Project Info

Project Code
1819AE
Tranche
T11
Tranche Type
Regular
Status
Active
Title
Evidence-based environmental governance and sustainable environmental policies in support of the 2030 Agenda in South-East Europe

Entities

Implementing Entity (Lead)
ECE
Collaborating DA Entities
UNEP
Other Collaborating Entities
Other UN entities

Financial and Evaluation Info

Total Budget
$470,000.00
Project Selected for Evaluation
No

Countries and Regions

Countries or Areas: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia
Regions: Europe
Sub-Regions:
Intermediate Regions:
Countries in Special Situations: Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDC)

Areas of Work

SDG
3
4
6
12
13
15
17
SDG Targets
3.9
4.7
6.1
6.2
6.3
6.4
6.5
6.6
6.b
11.2
11.4
11.6
12.1
12.4
12.5
12.6
12.8
13.1
1
Thematic Clusters
Sustainable Development

Brief Description

Strengthening environmental governance and development of sustainable environmental policies plays an important role in the achievement of many of the Sustainable Development Goals. Countries of South-East Europe are undertaking the SDG nationalization process, and although some progress has been achieved with the integration of environmental requirements into sector-specific policies, much more needs to be done to enhance the environmental dimension of sectoral policies and ensure implementation and enforcement of environment-related provisions in sectoral policies and legislation. This project supports five countries in formulating actions on the basis of their Environmental Performance Reviews in order to achieve relevant SDGs. The project assists national stakeholders, in particular the ministries responsible for environmental issues, to contribute to the revision of sector-specific and cross-sectoral strategies aligning them with the SDGs. This is achieved by building the national capacities to assess priority needs in environmental governance and facilitating the national action to integrate evidence-based environmental policies into sector-specific and cross-sectoral strategies aimed at the achievement of SDGs.

Objective and Expected Outcomes

Objective
To strengthen national capacities of selected countries of South-East Europe for evidence-based environmental governance and sustainable environmental policies in support of implementation of the 2030 Agenda
Expected Outcome 1
Enhanced national capacities of the selected countries of South-East Europe to assess the most critical aspects and priority needs in their environmental governance and policies
Expected Outcome 2
Increased national capacities of the selected countries of South-East Europe to develop and integrate evidence-based coherent environmental policies into sector-specific and cross-sectoral strategies aimed at contributing to the achievement of relevant SDGs and 2030 Agenda