Meeting of the Project Steering Committee, 7 March 2006

The WIO-LaB Project Steering Committee meeting was held at Diani, Mombasa, Kenya on 7 March 2006, and was officially opened by Dr. Kennedy Ondimu, the Director for Research and Planning Division of the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), on behalf of the Acting Director-General of NEMA of Kenya. The meeting was attended by National Focal Points, the Chairs of the Municipal Wastewater Management (MWW) and Physical Alteration and Destruction of Habitats (PADH) Regional Task Forces, representatives of UNEP/GEF, UNEP/GPA and the Nairobi Convention Secretariat, as well as representatives of Non-Governmental Organizations such as WWF, IUCN and WIOMSA, the private sector represented by the Kenya Association of Hotel Keepers and Caterers, as well as representative of the World Bank/GEF Southwest Indian Ocean Fisheries Project (SWIOFP).