Official PDF , 104 pages

104 Pages·2011·3.85 MB·English

by  World Bank Group

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ENVIROONMENTAL REEFORM PPROJECCT (NEMMO II)
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2010 MOONITOORINNG
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ULAAANBAATAAR
Maarch 2011
Content(cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3)
Preface ................................................................................................................................ 1
Monitoring methodology .................................................................................................. 2
Monitoring coordination .................................................................................................. 3
Evaluation of individual projects upon monitoring ..................................................... 10
COMBATING DESERTIFICATION, SOIL AND VEGETATION
REHABILITATION ....................................................................................................... 11
Afforestation to alleviate desertification progress (232) .............................................. 12
Saxaul grove (208) ........................................................................................................ 14
Establishing public control on use and conservation of glycyrryza uralensis fisch
(sweet grass) (472) ........................................................................................................ 16
Saxaul woods (225)....................................................................................................... 18
Practical skill development of students through afforestation practice (152) ............... 20
Synergy (465)................................................................................................................ 25
Vital water (198) ........................................................................................................... 27
Prevent sand movement, strengthening the soil and preserving the nature and pasture
(43) ................................................................................................................................ 29
Protecting the soil by planting perennial plants in steppe region (10) .......................... 31
Protecting the soil by planting native gobi frutescent plant “morin teseg” in the steppe
region (182) ................................................................................................................... 33
Chuh eco education (249) ............................................................................................. 35
Combating desertification process (449) ...................................................................... 36
ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION, TRAINING AND PUBLIC AWARENESS
RAISING ......................................................................................................................... 38
Green grove and blue spring (3) ................................................................................... 39
Ukhug is a public worship (5) ....................................................................................... 41
Youth tendency – The future of the willow grove (6) .................................................. 43
Information center for environment protection (328) ................................................... 44
Protect the trees and woody plants (528) ...................................................................... 45
Herders involvement in enviromment protection (339) ................................................ 47
Young environmentalist (347) ...................................................................................... 48
Environmentally friendly children (609) ...................................................................... 50
WILDFIRE PREVENTION WITH COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION ................. 52
Strengthen local community’s capacity to prevent from wildfire (324) ....................... 53
Increasing public involvement in preventing forest fire. (478) .................................... 55
Strengthen local capacity to prevent forest fire. (313) .................................................. 56
Public involvement (558) .............................................................................................. 58
PROTECTION FROM ILLEGAL FOREST-CUTTING .......................................... 59
Owners of White-Water (27) ........................................................................................ 60
Establish public monitoring system for combating forest theft (37) ............................ 62
Khurgalag (146) ............................................................................................................ 64
STRENGTHENING ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION COMMUNITIES ....... 65
Public’s involvement on Implementation of “Law on conducting mineral search in
river basins, water and forest reservoir areas and prohibiting usage” (314) ................. 66
Establish “Participatory monitoring and assessment team (PMAT)” to improve
environmental and mineral law implementation in rural areas (240) ........................... 67
Owners of the forest (466) ............................................................................................ 68
Protection (446) ............................................................................................................ 69
Fruit grove (63) ............................................................................................................. 70
Training model for community members on environmental management skills (195) 71
Introduce new methods to protect the water and soil with the participation of local
people and prevent from desertification (554) .............................................................. 72
Establish public monitoring on implementation of local environmental programs and
organize training for creating capacity for local communities(257) ............................. 73
MINING - PUBLIC MONITORING ............................................................................ 74
Licensing – Public monitoring (312) ............................................................................ 75
Public involvement and monitoring on implementation of mining sector laws and
regulations (414) ........................................................................................................... 76
Eastern Steppe (429) ..................................................................................................... 78
IMPROVING THE SKILLS OF LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL OFFICERS ......... 79
Improving capacities of local level environmental protection plan (38) ...................... 80
Strengthen skills of inspectors to conduct EIA in central region. (336) ....................... 81
Skill building tele-training for authorities in charge of environmental matters. (136) . 82
Organizing skill building training for local authorities in charge of environmental
matters. (360) ................................................................................................................ 83
WASTE REDUCTION ................................................................................................... 84
Reducing paper wastes (433) ........................................................................................ 85
Reducing wastes produced by Bulgan soum local entities and citizens. Create public
involvement in monitoring implementation of laws and regulations concerning waste
(242) .............................................................................................................................. 87
Let’s start it ourselves (396) ......................................................................................... 88
PROTECTING WATER SOURCES ............................................................................ 90
Create manual to create pond using the local resources, organize a demonstration and
reduce pasture degradation (304) .................................................................................. 91
Daliu spring protection (567) ........................................................................................ 92
Protect Gert spring (559) .............................................................................................. 94
PROPER MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES ...................................... 95
Initiative to protect Gun-Galuutai area with involvement of locals (1) ........................ 96
Restoration in a biological way (424) ........................................................................... 98
Educate herder communities of two soums of Tuv province on restoring pasture by
plantation of alfalfa, increasing resource and proper usage of pasture (33) ............... 100
Lesson learned from during project implementation ................................................ 102(cid:3)
Preface
NEMO II Small grant program has received 616 project proposals in 2010 and of which 51
projects have been selected and granted total of 280’421 USD. Projects can be classified into
6 groups by the types of implementing organization: 26 NGOs, 7 community
environmentalgroups, 7 research teams, 3 student clubs, 3 citizens movements, 3 herder
communities and 2 university teams. Geographically, 16 projects have been from Ulaanbaatar
and 35 projects from rural areas.
