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4Th Meeting of Skadar/Shkodra Lake Inside Newsletter Date Volumi 1, çështja 1 4th Meeting of Skadar/Shkodra Lake Inside The event took place on 7th of consultants and stakeholders The meeting discussed and October 2011 in Grand Hotel involved in drafting of approved several docu- 4th Meeting of 1 Europa in Shkodra in the common documents and in ments produced in the Skadar/Shkodra Lake presence of local and national the implementation of frame of LSIEM project as Commission media. Participants in the project activities. Predictive Hydrological World Bank Country 1 meeting were members of Mr. Sinisha Stankoviç, Vice Model, Legal Framework Manager Mrs. Kseniya Skadar/Shkodra Lake Minister of Tourism and Review and Joint Monitoring Lvovsky visits the Commission (SLC) and project Sustainable Development of program. Among decisions region of Shkodra coordinators from both taken in the meeting of SLC countries. were: LSIEMP hosts a site 2 Mr. Sajmir Hoxha -Director of -Preparation and forward of visit during IWC 6 Biodiversity in the MoEFWA in a joint letter to the all local Albania and Chair of SLC in his research institutions to Predictive Hydrological 2 welcoming speech expressed reconfirm current members Model gratitude for Montenegrin of joint Working Groups Counternparts for their and/or appointing of new cooperation in the protection members. Donor Conference in 3 and management of Shkodra Montenegro expressed his -Preparation of a bilateral Montengro lake. He also emphasized the appreciation for the work agreement between the importance of Lake Skadar done for establishment of government of Albania and Public survey on pro- 4 Integrated Management cooperation among both Montenegro to achieve ject visibility Project (LSIEMP) results, ministries in the project goals and objectives for which have established a joint implementation. He stressed coordination of joint platform for common the importance of continuing activities for protection and management of the lake. and increasing such sustainable management of Mr. Hoxha also thanked all the cooperation in the future. Shkodra Lake basin. World Bank Country Manager Mrs. Kseniya Lvovsky visits the region of Shkodra of project teams. Ms. from new equipment fi- Lvovsky visited some of the nanced by the World Bank. investments financed by In addition, Ms. visited a these projects including re- new laboratory in the Fac- forestation of Taraboshi ulty of Natural Sciences in Mountain with 45.000 seed- Shkodra University, fi- ling of wild pine, the reha- nanced by the World Bank. The World Bank Albania Coun- bilitation of stream in Shi- As part of her tour to sev- try Manager, Ms. Kseniya roka, rehabilitation of Gju- eral universities in Albania, Lvovksy visited the region of hadol cultural street, and Ms. Lvovsky gave a lecture Shkodra. The purpose of the met with representatives of for the students for the Success story visit was to see the implemen- the Fishermen Management Faculty of Economics. In tation of several World Bank Organization who benefited her lecture, she was fo- Awareness raising financed projects and deliver a cused on the recent eco- campaign for lecture at the University Luigj nomic developments in protection of water Gurakuqi. During her visit she South-East Europe and the quality of Shkodra was accompanied by Mr. Lor- World Bank program in the Lake enc Luka, the Mayor of country Shkodra as well as members World Bank Office Tirana p a g e 2 Lake Skadar/Shkodra Integrated Ecosystem Management Project LSIEMP hosts a site visit during International Waters Conference 6 The Sixth GEF Biennial International Waters Confer- and in Lake Shkodra/Skadar between Montenegro and ence (a signature learning event) was organized in Albania. LSIEMP was active throughout IWC6 activities, Dubrovnik in 17-20 October 2011. It was an active including distribution of promotional materials on its training and experience-sharing event during which the participants not only summarized the progress achievements and hosting all conference participants in achieved but also looked into the future. The Confer- ence was organized under the slogan Raising the Bar: 20 Years of GEF Transboundary Water Results. Part of the Conference’s objective it was promotion of public- private partnerships in support of better water man- agement and identification of modalities for their de- velopment. In the conference participated 300 participants, in- cluding GEF IW project managers, representatives of beneficiary countries, non-governmental organiza- tions, transboundary management institutions, UN agencies and the private sector. The Conference innovation was participant-directed an unforgettable site visit in Lake Skadar-Shkodra workshops and round-table discussions, innovation This technical site visit in the Skadar (Montenegrin) - Shkoder (Albanian) Lake Basin offered participants the chance to visit and study the most advanced active GEF IW project in the region. This transboundary project offers many lessons of inter- est, particularly for freshwater basin projects, on various issues, including inter alia: -Institutional cooperation and establishment of joint transboundary commissions -Sustainable approaches to economic development -Tourism and fisheries -Investments to stimulate pollution reduction activities market place with brochures and CDs prepared, as -Village-level wastewater treatment and buffer vegeta- well as technical site visits to multiple GEF IW pro- tion restoration. jects in a transboundary context around Dubrovnik Predictive Hydrological Model On 27-29 September 2011 an Workshop for presentation of Predictive Hydrological Model was held in the premises of Ministry of Tourism and Sustainable Development, in Podgorica, Montenegro. First the two days of this workshop were reserved for presentation of technical issues of the Hydrological Model and software for the experts present in the event. In the last day the model was presented to the representatives of civil society par- ticipating in the workshop. The study contained main findings from the development of Predictive Hydrological Model for Shkodra Lake basin (Albania and Montenegro). The model itself is subdivided into 6 model components that shape basic subsystems of water cycle starting from the atmosphere to the surface of the rivers and underwater hydrology and dynamic of the lake. First element is a watershed hydrological model, composed of a Limited Area Meteorological Model coupled to a Land Surface Model and a Surface Hydrological Model to stimulate precipitation, Moraca’s surface water outlet plus other sur- face water outlets of the Lake as well as other general infiltrated water in the ground. Second element is Skadar- Shkoder Lake model which in cooperation with river hydrology stimulate water levels, currents and temperatures. Third element is Zeta plain underground water model which contain two underground water models for two allu- vial areas of the region and respectively lowlands of Zeta and Buna. Fourth element is Drini river model down- stream the hydropower plant of Vau i Dejes in Albania. Fifth element is Bojana river model and sixth element is Bojana Plain underground water model. All these models are in cooperation with daily frequency times. After the flooding of 2010-2011 of Shkodra region and sub areas, these models assume an immense forecast for the region and help with the taking of minute preventive measures. Lake Skadar/Shkodra Integrated Ecosystem Management Project P a g e 3 Donor Conference in Montenegro Second donors exchange meeting in the framework of LSIEMP and YEM Programme External Collaborator at was held on December 13, 2011 in Podgorica, at the premises of UNDP Albania were present during the event. the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism of Monte- negro. The aim of the second donors exchange meeting was to meet with all active implementation agencies/donors that have interest on the Skadar lake region in order to exchange info on their achievements, plans and experiences and to build future activities based on each other results. Moreover, one of the goals of the meeting was to help avoidance of any possible overlapping and promote, as much as possible, linkage and synergy between different projects in the Skadar lake area. After welcoming speech from project directors: Mr Sinsa Stank- ovc and Mr. Sajmir Hoxha, representatives of international do- nor institutions/organizations as well as project coordinators were invited in the podium to present their current and planned LSIEMP World Bank team, Milieukontakt activities on the Skadar/Shkoder Lake from their ongoing project Albania and the Secretariat of the Skadar/ portfolio. The United Nation Development program in Montene- Shkoder Commission was also present, adding gro (UNDP), German International Cooperation program in Mon- to the overall successfullness of the meeting. tenegro (GIZ), Regional Environmental Center for the south– Novak Cadjenovic eastern Europe, (REC Montenegro), Albanian Development Fund LSIEM Project Coordinator, MNE Awareness campaign for protection of water quality of Shkodra Lake During September-December 2011, Protecting this great natural wealth and stop waste dumping in the ―Creative City‖ and ―Albanian Associa- Lake‖. As stated by the project coordinator of the awareness campaign tion for Sustainable Development‖ in Mr. Armando Lohja: ““School children are not part of a specialized cooperation with Shkodra Municipality cleaning enterprise, and cant not be able to clean all the lake shore and other local stakeholders imple- but for sure
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