expand the ongoing GEF project with national (and borrowed) funds. This leveraging effect can be
evaluated in full only after projects have been under implementation for some time.
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Table 3: WB-GEF Projects in the Black Sea / Danube Basin that are not part of the
Investment Fund but aim at eco-system conservation and / or nutrient reduction
Project Cost (US$)
Title Objective Status
Total project
GEF funded
cost
cost
Romania Danube
The project aims to protect the Romanian Delta ecosystem
Effective
4.80 4.50
Delta Biodiversity
and contribute to conservation of biodiversity within the
since: 02/06/1995
Project
Delta. It will strengthen institutional capacity to monitor and
Implemented
manage protected areas effectively, work with local
from
community groups to ensure sustainable resource use and
08/26/1994
restore some wetlands to their natural condition by testing
12/31/2000
various approaches and monitoring their impact.
Ukraine Danube
The project aims to protect the Ukrainian Delta ecosystem
Effective
1.74 1.50
Delta Biodiversity
and contribute to conservation of biodiversity in the Delta. It
since:
Project
will strengthen institutional capacity to manage protected
08/04/1994
areas effectively, working with local community groups to
Implemented
ensure sustainable resource use, and restoring some wetlands
from
to their natural condition. The project complements the
06/21/1994 -
Romanian Danube Delta project.
06/30/1999
Ukraine
Project component promotes APC. Global development
Effective
16.10 6.90
Biodiversity
objectives is to support in situ conservation of biodiversity
since:
Conservation in
and threatened wetland ecosystems through protected area
01/06/2003
the Azov Black
planning and reduction of agricultural impacts on Ramsar
Sea Corridor
sites. The project would implement recommendations of the
Implemented
Project
Black Sea Environment Program, help remove institutional,
from
financial and knowledge barriers which serve as disincentives 01/22/2002 -
to the adoption of environmentally sustainable agricultural
12/31/2006
practices, and develop Ukraine's leadership in international
agreements such as the Bonn Convention on Migratory
Species.
Georgia
Project component promotes APC in the Black Sea region.
Effective
12.41 2.48
Agricultural
The overall project objective is to increase agricultural
since:
Research,
production and productivity in a sustainable fashion, while
02/05/2001
Extension and
reducing natural resource pollution. In support of this
Implemented
Training Project
objective, the proposed project provides for: (i) competitive
from
grant scheme for agricultural research, technology transfer
05/11/2000 -
and training; (ii) reform of the agricultural research system;
12/31/2005
(iii) capacity building to manage the agricultural research,
extension and training system, as well as staff and farmer
training; and (iv) introduction of agricultural practices to
improve quality of water of the Black Sea by reducing non-
point source pollution from agriculture.
Georgia Integrated
The project will strengthen institutions in Georgia to manage Effective
7.60 1.30
Coastal Zone
coastal resources of Black Sea by developing, testing and
since:
Management
evaluating methods to effectively integrate environmental
05/21/1999
Project
planning & management into economic development
Implemented
activities along the BS coast. To assist Georgia in meeting its from
int'l commitments under the BS Environmental Program & to
12/17/1998 -
implement priority actions outined in Georgia BS Action
12/31/2004
Plan, including conservation of biodiversity at sites of int'l
significance on Georgia's BS coast; resotoration of degraded
habitats & resources within the BS Large Marine
Ecosystems; & participation in regional efforts to manage &
sustain public goods of a transnational character.
Turkey
Develop and implement management plans for three priority
Effective
11.50 8.19
Biodiversity and
biodiversity conservation management demonstration sites,
since:
Natural Resource
including sustainable use demonstration sites with local
07/12/2000
Management
community participation, representative of three of the
Implemented
Project
following: (1) the mountain forests and alpine ecosystems of
from -
the northeast Black Sea coast, (2) dry forest and semi-arid
06/13/2000 -
ecosystems of the Mediterranean coastal plateau, (3) alluvial
12/31/2006
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forest, (4) wetland ecosystems, and (5) steppe ecosystems of
the central Anatolian Plateau. National review and revision
of protected area classification. Preparation of a national
biodiversity strategy and action plan.
