Addressing Land-based Activities in the Western Indian Ocean

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Addressing Land-based Activities in the Western Indian Ocean

GEF ID	1247
Project Website URL	http://www.wiolab.org/
Region	Africa
Sub-Region	Eastern Africa, Western Africa, Southern Africa
Basin	East Africa - Western Indian Ocean
Project Contacts	Takehiro Nakamura Acting Senior Programme Officer UNEP:Division of GEF Coordination Peter Scheren Project Manager Johnson Kitheka Project Manager Angelina Musera Project Assistant
Project Documents	Outreach materials newsletters, brochures. Evaluations Reports mid-term, final, appraisals... Maps/Graphics Maps and Graphics Datasets measurement, statistical data Workshops presentations, participants list, meeting reports... Project Documents project document, fact sheets, annexes... Technical Reports TDAs, SAPs ...

General Information:
Project Type	Full Size Project
Project Status	Under Implementation
Start Date	2004/09/16

GEF characteristic:
Operational Programme	OP10 - Contaminant-Based Program
Focal Area	International Waters
GEF Project Stage	CEO Endorsed
GEF Allocation to project	4.51M US$
Total Cost of the project:	11.41M US$

Partners:
Countries:	Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, Tanzania, United Republic, South Africa
Lead Implementing Agency	United Nations Environment Programme
Executing Agencies	UNOPS/Nairobi Convention Secretariat

Project Description:

A project has been developed within the context of the GEF Operational Program 8 with a GEF PDF-B grant of US$ 325,000 and co-financing of US$220,000. The Project Brief for the full-size project, "Addressing land-based activities in the Western Indian Ocean (including TDA and SAP updates) (WIO-LaB)", has been submitted for inclusion in the GEF May 2002 Council Work Program. The total cost of the project will be GEF US$4,317,000 and co-financing US$3,506,000. The project will be executed by the Secretariat of the Nairobi Convention and UNOPS. The project will have a primary concentration on some of the major environmental problems and issues of the region: degradation of the marine and coastal environment due to land-based activities. Three objectives have been developed for this GEF project: Reduce stress to the ecosystem by improving water and sediment quality; Strengthen regional legal basis for preventing land-based sources of pollution; and Develop regional capacity and strengthen institutions for sustainable, less polluting development. These three objectives will provide a strong basis for sustainable environmental management in the Western Indian Ocean region in the future: * Objective 1 focuses on establishing processes by which accurate regional assessments of land-based activities can be made. Major components within Objective 1 include regional capacity building through training, institutional strengthening, scientific/ monitoring activities, regional assessment, establishment of water-quality based standards (EQS), and demonstration projects. The demonstration projects, a major component of this Objective, are designed to show the region how to reduce stresses and threats from land-based activities, in a replicable fashion. * Objective 2 focuses on improving the policy and legislative basis for effective controls on land-based activities; on improving national policy and legislation, assisting countries in developing their National Plans of Action for Land-Based Activities, and developing a regional protocol with annexes for the Nairobi Convention, on Land-Based Activities. * Objective 3 represents the Stakeholder components. It focuses on training, education, public-private sector partnerships, and small-grants program, as well as the establishment of a Regional Coordination Unit in Nairobi, connected with the Nairobi Convention Secretariat, partly as an institutional strengthening operation. It also provides for the update of the TDA and SAP. The project focus on the Global Program for Action will result in National Plans of Action for abating land-based sources, as well as a regional protocol for the existing Environmental Convention (Nairobi Convention) with Annexes. The project focus on broad stakeholder participation will help assure the sustainability of the GPA Plans of Action. The private sector will be a focus for cooperation, as they also hold the key for long-term sustainability of actions.

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