Environmental policy and administrative management

Justification GEF SGP in Bulgaria completed 5 years of operation. Since its start 86 projects are co-financed amounting to over 3 mln USD. Financial co-financing of the projects is amounting to 3 mln USD and in-kind co-financing to 1,4 mln USD. Thus SGP Bulgaria portfolio reaches 7,4 mln USD. 33 projects are already completed and most of the rest are in its advanced phase of realization and already report results. Now the major task of SGP as a Programme is to find ways to up-scale and multiply the project results on regional and national levels. An important SGP task is also to identify approaches to influence local, regional and national policies for further fostering of project development in the 5 areas climate change, biodiversity protection, combating land degradation, protection of waters and POPs. Each SGP project makes substantial efforts for dissemination of its experience and engaging other people to apply its good practices. However it is important to demonstrate SGP success jointly and to find an attractive way so they reach wider group of stakeholders and decision makers, as well as citizen of the country. This project is a knowledge management project within SGP aiming at the their wide application in the practices in Bulgaria. Project Target Groups 1. Decision makers at all levels 2. SGP grantees and their partners 3. Wide group of citizen who may decide to apply on practice SGP project results Goal in impact indicators To stimulate the application of good practices results of SGP projects at local, regional and national levels. Group . GEF SGP areas Impact 2. Extending the application of new technologies Group : Poverty reduction indicators Impact 1. Increasing income of people engaged with SGP projects Group : Empowerment indicators Impact 1. Increasing the number of people informed on global environment issues Impact indicator: Number of involved women at least 150 Impact indicator: Number of involved men at least 150 Impact 2. Cooperation among stakeholders Impact indicator: Number of NGO participated at least 50 Impact indicator: Support linkages with local authorities at least 5 Impact indicator: Support linkages with national authorities at least 2 Specific objectives and results 1. Provide SGP grantees and their partners with the opportunity to get to know each other and present their achievements Result: At least 80% of the grantees and their partner meet 2. To present to the NSC and key stakeholders the achievements of SGP co-financed projects Result: At least 80% of the NSC are introduced to SGP project results At least 3 institutions are presented at the SGP projects fair 3. To engage wide group of citizen in discussions and activities aiming at sustainable local development based on SGP project results Result: At least 200 people are acquainted with SGP project results and participate in thematic discussions and demonstrations At least 10 publications in the national and local media on SGP project results Main activities The major action of the project is the organization of the public event under the form of a fair where the SGP project results will be presented to target groups. The idea is that the event takes place in the summer of 2011 (July August) in Zdravkovets village camp, Gabrovo region, which is both in the centre of the country and equally accessible for all grantees and is also a local initiative supported under SGP projects which will be officially launched and promoted. Last but not least Gabrovo region is a place with major concentration of SGP projects which can be visited by the NSC members and key institutions. Activity 1: Receipt of all permits for organizing the public event at Protected territory Bilyakovets Lake Activity 2: Organizing the participants in the fair Activity 3: Organizing the activities during the fair Activity 4: Media campaign Activity 5: Up-date of the SGP website and the section of Good practices Activity 6: Travelling SGP exhibition and presenting it in Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna, Burgas Partnership with GEF SGP proposals/projects This project will work with all running SGP projects Sustainability SGP website will function until the SGP exists. It is expected that shared experience will engage some decision makers in making long-term sustainability policy changes. It is expected that grantees establish working contacts and up-scale and further develop their project results. Project Budget total, from GEF SGP, financial, in-kind - all in Bulgarian leva and percent of total SGP FUNDS: 42620 BGN, 91,62% TOTAL AMOUNT: 46520 BGN IN-KIND: 3900 BGN

Bulgaria