Dr Eric CLUA- Programme manager Brief update Item ICRI General meeting - Palau - November 2005

Budget : about 10 Millions US$ What is CRISP ? Duration : 3 years - Ending December 2008 Programme made of 15 projects in 15 countries from the Pacific (SPREP countries) Approach: support to existing organizations and development of new partnerships Partnerships

p Component 1  C1A Strategy for marine biodiversity conservation  C1B Marine Protected Areas  C1C Capacity building and networking  C1D Integrated coastal management (watershed and Anthropoly/socio-economics) p Component 2  C2A Status of coral reefs and use of resources  C2B Rehabilitation/restoration of ecosystems  C2C Development of Marine Active Substances  C2D Development of REEFBASE for the Pacific Component 3  C3A Institutional support, communication, adoption  C3B Coordination and extension Structure and actions

Signed March 05 CRISP Coordinating Unit Update on financing process Signed April 05 Signed October 05 Signed October 05 expected Dec. 05

C1A : ecoregional analysis Workshop in Noumea 11-13th August 2005

C1B: MPAs in the Republic of KIRIBATI The Phoenix Islands Conservation and Management project Baseline surveys for the management plan

C1B: 2 MPAs in the Western SAMOA Financial support to management structures

C1B/C: MPAS and capacity building in Solomon, Vanuatu, Kiribati and Tuvalu About 20 MPAs involved in: -Identification of sites -Baseline surveys / training -Workshops / LMMA network

C2A: development of reef fish larvae - Editing of identification guide - Setting up operations in Fiji

C2D: strengthening reef monitoring network - Support to Polynesia Mana network/GCRMN -Missions in Tonga and Cook Islands

C2B: reef restoration - Demonstration site in Motoriki (Fiji) -First monitoring session (after 2 months) -Identification of demonstration sites in Solomon Islands and Western Samoa

C2C: Training and legislation on biodiscovery - Training of USP scientist in sponge taxonomy and active principle extraction - Baseline research for study on legislation frameworks in South Pacific

Development of CRISP - Countries partnerships: Australia : still discussing. Japan : co-organizing a workshop in oct in Moorea (French Polynesia) with University of Ryukyus - Project partnerships: CRTR, Reef Check and PROCFish project : still discussing - Extension of geographic scope : setting up of involvement of CRISP in PNG (Milne Bay project/CI- UNDP)

Thank you…