The objective of the project is to assist the riparian countries (Albania, Montenegro, and North Macedonia) in the implementation of an integrated climate-resilient river basin flood risk management approach in order to improve their existing capacity to manage flood risk at regional, national and local levels and to enhance resilience of vulnerable communities in the Drin River Basin (DRB) to climate-induced floods. 

The complaint centers around plans to restore the River Sateska in the Ohrid Region of North Macedonia to its natural riverbed. This restoration is being undertaken as part of the UNDP's Integrated climate-resilient transboundary flood risk management in the Drin River basin in the Western Balkans (Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia) Project (Drin FRM Project), funded by the Adaptation Fund. The complaint is that although rediverting the river to its original path is well-conceived and necessary, it is being conducted "with an extremely substandard environmental impact assessment". The Complainant alleges that shortfalls in the environmental impact assessment include: a severe lack of study of aquatic life in the river; out of date climate and numerous other data; little to no analysis of groundwaters; little to no analysis of the species-impact of a sediment-collecting dam that will be placed on the river; little to no analysis of the impact that the rerouted river will have on the River Black Drim; little to no analysis of the natural sediment and organic debris flow that may be required for optimized ecosystems downstream of the dam; little to no analysis of the impact to Lake Ohrid of the sudden removal of a decades-old inflow (albeit a polluting and unnatural one); conclusions that there will be no impact on soils during the operational phase, despite the moving of a river; and no establishment of reference/desired conditions.