Awareness leads to being involved

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Awareness leads to being involved

• Awareness builds capacity to be involved
• awareness of ecological, social, cultural and
  economic status
• awareness of the activities and their linked
  impacts
• awareness of planning and decision making
  procedures
• awareness on how to participate

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Who should be involved and need capacity for it?

• those who run activities in a coastal area
• private sector (hotel owners, fishermen)
• public sector (town planners, park authorities)
• those who react to the activities
• local inhabitants, school children, tourists,
  work force in the area
• those who give the frames for action
• policy makers, politicians, decision makers,
  authorities (relevant sectors), tourist
  associations, fishermens union
• all the previous groups also in the neighbouring
  country

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Elements of involvement
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• access to information (one-way communication)
• people are informed of the process that is taking
  place
• additional information includes data on the
  present state, the coming activity, its impacts
  and ways on how to participate

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Elements of involvement

• participation in planning (two-way communication)
• people are invited for comments
• people are invited to visit the sites
• people are members of committees
• there are open hearings

GOTO MEET THE PEOPLE SIT FACE TO FACE INVITE
LETTERS LISTEN
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Elements of involvement

• indirect participation in decision making
• people may influence the decision makers on their
  views on the issues that will be decided upon

CONTACT THE POLITICIAN YOU VOTED SEND LETTER TO
YOUR UNION ENCOURAGE PUBLIC TO SEND THEIR
IDEAS INIVITE DECISION MAKERS FROM OTHER
SECTORS TO PARTICIPATE
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Elements of involvement

• participation in decision making
• people sit in the committees that make the
  decisions and thus share the power with the
  traditional decision makers

INCLUDE MORE STAKEHOLDERS INTO THE DECISION
MAKING MEETINGS
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What information is relevant??
activities taking place
state of the environment
linkages
economic barometer
the socio-cultural setting
participation
ICZM methodology
benefits of ICZM
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Public awareness in the Mediterranean

• challenges
• inadequate legal, institutional framework
  providing for public participation
• inadequate administrative infrastructures coupled
  with limited resources to cope technically with
  the requests by the public
• lack of coordination among the various
  administrative sectors and public agencies
• fragmentation of NGO and civil society
  initiatives and weak structures (national level)
• reluctance by authorities to provide information
  to the public due to lack of acceptance by many
  authorities/civil servants of the civil groups
  and NGOs as legitimate partners