European Fundend Projects

  • ID:
    projects-679
  • fiwar:
    LIFE13 ENV/UK/000497
  • Project_Acronym:
    LIFE WaterLIFE
  • Project_Name:
    Delivery of the Water Framework Directive through collaborative action between civil society and the private sector
  • Funding Authority:
    LIFE
  • Call for proposals:
    Environment
  • Focus Area:
    Freshwater,Awareness raising - Information,Environmental training - Capacity building,Public and Stakeholders participation,River basin management,Water resources protection
  • Begin Date:
    2014-07-01
  • End Date:
    2017-06-30
  • Status:
    Completed
  • Budget:
    € 002 249 728.00
  • Description:
    The long-term goal of the LIFE WaterLIFE project was to contribute to the delivery of the WFD across the EU, by helping to restore rivers to good ecological status. Its aim was to improve the status of all surface water bodies within demonstration catchments faster than predicted by the 2009 RBMP. The project was designed to offer timely support to governments in the development of the second cycle of the RBMP, and to demonstrate that there are civil society and private sector-led mechanisms that can work if supported by an adequate policy framework. WWF’s ambition was to ensure that the 2015 RBMP contained measures sufficient to improve the ecological status of 50% of rivers under the WFD by 2021. Specifically, the project aimed to: Create policy-enabling conditions, so that policy, guidance and legislation in the UK, and other EU countries, supports an accelerated and collaborative delivery of the WFD; Promote water stewardship innovation, through a wider business commitment; Demonstrate civil society governance, with local and regional civil society groups empowered in WFD advocacy and engaged in RBMP development; and Improve European knowledge exchange, with demonstrated private sector and civil society methodologies of WFD implementation, and associated policy-enabling conditions, that are transferable and widely applicable across the EU.
  • Resource:
    https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/life/publicWebsite/project/LIFE13-ENV-UK-000497/delivery-of-the-water-framework-directive-through-collaborative-action-between-civil-society-and-the-private-sector
  • Inland water types:
    Rivers and estuaries'