Danube Regional ProjectRegional Grants Update

Szentendre, HungaryNov. 4, 2003

Entela Pinguli

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Regional Grants: Statistics

Statistical Results of the Regional Grants selection in 11 countries:

• 5 Selected proposals • 3 rejected proposals• 18 NGOs involved in 5 projects

• Available amount – 200,000 USD• Requested amount – 324,190 USD• Awarded amount – 207,764 USD• Pending decision 32,494 USD

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Regional Grants: Statistics

Some other statistics of the Regional Grants selection

Nr. of CP submitted (NGO interest): 16Nr of eligible CP: 13Nr of CP selected: 9Nr. of FP Submitted: 8

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Regional Grants: Topic

- Agriculture: Promoting Eco agriculture, training;

- Land use: - River basin approach: wetland

restoration, river coalition,- prevention actions (Canal)

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Regional Grants: Stakeholders

Beneficiaries: Students, pupils, teachers, farmers, common people

Partners: Municipalities, state authorities

Observations:• Stakeholders are present but approaches to

target/involve them are weakly developed. • The tasks and responsibilities are not well defined.• Support letters from the Stakeholders are

generally missing

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Regional Grants: evaluation processCriteria:

• Quality of the proposals was generally good

• Nutrients - not addressed directly

• Sub-basin approach applied

• Water shed approach – in a small scale

• Poor follow up

• Policy development – poorly addressed (WFD/ Common agriculture policies)

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Regional Grants: approach

• Mostly linkages of local projects

• watershed / sub basin

• balance between planning and actions

• “end of pipe” approach

• No change of behaviour actions