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Mekong River Basin Water Utilization Project
The Project would help the member states of the Mekong River Commission (MRC): Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, implement key elements of the 1995 Agreement on Cooperation for Sustainable Development of Mekong Basin (Agreement).
Demonstrations of Innovative Approaches to the Rehabilitation of Heavily Contaminated Bays in the Wider Caribbean
This initiative is a follow up of the Pilot Phase PRIF project “planning and Management of Heavily Contaminated Bays and Coastal Areas in the Wider Caribbean”; the project areas were Havana Bay (Cuba), Puerto Limon (Costa Rica0, Cartagena Bay (Colombia) and Kingston Harbour (Jamaica). This PRIF project resulted in the development of investment and institutional strenghtening plans and in the identification of sources of financing for the implementation of remedial actions. Leveraged baseline investments in the four bays were in excess of $250 million.
Environmental Protection of the Rio de la Plata and Its Maritime Front: Pollution Prevention and Control and Habitat Restoration
The Project will contribute to the mitigation of current and emergent transboundary threats to the waterbody by assisting Argentina and Uruguay to prepare a Strategic Action Programme as a framework for addressing the most imminent transboundary issues.
Building Partnerships for the Environmental Protection and Management of the East Asian Seas
The objective of the project is to assist the riparian countries of the East Asian Seas to collectively protect and manage their heavily stressed coastal and marine environments through intergovernmental and intersectoral partnerships. These countries include the Republic of Korea which for the first time is a GEF recipient.
Wider Caribbean Initiative for Ship-Generated Waste
Project activities will lay the foundation for countries in the Wider Caribbean Region to ratify and implement the MARPOL 73/78 Convention, ending discharge of ship-generated wastes into international and territorial waters. Technical assistance will be provided for studies leading to a regional strategy for the implemenation of MARPOL 73/78, assessment of existing waste management systems, formulation of criteria for waste reception facilities at ports, development of integrated waste management alternatives, and public awareness programs.
Clearing House Mechanism Enabling Activity
This project will assist the national Government to meet its obligations under the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Reducing Biodiversity Loss at Cross-Border Sites in East Africa
Activities include the development and implementation of processes that bring together traditional local and modern agency perspectives on a range of activities including land use and tenure systems, resource and biodiversity values, management systems, decision making systems, and associated incentives, regulatory structures and policy instruments. Success will be dependent on the development of a fully participatory and cooperative process of learning, exchange and sharing of information.
Conservation Priority-Setting for the Upper Guinea Forest Ecosystems, West Africa
The project will provide national decision-makers with access to accurate, up-to-date scientific information on the ecosystem's biotic resources, and identify priority conservation actions at the national and regional level. It will strengthen national level capacities, support human resource development, and provide a framework for cross-national collaboration and regional integration.
Western Indian Ocean Islands Oil Spill Contingency Planning
PDF funded a joint petroleum industry/government planning seminar, and associated follow-up work to prepare a project designing national and sub-regional contingency plans for oil spill containment and treatment to respond to spills of differing size, location and degree of threat; provision of basic training and equipment to execute plans at the national and sub-regional levels; design of mechanisms to ensure financial and operational sustainability.
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