ECOLOGY PROGRAM INITIATIVES

Project 1

TOGETHER FOR CLEANER ENVIRONMENT

Within the ecology programme the Centre for Permaculture and Peacebuilding applied with a project proposal Together for Cleaner Environment on the call for proposals announced by the Regional Ecology Centre for Central and Eastern Europe. This call was part of the project Implementation of the Århus Convention in Republic of Macedonia Strategy Building, with a title Improvement of the Public Participation Practices.

The Århus Convention is an international agreement with a full title Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters. This convention was adopted on 25 July 1998 on the fourth ministerial conference Europe's Environment, held in the town Århus and supported by the UN Economic Commission for Europe. The Convention is ratified by 9 countries by now, among which is the Republic of Macedonia

The project Together for Cleaner Environment is about introducing the public with the Århus Convention and practice of the right for the public to be included in the process of decisions making regarding ecology issues. More precisely, the project realization envisages preparation of an Action Plan for management of the waste in the Stip municipality, for which local authorities relevant for this issue will be included, of course taking into consideration the comments, opinions and suggestions of the citizens.

This project was approved and will be realized in a period of 6 months starting from February 2006.

Activity 1

ECOLOGY SITUATION SCREENING IN STIP

According to the ecology programmes goals field scanning was taken and were identified waste grounds in the central area of the town.

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Therefore PPC Shtip strongly decided to work on overcoming the problem with the waste management in Shtip through partners’ activities with the stakeholders as the municipality, public company Isar, urban communities as a possibility for reaching the citizens and their involvement through awareness raising and public participation at the decision making process.

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