Justification
GEF SGP in Bulgaria completed 5 years of operation. Since its start 86 projects are co-financed amounting to over 3 mln USD. Financial co-financing of the projects is amounting to 3 mln USD and in-kind co-financing to 1,4 mln USD. Thus SGP Bulgaria portfolio reaches 7,4 mln USD. 33 projects are already completed and most of the rest are in its advanced phase of realization and already report results. Now the major task of SGP as a Programme is to find ways to up-scale and multiply the project results on regional and national levels. An important SGP task is also to identify approaches to influence local, regional and national policies for further fostering of project development in the 5 areas ? climate change, biodiversity protection, combating land degradation, protection of waters and POPs.

Each SGP project makes substantial efforts for dissemination of its experience and engaging other people to apply its good practices. However it is important to demonstrate SGP success jointly and to find an attractive way so they reach wider group of stakeholders and decision makers, as well as citizen of the country. This project is a knowledge management project within SGP aiming at the their wide application in the practices in Bulgaria.

Project Target Groups
1. Decision makers at all levels
2. SGP grantees and their partners
3. Wide group of citizen who may decide to apply on practice SGP project results

Goal in impact indicators
To stimulate the application of good practices ? results of SGP projects at local, regional and national levels.
Group ?. GEF SGP areas
Impact 2. Extending the application of new technologies
Group ??: Poverty reduction indicators
Impact 1. Increasing income of people engaged with SGP projects
Group ???: Empowerment indicators
Impact 1. Increasing the number of people informed on global environment issues
Impact indicator: Number of involved women ? at least 150
Impact indicator: Number of involved men ? at least 150
Impact 2. Cooperation among stakeholders
Impact indicator: Number of NGO participated ? at least 50
Impact indicator: Support linkages with local authorities ? at least 5
Impact indicator: Support linkages with national authorities ? at least 2

Specific objectives and results
1. Provide SGP grantees and their partners with the opportunity to get to know each other and present their achievements
Result: At least 80% of the grantees and their partner meet
2. To present to the NSC and key stakeholders the achievements of SGP co-financed projects
Result: At least 80% of the NSC are introduced to SGP project results
At least 3 institutions are presented at the SGP projects fair
3. To engage wide group of citizen in discussions and activities aiming at sustainable local development based on SGP project results
Result: At least 200 people are acquainted with SGP project results and participate in thematic discussions and demonstrations
At least 10 publications in the national and local media on SGP project results

Main activities
The major action of the project is the organization of the public event under the form of a fair where the SGP project results will be presented to target groups. The idea is that the event takes place in the summer of 2011 (July ? August) in Zdravkovets village camp, Gabrovo region, which is both in the centre of the country and equally accessible for all grantees and is also a local initiative supported under SGP projects which will be officially launched and promoted. Last but not least Gabrovo region is a place with major concentration of SGP projects which can be visited by the NSC members and key institutions.

Activity 1: Receipt of all permits for organizing the public event at Protected territory Bilyakovets Lake
Activity 2: Organizing the participants in the fair
Activity 3: Organizing the activities during the fair
Activity 4: Media campaign
Activity 5: Up-date of the SGP website and the section of Good practices
Activity 6: Travelling SGP exhibition and presenting it in Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna, Burgas

Partnership with GEF SGP proposals/projects
This project will work with all running SGP projects
Sustainability
SGP website will function until the SGP exists. It is expected that shared experience will engage some decision makers in making long-term sustainability policy changes. It is expected that grantees establish working contacts and up-scale and further develop their project results.

Project Budget ? total, from GEF SGP, financial, in-kind - all in Bulgarian leva and percent of total
SGP FUNDS: 42620 BGN, 91,62% TOTAL AMOUNT: 46520 BGN IN-KIND: 3900 BGN