TDA/NCAP/SAP Process

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TDA/NCAP/SAP Process

• CEP made the conscious and early decision in
  development of the TDA, NAPs and SAP to stress
  equal importance to process and the final
  products themselves.
• Country involvement, dialogue and commitment were
  set as paramount goals.
• The final products were truly collaborative
  efforts, during two and a half years the
  following meetings were held
• - Thirty thematic meetings (biodiversity,
  ICZM, fisheries, emergency response, etc)
• - Five major TDA workshops
• - Fifteen NAP workshops/consultation
  meetings (three per country)
• - Two major SAP workshops

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TDA Barriers

• Fixed perceptions
• Information rich, data poor
• A wealth of anecdotal evidence a hundred
  anecdotes are no better than one
• Institutes with vested interests in promoting a
  bleak picture
• No national prioritization of the problems and
  little knowledge of wider stakeholder concerns

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NAPs vs SAP

• What should be developed first, the National
  Action Plans or the Regional Strategic Action
  Programme?
• Developing NAPs first
• Enables countries to prioritize national and
  regional (transboundary) issues together.
• Countries are forced to enter into meaningful
  inter-sectoral dialogue and address the key
  question of resource mobilization at an early
  stage.
• Countries can commit to and endorse a NAP at the
  highest level and in doing take the first step
  towards collective stewardship of the
  environment.
• In reviewing each others NAPs countries are
  better able to prioritize regional issues and
  thereby produce a more focused SAP.

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NAP vs SAP

• Developing the SAP first
• Gives priority to regional problems over national
  problems, and lays unfair and untenable claims to
  limited resources.
• With more than two or three countries Government
  endorsement of a SAP is difficult, if not
  impossible. SAP documents are often adopted at
  solely at the Ministry level and do not go
  through an inter-sectoral consultation procedure.
• If not supported by NAPs there is no true
  commitment to the SAP and retro-fitting seldom
  works.

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Combining the NAP commitments to create a SAP
National issues Regional issues
SAP
Regional issues National issues
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Tools for SAP prioritization

• The causal chain analysis is an excellent tool to
  show how an issue should be addressed,
  step-by-step, bottom-up and to help determine and
  shape required interventions.
• Environmental Quality Objectives helps to develop
  a broad stakeholder agreement on the priority
  regional environment issues and once agreed
  allows quantifiable targets to be set to meet
  those objectives. From there it is a relatively
  step to define interventions. A top-down
  approach.
• In drafting the Caspian SAP both tools were used,
  first CCA and then EQOs, with a final analysis of
  interventions to ensure the common and specific
  root causes had been addressed