Project Information

The project Integrating Global Environmental Issues into Bulgaria’s Regional Development Process (working title: Rio Conventions Project) is a joint initiative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works (MRDPW) and the Ministry of Environment and Water (MoEW), financed by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF).

The project will support the integration of three UN conventions – UN Convention on Biodiversity (UNCBD), UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), or otherwise known as the Rio Conventions - into regional development and spatial planning processes in Bulgaria.

The long-term goal of the project is to embed global environmental concerns into the processes of regional and local development, as well as spatial planning in Bulgaria. The project objective is to build capacities of MRDPW and MoEW for mainstreaming global environment into the formulation and implementation of regional and local development, as well as spatial planning policies.