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This project is funded the European Union and implemented by the United Nations Development Programme by the European Union Cluster Name of pilot initiative Name of NGO Creating a production and training center "Herbal medicine of the Institution on Protection of 21st century” Nature “Ecologicheskaya Sfera” This project is funded Phyto- Organic production and promotion of eco-products "Vodar Establishment “Brestskiy by the European Union production Belavezhzha" through use of the potential of rural tourism entities transgranichniy infocentr” and capacities of the community Creation and development of conditions and infrastructure for Institution for the Protection of cultivation of medicinal plants by local residents on the lands of Nature “Ecologia Bez Granits” private farms to generate additional income on the territory of Myadel district Control and automation of rural water intakes of Mosty district, Mosty District NGO "Belarusian Water Grodno region with the delivery of information to the central control Society of the Disabled" room in Mosty resources management Development of system of design and construction of local Establishment "Center for treatment facilities in Belarus Environmental Solutions" 16 Creation of the regional forestry environmental education center in Public Association “Belarusian Lida district Grodno region Botanical Society” PILOT INITIATIVES Ecotourism Ecotourism in Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve: innovative approaches, Belarusian Public Association partnership models, "green" consciousness “Otdih v derevne” Project “Supporting the Transition to a Green Economy in the Republic of Belarus” funded by the European Union and implemented by the United Nations Supporting Organization of sustainable use of biological resources of the Public Association “Belarusian Republican Landscape Reserve "Nalibokskiy" Environmental Movement” Development Programme of biodiversity

Greening of roofs of the buildings Pukhovichi District Public Association “Pukhovichskiy Eco- Krai” innovations Environmental security of coolants for internal combustion engines Information and Consulting Agency “Sodeistvie Razvitiyu Biznesa”

Organization of collection and recycling of used oils in Borisov and Belorussian Public Association Waste Krupsky districts of region “Ekologicheskaya Initsiativa” management Pilot project on integrated utilization of wastes of dairy enterprises Association of European of Vitebsk region Business www.facebook.com/UNDPinBelarus

Creating a network of innovative and demonstration sites for Public Association "Green Cross www.vk.com/undp_belarus agriculture (including organic one) to promote sustainable land use Belarus" and to populate agriculture among youth, improve the nutrition of www.twitter.com/UNDPinBelarus Organic schoolchildren, and increase income of rural schools farming Creation of demonstration site for production of organic and Public Association “Belorusskiy mineral fertilizers on a pilot processing facility by Vasyuhin Souyz Predprinimatelei” technology in Cherven district, on the basis of agricultural enterprise producing vermicompost Sustainable agriculture based on an innovative approach of Farm Grodnenskaya Oblastnaya "VermiEkoprodukt." The ecosystem services of soil formation and Associatsiya Fermerov nutrient cycling

Mr. Piotr Sachek, thematic coordinator of the project, +375 17 245 20 25 This project is funded PILOT INITIATIVE by the European Union Creating a production and training center "Herbal medicine of the 21st century"

Implementing partner: Institution on Protection of Nature “Ecologicheskaya Sfera” Major partners: Myadel District Executive Committee, State Nature Protection Institution “National Park “Narochansky”, JLLC “U tryokh ozyor” (“By Three Lakes”) The pilot initiative in Myadel district (Minsk region) provides for the following: creating infrastructure for collecting wild medicinal plants and processing medicinal resources in the specialized JLLC “U tryokh ozyor” (“By Three Lakes”) (the owner of the complex “Aptekarsky sad” – “Pharmacy Garden”); opening and equipping the production and training center “Phytotherapy of the 21st Century” in the area of the complex “Aptekarsky sad” (“Pharmacy Garden”); installing the equipment for primary processing of wild medicinal plants collected by local residents (it is expected to install a dryer, packing facilities, etc.);

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Implementation of the pilot initiative will allow to create a Ph sustainable system of collection and primary processing (drying, chopping) of wild medicinal resources. Economic impact: economic development of the district and raising the local residents' well-being. Environmental impact: safe use of natural resources (delicate collection of plants according to the biologists' recommendations ensures their ripening in the same location next year, thus making collection easier). Social impact: creation of new jobs, training of collectors of medicinal plants and transfer/ dissemination of skills among local people.

