The UNEP GEF Strategic Partnership for the Mediterranean Sea Large Marine Ecosystem

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The UNEP GEF Strategic Partnership for the
Mediterranean Sea Large Marine Ecosystem
Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Croatia, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco,
Montenegro, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey, The
Palestinian Authority
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UNEP-MAP, INFO-RAC, SPA/RAC, PAP/RAC, CP/RAC,
World Bank, UNESCO, UNIDO, FAO, WWF, GWP-MED,
MIO-ECSDE,
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Background/Context

• Follow up to the GEF UNEP project
• Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis prepared in
  1997
• The Strategic Action Programme to Address
  Pollution from Land-Based Activities (SAP-MED)
  and
• The Strategic Action Programme for the
  Conservation of Mediterranean Marine and Coastal
  Biological Diversity (SAP-BIO).
• National Action Plans (NAPs)
• ICZM Protocol to the Barcelona Convention

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The objective of the Mediterranean Sea LME
Strategic Partnership is to leverage reforms and
catalyze investments that address transboundary
pollution reduction and marine and coastal
biodiversity conservation priorities identified
in the SAPs for the Mediterranean basin.
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The Partnership would achieve its objectives
through the implementation of two Components
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The objective of the proposed Regional Component
is to promote and induce harmonized policy, legal
and institutional reforms and fill the knowledge
gap aimed at reversing marine and coastal
degradation trends and living resources
depletion, in accordance with priorities agreed
by the countries in the SAP MED and SAP BIO, and
to prepare the ground for the future
implementation of the ICZM Protocol.
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Component 1. Integrated Approaches for the
Implementation of the SAPs and NAPs ICZM, IWRM
and Management of Coastal Aquifers 1.1 Management
pf coastal Aquifers 1.2. Integrated Coastal Zone
Management 1.3. Integrated Water resource
Management
Component 3. Conservation of Biological
Diversity Implementation of SAP-BIO and related
NAPs 3.1.Conservation of Coastal Marine
Diversity through the development of a
Mediterranean MPA Network 3.2. Promote the
sustainable use of fisheries resources in the
Mediterranean through the development and
application of Ecosystem-based Management
Approaches
Component 2. Pollution from Land-based
activities, including POPs Implementation of
SAPMED and related NAPs 2.1. Facilitation of
policy and legislation reforms for pollution
control 2.2 Transfer of Environmentally Sound
Technology (TEST-MED) 2.3. Environmentally sound
management of equipment, stocks and wastes
containing or contaminated by PCBs in national
electricity companies of Mediterranean countries
Component 4. Project Coordination, Replication
and Communication strategies, and Management and
ME 4.1. Project Coordination, Management and
ME (sus financing) 4.2 Information and
Communication Strategies 4.3. Replication
Strategy
SAPMED
SAPBIO
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Outcomes
1. National Regional Policy, legal
institutional reforms adopted and ready for
implementation in minimum of 6 countries 2. Hotsp
ots and sensitive areas of national priority
previously identified in NAPs and SAPs with
improved environmental conditions (15 of major
hotspots/sensitive areas identified in
TDA) 3. Replication/Scaling Up strategy
adopted and successful investments being
replicated in 5 countries 4. Leveraged financing
for multiple investments and policy measures.
Strategy developed for links with private
sector 5. Long-term Barcelona Convention and MAP
based framework in place and operational ensuring
the sustainability of the SP beyond the life-span
of the project.
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1 To be implemented by UNESCO, PAP/RAC and
contribution of GWP-Med 2 To be implemented by
GWP-Med and contribution of PAP/RAC 3 To be
implemented by UNESCO, PAP/RAC and contribution
of GWP-Med 4 To be implemented by GWP-Med 5
Under the assumption that 2 demonstration
enterprises will be selected per country