This collaborative project, which was launched in 2003 in the wake of the Fifth Environment-for-Europe Conference in Kiev, aimed to raise stakeholders’ awareness and build public capacity in the areas of environmental governance and natural resources management. The project was implemented at national level and in four oblasts of Ukraine: Khersonska, Odeska, Luhanska and Ivano-Frankivska as well as in Kiev.(Original source: http://www.mama-86.org.ua/ecodemocracy/democracy_e.htm)