Environmental policy and administrative management

The project aims to encourage entrepreneurship and income generation of local community and at the same time to promote environment friendly activities and to keep ethnical heritage in the Asveja Regional Park. The project also aims to use potential of the tourist and to educate local people as well as local tourist on environmental issues. It is very important that the project will cooperate and will have functional connections with GEF SGP project on ecological farming in the same region. During the project workshops on traditional crafts will be organized for the communities around Dubingiai. People of various ages, from all social groups, especially form the poor ones, will be trained on traditional crafts and sustainable use and management of natural resources. A small local market place is also going to be constructed in the central square of the tow. The handicraftsmen as well as ecological farmers will have possibility to sell their production there. It is expected that the marked will be attract more tourist to the region. At the same time reconstructed square will become a public gathering place for local people, and many cultural events will be organized there. A Craft Support Centre will be established during the project. It will coordinate works of the handicraftsmen in the area; will continue training and awareness rising of local people. 10% of income from the marketplace will be used for the established environmental fund that will fund environmental activities in the region.

Lithuania