CONTACT INFORMATION: Institution on Protection of Nature "Ecologicheskaya Sfera" Mr. Aleksandr V. Zhed, director , +375 29 114 50 87, [email protected] This project is funded This project is funded PILOT INITIATIVE by the European Union PILOT INITIATIVE by the European Union Creation of the regional forestry environmental Organic production and promotion of eco-products "Vodar Belavezhzha" through use of the potential of rural tourism entities education center in Lida district Grodno region and capacities of the community Implementing partner: Public Association “Belarusian Botanical Society” Implementing partner: Establishment “Brestskiy transgranichniy infocentr” Major partners: Lida District Executive Committee, State Scientific Iinstitution Major partners: Kamenets District Executive Committee, Vidomlya Rural Executive “Institute of Experimental Botany named after V.F. Kuprevich” of the National Committee, Rechitsa Rural Executive Committee, farmsteads “Mlynok”, “Uglyany”, Academy of Sciences of Belarus, State Forestry Institution “Lida Forestry” “Polski mayontak”, “Lesnaya”, “Medovaya”, “Kalinka-2”, “Tikhaya zavod” The pilot initiative in Lida district provides for The pilot initiative in Kamenets district (Brest region) establishment of the forest environmental training provides for transformation of the area of villages center, which will be the first one in the Republic of Vidomlya, Rechitsa, Kamenyuki, Goly Borok into the Belarus, located in the area of Lida Forestry in the Park phytotourist destination and location for production Gorni near Lida. of herbal tea sorts. The pilot initiative includes the following: The pilot initiative includes the following: equipping the environmental classroom in the installing equipment for collection, processing and building of Lida Forestry with computers, projection drying of herbal tea sorts, purchasing seeds of herbs and hardware and posters about forest use; planting herbal seeds, setting of over 20 beehives and other equipment for honey making in seven partner farmsteads; creating the museum of forestry having a small growing and processing of the first herbal harvests into cinema-hall; herbal tea sorts; creating the exposition “Visiting Bees”, additional developing recipes of herbal tea to be offered as the

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ot posters about forest bee-keeping; of the farmstead “Lesnaya” with involvement of professional

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publishing information booklets, brochures about pr examining and improving the area of the Park Gorni; -

herbal and medicinal plants and herbal tea; o equipping at least 5 demonstration objects of

setting information stands in the common phyto-route, yt sustainable forest use and management with information which will connect seven partner farmsteads;

stands. Ph producing videos about herbal tea sorts; Implementation of the pilot initiative will allow to create holding trainings and workshops; conditions for development of eco-tourism and training holding a Tea-and-honey festival. on sustainable forest use and forest management. Implementation of the pilot initiative will allow to Economic impact: raising revenues from eco-tourism. create conditions for development of herbal tea production and development of a new type of tourism. Environmental impact: preservation of the local natural monument “Park Gorni”; sustainable forest management; Economic impact: raising well-being of the local regulation of anthropogenic load on a specially protected population, raising revenues from development of eco- tourism. area with taking into account its peculiarities. Environmental impact: involvement of idle lands, Social impact: providing wider opportunities for dissemination of crops of medicinal herbs, development environmental education in Lida district. of a new type of eco-tourism. Social impact: dissemination of skills to produce herbal tea sorts among the local population; formation of the local community of herbal tea producers; creation of new jobs.

