The “ENPI East Countries FLEG II Program – Complementary Measures for Georgia and Armenia”, supported by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) with funds of Austrian Development Cooperation, is being implemented by the World Bank in partnership with WWF and IUCN. It complements the EU-funded FLEG II Program.
The objectives of the Program are to support Georgia and Armenia in strengthening forest governance through improving implementation of relevant international processes, enhancing their forest policy, legislation and institutional arrangements, and developing, testing and evaluating sustainable forest management models at the local level on a pilot basis for future replication.
Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC) supports countries in Africa, Asia, South Eastern and Eastern Europe as well as the Caribbean in their sustainable development. The Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs (MFA) plans ADC strategies. Austrian Development Cooperation aims at reducing poverty, conserving natural resources and promoting peace and human security in partner countries. Long-term programmes and projects support help towards self-help. The ultimate goal is to bring about a sustainable improvement in conditions of life.
ADA Final Steering Committee Meeting presentations
- Assessment of Chokhatauri Forests Against SFM Criteria & Indicators (MCPFE, 2002a)
- Summary of Activities Linked to Inventory in Chokatauri District
- Results of the forest inventory of Chokhatauri forest unit, Georgia
- Country presentation. GEORGIA
- Рубен Петросян, Главный лесничий ГНКО «АРМЛЕС»
- ENPI-FLEG II Some lessons learnt
- Minutes of the Fourth (Final) Steering Committee Meeting
Georgia - final reports
- Strategic environmental and social assessment of draft Forest Code of Georgia
- საქართველოს კანონი პონტოს მუხის აღკვეთილის შექმნისა და მართვის შესახებ
- Usage and supply of firewood and other alternatives by rural communities in Georgia – Cost-benefit analysis (Executive Summary)
- Supporting the Development of the State Programme on Providing Rural Population with Heating Sources, Including Firewood in Georgia
- The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for the Forestry Sector of Adjara Autonomous Republic, Georgia
- საქართველოს კანონი პონტოს მუხის აღკვეთილის შექმნისა და მართვის შესახებ
- Environmental and Social Management Plan for Preparing Text of the Possible Draft Law on the Establishment of Pontic Oak (Quercus pontica) Protected Area in Chokhatauri Municipality, Georgia
- Environmental and Social Management Plan for Restoration of sub-alpine mountain forests in the selected location in Ajara Autonomous Republic, Georgia
- Forest Inventory of Chokhatauri Forest Unit
Armenia
Contacts
ADA in Armenia
Nora Alanakyan
Nora.Alanakyan@ada.gv.at
ADA in Georgia
Nikoloz Grdzelidze
nikoloz.grdzelidze@ada.gv.at
Moving on the International Chessboard to Save Boxwood
FLEG II leads an international team of experts to stop massive decline of Georgian boxwood forests
Role Playing Brings Real Solutions
The Forest Law Enforcement and Governance Program (FLEG II) organized two trainings, one in Borjomi and one in Kvareli this July. The sessions were the first time Georgian natural resource law enforcement officials have received legal and practical training directly from active judges, one from the Tbilisi Court of Appeals and one from the Borjomi Magistrate Court, whose jurisdiction includes a significant part of Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park in southern Georgia.
FLEG II Continues Implementation of School Forestry Education Program in Southern Armenia
On July 14, 2015 a session about fire prevention and control was delivered in the frames of the school forestry education program. The program is implemented in Tatev, Svarants and Tandzatap communities of Syunik Region of Armenia for school children and teachers with the aim to increase their awareness and knowledge about forests.
Supporting forest restoration in Ajara, Georgia
FLEG II has purchased a mini-tractor, drilling mechanism, cultivator and rotating cultivator for the Forestry Agency of Ajara (FAA). Under this Program, forest restoration works were initiated in Khulo Municipality of Ajara Autonomous Republic, Georgia. FLEG II contributes to fencing of more than 100 ha of degraded forest near village Bodzauri to protect it from cattle grazing.
FLEG II supports forest restoration works in Ajara region
Overgrazing is a major cause of forest degradation in Ajara region as in many other parts of Georgia. FLEG II will support forest restoration works in Ajara region. WWF-Caucasus will purchase wooden poles, barbed wire, forest restoration tools and mechanisms and transfer to the Forestry Agency of Ajara (FAA) to contribute to fencing of about 100 ha of degraded forest to protect it from cattle grazing. The actual fencing work will be conducted by the FAA by end of July – August 2015.