The Strategic Partnership for the Mediterranean Sea Large Marine Ecosystem (MedPartnership)

Zagreb, Croatia

Regional Workshop on harmonizing the national legal and institutional framework with ICZM Protocol

Daria Povh Škugor

PAP/RAC Programme Officer

•Main objective is to assist countries in the implementation of the priority regional and national actions agreed in two Strategic Action Programmes (SAPs) for the reduction of pollution from land-based sources (SAP-Med) and the conservation of biological diversity (SAP-BIO) and the implementation of the ICZM Protocol;the implementation of the ICZM Protocol;

•Financing: Regional Component: 12.9 M US$ (GEF funds) plus 36.5 M US$ co-financingInvestment Fund: 75 M US$ (GEF funds) plus over 700M co-financing

•5 year duration (2009 to 2014)

What is the MedPartnership?

Executing Agencies:

• Coordinating Unit of the UNEP/MAP and its RACs: CP/RAC; SPA/RAC; PAP/RAC; and INFO/RAC; General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM); FAO, UNESCO/IHP; WWF; GWP-Med; MIO-ECSDE; MEDPOL and the World Bank

Implementing Agency: UNEP

Countries of implementation:• Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Strategic Partnership for the Mediterranean LME “MedPartnership”

History for the agreement on priorities.

Transboundary Diagnostic AnalysisAdopted 1997

Regional Component

SAP-MED Adop. 1997NAPs for countries

Adopted 2005

SAP-BIO Adopted 2003Including NAPs

Investments Fund

ICZM Protocol for the Mediterranean• First supra-national legislation

related to the coasts in the world• Preparation started in 2001, signed

in 2008, entered into force in 2011• By today 9 ratifications

CAMPs launched in 1989 CAMPs launched in 1989

MAP founded in 1975MAP founded in 1975

PAP/RAC PAP/RAC founded in 197founded in 19777

Protocol entered into force 24th March 2011

Lybia

ATLANTIC OCEAN

MEDITERRANEAN SEA

Spain

Greece

Italy

Turkey

Slovenia

Bosnia/Herze-govina

Albania

Malta

EgyptAlgeria

TunisiaMorocco

Syria

Israel

LebanonCyprus

BLACK SEA

France

Croatia

Montenegro

Littoral 2012 Oostende 27-29 November 2012

The UNEP/MAP led ComponentComponent 1 Integrated approaches

for the implementation of the SAPs and NAPs1.1 Management of Coastal Aquifer and Groundwater

1.2 Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)1.3 Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)

Component 2. Pollution from land based activities, including Persistent Organic Pollutants

2.1 Facilitation of policy and legislation reforms for pollution control (a) Industrial pollution pilot projects

2.2 Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technology (TEST)2.3 Environmentally Sound Management of equipment, stocks

and wastes containing or contaminated by PCBs in national electricity companies

Component 3. Conservation of biological diversity: implementation of SAP BIO and related NAPs

3.1 Conservation of Coastal and Marine Diversity through Development of a Mediterranean MPA Network

3.2 Promotion of the sustainable use of fisheries resources through the application of the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries

Component 4. 4.1 Project Co-

ordination, NGO Involvement,

Management and M&E4.2 Information and

Communication strategies

4.3 Replication Strategy

Includes 78 demonstration projects in the 12 participating countries

PAP/RAC activities in MedPartnership Integrated Coastal Zone management: Harmonisation of national legislation with the ICZM

Protocol; Integrative Methodological Framework for water,

aquifer and coastal management Guidelines on national ICZM Strategies National ICZM Strategies in Algeria and Montenegro ICZM Plan in Reghaia, Algeria Joint aquifer, water and coastal transboundary plan

for the Buna/Bojana (Albania and Montenegro)

Harmonisation of national legislation with the ICZM Protocol.

Protogizc project: IDDRI, PAP/RAC 2009-2011 Impacts of the ICZM Protocol ratification on Croatia, GTZ

project, PAP/RAC, 2010 Analysis of impacts of the ratification of the ICZM

Protocol on national legal and institutional framework in Montenegro, PAP/RAC, 2008/2010

MedPartnership contribution in upgrading results, summing up & organisation of the Regional Workshop

Final remarks The MedPartnership project is in its 3rd year

of implementation and initial results are visible

Critical time for the development of plans, strategies and policy reforms

New sister project: Integration of Climatic Variability and Change into Coastal Plans and National ICZM Strategies

Need to ensure inter-ministerial coordination on all activities

Thank you for your attention.

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