Montenegro

Strengthening capacities in the Western Balkans countries to address environmental problems through remediation of high priority hot spots

UNDP Montenegro has prepared and started implementation of a 3-year $15 million Regional Environmental Hot Spots Programme, which is the biggest regional programme UNDP ever did in the South Eastern Europe. Its main aim is to achieve improvement of environmental situation and quality of life for citizens through the least-cost measures, improved local and national policy dialogue and the supply of domestic professional services in the environmental management sector. While the main focus will be the physical works needed to mitigate the ecological problems, the institutional strengthening and capacity building in the Western Balkans countries to address environmental problems through regional co-operation will be an important subject addressed by the programme. Between 2007 and 2010 this Programme, funded by the Government of the Netherlands intends to contribute to sustainable planning and management of natural resources in close partnership with private sector. In six countries/territories in the Region more than 10 million dollars worth of clean up works will be conducted/financed in nine environmental hot spots locations.

Contact person:
Ms. Sanja Bojanić, Regional Programme Manager
sanja.bojanic@undp.org
UNDP Montenegro
Beogradska 24e, 81 000 Podgorica
Tel: +382 81 231 992; Fax: +382 81 231 993

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Environmental Policy in South-Eastern Europe

In the recent past, the UNDP Montenegro supported analysis of progress in development and implementation of the environmental and sustainability policy in South-Eastern Europe by coordinating the prepration of the regional Report “Environmental Policy in South-Eastern Europe” (covering Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo - UN administered territory under UN Security Council Resolution 1244, Montenegro and Serbia).