CONTACT INFORMATION: CONTACT INFORMATION: Public Association “Belarusian Botanical Society” Establishment “Brestskiy transgranichniy infocentr” Mr. Aleksandr V. Sudnik, pilot initiative manager, +375 17 284 18 54, [email protected] Ms. Ekaterina I. Kosykh, director, +375 162 21 19 88, +375 162 21 60 95 (fax), [email protected] This project is funded This project is funded PILOT INITIATIVE by the European Union PILOT INITIATIVE by the European Union Creation and development of conditions and infrastructure for cultivation Expanding use of tourist potential of protected areas of medicinal plants by local residents on the lands of private farms to of the Republic of Belarus generate additional income on the territory of Myadel district Implementing partner: Public Association "Green Economy" Implementing partner: Institution for the Protection of Nature “Ecologia Bez Granits” Major partners: Grodno Regional Committee of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, Major partners: Myadel District Executive Committee, Minsk Regional Committee of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, CJSC “BelAseptika” the National Landscape Reserve “Nalibokskiy” (Minsk region), The pilot initiative in Myadel district (Minsk region) the National Landscape Reserve “Ozery” (Grodno region), Grodno Forestry provides for cultivation of medicinal plants in the land of households as well as lands provided by local The pilot initiative in Grodno district (Grodno region) authorities for these purposes. and Volozhin district (Minsk region) provides for The pilot initiative includes the following: creating the unified database of tourist products offered in the specially protected areas selecting local residents for signing contracts with of the Republic of Belarus. them on growing medicinal plants on land plots The pilot initiative includes the following: determined for these purposes; signing contracts with local residents on purchase of creating 4 comprehensive package tours for reserves the grown medicinal plants; “Ozery” and “Nalibokskiy” with a full set of services for providing local residents with seeds and agricultural delivery, accommodation, excursion services and meals for groups of tourists and individuals;

Ph equipment for sowing of medicinal plants; primary processing of the grown harvest in Myadel holding a promo-tour around the created tourist yt district (drying and chopping with maintaining of products and starting sale of tours for traveling agencies; o medicinal properties); - holding training sessions for professional development pr delivering medicinal plants to the logistics terminal of tour guides from among the local population; oduc near Minsk; submitting applications, paying membership fees for ourism follow-up processing of medicinal resources at the including the reserves “Ozery” and “Nalibikskiy” into the partner enterprise manufacturing medications (selection European network of specially protected areas (EUROPARC ot tion

of probes, sorting in lots, and secondary drying and Federation). Ec chopping); delivering the sorted out medicinal resources from Implementation of the pilot initiative will allow to storage places to production workshops of the partner- create conditions for development of eco-tourism. enterprise depending of the quality of the resources. Economic impact: raising revenues from tourism in the Implementation of the pilot initiative will allow to specially protected areas. create conditions for substitution of the imported Environmental impact: development of eco-tourism; medicinal resources with the local ones. creation of tourist products with regulation of Economic impact: raising well-being of the local anthropogenic load on specially protected areas; population, import substitution; raising revenues to the preservation of biodiversity and prevention of soil district budget. degradation. Environmental impact: involvement of idle lands into Social impact: training of guides from among local agricultural processes without mineral fertilization (it is not residents (creation of new jobs in the field of eco-tourism). required for herbs); expanding crops of medicinal herbs on an industrial scale. Social impact: support to formation of the community of local residents cultivating medicinal plants; creation of new jobs related to processing of medicinal resources.

CONTACT INFORMATION: CONTACT INFORMATION: Institution for the Protection of Nature “Ecologia Bez Granits” Public Association "Green Economy" Ms. Svetlana Tsyunel, pilot initiative manager, +375296385810, [email protected] Mr. Andrei V. Pinigin, chairperson of the Board of PA “Green Economy”, +375 29 632 45 05, [email protected] This project is funded This project is funded PILOT INITIATIVE by the European Union PILOT INITIATIVE by the European Union Ecotourism in Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve: innovative Control and automation of rural water intakes of Mosty district, Grodno region with the delivery of information to the central approaches, partnership models, "green" consciousness control room in Mosty Implementing partner: Belarusian Public Association “Otdih v Derevne” Implementing partner: Mosty District NGO "Belarusian Society of the Disabled" Major partners: Lepel District Executive Committee, State Nature Protection Institutiuon Major partners: Mosty District Executive Committee, Mosty Municipal “Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve”, LLC “GruppaNEF”, Republican Unitary Enterprise and Housing Services Organization “Production Association “Belorusneft” The pilot initiative in Lepel district (Vitebsk region) in The pilot initiative in Mosty district (Grodno region) the area of Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve provides for provides for creating the system of remote monitoring opening of the Center of Mythological Tourism of water production at 31 water intakes of Mosty consisting of (i) the museum of mythology creatures; (ii) district (by radio channel) for immediate detection a mythological exposition on the open air; (iii) a new of possible accidents. ecological route; and (iv) the existing “House of Wetland The pilot initiative provides for the following: Keeper”. The pilot initiative includes the following: examining of 31 water intakes of Mosty district supplying water to approximately 15 thousand people, transformation of the existing building belonging to for determining the required specifications of the pump Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve into the Museum of equipment, water and electricity measuring devices t Mythology Creatures; (meters); creating a mythological exposition on the open air installing 31 sets of equipment (a pump, a water meter, close to the Museum of Mythology Creatures; an electricity meter) in 31 water intakes of Mosty district installing a small solar power generating unit near the (see pictures – condition of equipment before installation); Ec Museum of Mythology Creatures; designing a system of data collection from rural water ot creating a new land plot connecting the Museum of intakes with transfer of data on pump equipment ourism Mythology Creatures, the exposition on the open air and operation to the Central Dispatching Point in Mosty; the existing building (“House of Wetland Keeper”) on the equipping the Central Dispatching Point with es managemen

