CASPECO Project

The Caspian Sea: Restoring Depleted Fisheries and consolidation of a Permanent Regional Environmental Governance Framework Project, short titled “CASPECO” is a regional project funded by the Global Environment Facility, implemented by the UNDP and executed by the United Nations Office for Projects services (UNOPS). CASPECO project aims at strengthening the regional environmental governance through support to the Tehran Convention process and arresting the declining trend of bioresources through applying a new thinking to the sustainable management and conservation of the Caspian’s bioresources.  The CASPECO project operates from April 2009, and duration of the project is over 30 months.