E115: Espoo Convention

EXCOM approval	Planning phase	Implementation phase	Final Reporting and Evaluation phase
(no EXCOM form available as prior to 2005 reform)	Decision VI/3-II/3 of the Meetings of the Parties: Current programme of work 2014-2017 and Decision VI/4-II/4 on Budget and financial arrangements for 2014-2017 ECE/MP.EIA/20/Add.3-ECE/MP.EIA/SEA/4/Add.3	Available in 2017 (for the next Meetings of the Parties in May/June 2017)	No finalization envisaged (open-ended)

EXCOM approval

Planning phase

Implementation phase

Final Reporting
and Evaluation phase

(no EXCOM form available as prior to 2005 reform)

Decision VI/3-II/3 of the Meetings of the Parties:

Current programme of work 2014-2017 and Decision VI/4-II/4 on Budget and financial arrangements for 2014-2017

ECE/MP.EIA/20/Add.3-ECE/MP.EIA/SEA/4/Add.3

Available in 2017 (for the next Meetings of the Parties in May/June 2017)

No finalization envisaged (open-ended)

Midpoint/Annual Progress Reports	Annual funds utilization reports
Reporting in the intersessional period is through the Working Group on Environmental Impact and Strategic Environmental Assessment Report to the Working Group on EIA and SEA (May 2015): ECE/MP.EIA/WG.2/2015/2 Report to the Working Group on EIA and SEA (May 2016): ECE/MP.EIA/WG.2/2016/2 Progress on the implementation of the workplan activities under the "Greening Economies in the Eastern Neighbourhood" (EaP-GREEN) Programme, as well as activities in Kyrgyzstan and the Russian Federation (May 2015) Draft summary report on the implementation of technical assistance and capacity building activities in the period June 2014 – October 2016 (October 2016) The application of the Espoo Convention and its Protocol in the Mediterranean region	2016 (until 31 May 2016) 2015 (until 30 June 2015) 2014 June-December

Midpoint/Annual Progress Reports

Annual funds utilization reports

Reporting in the intersessional period is through the Working Group on Environmental Impact and Strategic Environmental Assessment

Report to the Working Group on EIA and SEA (May 2015): ECE/MP.EIA/WG.2/2015/2

Report to the Working Group on EIA and SEA (May 2016): ECE/MP.EIA/WG.2/2016/2

Progress on the implementation of the workplan activities under the "Greening Economies in the Eastern Neighbourhood" (EaP-GREEN) Programme, as well as activities in Kyrgyzstan and the Russian Federation (May 2015)

Draft summary report on the implementation of technical
assistance and capacity building activities in the period June 2014 – October 2016 (October 2016)

The application of the Espoo Convention and its Protocol in the Mediterranean region

Expected accomplishments	Planned activities	Implemented activities³	Actual expenditures⁴ (US$)³
Part I. Planning (to be filled in before submission to EXCOM)		Part II. Implementation (to be used for reporting on progress in the implementation of the project in real time)¹,²
None specified in the project document	None specified in the project document	Agendas, lists of participants, presentations, documents, materials & reports are available at the linked webpage
2017	See programme of work as well as budget and financial arrangements for 2014-2017 (above) for planned activities and estimated costs	Bureau (Espoo Convention) (23 - 24 February 2017), Geneva Implementation Committee (Espoo Convention), 38th session (20 - 22 February 2017), Geneva Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment: Improving Cooperation among Central Asian Countries. First Subregional Workshop (9 February 2017), Almaty, Kazakhstan	See financial reports above
2016	See programme of work as well as budget and financial arrangements for 2014-2017 (above) for planned activities and estimated costs	Preparation of Good practice recommendations on the application of the Convention to nuclear energy-related activities (draft version, September 2016) Implementation Committee (Espoo Convention), 37th session (12 - 14 December 2016), Geneva Seminar "Developing a Strategic Environmental Assessment system in the Republic of Kazakhstan" (14 November 2016), Astana, Kazakhstan Working Group on EIA and SEA (Espoo Convention), 6th meeting (7 - 10 November 2016), Geneva Conference on dissemination of experience with Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) (25 October 2016), Moscow, Russia Implementation Committee (Espoo Convention), 36th session (5 - 7 September 2016), Geneva Working Group on EIA and SEA (Espoo Convention), 5th meeting (11 - 15 April 2016), Geneva Implementation Committee (Espoo Convention), 35th session (15 - 17 March 2016), Geneva Bureau (Espoo Convention) (19 - 20 January 2016), Geneva	See financial reports above
2015	See programme of work as well as budget and financial arrangements for 2014-2017 (above) for planned activities and estimated costs	Eighth Seminar of Cooperation on the Espoo Convention in the Baltic Sea Region (28-29 September 2015), Vilnius Working Group on EIA and SEA (Espoo Convention), 4th meeting (26-28 May 2015), Geneva The application of the Espoo Convention and its Protocol in the Mediterranean region (14-15 April 2015), Rabat, Morocco Implementation Committee (Espoo Convention), 33rd session (17-19 March 2015), Geneva Bureau (Espoo Convention), Geneva (5-6 February 2015)	See financial reports above
2014	See programme of work as well as budget and financial arrangements for 2014-2017 (above) for planned activities and estimated costs	Implementation Committee (Espoo Convention), 32nd session (9-11 December 2014), Geneva Seventh Seminar on Cooperation on the EIA Convention in the Baltic Sea Region (6-7 November 2014), Berlin Implementation Committee (Espoo Convention), 31st session (2-4 September 2014), Geneva Meeting of the Parties to the Espoo Convention, 6th session (2-5 June 2014), Geneva Implementation Committee (Espoo Convention), 30th session (25-27 February 2014), Geneva Bureau (Espoo Convention), 30-31 January 2014, Athens	See financial reports above
Total:		Total:

¹ The secretariat shall inform EXCOM in case of unexpected developments or serious problems of any kind in the project implementation.
² Questions from member States on project implementation will be forwarded to the secretariat.
³Relevant information should be uploaded by the project manager on the Project Monitoring Tool within one month from the end of the activity and include the following:
(a) For an advisory service (including at a workshop/seminar/training organized by other organizations): title; venue; dates; project expenditures; and hyperlink(s) to presentation(s) and other relevant documents;
(b) For a workshop/conference/training organized by UNECE: title; venue; dates; project expenditures; and hyperlinks to the meeting agenda, list of participants, presentation(s) made by UNECE, conference documents, training materials and reports;
(c) For a consultancy: project expenditures; hyperlinks to the consultancy ToR and main outputs (study, report, training material, presentation, etc.) produced by the consultant/s;
(d) For other outputs not included under bullet points above: hyperlink to relevant documents.
^[1] Relevant financial information – certified by the Executive Office - should be uploaded by the project manager on the Project Monitoring Tool within one month from the end of the activity.