Улаанбаатар
German cooperation ‘SPACES’ Project opens office in Khovd
Society
Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/. On April 23, Governor of Khovd
aimag Mr. Dugerjav B. and Head of Citizens’ Representatives Khural of Khovd
aimag Mr. Purevgandi G. officially opened the Khovd office of the German
Technical Cooperation Project ‘Supporting Protected Areas for the Conservation
of Ecosystem Services’ (SPACES) at the building of the Department of
Environment and Tourism.
The project is supported by the German Government and
implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
(GIZ) GmbH in cooperation with the Department of Protected Area Management of
the Mongolian Ministry of Environment and Tourism.
The Governor and the Head of Citizens’ Representatives
Khural and GIZ Project Manager Dr. Michael Trockenbrodt jointly performed the
ribbon-cutting ceremony. Also present were Vice Governors, the Head of the
Department of Environment and Tourism, Head of the Department of Investment and
Development Policy and representatives of Protected Area Administration.
For the upcoming years, the SPACES office will be the base
of a team of international and Mongolian GIZ project staff who will support
Protected Area Administrations, the Department of Environment and Tourism and
other stakeholders in improving the framework conditions for the sustainable
development of protected areas. The geographical focus of SPACES lies on two
larger landscape areas (Clusters) for which Memorandums of Understanding have
been signed by the Ministry of Environment and Tourism and the aimag
administrations.
The SPACES team will assist the cluster members in
coordinating their conservation activities and support them in the areas of
tourism development, livelihood improvement and protected area management. All
this should lead to improved conservation efforts in the two larger landscapes
(clusters).
SPACES will coordinate its efforts closely with a different
project that is also supported by the German Government but implemented with
the help of the KfW Development Bank, the Financial Cooperation Project
‘Biodiversity and Adaptation to Climate Change’.
Source: GIZ Mongolei
