The project will support watershed management planning and watershed restoration to reduce risk of landslide and floods.
The project finances nature-based solutions to revitalize selected protected areas of ecological significance to the Western Balkans. Also include includes forestry management in Vrbanja, Vrbas, and the Sava River Basin, which will mitigate the threat of drought.
The project has been restructured to include nature-based solutions, which aligns with their NDC ambitions. They will use NBS relating to forests, conservation, and other to meet PDO. The work will be implemented by the National Disaster Risk Management Fund. It will also have community resilience component.
The project used the restoration of vegetative cover and sustainable management of watersheds to reduce erosion and disaster risks.
The project financed a cash-for-trees program which part of an erosion prevention activity that provided incentives for smallholders to reforest their lands in the watersheds surrounding the irrigated areas.
