E220: Strengthening cooperation on transboundary watershed management between Afghanistan and Tajikistan in the upper Amu Darya River basin (Phase II)

EXCOM approval	Planning phase	Implementation phase	Final Reporting and Evaluation phase
EXCOM form	Concept paper Project doc, including the budget Work/implementation plan	Monitoring the Implementation Substantive web page information for the project	Final/Terminal report	Evaluation ToR Evaluation report

 

 

Midpoint/Annual Progress Reports	Annual funds utilization reports
1 January – 31 December 2014 Annual progress report for 2015	Annual funds utilization report

 

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
Expected accomplishments	Planned activities	Estimated costs (US$)	Implemented activities3	Actual expenditures4 (US$)3
E.A.1 Strengthened framework for bilateral cooperation on hydrology and environment.	A1.1 Annual bilateral meetings 2014-2016	75,000	1. The fourth bilateral meeting on hydrology and environment cooperation between Afghanistan and Tajikistan, 24-25 November 2014, Dushanbe, Tajikistan 2. The fifth bilateral meeting on hydrology and environment cooperation between Afghanistan and Tajikistan, 22-23 October 2015, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
	A1.2 Cooperation Atlas: Translation and broad dissemination of the publication in local languages.	25,000
E.A.2 Improved substantive bilateral cooperation on hydrology, including on the exchange of data.	A.2.1 Capacity building and development of hydrology data exchange, joint forecasts and flood warnings mechanism	25,000	During the annual meeting the two following documents were endorsed: a “Memorandum of Understanding on exchange of hydrological data and information relating to the Panj-Amu Darya river basin between the state authorities of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Republic of Tajikistan for the period of 2015-2017 and prospectively until 2020” and “Terms of Reference of the Technical Working Group on hydrological monitoring”. Technical visit report, October 2016 (Russian)
E.A.3 - Improved substantive bilateral cooperation on environment.	A.3.1 Capacity building and development of joint environmental monitoring, indicators and data sharing	15,000	The fifth bilateral meeting on hydrology and environment cooperation between Afghanistan and Tajikistan, 22-23 October 2015, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
	A.3.2 Exchange of experience in operating protected areas and afforestation	10,000
Total (including 13% of Programme Support Costs):		150,000

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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.
³ Relevant 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.