Aims: To strengthen the institutional capacity for environmental planning and management of the beneficiary cities through MEA.
Results: Sound basis for investment projects, increased regional cooperation on municipal level.

The Baltic Municipal Environmental Audit project is a contribution to the implementation of the element on Institutional Strengthening and Human Resource Development of the HELCOM-JCP, for which UBC has been granted the role as co-leader by HELCOM-PITF. Municipal Environmental Audits (MEA) will be carried out in the cities of Tallinn, Liepaja, Klaipeda, Kaliningrad and Elblag. To each of these beneficiary cities are connected 1-2 partner cities from Denmark, Sweden and Finland. The eastern partner cities provides the experts for the technical assistance for the MEAs.

The MEAs will be conducted by combined eastern-western expert teams according to the principles of the World Bank MEA-concept. The MEAs shall establish an operational basis for improved management of environmental protection and investment projects in the benficiary cities.
Dissemination of results through general presentation materials in the 5 languages and 5 training work-shops open to all cities in each country. By the end of the project strong connections of regional cooperation will be established between the beneficiary and the eastern partner cities.