Project Description
The project had the following principal tasks:
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To assist BiH in setting up an environmental monitoring and reporting system, in line with the European Environmental Information and Observation Network (EIONET);
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To strengthen the capacities of environmental professionals involved in developing and operating the system;
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To initiate a cost effective and practical monitoring activity, contributing to an identified priority monitoring topic.
Services provided by SYKE:
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Development of institutional arrangements (for sharing and harmonizing environmental monitoring, data collection and transfer, consolidation, reporting and dissemination);
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Evaluation of relations among institutes involved in monitoring (legal aspects); development of terms of references for different stakeholders involved in monitoring; establishment of regulatory responsibilities and duties among institutes involved in monitoring;
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Support in technical arrangements for monitoring (obtaining coherent system from technical point of view);
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Compilation of the methodological handbook (quality assurance/quality control issues);
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Facilitating dissemination of know-how throughout the monitoring community;
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Development of Memorandums of Understanding to be agreed by the beneficiaries and the concerned stakeholders.
In addition SYKE provided the project with several short-term experts e.g. in the following fields: biodiversity, waste, soil, air.
More information:
Ms Kati Pritsi, Project Coordinator, International Affairs Unit, Finnish Environment Institute