Out of the selected 51 projects, 46 (90%) of them have been implemented in 87 soums of 52
provinces in repeated number. Most of the projects focus producing an effective outcome on
environmental protection, reducing wastes, activate and strengthen capacities of local
communities, protect rivers and springs from pollution, proper use of natural resources, wildfire
prevention, educate the public and related government agency employees and providing with
training materials.
Remaining 5 projects are nationwide and focused on providing training, TV programs on
increasing capacities of local level environment protection planning and local community
members and environmental rangers and establishing a database for environmental protection.
If categorize projects by its activities and outputs, they can be divided into 9 categories, which
are 12 projects on Combating desertification, rehabilitating soil and vegetation cover, 8 projects
on training and public awareness raising, 7 projects on preventing and protecting against forest
fire and public involvement in protecting from illegal forest cutting, 8 projects on strengthening
local communities to preserve nature, 3 projects on public monitoring on mining regulations, 4
projects on increasing capacities of local environmental staff, 3 projects on reducing wastes, 3
projects on protecting water source and 3 projects on proper management of natural resources.
Here are the some statistics of the project implementation: total of 5,200 people have attended
the training, 10,880 training and handout materials have been printed and distributed, over
17,776 plantations and 3,283 kg of various seeds of trees and woody species have been
planted, 45 information boards have been installed, 25 local community groups (including
herder groups and groups for environmental protection) have been established and 368
equipment have been distributed to local communities through implementation of 51 projects.
Monitoring methodology
The following tools were used in the project monitoring.
At the project implementation site:
Meeting project participants, beneficiaries, trainers, trainees, local authorities, citizens and
local movements to get their feedback and opinion about the impact, results and sustainability
of the completed and ongoing environmental projects in local environmental management area;
Getting introduced with the projects` implementation and providing advices;
Evaluating training related materials, condition and process if any training was reflected in the
project; and
Reviewing mid-term report etc.
Training assessment was carried out using the following criteria:
Goal;
Outcome;
List of participants (name, occupation, address, phone number);
Training environment: capacity, accessibility, convenience, heating, light, board and visual
materials;
Handouts;
Type of participation: dialogue, lecture, PRA, PLA;
Trainer: CV, training method, experience; and
Training evaluation sheets filled by trainees
The monitoring results of implementation of each project is incorporated into this report under
respective sub-themes
The following chapters describe results of monitoring visits to the project sites. Note that some
of monitoring trip results is not included yet due to shortage of time for preparation of this report.
Monitoring coordination
In 2010, the monitoring and evaluation activities for the small projects under NEMO were
organized as follows:
First phase of the monitoring: Open-door day has been organized jointly by MET and OSF on
9th April, 2010 to introduce project activities to the public and the first monitoring has been
carried out with public participation.
