Environmental GIS for Montenegro
Sustainable management of natural resources cannot be made without decision making based on cross sectorial, timely and spatially accurate data. By introducing GIS as a tool into environmental sector, the project will improve transparency in management of natural resources. Activities in this project are oriented toward establishment of sector related components (and eventually whole) of National Spatial Data Infrastructure (forestry as best practice) as well as support to the Government of Montenegro in capacity building and institutional setup related to ensuring environmental sustainability.
Project Goal:
Establishment of a tool for improvement of transparency and informed decision making based on the
timely and spatially accurate data which are precondition for sustainable management of natural
resources.
Programme Components:
1. Basic layers: In order to establish common layers for data input various basic layers have been created - topo map mosaics with scale 1:25k to 1:200k, hydrography and soil maps with 1:25k scale, digital terrain model, as well as various vector data - municipal borders, state borders, roads, rivers, lakes, urban areas, etc..
2. Capacity building:
- Forestry sector – 36 people from Ministry of Forestry, Forestry Directorate, and
- Environmental Protection - 15 environment related institutions (public, private and civil sector)
- EcoTourism sector – 40 people from local tourism organisations and biking and hiking clubs
Corporate thematic area/
Relevant cross-cutting themes
Energy & Environment/ ITC4D
Project status
Operational / running
Location
Podgorica, Montenegro
Project duration
May 2005 – April 2012
UNDP Project Officer in charge
GIS Project Manager
Mr. Borko Vulikic
borko.vulikic@undp.org
Bul. Sv. Petra Cetinjskog 1A
81 000 Podgorica
Montenegro
Tel. +382 20 22 55 33; Fax +382 20 22 55 51
Donors/Major sources of financing
Government of Finland $637,000
Government of Japan $203,809
Government of Montenegro $15,000
UNDP $100,000
Budget: $955,809
Partners
Government of Montenegro;
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management;
Ministry of Tourism and Environmental Protection; Forestry Directorate of Montenegro; various environmental institutions from academic, public, private and civil sector
LuxDevelopment; GTZ
Delivery in previous fiscal years, until January 2012
$900.000
Interim results and evaluation reports
Evaluation report of the MoFA Finland at the end of
I phase
