The municipalities Rudozem, Madan and Devin are working together to improve their municipal capacity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to the changing climate

About this project

<p style="text-align: justify">The project will be implemented by: the leading municipality of Rudozem and the project partner-municipalities Devin and Madan, the NGO Club “Economika 2000”, NGO "Club za zeleni politiki" and IOWA AS – Norway. The project covers the territory of the three municipalities and has a duration of 20 months. The main objective of the project proposal is: To improve the state of the environment and to mitigate the effect of pollution and climate change by increasing the capacity of local communities in the three municipalities, and indirectly in other municipalities, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to adapt to the changing climate. The objective of the project proposal will be met in a concrete and consistent way through the implementation of the eight planned project activities. The first project activity relates to project management and organization. The other activities are envisioned to: six of the activities will include measures relating to adaption to climate change (Activities 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8) and six of the activities include measures relating to mitigation of climate change (Activities 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8).</p>

Bilateral cooperation results

The partner IOWA AS from the donor country Norway is committed to the implementation of activity 3 "Research and dissemination of good practices of a donor country for climate change mitigation and adaptation. The Norwegian partner conducted a training to present good practices from Norway for implementing climate change mitigation and adaptation measures, which are implemented by local authorities and other public or private organizations. Representatives of all three municipalities, the Economy 2000 Club and the Green Policies Club association participated in the training.

Project partners

• IOWA AS Donor project partner· Norway