The Danube Regional Project (DRP) was launched on December 1, 2002 as the next phase of UNDP-GEF's long-term commitment to achieving environmental health in the Danube River Basin. The main goal of the DRP is to improve environmental quality by strengthening the structures and activities already in place in the basin to deal with pollution and environmental degradation. The DRP supports local-level action, including activities related to public participation, communications, local pilot-demonstration activities and a grants programme for NGOs. Already well under way, the DRP is an umbrella for some 80 activities: these are aimed at improving water supply and other water services; strengthening agricultural policy; providing river-basin management tools and protecting wetlands; and others. One specific goal in the effort to reduce nutrient pollution is to persuade industry and consumers to eliminate phosphates from detergents.  The DRP will be carried out over five years, and carries a total budget of USD 15 million. The first phase is currently underway. Within this regional initiative there is an awareness-raising component that will enable NGOs and other stakeholders to contribute to the reduction of nutrients and other pollution in the Danube River Basin through projects on both a national and regional scale. Return to Danube Grants Page

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