UK Environment for Europe Fund

The UK Environment for Europe Fund was launched by the Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Margaret Beckett at the 5th Ministerial Environment for Europe Conference which took place in Kiev on 21-23 May 2003.

The broad aims of the Fund are to promote environmental protection and sustainable development in Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia and to support activities of environmental organisations in these countries.

The Fund is a successor to the former Environmental Know How Fund which was created in the early 1990s by the then Department for the Environment and merged with the assistance programmes of the Department for International Development in 1999.

The UK Environment for Europe Fund is managed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). In many cases Defra works in partnership with other agents, including the Department for International Development (DFID); British Council; United Nations ENconomic Commission for Europe; the Environmental Action Programme Task Force; the Regional Environment Centres and other non-governmental organisations working in the region.

Priorities for 2004/2005

• Funding for Public-Private Partnership Demonstration Projects (24 KB)

Programmes and activities in 2003/2004

• List of projects approved under the SEPS Russia Scheme (50 KB)
• List of projects in EU Accession and Candidate Countries (15 KB)
• List of approved "Kiev Conference follow-up" projects (10 KB)

Projects and activities sponsored in 2002/2003

For more information about the UK Environment for Europe Fund please contact:

efe_enquiries@defra.gsi.gov.uk

Iuliiana Best
Europe Environment Division, Zone 5/E8 Ashdown House
123 Victoria Street London SW1E 6DE

Telephone: 44 (0)20 7082 8556
Fax: 44 (0)20 7082 8587

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