The project aims at building capacities of Ukrainian civil society organizations on local and national level and at increasing environmental consciousness and knowledge of civil society. The project is relevant to the GEF priorities on public participation, capacity development, information dissemination and awareness raising among the key stakeholders. Another important objective of the project is to involve CSOs into development of Country Programme Strategy for OP6. In practice, this will be realized through organization of series of consultations with CSOs representatives in order to include their input to the development of CPS. Moreover, the project will conduct an effective information campaign through the analysis and codification of lessons learned, dissemination of materials, use and application of knowledge generated, trainings for CSOs representatives and grantees, development of SGP knowledge management centre. The Project will cover the implementation of the GEF SGP projects in the media. In this context, a series of printing material, publications on GEF and SGP country impact will be developed. The overall project?s results will contribute to GEF SGP awareness raising, train grantees in monitoring and evaluation, raise the quantity of the quality projects? proposals, replicate and upscale effective SGP projects and initiatives. The Project will contribute to solicit civil society organizations to put forward proposals that help SGP undertake a preparatory process to develop its strategy for OP6. This will involve multi-stakeholder consultations, development of baseline assessment of priority identified landscape(s)/seascape(s).