existing environmental path; c computers and software, fine-tuning of the system of data installing stands with mythology topics on the section transfer by the radio channel; of the environmental path to be created; organizing excursions to the station of de-ironing and holding trainings and visit studies on preservation esour and interpretation of the cultural heritage in the natural water intakes to get to know efficient water management.

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installing a stella and formation of a corner with reduce energy costs for water production and supply to a

souvenirs of the Center of Mythological Tourism (jointly final users and to immediately detect pipe breaks, resolve W with the project partner RUE “PA “Belorusneft”). accidents for uninterrupted water supply for rural residents. Implementation of the pilot initiative will allow to Economic impact: reduction of electric power costs create conditions for development of eco-tourism in by approximately 15 thousand Euro per year for water Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve. production in 31 water intakes. Economic impact: raising the number of tourism products in the specially protected areas; raising revenues Environmental impact: reduction of water loss by from eco-tourism. an immediate detection of accidents on pipelines. Environmental impact: development of eco-tourism, Social impact: improvement of life quality of rural working out an eco-route with regulated anthropogenic residents; ensuring uninterrupted year-round water supply load in the specially protected areas; expanding the use for rural residents (approximately 15 thousand people). of renewable sources of energy. Social impact: drawing tourists to the specially protected areas; ecological education. CONTACT INFORMATION: CONTACT INFORMATION: Belarusian Public Association “Otdih v Derevne” Mosty District NGO "Belarusian Society of the Disabled” Ms. Valeriya A. Klitsunova, chairperson of the Board of BPA “Otdih v Derevne” Mr. Anatoly Pugach, chairperson of the Mosty District NGO “Belarusian Society of Disabled”, +375 29 669 04 65, [email protected] +375298825055,[email protected] This project is funded This project is funded PILOT INITIATIVE by the European Union PILOT INITIATIVE by the European Union

Greening of roofs of the buildings Environmental security of coolants for internal combustion engines

Implementing partner: Pukhovichi District Public Association “Pukhovichskiy Krai” Implementing partner: Information and Consulting Agency “Sodeistvie Razvitiyu Biznesa” Major partners: Pukhovichi District Executive Committee, Maryina Gorka Gymnasium No. 5, Major partners: Gomel Regional Executive Committee, the Republican Center of Professional State Educational Institution “Institute of Professional Development and Retraining Development of Executives of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, of Executives and Specialists of Industry “Industry Staff” Belarusian State University Institution “Research Institute of Physics and Chemistry Issues”, OJSC “Gomelkhimtorg”, LLC “Sales Management Center” The pilot initiative in Pukhovichi district (Minsk region) provides for adaptation of the best practices of creating The pilot initiative in Gomel (Gomel region) provides roofs with plants to the conditions of Belarus, and for creating conditions for production and substitution of unsafe coolants with environmentally safe similar equipment with soil and green plants of the roof of the product of domestic producion. greenhouse of Maryina Gorka Gymnasium No. 5. The pilot initiative provides for the following: The pilot initiative includes the following: developing the engineering design documentation for examining the existing building, developing the creating the production of environmentally safe coolants; concept of roof landscaping, selecting the suitable installing the manufacturing equipment (a reactor, a method of roof landscaping; dissolver, precise weight scales, pumps, containers for developing the engineering design documentation liquids, etc.) at the partner enterprise, which is currently producing coolants according to the existing technologies

