REC Country Office Montenegro

Contents of this page:
Establishment Staff Scope of Work Projects Expertise Contact address

Year of Establishment:
2006

Current Staff:

Scope of Work
The new REC Country Office Montenegro will open its doors on July 1, 2006. Following the political dissolution of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro, and with the proclamation of the independent Republic of Montenegro, REC Field Office Montenegro (which was part of REC Country Office Serbia and Montenegro) is henceforth its own country office.

The new REC Country Office Montenegro carries out its work in Montenegro as an international organisation, following the bilateral agreement signed by the REC and the government of the Republic of Montenegro in April 2004.

REC Country Office Montenegro follows the REC’s mission to assist in solving environmental problems through the promotion of cooperation among country’s main stakeholders (government, businesses, non-governmental organisations and other environmental stakeholders), and through support of public participation in environmental decision making and free exchange of information.

REC Country Office Montenegro anticipates that its host country will takes its place among democratic and developed Europe society by implementing the principles of sustainable development, partnership, and shared responsibilities and integration of environmental protection policy into other sectoral policies.

REC Country Office Montenegro follows the REC’s strategic goals, taking into account the previous specific circumstances of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro and now the new independent Montenegrin state within the pre-accession process to the EU. The strategic goals of REC Country Office Montenegro are:

• to implement sustainable development in practice and support the country’s development on the merits of its proclaimed Ecological State of Montenegro in 2001;
• to provide a neutral platform for dialogue, networking and cooperation among stakeholders and partners in the country, and across borders;
• to continue to play a major role in the reform processes in the country as an independent organisation implementing a successful model of governance, international legal status in Montenegro, quality of work and diversified funding;
• to provide high quality, demand-driven and innovative services to the country’s stakeholders, aimed at the greatest environmental benefits for Montenegro and the world; and
• to continue the organisation’s proactive development, thus enabling the delivery of its mission in Montenegro’s rapidly changing contexts of political, social and economic reconstruction.
  

Main Projects
Since the establishment of the Project Office-Skadar Lake in 2000, then Field Office Montenegro in 2004, and most recently Country Office (July 2006), the REC in Montenegro has been implementing projects (2000-2004), previously managed merely by REC CO SCG staff, as well as new ones initiated in 2005 and 2006. Information on most of the projects could be found in the REC SCG Compendium of Achievements 2001/2004), while information on new ones will be published in the near future. The following list represents the projects that FO/CO Montenegro has initiated and continued to implement in the period of 2000-2006 and beyond:

• Strengthening the Institutional Ground for Continued Transboundary Cooperation in the Skadar/Shkodra Lake Region
  “Strengthening capacities for regional sustainable development planning in Montenegro manual and round table for local stakeholders in the in the field of environmental protection and sustainable development “- Czech ODA
  SECTOR: Supporting Environmental Civil Society Organisations in South Eastern Europe;
• UNEP-UNDP-OSCE-REC-UNECE-NATO EnvSec initiative: Regional Conference on “Enhancing Transboundary biodiversity management in SEE ;
• Support to Tourism Development of Bjelasica and Komovi area;
• Sub-regional cross border cooperation: “Environmental Protection as a Neutral Platform for Reconciliation, Cooperation and Stability conference;
• Support to Hazardous Waste Management in South-eastern Europe: Potential for Regional Cooperation
• Capacity building of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Urban Planning of the Government of Montenegro, Development of cooperation between Hungary and Montenegro on the fields of Environment, Nature and Water Protection, Hungary ODA
• Trans-boundary Cooperation through Management of Shared Natural Resources — Skadar Lake, REReP 4.3.23
• Implementation of the Priority Environmental Investment Programme for South Eastern Europe: Cross-Border Cooperation through environmental planning and investment
• Assistance in Environmental Law Drafting in South Eastern Europe, REReP 1.3/CARDS 1.3
• Improving the Practices of Public Participation: Next Steps in Implementing the Aarhus Convention in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Kosovo (territory under interim UN administration)
• Development of Environmental Legislation in Serbia and Montenegro (YUGOLEX)
• Capacity Building for Environmental Impact Assessment, REReP 1.4
• Strengthening environmental implementation and enforcement in SEE countries forming part of the stabilisation and association process
• Support for activities of the Balkan Environmental Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement Network (BERCEN/ECENA)
• Support for Developing Strategies for Implementation of the Aarhus Convention in South Eastern Europe, REReP 2.2
  
  

Country Office Expertise:

• Capacity Building
• Environmental Information
• Environmental Law and Policy
• International Mandates and Secretariats
• Local Environmental Development and Local Initiatives
• NGO Support
• Public Participation and Information Dissemination
• Resource Management and Nature Conservation
• Protected Area Management

Contact address:

Mailing address: Ivana Crnojevica 16/2, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro
Tel: (382-81) 210-235, Fax: (382-81) 210-236
E-mail: office@recmontenegro.org

Related information:

Map of Montenegro

Skadar Lake Declaration

This page was last updated: 
May 2007

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