Cross-border dialogue and Multi-Use Planning in the Pasvik and Grense Jakobselv catchments

Programme 2014 - 2020 Kolarctic ENI CBC

Description

Description (EN):

The overall objective of this project is to sustain and improve the state of the environment within Pasvik and Grense Jakobselv cross-border river basins, to the benefit of local people, and to increase the viability of the local economy. The project output will be a revised Multi-Use Plan document for the river basins of Pasvik and Grense Jakobselv. The target groups in the planning process will include regional authorities and the municipalities of Pechenga (Russia), Sør-Varanger (Norway) and Inari (Finland), local enterprises and industry, hydropower companies, research- and monitoring institutions, non- governmental organisations (NGO’s) as well as other representatives of the local population in the area.

Achievements (EN):

The project has facilitated the planning process resulting in a new, joint Multi-Use Plan for Pasvik and Grense Jakobselv (Vuorjema). The new plan will be a tool for the joint, environmental management of the transboundary catchments in the time span till 2030. The plan includes a Programme of Measures (PoM) for the years 2021-2030. The PoM has separate trilateral goals and measures within the following planning topics: 1) Industrial pollution, 2) Water regulations, 3) Waste water (sewage) from households, 4) Ecological enlightenment, environmental information and citizen science, 5) Land fills, 6) Gold panning, 7) Forestry, 8) Tourism- environmental effects, 9) Nature protection, 10) Pink salmon and 11) Changes to the river environment: erosion control structures and canalization. The plan also gives recommendations for future monitoring of the environmental status in the border area and guidelines for follow-up of the PoM. The project has succeeded in producing a plan with similar content for all three all countries. It is a substantial achievement to write and agree on a text of total 66 pages, along with a total of 48 measures, taking into account that 39 institutions from three different countries have been involved. In the 1996- plan, we only had joint recommendations for the catchments. In this revision, we have succeeded in identifying concrete measures and responsible organizations. We have also identified follow-up mechanisms (structures) which will ease the realization of the measures. The PoM is, therefore, an improvement as to the previous plan.

Themes

Regional planning and development Waterways, lakes and rivers

Thematic Objective: Environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation

Partners

Lead Partner: The Office of the Finnmark County Governor

Address: Damsveien 1, 9815 Vadsø, Norway

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 161 985.00

Third-country contribution: EUR 80 993.00

Pasvik State Nature Reserve

Name: Pasvik State Nature Reserve

Address: Gvardeyskyi st. 43, 184420 Nikel, Russia

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 141 411.00

ERDF budget: EUR 35 352.75

ENI budget: EUR 35 352.75

Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment in Lapland.

Name: Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment in Lapland.

Address: Hallituskatu 3, 96100 Rovaniemi, Finland

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 100 752.00

ERDF budget: EUR 25 188.00

ENI budget: EUR 25 188.00

Summary

Project name (EN): Cross-border dialogue and Multi-Use Planning in the Pasvik and Grense Jakobselv catchments

Project acronym: Multi-Use Plan

Period: 2014-2020

Date of latest update: 2023-03-03

Website: https://kolarctic.info/

Project start date: 2018-12-01

Project end date: 2020-11-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 404 148.00

European Union funding: EUR 121 082.00

Co-financing sources: ERDF, Third-country contribution, ENPI/ENI/NDICI

Third-country contribution: Norway: EUR 80 993.00 (ERDF equivalent only)

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Pasvik State Nature Reserve

Cross-border dialogue and Multi-Use Planning in the Pasvik and Grense Jakobselv catchments

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Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment in Lapland.

Cross-border dialogue and Multi-Use Planning in the Pasvik and Grense Jakobselv catchments

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The Office of the Finnmark County Governor

Cross-border dialogue and Multi-Use Planning in the Pasvik and Grense Jakobselv catchments

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2014 - 2020 Kolarctic ENI CBC

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-06-26

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

45 / 45 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

194 / 194 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Part of the data was retrieved by Interact from the programme´s website on the 2023-06-15. Regarding those partners only data of main partners is available. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (https://kolarctic.info/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2023-01-09.

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Cross-border dialogue and Multi-Use Planning in the Pasvik and Grense Jakobselv catchments

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