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training for local specialists how to operate green glycerin; a roofs, including winter time; v v developing and implementing in the training process a selecting the required roof materials, soils; of the Republican Center of Professional Development of tions the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental

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Protection of a training course and a manual on use of o roof heat insulation, drainage system organization, etc. environmentally safe coolants; Ec Implementation of the pilot initiative will allow forming and providing trainings for several pilot to fine-tune the technology of roof landscaping and groups of specialists from Belarusian enterprises working taking care of them for the conditions of Belarus. with coolants. Implementation of the pilot initiative will allow to Economic impact: reduction of heat and electricity create conditions for step-by-step substitution of the costs for heating of a building with landscaped roof. existing coolants with the environmentally safe similar Environmental impact: fine-tuning of a new type products of domestic production. of eco-design solving the problem of reduction of green Economic impact: replacement (substitution) of the areas per one city resident. traditionally used “Tosol” coolant with environment-friendly similar product within the same price range. Social impact: creating new competencies for taking Environmental impact: substitution of poisonous care of green roofs; involvement of children in taking care coolants getting to soil with environment-friendly similar of green roofs; development of ecological education. product, which is not accumulated in soil. Social impact: creation of new jobs in production of environmentally safe coolants; involvement of employees of enterprises in the process of replacement of coolants with environmentally safe similar products.

CONTACT INFORMATION: CONTACT INFORMATION: Pukhovichi District Public Association “Puhovichskiy Krai” Information and Consulting Agency “Sodeistvie Razvitiyu Biznesa” Mr. Mikhail S. Dubovik, chairperson of PDPA “Puhovichskiy Krai”, Mr. Yevgeny N. Zuyev, director, +375 17 380 59 99, +375 29 380 49 99, [email protected] +375 29 641 68 21, +375 17 136 02 93, [email protected] This project is funded This project is funded PILOT INITIATIVE by the European Union PILOT INITIATIVE by the European Union Organization of collection and recycling of used oils in Borisov Creating a network of innovative and demonstration sites for agriculture and Krupsky districts of Minsk region (including organic one) to promote sustainable land use and to populate agriculture among youth, improve the nutrition of schoolchildren, and Implementing partner: Belorussian Public Association “Ekologicheskaya Initsiativa” increase income of rural schools Major partners: Borisov District Executive Committee, District Executive Committee, FLLC “DVCh-Management” Implementing partner: Public Association "Green Cross Belarus" Major partners: Smolevichi District Executive Committee, State Educational Institution “Drachkovo The pilot initiative implemented at car service stations Training Pedagogical Complex”, State Educational Institution “Vorotovskaya Secondary School”, in Krupki and Borisov districts (Minsk region) provides Drachkovo Rural Council, Pekalin Rural Council, Republican Unitary Enterprise “Scientific for creating the system of collection of the oil waste and Production Centre for Land Cultivation of the NAS of Belarus” for its further transfer for recycling at the partner enterprise in Krupki. The pilot initiative in Smolevichi district (Minsk region) provides for creating the network from three demon- The pilot initiative provides for the following: strative sites of agriculture in Kryukovshchina village carrying out a wide information campaign (press- (the Center of the Belarusian Green Cross), Drachkovo conferences, workshops, round-table discussions); village (Drachkovo rural school), Sloboda village (Voro- purchasing and installing of containers for collection of tovskaya rural school) where the elements of organic oil with trays (it is planned to install at least 50 containers in agriculture will be demonstrated and products for the territory of Krupki and Borisov districts) at enterprises improvement of meals of schoolchildren will be grown. (stations) willing to take part in piloting the system of The pilot initiative provides for the following: collection of oil waste; installing a land solar power generating unit, automated W arranging the collection of oil waste from local systems of drip watering, organizing a bee yard, installing of ast residents by enterprises equipped with containers for vermicomposters, purchasing and planting of plantlets, collection of oil; repairing of pedestrian paths in the Center of the Belarusian e managemen purchasing a specialized transport vehicle equipped Green Cross; with the system for pumping oil as to ensure collection of installing the systems of automated watering, oil from enterprises; greenhouses, vermicomposters in the surrounding areas of transferring the oil waste to recycling at the partner Vorotovskaya and Drachkovo rural schools; enterprise for manufacturing technical lubricants for purchasing the agricultural tools for rural schools; pressing molds in construction, for machinery and holding workshops on adding the elements of organic mechanisms, etc. agriculture (vermicomposting, watering, sapropel-based ganic farming