Croatia Kopacki
The key objective of the Project is to conserve and
Effective
1.85 0.750
Rit Wetlands
sustainably use globally significant biodiversity of the
since:
Management MSP Kopacki Rit Wetlands, a high threatened regional and global
06/14/1999
ecosystem. Specifically, it supports: (i) the preparation and
Implemented
implementation of management plans for the Kopacki Rit
from
Reserve; (ii) capacity building; (iii) rehabilitation of
06/14/1999 -
infrastructure; (iv) ecological and socio-economic
09/01/2003
monitoring; and (v) outreach activities. The Project is an
integral part of the Bank-financed operation for
reconstruction of Eastern Croatia
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Annex 1. Fact Sheets on Investment Fund Projects
Project Title
Romania Agricultural Pollution Control
Bulgaria Wetlands Restoration and Nutrient
Moldova Agricultural Pollution Control
Reduction
Objective
The key objective is to increase significantly the use
Key project objective is to support local
The development objectives is to increase
of environmentally-friendly agricultural practices in
communities in Persina Nature Park and
significantly the use of environmentally-friendly
the project area and thereby reduce nutrient
demonstrate how environmentally friendly
agricultural practices by farmers and agro-industry
discharge (nitrogen and phosphorus) from
agriculture can improve their livelihoods. In
in Moldova, in order to reduce nutrient discharge
agricultural. In support of this objective, the project
support of global environmental goals, the project
from agricultural sources to the Danube River and
will assist the Government of Romania to: (i)
seeks to replicate successful efforts to reduce
the Black Sea. In support of this, the project will
promote the adoption of environmentally-friendly
transboundary nutrient loading and other
assist to: (i) promote adoption of environmentally-
agricultural practices by farmers' associations,
agricultural pollution that flow through Danube into
friendly practices in crop and livestock production
family farms and individual farmers in the Calarasi
the Black Sea. The first wetlands restoration project in rural agro-industries that contribute to nutrient
Judet (county); (ii) promote ecological sustainable
under Strategic Partnership for Nutrient Reduction
pollution, including wetland and integrated
land use and management in the Boianu-Sticleanu
in the BS and Danube Basin, which aims to help
watershed management; (ii) strengthen national
Polder, and ecological restoration of the neighboring countries undertake investments to control or
policy, regulatory and institutional capacity for
Calarasi-Raul Polder to act as a filter and reduce
mitigate nutrient inflow to BS.
agricultural nutrient pollution control; (iii) promote
nutrient discharge to the Danube; (iii) strength
a broad public awareness campaign and replication
national policy and regulatory capacity; and (iv)
strategy. The Project would be a component of a
promote public awareness and mechanisms for
US$30million, IDA funded Rural Investment and
replicability.
Services Project (RISP) and will mainstream
environmental concerns into agricultural practices.
It would also assist Government in harmonizing its
legislative framework with relevant (EU) directives
and in honoring its international commitments to
reduce nutrient loads to the Danube
Duration
12/13/2001 - 06/30/2007
06/13/2002 - 03/15/2008
02/26/2004 - 12/31/2009
Components
C1: Activities in the Calarasi Judet ($9.22m);
C1: Wetlands Restoration (Total cost $5.02m).
C1: Promotion of Mitigation Measures for
and Costs
Manure Management Practices ($5.20m);
C2: Protected Areas Management (Total cost:
Reducing Nutrient Loads in Water Bodies.
Promotoion of Environment-friendly Agricultural
$7.37m).
C2: Strengthening National Policy, Regulatory
Practices ($2.47m); Integrated Management of
C3: Project Coordination, Management and
Enforcement and National Capacity.
Boianu-Sticleanu Polder & Ecological Restoration
Monitoring (Total cost: $0.89m).
C3: Public Awareness and Replication Strategy.
of part of Calarasi-Raul Polder ($1.09m);
C4: Project Implementation Unit
Strengthening Capacity in Calarasi Judet
(Environmental Protection Inspectorate (EPI) and
Public Health Directorate) to Monitor Soil & Water
Quality and Environmental Impacts ($0.46m).
C2: Strengthening National Policy & Regulatory
Capacity ($0.27m);
C3: Public Awareness and Replication Strategy
($0.45)
C4: Project Management Unit ($0.86)
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Project Title
Turkey Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation
Hungary Nutrient Reduction
Russia Krasnodar Agricultural Pollution
Project (Formerly Called Agricultural
Control
Pollution Control)
Objective
The overall development objective is to support
The objective is to decrease nutrients discharges
The overall objective of the Krasnodar Black Sea
sustainable natural resource management practices
into Danube river and loads to Black Sea by
Agricultural Nutrient Reduction Project is to
in 28 microcatchments in Anatolia and Turkey's
improving reduction of nutrients in effluent from
reduce nutrient (nitrogen and phosphorous)
Black Sea regions, and thereby raise incomes of
wastewater treatment plants at Budapest and
pollution from agricultural sources in Krasnodar
communities affected by resource degradation.
Dunaujvaros and increasing nutrient retention
Krai to the Black Sea. In support of this objective,
The global environmental objective is to introduce
capacity at Danube-Drava National Park's Gemenc the project would assist the Government of the
farming practices which will reduce the discharge
and Beda-Karapancsa Region. The project will
Russian Federation to: (i) promote the adoption of
of agricultural nutrients into surface and ground
complement the Government of Hungary in its
environmentally-friendly practices in crop and
water in watersheds draining into the Black Sea in
efforts to reduce transboundary pollution in the
livestock production, including organic farming;
four provinces. The project will help introduced
Danube, and will lead also to necessary policy,
(ii) strengthen national policy, regulatory and
improved manure and nutrient management
institutional and legal reforms related to regional
institutional capacity for agricultural nutrient
practices as well as organic farming, which over
nutrient reduction and improved water quality
pollution control; and (iii) promote a broad public
the long run, will help reduce the discharge of
management.
awareness campaign to disseminate the benefits of
nitrogen and phosphorus into the surface and
the proposed project activities and develop a
ground waters of Turkey and the Black Sea.
replication strategy.
