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European Union supports the Government of Georgia in River Basin Management Planning

Interlocutors and state agencies of Georgia’s water resources management field scrutinized Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the pilot Alazani-Iori River Basin Management Plan. Attendees to the meeting were familiarized on key characteristics and peculiarities of the latter plan; the project team delivered a presentation on the SEA’s key findings and conclusions. 

More than 40 representatives of state institutions, international and donor organizations, NGOs, experts and other stakeholders attended the meeting, discussed SEA’s report and provided project team with a constructive feedback. 

Opening remarks were delivered by Ms Nino Tandilashvili, Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture and Mr Alexander Darras, Sector Coordinator on Connectivity, Energy, Environment & Climate Change at the Delegation of the European Union to Georgia, and Mr Alisher Mamadzhanov, Environmental Affairs Officer at the UNECE. 

The pilot project has been inspired upon an idea of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia. The respective efforts are undertaken under the leadership of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and European Union, in frames of the framework of the European Union Water Initiative Plus programme for the Eastern Partnership Countries (EUWI+). NGO Georgia’s Environmental Outlook – GEO is a local interlocuter of the project and has complemented the implementation process. Core aim of the SEA efforts targets capacity building of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia to harmonize SEA planning with the plan of the Government of Georgia on the river basin management approaches.