ECMMAN Climate Resilient Eastern Caribbean Marine Managed Areas Network Project
Brief Description:
To establish an Eastern Caribbean marine management areas network that more than doubles the area of effectively managed marine areas (MMAs) in the region and provide for improved livelihood opportunities. This network will be designed to protect and improve the health of near-shore and coastal habitats, so that these can provide the to establish an Eastern Caribbean marine management areas network that more than doubles the area of effectively managed marine areas (MMAs) in the region and provide for improved livelihood opportunities. This network will be designed to protect and improve the health of near-shore and coastal habitats, so that these can provide theecosystem services needed for sustainable/alternative livelihoods and economies.
Lead Organization : TNC
Donor: The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of the German Goverment
Partners: OECS Secretariat Social and Sustainable Development Division, UNEP SPAW-RAC, CARIBSAVE, CNFO, CRFM, PCI Media Impact
Grant (USD):
$4,000,000.00
Total co-financing (USD):
(Co) financing not originating from GEF:
Participating Country(s):
Antigua and BarbudaDominicaGrenadaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint Vincent and the Grenadines
Contributions to the 10-year CLME+ Strategic Action Programme (2015-2025)
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1. Enhance the regional governance arrangements for the protection of the marine environment
1.2. Establish and strengthen regional institutional coordination and cooperation arrangements
2. Enhance the regional governance arrangements for sustainable fisheries
3. Establish and operationalise a regional policy coordination mechanismfor ocean governance, with initial focus on shared Living Marine Resources
4. Enhance the governance arrangements for ecosystem-based management for reefs and associated ecosystems
4.4. Coordinate and enhance (sub-)regional and national efforts for the conservation of the biodiversity of reef and associated habitats, including through the strengthening of networks of marine protected areas (MPAs), and initiatives for sustainable reef fisheries* such as programmes dealing with alien invasive species
4A. Enhance the governance arrangementsfor implementing an ecosystem approach for spiny lobster fisheries
4B. Enhance the governance arrangementsfor implementing an ecosystem approach for queen conch fisheries
5. Enhance the governance arrangements for implementing an ecosystem approach for pelagic fisheries
5A. Enhance the governance arrangements for implementing the ecosystem approach for flyingfish fisheries
5B. Enhance the governance arrangementsfor implementing an ecosystem approach for large pelagics fisheries
6. Implement EBM/EAF of the Guianas-Brazil continental shelf with special reference to the shrimp and groundfish fishery
Contributions to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Agenda (SDG’s)
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1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
3 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
5 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
6 Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
8 Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
9 Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
10 Reduce inequality within and among countries
11 Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
12 Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
13 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
14 Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
15 Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
16 Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Other Regional and Global Commitments
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