fertilization, etc.) in agriculture of the areas surrounding Or t Implementation of the pilot initiative will allow to schools; prepare a feasibility base for creating the efficient system preparing of agriculture trainers for guiding the works on of collection and processing oil waste all over the republic. three demonstrative sites; According to preliminary estimates, if 50 % of oil waste currently out of official cycle (approximately 40 thousand planting agricultural crops, fruit trees, berries at the school sites and in the Center of the Belarusian Green Cross tones) are collected in Belarus, the direct economic effect under guidance of the hired and trained instructors; for the state from revenues and import replacement will equal approximately 18 million USD per year. equipping three demonstrative sites with equipment for drying, freezing and conservation of agricultural products; Economic impact: budget effect of approximately sending the grown agricultural products to conservation, 450 USD from tax revenues from oil recycling and import storage, in the repaired cold cellars and its further use for substitution of products per each tone of the recycled oil improvement of schoolchildren's meals. waste. Implementation of the pilot initiative will allow to create conditions for introducing the Environmental impact: disposal of oil from unsafe use elements of organic agriculture in land cultivation at the school sites. (getting into soil, burning in furnaces, etc.) and transfer of it Economic impact: reduction of costs for schoolchildren's meals. for a more environmentally safe secondary processing Environmental impact: development of organic agriculture: reduction of load on soil by refusal (recycling). from mineral fertilizers, selection of the best plant species suitable for agriculture at school sites. Social impact: creation of new jobs related to oil Social impact: development of ecological education; improvement of quality of agricultural collection. products in schoolchildren's meals; learning the easiest applicable elements of organic agriculture. CONTACT INFORMATION: CONTACT INFORMATION: Belorussian Public Association "Ekologicheskaya Initsiativa" Public Association “Green Cross Belarus” Mr. Yuri V. Solovjev, chairperson of Belorussian Public Association "Ekologicheskaya Initsiativa" Mr. Vladimir S. Shevtsov, executive director, +375 29 645 65 54, [email protected] +375 17 210 00 62, +375 29 627 79 54, [email protected] This project is funded This project is funded PILOT INITIATIVE by the European Union PILOT INITIATIVE by the European Union Organization of sustainable use of biological resources Pilot project on integrated utilization of wastes of the Republican Landscape Reserve "Nalibokskiy" of dairy enterprises of Vitebsk region

Implementing partner: Association of European Business Implementing partner: Public Association “Belarusian Environmental Movement” Major partners: Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Major partners: Volozhin Forestry, State Nature Protection Institution “National Landscape Reserve LLC “Fabrika Fruktovih Vkusov” “Nalibokskiy”, Additional Liability Company “Vitalyur” The pilot initiative in Vitebsk provides for creating The pilot initiative in Volozhin district (Minsk region) the conditions for comprehensive (100 %) recovery provides for creating the sustainable system of of waste from dairy enterprises. collecting berries and mushrooms in the area of the The activities of the pilot initiative include Reserve “Nalibokskiy” and their primary processing the following: (freezing). designing of an installation of membrane treatment with replaceable membranes for processing of cheese, holding training workshops for local residents on curds and casein whey (each type of whey requires environmentally friendly collection of wild berries and installation of specific membranes); mushrooms in the area of the Reserve “Nalibokskiy”;

Suppor preparing the engineering design documentation for developing engineering design documentation for embedment of the membrane treatment installation into installment of a production line for storage and processing the existing production line for recovery of waste from dairy of wild berries and mushrooms; enterprises; t

ting of biodiv supplying and installing the equipment for storage and manufacturing, supplying and installing the membrane processing of wild berries and mushrooms (presumably, treatment facility at the existing production enterprise for refrigerators, a freezing line, containers, etc.); processing of foodstuff and manufacturing of fruit fillings; holding a PR-campaign as a result of implementation fine-tuning of the whey filtration, pasteurization and cooling processes (whey with a low share of dry substances of this pilot initiative. (approximately 3 %) will be processed into whey with a high

