UNDP country offices in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia FYR, Montenegro, Serbia and the UN-administered Province of Kosovo have developed a regional demonstration programme around demand-driven projects in nine locations in the Western Balkans suffering from the legacy of polluting industries and requiring industrial renewal, environmental cleanup and new economic initiative. The approach of the 30-month, approximately 15 million USD programme is to achieve improvement of the environmental situation and quality of life for citizens living in and around polluted areas through least-cost measures, improved local and national policy dialogue and supply of domestic professional services in the environmental management sector. While the main focus will be on physical works required to mitigate ecological problems, institutional strengthening and capacity-building will be important subjects throughout the programme.