Nutrient Reduction Best Practices Twinning
PARTICIPANTS & PROJECTS INVOLVED
- Viktor Subotic, Skadar-Shkodra Lake
- Ivica Trumbic, Mediterranean Regional Project
HOST INSTITUTION
- Serbia Danube Enterprise Pollution Reduction Project
- Nutrient Reduction Best Practices Project
OTHER FUNDING PARTNERS
- Nutrient Reduction Best Practices Project/Regional Environment Centre
INTRODUCTION, PURPOSE: WHY AN EXCHANGE
There is currently no coordinated repository or process for gathering and sharing information on nutrient reduction best practices in CEE. As you know, the Living Water Exchange funded $150,000 for four demonstration projects in the region on topics ranging from wetlands restoration to agricultural best management practices and training. During the fall of 2010, (likely September and October) we will be scheduling Peer-to-Peer Exchanges for Ministerial-level representatives and agricultural practitioners (agricultural associations, farmers, extension agents and organizations, etc.) from across Central and Eastern Europe to visit these demonstration sites.
The peer-to-peer exchanges will help meet the GEF 5 IW strategy goals by:
- Building capacity at the country level in the region and beyond to scale-up solutions to reduce land-based nutrient pollution of surface waters, coastal zones and oceans
- Further helping to develop and implement regional policies and measures
- Promoting Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and ecosystem approaches
- Catalyzing global attention to disruption of the nitrogen cycle and to limit expansion of “Dead Zones” that interfere with food security, community livelihoods and overall ecosystem health
- Promoting innovative solutions, partnerships, investments and financing to address agriculture pollution and for wetland restoration/enhancement (including use of ecological sanitation and simple constructed wetlands treatment) from existing GEF investments
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
The goals of these events include:
- Showcasing on-the-ground, innovative nutrient reduction best practices from our demonstrations, which build on and link to previous GEF investments;
- Developing and adopting successful replication strategies in key countries in the region;
- Bringing together in a direct exchange of information among key policymakers, practitioners and potential sources of nutrient reduction funding that will help to facilitate replication of nutrient reduction practices; and,
- Creating a new value proposition for agriculture across Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
OUTPUTS/OUTCOMES
- Related content
LSIEMP newsletter- LSIEMP Newsletter
- 2011 Results Notes - Lake Skadar-Shkodra Integrated Ecosystem Management Project
- Lake Skadar Shkodra project document
- Report: Stakeholder Involvement in Transboundary Water Resources Management
- Lake Shkoder Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis final report summary