Second phase of the monitoring: Under the authorization of Deputy Minister of Environment
and Tourism and National Project Director, a Project Monitoring Committee (PMC) has been
formed including Project Coordinator, Project Finance Manager (PMD), Head of Information,
Monitoring and Evaluation Department (D.Dagvadorj), Senior specialist of Public Administration
Management Department (D.Enebish), Senior specialist of Sustainable Development and
Strategy Planning Department (Kh.Khishigjargal, D.Gantomor), Specialist of Environment and
Natural Resource Department (P.Tsogtsaikhan, D.Shijir-Erdene). Project implementations have
been monitored by a team comprising of 1-2 PMC members and PFM D.Galhuu, headed by
contracted consultant N.Erdenesaihan and reports have been discussed at PMC meetings.
This year 6 monitoring trips in total have been organized, which includes directions to 1)
Darkhan – Selenge; 2) Khentii- Dornod-Sukhbaatar; 3) Arkhangai-Zavkhan-Uvs-Khuvsgul-
Bulgan; 4) Uvurkhangai-Bayankhongor-Gobi Altai; 5) Gobisumber-Dundgobi-Umnugobi; and 6)
Tuv aimag. The monitoring teams traveled 14,000 kilometers to monitor progress and assess
outputs of 51 projects and meet and discuss with local beneficiaries and local government
officials about projects.

Local monitoring: Provincial environmental and tourism authorities are arranged to carry out
local monitoring for the purposes of harmonizing project outcomes and effects with MET
policies and actions, especially enhancing regulation and monitoring of local environmental
agencies and receiving project outcomes at the spot. Fuel and road expenses for monitoring
for staffs of environmental and tourism agencies in project implementing aimags have been
provided and monitoring outcome reports have been received. Before the monitoring start,
NEMO project staff has invited to Ulaanbaatar all officers of all aimag environmental
departments, who were in charge of SG project monitoring on April 8, 2010 and provided
NEMO SGP info and introduced about monitoring basics and handed in monitoring guidelines.
Final monitoring:
A contracted Consultant provided a comprehensive project monitoring report to the project
implementing unit by summing the results of final reports, sent by the project team after
completing the project implementation, local monitoring reports and outcomes of open-door
day. Public open day to introduce outputs of all SG projects has been organized on 7th
December 2010 in Conference Room of OSF and about 150 people have been attended,
including representatives of local NGOs, CSOs, aimag departments’ staffs in charge of
monitoring and mass media.
Results of activities implemented during the monitoring visits in order to improve
capacity of local NGOs in identifying environmental issues and developing small grant
proposals
Since we started announcing the small grant competitions among general public and NGOs
and selected best projects, we realized that the quality of the most proposals received from
rural applicants was unsatisfactory as it was their first time to write proposal and they had lack
of knowledge and information in raising and solving environmental issues. Therefore, in 2008
the NEMO project team, considering this situation, decided to provide short term project
proposal writing trainings during monitoring period to local NGOs and citizens who are willing to
write project proposals. In 2009 the trainings were organized in 4 aimags such as Uvs, Govi-
Altai, Dornogovi and Sukhbaatar, in consultation with local Environment and Toursim
Departments.
One-day trainings were delivered to people representing local environmental NGOs and
citizens in different aimags, and the trainings were attended by 37 people in the center of
Sukhbaatar aimag on July, 1, 2010; 46 people in Ulaangom city of Uvs aimag on July, 23, 2010,
44 people in Altai city, Govi-Altai aimag on August, 26, 2010, 29 people in Sainshand city,
Dornogovi aimag on September, 26, 2010.
The project proposal writing training provided a basic concept to the trainees on identifying
environmental acute problems, determining project needs and goal, project activities, funding
and project cycles as well as methodological guidance on how to write a good project proposal.
During the training, all trainees were handed over the manual on writing environmental project
proposal. The trainings were organized in cooperation with officers of MET, who joined the
monitoring team, and they made presentations on new environmental laws, legislative acts and
activities by MET, answered questions from local people, and shared their opinions on
contribution from local NGOs and people toward environmental management.
Evaluation of implementation of projects
Implementation progress and outputs of the projects are evaluated on three factors;
implementation, benefits and influence and sustainability of outcome (Table 1). These factors
are rated on scale from 1-5, lowest being worst and highest being best score. Output of these
scores is stated under “Evaluation” column.
Based on evaluation of implementation progress; 9 projects had outstanding results, 24
projects had decent results, 17 projects had satisfactory results and 1 project had failed to
achieve its stated objective.
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