The project will assess the quality of nformation available from Sava countries for the ICPDR ‘Danube River Basin Analysis’.

A new project was launched in November 2005 to help Sava River Basin countries – Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, and Slovenia – develop their Sava River Basin Management Plan (RBMP), under the coordination of the new Sava River Basin Commission.

“Activities will be guided by the ICPDR’s ongoing work for making the Danube RBMP based on the Road Map, and by the progress made in the Tisza River Basin with WFD reporting,” says Team Leader Alexander Zinke. Support is provided through the UNDP-GEF Danube Regional Project (DRP) until 2007 with the goal of full plan completion with ICPDR guidance by 2009.
(See the project’s Inception Report on www.undp-drp.org.)

A related DRP-funded NGO project was launched January to boost public involvement in developing the Sava RBMP. “There are serious environmental issues that need to be addressed in the Sava Basin such as pollution and navigation and the public should contribute in solving them,” says Mirjana Bartula of the Danube Environment Forum Serbia and Montenegro.

DEF NGOs from each Sava country will form an ‘International Sava River NGO Committee’ to involve NGOs during Sava Plan development.

The Sava River Basin Management Plan is being developed under the coordination of the new Sava River Basin Commission.
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Paul Csagoly
is a communications specialist for the UNDP/GEF Danube Regional Project,
and a writer on European environmental issues since 1996.