2014 Summary

The Third Steering Committee meeting of the UNDP-GEF Project “Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Baikal Basin Transboundary Ecosystem” (hereinafter referred to as the Project) was held on July 24, 2014 in Gremyachinsk (Russia, The Republic of Buryatia). The Steering Committee considered results achieved by the Project in 2013, annual work plan and budget for 2014-2015, presentation of the Strategic Action Program (SAP) for the Lake Baikal basin, and discussed issues of enhancement of the Russian-Mongolian international cooperation in the field of use and protection of transboundary water resources.

According to 2014 work plan, approved by the Steering Committee, 28 works were carried out by different organizations within 2014. The Project took part in different activities, which comply with its goals and tasks, as well as assisted in holding of those activities. Altogether in 2014 the Project Management Unit took part in 34 activities and meetings. Information about the Project’s activity was reported in more than 83 different information resources. The list of 2014 activities the Project took part in is enclosed. The web-site works in Russian, Mongolian and English is regularly updated.

Approved budget for the second year of the Project implementation was 1,009,215.00 USD (2014 – is the third year of the Project implementation). By the end of 2014 the amount of 968,845.52 USD was spent, what accounts for 96% of the year budget. All results and reports are available at the Project web-site http://baikal.iwlearn.org.