Duration
06/01/2004 - 05/15/2010
10/27/2005 - ??
09/05/2006 - ???
Components
C1: Rehabilitation of Degraded Natural Resources
C1: nutrient reduction in wastewater discharges
C1: Promotion of environmentally-friendly
and Costs
($23.5m).
from a large city (Budapest);
agricultural practices.
C2: Income Raising Activities
C2: nutrient reduction in wastewater discharges
C2: Strengthening national policy, regulatory and
C3: Strengthening Policy and Regulatory
from a medium-size city (Dunajuvaros);
institutional capacity.
Capacity Towards Meeting EU Standards
C3: nutrient reduction in the Danube river load by
C3: Public Awareness and Replication Strategy
($0.28m)
improving the trapping capacity of a restored
C4: Awareness Raising and Capacity Building and wetland (Gemenc and Béda-Karapancsa Region);
Replication Strategy ($1.06m)
C4: replication and dissemination
C5: Project Management and Support Services
($2.5m)
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Project Title
Croatia Zagreb Municipal Nutrient
Serbia Danube River Enterprise Pollution
Bosnia Water Quality Protection
Reduction
Reduction Project
Objective
The overall objective of the proposed project is
The development objective of the project is to
The global objective is to reduce pollution in the
to reduce discharge of nutrients into River Sava.
increase prevalence of environmentally friendly
Adriatic Sea and the Danube basin by reducing
Through the project, improving the reduction of
practices among eligible enterprises and thereby
nutrient loads from municipal wastewaters that
nutrients in effluent from wastewater treatment
reduce nutrient pollution of the Danube River. It
are discharged in the Neretva and the Bosnia
plant in Zagreb, the regional development
will also aim to build capacity to improve
rivers. To achieve this objective the project will
objective, i.e. to decrease nutrients in the River
environmental management. The global
support: (a) development of a water quality
Sava and by this way nutrient loads in River
environment objective is to demonstrate
management plan to be used as a guide for future
Danube and to BS, can be achieved. The
measures for reducing reduce nutrient pollution
water management decisions; (b) establishment
objective of this project go beyond Croatian legal of the Danube River and the Black Sea. The
of a joint Bosnia/Croatian Commission with
requirements and are clearly at the protection of
project will also help the Republic of Serbia
coordination from Montenegro to implement the
the BS under the Partnership Program.
attain its goal of harmonizing its environmental
plan; and (c) development and implementation of
management practices with those of the
high priority, low cost water capital investments.
European Union.
Duration
06/21/2005 - ???
July 2005 July 2009
04/12/2005 - ???
Components and C1: Nutrient Reduction ($27 m),
C1: Support to Policy and Regulatory Reform -
C1: Waste Water Improvement Management
Costs
C2: Project Management and Monitoring
Transposition of the EU Nitrate Directive (cost
Plan Preparation ($.5 million equally shared
($0.200);
TBD)
between the two basins).
C3: Institution Support and Replication ($0.300) C2: Investment in Nutrient Reduction from
C2: Start up of the Waste Water Management
Livestock Farms and Slaughterhouses (cost
Plan including operating costs for 36 months ($
TBD)
0.8 million equally shared between the two
C3: Strengthening of Farm Advisory Services on
basins).
Nutrient Management through training of
C3: Implementation of a high priority, low cost
advisors, farmers, environmental inspectors and
capital investment recommended by the Waste
the establishment of a Training and Information
Water Management Plan for the Neretva
Center (cost TBD)
River($3.5 million).
C4: Water and Soil Quality Monitoring, Public
C4: Implementation of a high priority, low cost
Awareness Raising and Replication Strategy
capital Investment recommended by the Waste
(cost TBD)
Water Management Plan for the Bosnia River
C5: Project Management and Project Impact
($3.3 million).
Monitoring (cost TDB)
C5: Implementation of a high priority, low cost
capital Investment recommended by the Waste
Water Management Plan for the Bosnia River
($3.3 million).
C6: Institutional support and replication
($300,000 equally shared between the two river
basins)
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Project Title
Moldova Environmental Protection
Objective
The overall objective is to improve the Dnister
River water quality as well as environmental
quality in the Dnister River Basin. The project
would assist Moldova and Ukraine to begin the
development of a Transnational Dnister River
Basin Management System. The municipal
wastewater is the principal source of pollution of
the Dnister River and particularly as an emitter
of phosphorus and nitrogen substances that are
responsible for the stimulation of aquatic plants
and contribution to the Dnister River and Black
Sea eutrophication.
Duration
11/20/2005 - ???
Components and C1: Development of a Water Quality
Costs
Management Plan for Moldova-Ukraine Dnister
River Basin ($0.350);
C2: Implementation of the first phase of the
Water Quality Management Plan ($0.500);
C3: Low-Cost Wastewater Treatment in Medium
Size and Small-Rural communities. ($2.0m);
C4: Preparation activities for the implementation
of the project ($0.150).
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