Protected areas management trainings in Ukraine
The Strengthening Governance and Financial Sustainability of the National Protected Area System in Ukraine project is designed to cost-effectively improve the financial sustainability, as well as individual and institutional capacities within the national protected area (PA) system of Ukraine. The project will develop new financing strategies for protected area systems, strengthen the overall governance system so that PA agencies and administrations are better equipped to respond to the commercial opportunities that protected areas provide through consumptive and non-consumptive uses of biodiversity. The projects site-level interventions in Shatsk NNP and Pripyat Stokhid NNP and RLP are justified, because they demonstrate replicable innovations in PA management specifically, revenue generation schemes through PPPs, cross-oblast PAs with satisfactory revenue sharing arrangements, better cooperation with the Belarusian Prostyr Reserve that is contiguous with PS NNP and RLP, and testing of opportunities for integrating biodiversity conservation principles in public works such a roads that also offer the potential of raising revenues through charging of user fees.
The goal of the project is to secure long-term conservation of biodiversity within Ukraines Nature Reserve Fund, specifically focusing on PAs of global, national or regional significance. The objective of the project is to enhance the financial sustainability and strengthen institutional capacity of the PA system in Ukraine.
