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

ACTIVITIES:

1.1 Put in place institutional arrangements for carrying out the project activities that will ensure the sustainability of the action program.

1.2 Identify, strengthen, and involve stakeholders.

1.3 Develop and conduct training workshops for stakeholders on such topics as Integrated Coastal Area Management (ICAM), Coastal and Marine Environmental Management and Civil Society.

1.4 Formulate arrangements for financing regional maritime pollution monitoring, control and prevention, including the establishment of a financing scheme in cooperation with the private sector and port authorities to contribute to the financial sustainability of the program.

1.5 Develop and recommend economic instruments and incentives to promote preventive measures to decrease both land and sea-based sources of pollution as well as adequate environmental management in the sector.

1.6 Agree on performance indicators for the Gulf of Honduras maritime transport pollution control project through a broad stakeholder process and develop a process to monitor those indicators.