The SOFIA+3 Project
Preface
At the 3rd Environment Ministers Conference in Sofia (23-25 October 1995) in the Conference Declaration Ministers of Environment specifically stressed the necessity of evaluation, by the end of 1997, of the progress achieved in CEECs/NIS in developing National Environmental Action Programmes (NEAPs).
Responding to this the Organization "GROMADYANSKA INITSIATYVA" (OGI International - the Civil Initiative Organization) initiated the SOFIA+3 Project and started to implement it in coalition with a number of NGOs from the NIS facilitating civil society participation in evaluation of NEAPs development and implementation process in the NIS. Important part of the SOFIA+3 Project is also development of the NGO Common Agenda for the Future to promote the NEAPs development/implementation in the NIS in partnership between NGOs and Governments (especially, Local Self-Governments). The SOFIA+3 Coalition joined the following NGOs:
- "ECO-Accord" (Russian Federation),
- Foundation to Support Civil Initiatives in Tajikistan,
- Environmental Movement "Natura" (Moldova),
- Ukrainian Environmental Union "Salvation from Chornobyls" (Ukraine),
- EcoPravo-Kyiv (Ukraine),
- Society for NGO Development and Support (Ukraine),
- National Ecological Center (Ukraine),
- NewREC NGO Coordination Council of Ukraine,
- Environmental NGOs Council of Ukraine,
- Municipal Management Center (Ukraine),
- Institute for Ecology to National Ecological Center (Ukraine),
- Foundation "Unicorn" (Ukraine),
- Round Table Environmental NGOs of Belarus,
- International Habitat Center (Georgia),
- Center of Social and Psychological Aid "GESTALT" (Ukraine),
- OGI International (Ukraine).
The overall Goal of the Project:
The NGO evaluation of NEAPs process in the NIS and promoting development of partnership between NGOs, Governments, Local Self-Governments in the NIS for the future environmental and economic benefits.
Project Objectives:
- facilitation NGO evaluation of development/implementation of the National Environmental Action Plans (NEAP) in the NIS countries involved in the Project;
- collecting NGO inputs and ideas to the 4th Ministerial Conference Environment for Europe;
- defining the topics most important to NIS NGO community related to NEAPs;
- collecting and disseminating information related to the NEAPs and the 4th Ministerial Conference;
- formulating of the NGO Common Agenda for the Future to promote the NEAPs/LEAPs implementation in the NIS;
- development, publishing the Project Report to be presented on the NGO Special Session at the 4th Environment Ministers Conference in Aarhus.
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