Ukraine (Total: USD 27,950) Carpathians without Pesticides – Clean Danube USD 8,550 NGO Name: WETI Journalist Environmental Public Organization Project Leader: Peslyak Volodymyr                                   Project Summary: The project aims to increase awareness and knowledge of water pollution issues in the area caused by pesticides, and to improve management instruments for pollution reduction and pollution prevention in the area of pesticide and insecticide storages. In order to address the issue, the public network “Carpathian Ecopulse” will be created in the area of Tisa, Prut and Seret Danube basin rivers. The following activities are envisaged within the scope of the project: monitoring of pesticide storages conditions; creation of brigades that would reveal uncontrolled storage; disseminating environmental information; holding public hearings and educational field trips; compiling and printing informational booklets; systematically raising related issues in the mass media; and developing recommendations for local administrations and municipalities. The Blue Gold of the Danube is Our Common Heritage  USD 9,400 NGO Name: Regional Black Sea NGOs Network Project Leader: Kholomiets’ Hanna                                      Project Summary: The project aim is to establish intersectoral cooperation in order to solve the conflict round the construction of a navigation channel through the Danube Biosphere reserve area that causes water pollution by nutrients and toxics and disturbs wetland ecosystems. In order to achieve the aim such measures are going to be undertaken: collection of all the documents concerning the construction of the channel; holding of public hearings, involving scientific experts, 16 NGOs of the Regional Black Sea Network, other NGOs, municipalities; and proposing common recommendations on the optimal variant of channel construction that could minimise the levels of pollution. The conclusions of public hearings will be spread among public and involved sectors. The expected results are: shaping of attitudes among public and local communities towards the construction of the channel, and finding ways of cooperation in the realisation of alternative solutions between local authorities, transport sector and the public, leading to nutrient and toxic pollution prevention. School of Environmental Leadership  USD 10,000 NGO Name: New Generation All-Ukrainian Public Association Project Leader: Miroshnychenko Sophia                                     Project Summary: The aim of the project is to give environmental leaders the skills and knowledge needed to systematically address nutrient and toxic pollution. To this end, the project plans to organise a series of trainings aimed at improving water quality according to the following topics: developing inter-sectoral cooperation; conducting lobbying and campaigning; and preparing legal acts and statements at the local level. The project will have a direct and indirect impact on the reduction of nutrient pollution, namely: established cooperation between the representatives of local authorities, the public and manufacturers; and proposed recommendations on the solution of the existing problems in the town of Snyatyn, with nutrient emissions from poultry farms and food processing plants, that could serve as a basis for the development of legal act projects. No less than 20 leaders will be prepared and equipped with the necessary skills.

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