Evaluation report 2004 - Finnish-Russian Development Programme on Sustainable Forest Management and Conservation of Biological Diversity in Northwest Russia
The Nature Conservation Sector of the Finnish-Russian Development Programme on Sustainable Forest Management and Conservation of Biological Diversity in Northwest Russia was evaluated in winter 2003-2004. The evaluation was commenced by the Finnish Ministry of the Environment and the evaluation report was published in May 2004.
 Altogether, the evaluation found the results of the Finnish-Russian nature conservation cooperation having been good; sound scientific basis have been set for establishing new protection areas, concepts of wider networks of protected areas such as the Green Belt of Fennoscandia have been introduced, and valuable scientific information has been collected, analysed and partly also published. All this has clearly supported the processes related to the strengthening of nature conservation in Northwest Russia. The quality of the studies has been high and even the cost-efficiency of the activities has mainly been good.
However, several needs to further strengthen nature conservation still prevail: sustainable conservation still requires wider protected areas and more comprehensive networks, and operations as well as management of the existing areas need to be strengthened. The former cooperation has also opened up several new cooperation possibilities which could benefit both Russian as well as Finnish needs and interests. Therefore, the evaluation recommended the continuation of the cooperation with a third phase for years 2005-2007 (2010).
On the Internet: www.environment.fi/publications
The report can be ordered from:
Ministry of the Environment
Environmental Protection Department
Unit for Central and East European Cooperation
P.O. Box 35
FIN-00023 GOVERNMENT
Evaluators,
Paul Silfverberg / Planpoint Ltd.
e-mail: paul.silfverberg@dlc.fi
Pekka Alhojärvi / Silvacultura Ltd.
e-mail: pekka.alhojarvi@silvacultura.com
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