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IWCAM Roadmap Toward Effective Mainstreaming of GIS for Watershed Management in the Caribbean

The watersheds and coastal areas of the Caribbean contain some of the world’s most diverse and productive habitats and encompass extensive areas of complex and unique ecosystems. The coastal areas include mangroves, coral reefs, sea grass beds and river deltas, which are an important source of food production; support for a variety of economic activities such as fisheries, tourism and the related uses of recreation and transportation.

GEF - IWCAM Project Communications Planning Guide

The recurrent issues of small size and the coastal focus of development together with their linked problems make Caribbean islands a priority area for the introduction of Integrated Watershed and Coastal Areas Management (IWCAM). The issues and problems facing Small Island Developing States (SIDS) of the Caribbean are characterized by small size and limited resources for development. An unsustainable sectoral approach to management of our watershed and coastal areas now dominates in the public and private sectors. Administrative responsibility tends to be fragmented and jurisdiction over the management of resource use is unclear.

THE IWCAM DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS

A major focus of this regional IWCAM project is to undertake specific demonstrations of targeted IWCAM activities in order to deliver actual achievements in mitigation and resolution of threats and root causes. As such, this represents a discrete Component of the overall project (Component 1 - The Demonstration, Capture And Transfer Of Best Practices). Within this Component, a number of Demonstration Projects have been developed at the national level.