The Strategic Partnership for the Mediterranean Sea Large Marine Ecosystem (MedPartnership) Zagreb, Croatia Regional Workshop on harmonizing the national legal and institutional framework with ICZM Protocol Daria Povh Škugor PAP/RAC Programme Officer
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The Strategic Partnership for the Mediterranean Sea Large Marine Ecosystem (MedPartnership)
Zagreb, Croatia
Regional Workshop on harmonizing the national legal and institutional framework with ICZM Protocol
Daria Povh Škugor
PAP/RAC Programme Officer
•Main objective is to assist countries in the implementation of the priority regional and national actions agreed in two Strategic Action Programmes (SAPs) for the reduction of pollution from land-based sources (SAP-Med) and the conservation of biological diversity (SAP-BIO) and the implementation of the ICZM Protocol;the implementation of the ICZM Protocol;
•Financing: Regional Component: 12.9 M US$ (GEF funds) plus 36.5 M US$ co-financingInvestment Fund: 75 M US$ (GEF funds) plus over 700M co-financing
•5 year duration (2009 to 2014)
What is the MedPartnership?
Executing Agencies:
• Coordinating Unit of the UNEP/MAP and its RACs: CP/RAC; SPA/RAC; PAP/RAC; and INFO/RAC; General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM); FAO, UNESCO/IHP; WWF; GWP-Med; MIO-ECSDE; MEDPOL and the World Bank
Implementing Agency: UNEP
Countries of implementation:• Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Strategic Partnership for the Mediterranean LME “MedPartnership”
History for the agreement on priorities.
Transboundary Diagnostic AnalysisAdopted 1997
Regional Component
SAP-MED Adop. 1997NAPs for countries
Adopted 2005
SAP-BIO Adopted 2003Including NAPs
Investments Fund
ICZM Protocol for the Mediterranean• First supra-national legislation
related to the coasts in the world• Preparation started in 2001, signed
in 2008, entered into force in 2011• By today 9 ratifications
CAMPs launched in 1989 CAMPs launched in 1989
MAP founded in 1975MAP founded in 1975
PAP/RAC PAP/RAC founded in 197founded in 19777
Protocol entered into force 24th March 2011
Lybia
ATLANTIC OCEAN
MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Spain
Greece
Italy
Turkey
Slovenia
Bosnia/Herze-govina
Albania
Malta
EgyptAlgeria
TunisiaMorocco
Syria
Israel
LebanonCyprus
BLACK SEA
France
Croatia
Montenegro
Littoral 2012 Oostende 27-29 November 2012
The UNEP/MAP led ComponentComponent 1 Integrated approaches
for the implementation of the SAPs and NAPs1.1 Management of Coastal Aquifer and Groundwater
1.2 Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)1.3 Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
Component 2. Pollution from land based activities, including Persistent Organic Pollutants
2.1 Facilitation of policy and legislation reforms for pollution control (a) Industrial pollution pilot projects
2.2 Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technology (TEST)2.3 Environmentally Sound Management of equipment, stocks
and wastes containing or contaminated by PCBs in national electricity companies
Component 3. Conservation of biological diversity: implementation of SAP BIO and related NAPs
3.1 Conservation of Coastal and Marine Diversity through Development of a Mediterranean MPA Network
3.2 Promotion of the sustainable use of fisheries resources through the application of the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries
Component 4. 4.1 Project Co-
ordination, NGO Involvement,
Management and M&E4.2 Information and
Communication strategies
4.3 Replication Strategy
Includes 78 demonstration projects in the 12 participating countries
PAP/RAC activities in MedPartnership Integrated Coastal Zone management: Harmonisation of national legislation with the ICZM
Protocol; Integrative Methodological Framework for water,
aquifer and coastal management Guidelines on national ICZM Strategies National ICZM Strategies in Algeria and Montenegro ICZM Plan in Reghaia, Algeria Joint aquifer, water and coastal transboundary plan
for the Buna/Bojana (Albania and Montenegro)
Harmonisation of national legislation with the ICZM Protocol.
Protogizc project: IDDRI, PAP/RAC 2009-2011 Impacts of the ICZM Protocol ratification on Croatia, GTZ
project, PAP/RAC, 2010 Analysis of impacts of the ratification of the ICZM
Protocol on national legal and institutional framework in Montenegro, PAP/RAC, 2008/2010
MedPartnership contribution in upgrading results, summing up & organisation of the Regional Workshop
Final remarks The MedPartnership project is in its 3rd year
of implementation and initial results are visible
Critical time for the development of plans, strategies and policy reforms
New sister project: Integration of Climatic Variability and Change into Coastal Plans and National ICZM Strategies
Need to ensure inter-ministerial coordination on all activities