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Project Concept

Meeting Objectives

Agenda, Thursday, June 12

Agenda, Friday June 13

OUTLINE OF TALK

PROCESS TO DETERMINE ACTIVITIES

PRIORITIES FROM SECOND MEETING (con’t)

COMPONENTS AND OBJECTIVES

COMPONENTS AND OBJECTIVES (CON’T)

Component 1: Building regional capacity for maritime and land-based pollution control in Central America.

Component 2: Creating, analyzing and distributing marine environmental information and developing a strategic action plan for the Gulf of Honduras.

Component 3: Enhancing navigational safety in shipping lanes.

Component 4: Improving environmental management in the regional network of five ports within the Gulf of Honduras.

OUTPUTS (CON’T)

WORKING GROUP INSTRUCTIONS

GEF-IDB PROJECT - INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES

SESSION OBJECTIVES

SUMMARY OF SECTOR FINDINGS

KEY PUBLIC SECTOR FINDINGS

KEY CIVIL SOCIETY FINDINGS

KEY PRIVATE SECTOR FINDINGS

PROJECT DESIGN AND CHARACTERISTICS

CONCEPTUAL APPROACH FOR IMPLEMENTING FRAMEWORK

Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System Project

PROARCA OPERATING STRUCTURE

PROJECT EXECUTION COMPONENTS

MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING REGIONAL EXECUTING INSTITUTION

ENABLING AGREEMENTS

Workgroups: Project Execution Arrangements and Organization

Proposed Enabling Agreement

Proposed Attendance to the September Meeting (Project Presentation)

Enhancement on Navigation Safety & Shipping Lanes

National Environmental Frameworks -Guatemala

SUSTAINABLE LONG-TERM FINANCING

SUSTAINABLE FINANCING: ISSUES

SUSTAINABLE FINANCING (CON’T)

INITIAL PROJECT FINANCING: GEF ELIGIBILITY

WHAT ARE INCREMENTAL COSTS?

WHAT ARE INCREMENTAL COSTS (CON’T)

WHAT ARE INCREMENTAL COSTS

TERMINOLOGY (CON’T)

CALCULATING THE BASELINE

CALCULATING THE INCREMENTAL COSTS

COUNTRY CO-FINANCING

OVERALL CO-FINANCING

BASELINE -- EXAMPLE

BASELINE -- EXAMPLE

COUNTRY CO-FINANCING -- EXAMPLE

COUNTRY CO-FINANCING (EXAMPLE)

DISCUSSION GROUP TASKS

SCHEDULE FOR PROVIDING BASELINE AND CO-FINANCING ESTIMATES

PROJECT COMPONENT 1:

General comments

2.1 Develop a Data and Information Management System for maritime related impacts from port and navigation activities, and land-based sources of pollution.

2.2 Update and complete TDA, including an updated assessment of the relative importance and transboundary impact of land- based and marine-based sources of pollution and filling the gaps identified in the Preliminary TDA.

2.3 Prepare, negotiate, and endorse at the national level a regional Strategic Action Plan (SAP) for port and navigational pollution reduction measures as well as reduction of other adverse land- based activities.

2.3 Prepare, negotiate, and endorse at the national level a regional Strategic Action Plan (SAP) for port and navigational pollution reduction measures as well as reduction of other adverse land- based activities…continued.

3.1 Conduct navigational risk assessments and propose modifications in maritime shipping routes and other risk reduction measures.

3.2 Review and draft reforms for the institutional, legal, policy, regulatory and enforcement framework for navigational safety, including the prevention of oil and chemical spills, vessel standards, provision of hydrographic services, certification, the framework for the definition of liabilities; and facilitating the process of ratification, as well as promoting the compliance, with international and regional conventions and agreements (such as international collision regulations and other international IMO conventions like the Safety of Life at Sea).

3.3 Building on existing institutional arrangements where feasible, establish a regional focus for oceanography related to oil and chemical spill planning and response, for oceanographic data processing, as well as management and modeling (Marine) GIS-based data applications, that will share information with the public and decision-makers.

3.4 Develop and implement a training program for national and regional entities, including inspection, pilotage, and oceanography, related to navigational safety and spills, focusing on gaps identified including in the areas of pilotage, Port Wardens, assessment of oceanographic current dynamics, sediment transport, and bathymetry.

3.5 Prepare a regional/transboundary oil and chemical spill prevention and contingency plan.

3.6 Building on the initial assessment/ gap analysis of regional hydrographic capabilities of the Meso-American and Caribbean Sea Hydrographic Commission (MACHC), hold a high-level workshop to address institutional arrangements regional capacity building. Participants should include senior, decisionmaking representatives from each country’s national interministerial hydrographic coordination mechanism (Commission, Steering Group, etc.), regional organizations such as COCATRAM, MACHC and other key players. Such a workshop should 1) explore alternatives for regional cooperation under the scope of the project and 2) decide on a common approach, including political arrangements that will effectively build regional capacity while reducing costs by utilizing common assets.

3.7 Develop and implement a training/demonstration program for national and regional entities in hydrography to improve technical capacity.

3.8 Identify and conduct two demonstration pilot activities related to navigational risk reduction. Examples include improved incineration facilities, improved processes for removal, transport, and treatment of chemical wastes (including oil, solid waste and water), improved navigational products and services (such as production of an electronic navigational chart for a project priority port), and regional vessel tracking capabilities.

I. TDA Technical Endorsement

II. Agreement and Regional Details on the Project Components

III. Receive Input into Project Execution Arrangements and Organization

IV. Agree on Method and Timeline for Determining Baseline Costs and Country Cofinancing

Agree on Method and Timeline for Determining Baseline Costs and Country Cofinancing: con’t

V. Exploring enabling agreements for regional cooperation in the execution of the project

Proposed Schedule of Events up through September Meeting-Enabling Agreements

VI. Other (National Environmental Frameworks, Effective Coordination amongst regional projects)

Project Schedule