To promote the “Eco-friendly Town
Development Project in Mongolia”, KDS team visited Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia from
June 12 to 17, 2019. The team which was composed of the Executive Director,
Hongmin Chun, Team Manager of Sustainable Development Team, Ya Ya Kim, and
Program Officer Hannah Park, reported the current status of performance
management and discussed future plan with local stakeholders. In particular, providing
eco-friendly education program on the use of renewable energy and mitigation of
climate change which will be delivered for residents of 7 khoroos in Nalaikh
and including awareness improvement as additional performance objective have
been laid on the table. The team requested cooperation with relevant
organizations on implementing the program.
On June 13, the team visited the Mongolian
Ministry of Energy to discuss the progress and changes of performance management
with the head of Renewable Energy Division. Also, it visited the National
Renewable Energy Center (NREC) in Mongolia and agreed to co-host the residents’
awareness workshop activities with NREC at the meeting with the head of center
and research project staffs.
On the following day, moving to Nalaikh
district, the team looked around project site and figured out ongoing tasks. It
then met with the chief of governor’s office in Nalaikh district and the Urban
planning director at the Nalaikh to consent to working for workshop in
collaboration with NREC and KDS. As a result of the meeting, the workshop will
deal with soil pollution, air pollution, and waste management issues that
Nalaikh is currently facing with. Regarding detailed implement plans, Mongolian
Center for Development Study (MCDS), a local partner for performance
management, decided to carry out “the workshop on Eco-friendly Lifestyle in
Nalaikh” for 300 inhabitants on August after the Nadaam, which is the biggest
festival in Mongolia.
This 9th Mongolia visit is meaningful in
that it grasped the progress of the project in detail and requested the
continued cooperation of the local stakeholders in order to promote future
tasks. Furthermore, the cooperation system and preparation base to hold the
workshop that will introduce the environmental improvements by using renewable
energy and spread out eco-friendly life style were well established.
**KDS team will deeply discuss detailed
workshop contents and implementation plan. Based on discussed plan, the
“Workshop on Eco-friendly Lifestyle in Nalaikh” will be held on August in order
to measure awareness improvement in collaboration with KDS, NREC, and Nalaikh
District in Mongolia.