Reducing Trans-boundary Degradation of the Kura-Aras River Basin - SIDA/UNDP component

Project Title :

Reducing Trans-boundary Degradation of the Kura-Aras River Basin / SIDA-Component

Sub-component of the UNDP/GEF umrella project "Reducing Transboundary Degradation in the Kura/Aras River Basin"

Organisation :

UNDP (implemented through UNDP Georgia CO), SIDA

Partner(s) :

Region :

Southern Caucasus

Countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia

Project Number :

Duration :

Oct 2003 - Dec 2005

Financing (US$) :

Sida (cost-sharing under the umbrella UNDP-GEF Project): USD 690,000

Status :

under implementation; possible follow-up project under development

URL :

Description :

Objectives of the Sida Component:

• Identification of National Legal-Institutional and Policy needs for Integrated Management of the Kura River Basin;
• Background Analyses of the Kura River Basin (feedback to TDA):

Water quality and quantity; Major ecosystems; Socio-economic trends, driving forces and pressures on the basin’s degradation; Existing water infrastructure

• Identification of Optimal Institutional arrangement for the management of the Basin;
• Development of National Action Plans

Lessons Learned :

...see PPT attached

Contact :

Mariam Shotadze (mariam.shotadze@undp.org), UNDP Georgia

National Team Leaders:

• GEO: Zurab Jincharadze (zjincharadze@kura-aras.ge), 4, Taktakishvili St., apt2, Tbilisi 0179, Georgia.

Phone/Fax: (+995 32) 292 742, Cell: (+995 99) 728 768.