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provisions within the Aarhus Convention on
public participation;
• In all three countries the designated authority for
development and planning of adaptation actions is the
ministry for the environment. But it is worth noting
that these agencies do not have sufficient capacity,
especially for development of methodologies and
conducting monitoring and evaluation.
• All of the countries share a similar approach
to monitoring and evaluation of progress, i.e.
through National Communications to the
UNFCCC, and none of them have nationally
adopted comprehensive all-inclusive universal
instruments for this purpose;
• Another common trend for all countries is
consideration of mountain and high mountain
regions in social rather than an economic context;
very few strategies and policy documents refer to
mountain region/ecosystem vulnerability and/or
propose special actions to increase their resilience
to climate change. Those documents that do, relate
to forestry resilience and biodiversity.
Georgia