Implementation of the pilot initiative will allow to mass share of dry substances (16-20 %) used for production e managemen create conditions for sustainable collecting in the specially of condensed milk, protein products with fruit fillings, etc.); ersit protected area and primary processing of berries and producing a video about processing of whey, holding a ast mushrooms by local residents. PR-campaign and a study visit as a result of the pilot W y initiative to get executives from similar enterprises to know Economic impact: increase of revenues for the reserve the results and outcomes of the pilot initiative. from selling of berries and mushrooms; raising income of the local population. Implementation of the pilot initiative will allow to create conditions for further processing (treatment) of Environmental impact: ensuring safe picking up of waste of big dairy enterprises at small and medium berries and mushrooms by teaching safe methods of enterprises. collection to berry-and-mushroom collectors; preservation Economic impact: obtaining incomes from return of of biodiversity on the specially protected area. waste from dairy enterprises back to production cycle. Social impact: creation of temporary employment for Environmental impact: reduction of the volume of berry-and-mushroom collectors. disposal of whey to water basins and sewage systems; prevention of water and soil pollution. Social impact: creation of new jobs at the processing enterprise.

CONTACT INFORMATION: CONTACT INFORMATION: Public Association “Belarusian Environmental Movement” Association of European Business Ms. Anastasiya I. Zhdanovich, general director, Ms. Marina Borovko, deputy chairperson, +375 29 680 06 40, [email protected] +375 17 245 98 34, +375 29 168 70 01, [email protected] This project is funded This project is funded PILOT INITIATIVE by the European Union PILOT INITIATIVE by the European Union Creation of demonstration site for production of organic and mineral fertilizers on a pilot processing facility by Vasyuhin Development of system of design and construction of local technology in Cherven district, Minsk region on the basis treatment facilities in Belarus of agricultural enterprise producing vermicompost Implementing partner: Establishment "Center for Environmental Solutions" Implementing partner: Public Association “Belorusskiy Souyz Predprinimatelei” Major partners: District Executive Committee, Major partners: Cherven District Executive Committee, Individual Entrepreneur V.N. Vasyukhin, Braslav District Executive Committee, LLC “Humus-Agro”, Republican Unitary Enterprise “Scientific Practical Center LLC “Beltekhagroplast”, LLC “Ecoidea” for Land Cultivation of the NAS of Belarus” The pilot initiative in Uzda district (Minsk region) The pilot initiative in Cherven district (Minsk region) provides for creating the conditions for installing safe provides for creating and probing on the agricultural local treatment facilities for small residential complexes farm of a pilot processing facility for production of (up to 50 people). organic and mineral fertilizers from biomass available The pilot initiative provides for the following: at this farm. The pilot initiative provides for the following: studying the Belarusian legislation on local treatment facilities, detecting “weak” points in technical regulations preparing engineering documentation for the related to organization of local treatment faciltiies; technology of production of organic and mineral fertilizers;

developing a business plan of production of local t creating a test stand for choosing the specifications of treatment facilities at the partner enterprise; jointly operating units of the pilot mobile technological purchasing and installing the equipment for facility (see the picture); environmentally safe production of local treatment faciltiies Or preparing engineering documentation for (rotational formation facility, etc.); ganic farming manufacturing of units and devices of the pilot processing manufacturing of a test sample of the local treatment facility for production of organic and mineral fertilizers; facility for mechanical strength testing (see the picture – manufacturing of units of the pilot processing facility, the existing products, the similar product is to be assembling the pilot processing facility; produced); es managemen testing the pilot processing facility with getting the manufacturing of the first pilot sample of local c first samples of organic and mineral fertilizers; treatment facilities and its installation in one of the public field studies of the pilot processing facility: delivery of objects in Braslav district; the facility to a farm in Cherven district for demonstration organizing two study visits abroad, holding training esour of production of the organic and mineral fertilizers; workshops, PR support to dissemination er r

