EuroAQUA

Project title:
EURO AQUA : AA-driven INTEGRATED LOCAL WATER GOVERNANCE in EaP

Funding:
Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum, Re-granting scheme





Duration:

July-November 2018


Lead partner:
Peipsi Center for Transboundary Coopeartion
Contact: margitsare @ gmail.com

Partner NGOs:
Moldova; "EcoContact"
Ukraine: International charitable organization "Environment-People-Law"
Georgia: Foundation Caucasus Environment
Belarus: "Ecohome";
Azerbaijan Ornithological Society
Poland: "Development Policy Foundation"

Objectives
-To strengthen competencies, practical skills and engagement of local stakeholders involved in water management,
- To enhance cooperation between state institutions, local authorities and CSOs in addressing local issues by creating know-how & experience sharing opportunities,

- To share EU & EaP know-how and best practices enabling local stakeholders to effectively and tangibly address water sector directives implementation;

-To promote water management issues at CSOs local forums in each EaP country

Activities
- Seminar on Integrated local water governance, in Moldova, 11-13 September 2018
- Catalog of barriers and good practices in local water management
Read the publication
- Project Poster
-Dissemination of results in partner countries
see project short video summary down on the page

Materials on local water governance

Press releases:
11 September: Seminar on local water governance in Eastern Partnership countries, in Moldova

September 11-12: around 25 people from EU and Eastern partnership countries gather to Stefan Vodă region in Moldova to discuss good practices on Water Framework Directive (WFD) and challenges in the engagement of local stakeholders.
Partners from Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Estonia and Poland will present country local water management surveys and local scoped WFD implementation challenges. On the second day field trip in the Dniester area takes place.

As one outcome of the project brochure on barriers and good practices in local water management will be published in November 2018.
This Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum reg-granting Project in coordinated by Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation.

For any questions write: margitsare@gmail.com
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The project benefits from the support through the EaP CSF Re-granting Scheme. Within its Re-granting Scheme, the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (EaP CSF) supports projects of the EaP CSF members with a regional dimension that contribute to achieving the mission and objectives of the Forum.
The donors of the Re-granting Scheme are the European Union and National Endowment for Democracy.
The overall amount for the 2018 call for proposals is 270.000 EUR. Grants are available for CSOs from the Eastern Partnership and EU countries.
Key areas of support are democracy and human rights, economic integration, environment and energy, contacts between people, social and labour policies.