Through eight specifically designed regional workshops, the project would: i)Improve Government understanding of the Stockholm Convention, and the benefits of and the need to become a Party; ii)Improve Government understanding of the nature of the problems caused by POPs iii)Help countries understand what their obligations are under the Stockholm Convention; iv)Encourage and facilitate early ratification of the Convention; v)Identify some of the legislative, capacity building, investment and other infrastructural measures needed to support the implementation of the Stockholm Convention an

( This review should be read along with earlier review which preceded this review sheet). The objective of the project is the conservation and sustainable use of the international watershed and biodiversity of the Fouta Djallon highlands. The project will build on the experiences of the Fouta Djallon Programme coordinated by ICO-OAU which was aimed at promoting holistic approaches to integrated ecosystem management-based participatory and community-based strategies.

The overall objective of the project is to establish a nature reserve in Dibeen Forest to conserve unique and globally significant biodiversity, develop sustainable alternative economic uses of the forest resources in context of a regional forest park, and build in-country capacity in forest management and conservation-orientated land use planning.

1. Development of the Lake Peipsi/Chudskoe Basin Management Program (further Management Program) in accord to the Estonian Water Act, European Water Framework Directive, and Russian Water Code .