CABRIVolga

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CABRI-Volga Cooperation Along a Big RIver
Institutional coordination among stakeholders
for environmental risk management in the Volga
basin
International Scientific and Industrial Forum
Great Rivers 2004 May, Nizhniy Novgorod
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CABRI-Volga
Project basis
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CABRI-Volga
Information about the project
INCO Proposal Research objectives Environmental
protection Management of environmental risks
associated with man-made changes, industrial and
agricultural wastes including risks to soil,
water, air and the food chain and possible
remediation
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CABRI-Volga
Information about the project
Duration January, 2005 December, 2006 Mission
statement The development of international
cooperation for The environmental risk
management, sustainable development and enhancing
human security in the Volga basin through improvin
g institutional cooperation and partnership
between multiple stakeholders, and strengthening
researches potential.
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CABRI-Volga
Project goals

• To mobilise existing human and institutional
  resources and increase the research potential on
  environmental risk management, to link Europes
  environmental research more strongly to research
  programs at the international level
• To provide a concrete contribution to major EU
  and international policy goals (Water Initiative,
  the UN Millennium Development Goals)
• To strengthen the links between the scientific
  communities and policy-making processes by
  establishing a dialogue on mutual demands and
  practical needs, and by providing policy guidance
  and knowledge transfer

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Project goals

• To follow an integrative approach for management
  of anthropogenic environmental risks in the Volga
  basin, emphasizing institutional cooperation
• To develop a long-term perspective for
  scientific cooperation and experience exchange on
  integrated environmental risk management in
  larger river basins contributing to the
  promotion of environmental and human security in
  Russia and in Europe as a whole.

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Project emphasis institutional factors

• Analysis of conditions
• Horizontal and vertical coordination of
  administrations responsible for environmental
  risk management
• Existing and potential conflicts of interests
• Participation of interest groups in the policy -
  making process
• Implementation of and demands in the
  environmental legislation

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Project emphasis institutional factors

• Analysis of links between the participants of the
  development process and management in the basin
• non-existing cooperation links and demands for
  them
• existing but inefficient cooperation links with
  room for improvement
• efficient cooperation links with possibilities
  for replication

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Project emphasis institutional factors

• Analysis of mechanisms
• strengths and weaknesses of the basin
  environmental programmes, realization experience
• quality of monitoring systems and information
  exchange
• institutional effectiveness

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CABRI targets

• International partner networks
• Local partner networks
• Existing projects, programmes and initiatives
• Institutional mechanisms
• the establishment of a Basin Council
• the establishment of Small Rivers Fund
• the establishment of the National Committee of
  the International Human Dimensions Programme

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CABRI targets

• Institutional instruments
• Ecological Doctrine of the Russian Federation,
• Volga Revival Programme
• Water Code of the Russian Federation
• Development of international projects
• Contribution to the realization of strategies
  and implementation of standards

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CABRI-Volga realization plan
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• Working Groups
• River Environmental Rehabilitation
• Human Security and Vulnerability
• Natural Resources their Sustainable Use
• Connecting Goods and People
• Institutional Coordination Cooperation

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• Work packages
• Inception
• State-of-the-art and good practices
• Scenario development
• Recommendations and future actions
• Evaluation, dissemination and exploitation of
  results
• Project management and scientific coordination

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Tangible projects outputs
Self-standing project documents based on
expert discussions in the working
groups  materials and reports provided by the
participants and project partners consensus
achieved during expert discussions Established
networks of experts and stakeholders,
incl.  at the national level - networks of
interest groups within the Volga basin at
the international level - networks ro facilitate
the exchange of experience between Europe and
Russia/NIS
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Tangible projects outputs
Operational tools, such as  website as a
knowledge pool and contact database  newsletters
and press statements  publications, containing
project materials and results  policy
briefs Concrete proposals to contribute to the
existing initiatives on the development of
coordination mechanisms along the basin, such
as  the establishment of the Volga Basin
Council the establishment of a State Fund for
the Protection of Small Rivers in the Volga
Basin  the establishment of a National Committee
for the International Human Dimension Programme
on Global Environmental Change
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Participants and partners of the project
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Consortium Participants
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Consortium partners and stakeholders from the EU
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Project partners and stakeholders from Russia
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Contact information