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Oil Pollution Management Project for the Southwest Mediterranean Sea

GEF ID 68
Region Africa
Sub-Region Northern Africa
Basin Western Mediterranean
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  General Information:
Project Type Full Size Project
Project Status Project Closure
Start Date 1992/04/01
End Date 2000/06/30
 
GEF characteristic:
Operational Programme OP10 - Contaminant-Based Program
Focal Area International Waters
GEF Allocation to project 19.10M US$
Total Cost of the project: 20.84M US$
 
  Partners:
Countries: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
Lead Implementing Agency World Bank
Executing Agencies Ministry of Transport (Algeria); Office d'Exploitation des Ports (Morocco); Office des Ports Nationaux Tunisiens (Tunisia)
Project Description:

The project aims to: (a) reduce the input of hydrocarbons into the international waters of the Mediterranean; (b) ensure commonality of approach, regulatory policies, and methodologies; (c) promote exchange of information and coordination of implementation; (d) utilize national data sets to assess long term regional trends in marine pollution, both for national coastal waters and for adjacent international waters; (e) enhance the national monitoring capability; and (F) develop a coastal environmental management framework.
Project Results:
The project is closed and the Implementation Completion Reports (for all 3 countries) was completed on June 30, 2000.