holding a workshop on production of organic and of environmentally safe local treatment faciltiies. t mineral fertilizers with presenting the operation of the a pilot processing facility and new forms of organic and Implementation of the pilot initiative will allow to W mineral fertilizers. test in the Republic of Belarus the best practices of construction and installation of environmentally safe Implementation of the pilot initiative will allow to essentially reduce costs for production of local treatment facilities. organic and mineral fertilizers from local biomass. Mobility of the facility allows to move it for using at different farms. Available settings of modes of operation allow to choose composition Economic impact: reduction of prime cost of of fertilizers with taking into account soil needs at a specific farm (to implement the approach production of local treatment facility; reduction to soil fertility management). of penalties for environmentally unsafe disposal of sewage. Economic impact: lower costs for production of organic and mineral fertilizers (production Environmental impact: increase in green production moves to a farm, not the biomass is transported to the production site). of local treatment facilities; reduction of toxicity of sewage; Environmental impact: development of organic agriculture; fine-tuning of composition of prevention of soil pollution. fertilizers for soil needs at a specific farm (exclusion of excessive fertilizers). Social impact: creation of new jobs for production Social impact: creation of new jobs for production of organic and mineral fertilizers. and installation works on commissioning of local treatment facilities.

CONTACT INFORMATION: CONTACT INFORMATION: Public Association “Belorusskiy Souyz Predprinimatelei“ Establishment "Center for Environmental Solutions", Mr. Aleksandr F. Kalinin, chairperson, Mr. Anton G. Gakhovich, coordinator, +375 17 328 30 75, [email protected] +375 29 908 65 06, +375 17 334 18 15, [email protected] This project is funded PILOT INITIATIVE by the European Union Sustainable agriculture based on an innovative approach of Farm "VermiEkoprodukt." The ecosystem services of soil formation and nutrient cycling Implementing partner: Grodnenskaya Oblastnaya Associatsiya Fermerov Major partners: Grodno Regional Committee of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, Smorgon District Executive Committee, Farms “VermiEkoprodukt”, “Rodnik-Pro”, “Agro-Vastara”, “Amager”, State Educational Institution “Training Pedagogical Complex Krevo Nursery-Kindergarten-Secondary School”, Educational Institution “Grodno State Agrarian University” The pilot initiative in Smorgon district (Grodno region) provides for expanding the production of liquid humic fertilizers for organic agriculture as well as their certification for compliance with the EU organic standards. The pilot initiative provides for the following: purchasing of agricultural and loading vehicles and detachable equipment for loading and plowing of compost, transportation of ready-made liquid humic fertilizers, putting of liquid humic fertilizers into soil (a tractor, a subsoiler, a loader, a cargo-and-personnel vehicle)

Or for expanding the production of liquid humic fertilizers from 500 l up to 2,000 l per season; ganic farming holding a number of training and information events with foreign experts on organic land cultivation with field demonstrations of peculiarities of detachable equipment for organic agriculture and putting liquid humic fertilizers into soil; certifying the liquid humic fertilizers in the LLC “Organic Standard” for compliance with the European Union standards for referring liquid humic fertilizers to products suitable for organic land cultivation and ensuring a possibility to put domestic liquid humic fertilizers into soil after they have been certified instead of using certified foreign similar products, and further – certifying the harvest as organic agricultural products; disseminating the experience of implementation of the pilot initiative by specialists of the Educational Institution “Grodno State Agrarian University” in a manual aimed at specialists and farmers shifting to organic land cultivation. Implementation of the pilot initiative will allow to disseminate the experience in certification according to the EU standards at one farm among other farms shifting to organic agriculture. Economic impact: reduction of prime cost for manufacturing of organic products by replacement of imported liquid humic fertilizers with locally produced similar fertilizers. Environmental impact: involvement of larger areas into a greener organic land cultivation by new farms; reclamation of soil used for a long time for traditional agriculture. Social impact: transformation of jobs of traditional farmers into organic farmers; popularization of organic products. CONTACT INFORMATION: Grodnenskaya Oblastnaya Associatsiya Fermerov Mr. Vladimir V. Ushkevich, general director, +375 29 699 97 02, +375 152 742 206, [email protected]