BP to support youth capacity and environmental initiatives in Azerbaijan
Baku, January 31 (AZERTAC). BP, on behalf of its co-venturers in Azerbaijan, has signed a grant agreement with the Eurasia Partnership Foundation to support local governance, youth capacity-building and environmental initiatives in Azerbaijan.
The agreement aims to enhance capacity of municipalities in identifying and addressing local challenges and to increase awareness on grass root environmental problems and facilitate their resolution through community action.
The project is expected to contribute to establishing youth chambers within municipalities to train and engage young people through enhancing their leadership and project management potential in addressing local level environmental challenges in their communities.
The project will cover nine municipalities along the Azerbaijan section of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan and South Caucasus (BTC/SCP) pipelines, namely in Garakhanli (Tovuz), Girili (Agstafa), Deller Jeyir (Shamkir), Deller Dashbulag (Shamkir), Agasibeyli (Samukh), Aran (Yevlakh), Jinliboluslu (Goranboy), Orta Leki (Agdash ) and Ujar city (Ujar).
Under the agreement, BP and its co-venturers will contribute $200,000 and the Eurasia Partnership Foundation will co-finance operations from other sources in an amount of $260,000.
The project activities will include providing capacity-building to municipalities in the areas of strategic planning and performance measurement. It is also planned that, within the environmental component of the project, the Eurasia Partnership Foundation will award small sub-grants to youth chambers to support them in addressing environmental challenges in their communities.
The programme will be implemented by the Eurasia Partnership Foundation through engaging experts in the field of local governance and performance measurement system.
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