Project

Enabling Transboundary Cooperation and Integrated Water Resources Management in the Dniester River Basin

Lead country

Regional Centre - Istanbul

Participating countries

Moldova Republic, Ukraine

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From August 10, 2017 to May 10, 2021

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 7.b Expand energy infrastructure, upgrade technology
  2. 6.4 Increase water-use efficiency, sustainable water withdrawals
  3. 6.5 Implement integrated water resources management

Project ID: 5269

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Technical team

  • Oceans and Water Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Climate resilient integrated water resource & coastal area management

Landscape(s)

  • Wetlands
  • FreshWaters
  • Human altered areas

Sub-landscape(s)

  • General
  • Rivers and river basins
  • Mining sites
  • Industrial site

Transformed sector(s)

  • Agriculture
  • Aquaculture

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Convening / Partnerships / Knowledge Sharing
  • Data collection and analysis

Strategy

  • Governance
  • Enabling
  • Management operation

Sub-strategy

  • Transboundary governance
  • Partnerships
  • Inter-sectoral coordination
  • Ecosystem mitigation and adaptation
  • Mainstream
  • Ecosystem-based management
  • Integrated water resource management

Social inclusion

  • Women

Gender equality

  • Awareness raising (on gender)

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender targeted

Pathway(s)

  • Systems pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Reduce exposure

SDG target(s)

  • 7.b Expand energy infrastructure, upgrade technology
  • 6.4 Increase water-use efficiency, sustainable water withdrawals
  • 6.5 Implement integrated water resources management

Conventions and protocols

  • Strategic Action Programme
  • Other Global Conventions
  • National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs)

Private sector(s)

N/A

Hot topic

  • Multi-stakeholder collaboration
  • Food and agricultural commodities strategy

About this project

Description

The overall objective of the project is to support ‘Integrated water resources management in the Dniester river basin to strengthen sustainable development, through the update of the TDA, development and endorsement of the SAP and initiation of its implementation,' and has been designed to deal with important water/environment issues within Moldova and Ukraine. The main directions of work will be:•Undertaking a detailed situation analysis in the transboundary Dniester basin (TDA) and agreeing on the joint Strategic Action Programme (SAP). These will support the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine to implement the EU Water Framework Directive (EU Association Agreements signed in 2014 by both countries), the National Environment Strategies for the Republic of Moldova for the period 2014 -2023 and the National Environmental Policy Strategy of Ukraine to 2020, •Support to the transboundary management bodies, and to facilitate the national inter-sectoral and stakeholder dialogues, which fall under the obligations of the two states to implement the UNECE Water Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes and the EU WFD,•Addressing the issue of water quantity taking into account the needs of various upstream and downstream stakeholders (working with the hydropower sector, water balance, addressing adaptation to climate change) which are reflected in the National Adaptation Strategy for the Republic of Moldova (2014), and the bilateral Strategic Framework for Adaptation to Climate Change in the Dniester River Basin (2015),•Implementing pilot projects on some of the most burning issues on the basin: degradation of the small rivers, loss of biological diversity. Actions on these issues are prescribed by the Strategy for Biodiversity Conservation of the Republic of Moldova for 2015-2020, National Environmental Policy Strategy of Ukraine till 2020, bilateral Strategic Framework for Adaptation to Climate Change in the Dniester River Basin (2015), and the management plans for several wetlands of international importance (the Ramsar sites) located along in the Dniester river. •All project activities will follow a gender strategy to be developed in the inception phase and will, as a minimum, record sex-disaggregated data on all participants.

Objectives

Integrated water resources management in the Dniester river basin to strengthen sustainable development, through the update of the TDA, development and endorsement of the SAP and initiation of its implementation.

USD $2,000,000

Grant amount

USD $19,465,000

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($2,000,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Moldova Republic

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

In-depth analysis of water resources, related ecosystems and their use1) Science- based consensus among the countries and key stakeholders on major transboundary problems of the basinUnderstanding current and future priority environmental issues, and their transboundary implications, including potential implications for security, by key basin stakeholders and the publicLocal stakeholders ready to minimize negative consequences for economic sectors as well as the environment in the basin

 Indicators:

Indicator 1.3.1: Number of new partnership mechanisms with funding for sustainable management solutions of natural resources, ecosystem services, chemicals and waste at national and/or subnational level
Indicator 2.5.2: Extent to which capacities to implement national or local plans for integrated water resource management or to protect and restore the health, productivity and resilience of oceans and marine ecosystems have improved.Operational bi-national river authority (commission) functioning with advice from expert working groups and involvement from wide range of stakeholders
Local strategy for adaptation to climate change developed
Scenarios and methodologies for predicting 'water futures' available to basin stakeholders
TDA completed and agreed by Moldova and Ukraine
Increase in stakeholder involvement in water governance/management and awareness
Number of lessons/experiences disseminated (documenting also gender mainstreaming experience
Number of national stakeholders trained
SAP Endorsed by high-level representatives from Moldova and Ukraine
Strengthen bilateral bodies
Agreement on data exchanges and monitoring with Improvements on hydro-met services
Establishment of framework for flood early warning and forecasting
Implementation of pilot demonstration project
Increased availability of basin-wide information
Participation in GEF IW Conference and IW:LEARN exchanges
Project website functional and number of visits
Outcome 2:

Development of the policy, legal and institutional set-up, mandate and capacities of the River Basin Commission for strengthened basin-level cooperation Strengthened environmental transboundary cooperation in the Dniester basinAgreed actions to address major transboundary problems of the Dniester basin (SAP) with established collaborative mechanism for multi-country cooperation framework Involvement of stakeholders in the decision making processes of the Commission and its institutionsProject experiences and lessons disseminated globally and regionally
Outcome 3:

Strengthening of water resources and biodiversity monitoring and conservation, and information exchange in the Dniester River Basin Stronger information base and better accessibility of the relevant information in the Dniester basin for the joint management of water resourcesA coordinated institutional and legal framework for access to and exchange of information from monitoring and other sources, including the use and further development of the Dniester basin GIS involving stakeholders from the whole basinImproved capacities for monitoring in the basin, and the partial implementation of the agreed monitoring and information exchange programme
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