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ECOLINKS: Environmental Partnership Programme

Program Components

Environmental Information system - coordinated by DevTech USA - consists of a website with program information, best practices examples and approved project summary.
Technology transfer and trade promotion implemented through the US Trade Department – it facilitate contacts in view to evaluate the potential and demand of environmental goods and services in the region;
Environmental Partnership Grants – implemented in Central and Eastern Europe through the Regional Environmental Center.
Environmental Partnership Grants – Objectives and approach
strengthen the capacity of businesses and local governments in the region to develop market-based solutions to urban and industrial environmental problems through partnership
partnership facilitation
best practices promotion
Ecolinks supports projects submitted by eligible organizations from the following countries: Bulgaria, Croatia *, Kazakhstan; The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Russia Far East * , Slovakia, Ukraine.

* Restrictions apply, please contact the EcoLinks Program Officer

Also, organizations from the following countries may apply in this cycle on an exceptional basis as a Leader: Czech Republic, Estonia*, Hungary, Latvia*, Lithuania, and Poland. A maximum of six applications will be awarded special Legacy Grants.

Ecolinks environmental partnership grants:

1. Quick response award - QRA
Up to maximum 5.000 US $ are awarded for activities related to partnership facilitation, in view of future trade or environmental relations; travel to meet a potential partner

2. Challenge Grants
Projects from eligible topics, with duration of maximum 1 year can receive up to 50.000 USD

3. Twining Grants
An amount of maximum 250.000 US $ is awarded for projects with a duration of maximum 2 years. This type of grant will be operational from 2001.

Quick response Award - QRA
The following terms and conditions apply to Quick Response Awards (QRAs):

Only one QRA can be awarded to an organization during a twelve-month period. An organization is not eligible for a QRA if it is currently receiving funds for a Challenge Grant project.

Any and all written documents published as a result of EcoLinks assistance, should acknowledge the support of both EcoLinks and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

QRA funds cannot be used for the purchase of equipment, goods and services for personal use, personal vacation travel expenses, and any other expense, which is defined as "non-allowable” by USAID. A list of “non-allowable” expenses will be provided upon request. (* “Equipment” applies to any tangible and essential property, which has a long-term use of more than one year. Furniture, computers and machinery are all examples of equipment.)

EcoLinks and USAID representatives reserve the right to audit the project at any time.

The EcoLinks reserves the right to publish and distribute a narrative success story and lessons learned from all QRA activities in its web site and other publications.

All air travel and shipments made over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans using funds from this award must be arranged on US carriers wherever such service is available. All personal flight tickets should be reserved under coach class. The awardees must submit a written statement from their travel agent if unable to locate a US carrier.

Any costs above the specified QRA amount awarded must be borne by the QRA recipient.

EcoLinks staff reserves the right to award less than the total amount requested in the original QRA application

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This book is the result of the proceedings of the Romanian Environmental Forum, 6th edition held in Bucharest between 16 and 19 November 1999.