PROJECT MANAGERS WORKSHOPS
“TDA-SAP Discourse”
28th October, 2009
Guinea Current LME
STRATEGIC ACTION PROGRAMME
Stephen Maxwell Donkor, Ph.D
&
Executive Secretary/Coordinator
Interim Guinea Current Commission,
Unit
Christian Susan
Project Manager
Water Management
GCLME Strategic Action Programme
GCLME – STRATEGIC ACTION
PROGRAMME (SAP)
www.gclme.org
GCLME Project
Strategic Action Programme
16 riparian countries:
Angola
Benin
Cameroon
Congo
Dem. Rep. Congo
Cote d’Ivoire
Gabon
Ghana
Equatorial Guinea
Guinea
Guinea Bissau
Liberia
Nigeria
Sao Tome and Principe
Sierra Leone
Togo
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
1.Introduction
2.Objectives, rationale and priorities
3.Endorsing Countries
4.The “Real” Challenge
5.Basis for Cooperation
6.Policy, Crosscutting and Investment
Actions
7.Arrangements for Future Cooperation
INTRODUCTION
GCLME Strategic Action Programme
This Strategic Action Programme (SAP) for the
Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem is
a negotiated policy document which identifies:
• policy, legal and institutional reforms and
•
investments needed to address the priority
problems of a transboundary nature
investigated in the Transboundary
Diagnostic Analysis (TDA).
Objectives, Rationale and Priorities for the
SAP
GCLME Strategic Action Programme
• The primary goal of the Strategic Action
Programme (SAP) is to mitigate or ameliorate the
current rate of environmental degradation and
restore eventually the health of the GCLME and
its natural resources.
• The SAP contains priority actions that need to be
undertaken at both national and regional levels
by a variety of stakeholders.
• Set out measurable and quantifiable performance
indicators for implementation of programme.
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GCLME Strategic Action Programme
• The document outlines the intervention
actions required to resolve the priority
problems.
• The preparation of the SAP has been a
cooperative process among the
participating countries.
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GCLME Strategic Action Programme
AGREEMENT:
GCLME Strategic Action Programme
THE CHALLENGE
The real challenge is to
develop systems and structures
to address the naturally highlyvariable and potentially fragile
nature of the GCLME and its
coastal environment to:
•
reverse declines of fish
stocks
and
non-optimal
harvesting of living resources;
•
loss of ecosystem integrity
arising from changes in
community composition;
THE CHALLENGE (contd)
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• threats to vulnerable species and
biodiversity;
• introduction of invasive alien
species;
• deterioration in water quality from
land and sea-based activities;
• harmful algal blooms;
• habitat destruction and alteration
including modification of sea bed
and coastal zone, degradation of
coasts capes and coastline erosion.
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THE CHALLENGE (contd)
These regional transboundary
environmental problems have
implications, which can be
mitigated through cooperative
regional actions to manage the
complex ecosystem on an
integrated and sustainable
basis.
BASIS FOR COOPERATIVE ACTION
GCLME Strategic Action Programme
• United Nations
Convention on the Law of
the Sea (UNCLOS)
• ABIDJAN CONVENTION
• ACCRA MINISTERIAL
DECLARATION
• ABUJA MINISTERIAL
DECLARATION (2006) =>
INTERIM GUINEA
CURRENT COMMISSION
(IGCC)
BASIS FOR COOPERATIVE
ACTION
GCLME Strategic Action Programme
BASIS FOR COOPERATIVE ACTION
GCLME Strategic Action Programme
Linkages, Collaboration and Expanded
Cooperation:
• Cooperation with sub-regional & regional
bodies;
• Cooperation with Partners,Donors,etc;
• Cooperation with International
Organizations;
• Cooperation with other LMEs (CC, AS & BC LMEs)
POLICY, CROSS CUTTING AND
INVESTMENT ACTIONS
GCLME Strategic Action
Programme
Sustainable
Management
and Utilization
of Marine Living Resources
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Regional Fish Stock and Ecosystem
Assessments
Joint fish and productivity surveys and
assessments
Regional Harmonization of Policies
Assessment of under-utilized species
Sustainable
Management
GCLME
Strategic Action
Programme
and Utilization
of Marine Living Resources (cont’d)
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Regional Mari culture Policy
Socio-economic evaluation
Conservation measures
FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fishing
Monitoring Control and Surveillance (for Pirate
fishing)
Physical Alteration and Destruction of Habitats
(PADH)
GCLME Strategic Action Programme
Management
of Mineral
Exploitation
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Regional consultation framework
Harmonization of Policies
Cumulative Impact Assessment
Co-ordination of interventions relating to
offshore exploration and production of oil
and gas.
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Strategic
Action Programme
Effective
Assessment
of Environmental
Variability, Ecosystem Impacts and
Development of Early Warning System for
Ecosystem Change:
• Development of Environmental Early
Warning System;
• Environmental Baseline Establishment;
• Enhancing Predictability of Extreme
Events;
• Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs);
• Global Climate Change.
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Management of Pollution
GCLME Strategic Action Programme
a) Combating Coastal and Marine Pollution;
b) Waste Minimization and Cleaner Technology Policy;
c) Oil Pollution Contingency Plans and Regional Policy;
d) Implementation of MARPOL 73/78;
e) Marine Debris, Tar Balls and Beach Litter;
f) Prevention of Toxic Waste Dumping in the GCLME
Region;
g) Development of Protocol on LBA and implementation of
NPAs
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Maintenance of Ecosystem Health,
Integrity and Protection of Biodiversity
a) Vulnerable Species and Critical Habitats;
b) Ship Ballast Water Policy;
c) Protection and Conservation of Marine
Biological Diversity;
CROSS CUTTING ISSUES
GCLME Strategic Action Programme
a) Capacity Building and institutional strengthening;
b) Stakeholder participation;
c) Public participation;
d) Investment Actions.
GCLME Strategic ACTION
Action Programme
NATIONAL
PLANS (NAPs)
• identify actions to be taken at national level to
address strategic transboundary issues.
• present details of additional national actions
(investments, legal&regulatory changes) to
implement the SAP.
• to be endorsed at national level
GCLME Strategic Action Programme
MONITORING & IMPLEMENTATION
• IGCC
• SUCCESS / PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (RBM)
• ESTABLISHMENT OF REGIONAL PEER REVIEW
MECHANISM ON IMPLEMENTATION OF NAPs
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ARRANGEMENT FOR FUTURE
COOPERATION
• MEMBER COUNTRIES COMMITMENT TO SAP
IMPLEMENTATION;
• ESTABLISHMENT OF A PERMANENT GCC;
• SUSTAINABLE FUNDING;
• COOPERATION & COLLABORATION with pertinent
institutions, NGOs, private sector, etc.
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External Supportive Elements:
• UNCLOS;
• ABIDJAN CONVENTION
Predecessor Project:
• GOLF of GUINEA PROJECT;
Project Achievements:
• TDA
• SAP
• ABUJA DECLARATION => IGCC
• NAPs
• GCC
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merci!
obrigado!
gracias!
thank you!
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