Technical Reports

TDAs, SAPs ...

An Assessment of the National Capabilities for Marine Pollution

This report is based on two missions to the Western Indian Ocean region: i) South Africa, Mauritius, and Madagascar, July 24-August 7, 2005; ii) Mozambique, Tanzania, Comoros and Kenya, August 14-26, 2005. The Seychelles was not visited, but laboratory personnel provided information regarding capacity building requirements.

Information Management Strategy for the Eastern African Coastal and Marine Environment Clearinghouse Mechanism

The WIO-LaB Project, which addresses some of the major environmental problems and issues related to the degradation of the marine and coastal environment due to land-based activities in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region aims to improve the existing web-based information system for the Contracting Parties Nairobi Convention (the Eastern African Coastal and Marine Resources Database). The database will also serve as a Regional Clearinghouse House Mechanism (CHM) for the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land Based Activities (GPA).

West Indian Ocean SAP. 2002. (153 KB)

The present draft Strategic Action Programme is based on the findings of the regional Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA) that represents a regional synthesis of issues identified from the national reports. The TDA identifies the priorities among water-related problems and concerns, their socio-economic root causes, the sectoral implications of actions needed to mitigate them and the extent to which the problems are transboundary in either origin or effect.

Western Indian Ocean - Preliminary TDA for Land-Based Activities. 2002. (456 KB)

In summary, this TDA follows the general GEF TDA Guidelines for International Waters projects. However, an additional step was achieved, that is, use of Environmental Quality Objectives, in order to facilitate consensus on the desired state of WIO after the next pentade or decade. The EQOs naturally led to identification of specific targets to be met within the desired time frame, and from there identification of specific interventions and actions that can be considered in the framework of the NAPs and SAP. (p. 6)