Environment

ADRA Serbia has played important role in the siege of Sarajevo in 1995, and the subsequent relief activities in the Balkans region. Presently, apart from being an efficient emergency aid agency, ADRA Serbia focuses on the developmental issues of,

1. fighting domestic violence
2. children and youth with special needs
3. inclusion of the Roma community
4. environment

ADRA Serbia is also supporting the newly founded offices of ADRA Bosnia and Herzegovina, and ADRA Macedonia.

Foundation Caucasus Environment (FCE) is founded in 1998 in Georgia. FCE is a nongovernmental, nonprofit public organization with professional staff on environment and education. The organization is oriented on sustainable development and social issues and its activities cover the Caucasus region. At the same time FCE is a member of several international networks, just like the National Platform of Eastern Partnership in Georgia https://eap-csf.ge and acts as a coordinator of Working Group 3 of this platform: https://eap-csf.ge/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=298&Itemid=1396&lang=en-GB.
Moreover FCE is a member of the big international network Women in Europe for common Future (WECF) WECF http://www.wecf.eu. Furthermore FCE coordinates the Global Education Week (GEW) of the network of North-South Centre (NSC) of Council of Europe https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/nscentre/GE/GEW-NETWORK_en.asp#TopOfPage.

The organization holds the GEW once a year in Georgia. The Global Education program in Georgia is updated every year according to the themes and comments which are developed at the GEW seminars. These seminars are organized by the NSC of the Council of Europe with participation of all national coordinators of GEW network. The organization’s target groups are schoolchildren and teachers, university students, lecturers, women groups, refugees and Itinerary Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the conflict areas of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The permanent staff of FCE is 7 person and about 50 volunteers (students, schoolchildren and teachers, women groups, farmers, fishermen scientists, etc). Donors of the granted projects are EU, USAID, Eurasia Foundation, different countries' embassies in Georgia, among others.

Some recent implemented projects are:

1. "Integrated Hotspots Management and Saving the Living Black Sea Ecosystem HOT BLACK SEA", financed by EU BSB ENI CBC, 2013-2016; (team leader)
2. "Identification, Management and Sustainable Usage of the Eutrophicated areas of the Black Sea Coastal Zone", financed by UNEP GEF SGP (the project coordinator) https://www.facebook.com/foundationcaucasusenvironment, 2014-2015
3.   "Strenghening the Women Action for Sustainable Energy Development in Gali and Zugdidi Regions of Conflict areas of Abkhazi"