ALBANIA/MONTENEGRO LAKE SKHODER INTEGRATED ECOSYSTEM MANAGE

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The objective of the Lake Skadar-Shkoder Integrated Ecosystem Management Project for Albania and Montenegro is to help establish and strengthen institutional mechanisms for Tran's boundary cooperation through joint efforts to improve sustainable management of Lake Skadar-Shkoder. There are three components to the project. The first component is the capacity building for improved understanding and joint management of the lake. This component builds capacity to establish and strengthen institutional cooperation to operationally the Skadar-Shkodra Lake Management Commission (SLC) and its secretariat. An initial four technical working groups of the Commission will be established through this component to support priority Strategic Action Plan (SAP) activities including: planning and legal; monitoring and research; and water management. The second component is the promoting sustainable use of the lake. This component will promote adoption of sustainable approaches to economic development of the lake (and its natural resources) by focusing on tourism and fisheries where there is high potential for economically significant sustainable use. It will support environmentally and socially sustainable tourism by improving nature- and culture-based facilities and attractions; raising public awareness; and providing technical assistance to local residents considering tourism-based businesses. Finally, the third component is the catalyze pollution reduction investments. This component will support selected investments to stimulate pollution reduction activities: educate and encourage people to replicate demonstration projects of village-level wastewater treatment and buffer vegetation restoration; and provide Technical Assistance (TA) to catalyze remediation of the lake's largest-scale industrial pollution hotspot.