P R O F I L E

The main objective of the EMTC is to assist the harmonization of economic development and environmental protection through development and coordination of environmental management programs. The EMTC seeks to promote sustainable development, environmental protection, and participatory democracy in Bulgaria.

EMTC activities are aimed at:

• Promoting various activities that provide incentives and support for useful ideas in the area of environmental management;
• Assisting current environmental management techniques by making the best available expertise and consultancy services available to state authorities, professionals in the area of environmental protection, NGOs and private businesses;
• Developing and providing teaching materials and other information and acting as an information center that collects, stores and disseminates information provided by foreign agencies, international organizations and institutions dealing with environmental management;
• Providing opportunities to train citizens, government officers and representatives of NGOs and private businesses;
• Promoting the establishment of a network linking professors and environmental consultants to improve the efficiency of environmental management activities.

Major Activities:

• Supporting the delivery of training courses offered by foreign institutions and developing local capacity to continue the delivery of training courses as the need arises;
• Needs assessment, design and delivery of customized training programs;
• Development of database of environmental training materials, technical information materials, and training courses;
• Forming a network of experts, consultants and facilitators;
• Consultancy and expert assistance;
• Training of trainers and facilitators.

In the past four years the EMTC has delivered more than 40 courses on a variety of environmental subjects (see list below). Several courses have been either developed or extensively adapted by the EMTC to maximize their relevance for Bulgarian conditions.

Over 800 participants have been trained by the EMTC and over 70 people have been trained to be trainers themselves. The model used by the EMTC to adapt and deliver courses in Bulgaria that have been developed by international organizations is that the first delivery of each course is done by a foreign institution, with Bulgarian facilitators being trained in the process. The second delivery of the course uses the Bulgarian facilitators as co-trainers, so that by the third time the course is delivered, they are doing it on their own.

The EMTC has also been a partner of the World Bank in workshops delivery and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in carrying out several environmental audits of industries applying for loans, including two in Kiev, Ukraine.

PROFILE

Name: Environmental Management Training Center (EMTC) Established: 1992 Type of organization: Non-profit, non-governmental Staff: 3 full time persons: Executive Director, Training Coordinator, Logistics Coordinator; 1 part-time accountant; 5 interpreters on a contract basis, two of them with extensive expertise in health and environment related topics, experienced in written translation, consecutive and simultaneous interpretation. Languages: English Computer skills: Word for Windows, Excel Number of trainers: Over 70 Contact address: Parchevich street 4, floor 3, apt. 5, Sofia 1000, Bulgaria Tel/Fax: (359-2) 802-428 E-mail: Dora.Iordanova@bulmail.sprint.com Contact person: Vesselina Stoyanova, Acting Director List of training courses and workshops delivered to date: Advanced Environmental Auditing Assessing Trends in Lead Exposure Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Community Environmental Action Program Developing a Community Integrated Waste Management Strategy Development of Project Preparation and Appraisal Capabilities Ecology of the Industrial Processing and Impact Assessment Environmental Auditing Environmental Economics Environmental Enforcement Environmental Impact Assessment Environmental Management and Economic Development Environmental Policy Grants Management Hazardous Waste Site Ranking How to Write Grants and Get Funding Instructors Training Course Integrated Solid Waste Management Introduction to Environmental Auditing Municipal and Utility Financing of Environmental Projects Occupational Health Public Outreach and Communication Raising Revenues to Fund Environmental Investments Risk Assessment River Basin Council River Basin Management Setting Priorities for Environmental Investments Waste Disposal Management

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REC * EMTC * PUBLICATIONS * INSIGHT * SUMMER 1996