Environment Project (Russia)

The main objectives of the Environmental Management Project (EMP) are to assist the Russian authorities to: 1) strengthen and streamline federal and regional institutional structures for environmental and natural resource management; 2) improve federal and regional environmental policy and strategy formulation and implementation; 3) upgrade environmental and natural resource management systems; 4) assist in the financing of economically viable, high priority resource recovery/pollution abatement projects in the country; and 5) facilitate the flow of donor funds and resources to the environmental protection sector. The project consists of the following five main components: a) institutional and policy strengthening, including two subcomponents (policy and regulatory support and environmental epidemiology); b) water quality and water resource management; c) hazardous waste management; d) the National Abatement Facility (NPAF) for funding economically and financially viable pollution abatement projects; and e) the Center for Project Preparation and Implementation under the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources.