Priority Environmental Investment Programme PEIP

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• Priority Environmental Investment Programme
  (PEIP)
• CARDS Regional Regional Meeting for Senior
  Officials from SEE and Donors Community 26th
  November, Brussels, Belgium
• PEIP work plan 2008

Joanna Fiedler, Senior Project Manager
Environmental Financing
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• SCOPE OF PEIP
• Project duration (since 2002)
• May 2007 May 2009 (24 months)
• Project budget 400,000 euros
• Project coverage 6 countries (Albania, BiH,
• Croatia, FYROM, Montenegro and
• Serbia Kosovo UNSCR 1244)
• 3 sectors air, waste, water
• ! Budget per country approx. 67000 euros

PEIP

• Projects identification
• Projects prioritisation
• Capacity building on
• project preparation
• Institutional strengthening on
• implementing investment heavy
• directives,
• Facilitating dialogue between
• countries and donors community
• - Developing tools and manuals

• WHAT PEIP DOES NOT DO-
• Project preparation (feasibility
• Studies, pre-feasibility studies,
• EIA etc)

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Regional impact of PEIP since 2001

• Present situation
• Harmonised approach exist
• Better understanding of donor
• requirements
• More infrastructure projects
• financed
• Donors increased their financial
• assistance to the region

• Past situation in the SEE
• Lack of harmonised approach
• towards projects identification
• and prioritisation
• Donors supporting not
• priority projects
• Lack of understanding of
• donors requirements
• Low flow of money to the region
• negligible number of
• infrastructure projects developed

• PEIP input to the process
• Infrastructure projects identification
• Assistance in prioritisation
• Developing lists of projects
• Capacity building on project preparation
• Identification of barriers and solutions for
  infrastructure projects

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The way forward

• New challenges in SEE
• EU investment heavy
• directives
• Identification of all
• projects needed for compliance
• Developing domestic
• sources of finance
• project proponents capacity building
• improving conditions for
• borrowing and private sector
• involvement

• Expected results
• Lists of projects for
• compliance
• Trained project proponents
• Increased flow of resources
• to the region
• Increased number
• of infrastructure projects

• PEIP response to the challenge
• Updating lists for compliance with EU directives
• Developing manuals for project proponents
• Supporting regional networking and facilitating
  dialogue
• Providing capacity building to project proponents

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Work plan 2008

• Activity 1 Developing updated lists of
  infrastructure investment projects
• Two updates in 2008 (May, November)
• Identified new projects gathering information
  on project identification forms (PIF) and
  conducting prioritization
• Developing case studies of successfully financed
  projects
• Developing two analytical reports accompany the
  updated lists

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Work plan 2008

• Activity 2 Manuals on developing and preparing
  environmental infrastructure projects
• One manual to be developed (May 2008)
• Consultations with focal points
• Defying the scope of manuals
• Aim to present it on the next regional meeting

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Work plan 2008

• Activity 3 Regional Meetings
• Two regional meetings in 2008
• Presentation of updated lists and reports
• Discussion of new challenges
• Dialogue with IFIs and donors community

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Work plan 2008

• Activity 4 National Workshops
• 5 national workshops in 2008 (2 from 2007
  Croatia and FYROM)
• 3 other country to determine
• Identification of participants (project
  proponents)
• Tailored training for participants (demand
  driven)

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• Thank you for your attention
• Joanna Fiedler
• Senior project manager
• Environmental financing and economic instruments
• Environmental Policy Programme
• Regional Environmental Center for
• Central and Eastern Europe
• jfiedler_at_rec.org