1. GEF Communication Workshop
Vienna: January 19/20, 2006

2. GEF Communication Workshop Vienna: January 19/20, 2006
Caspian is a Sea of opportunities & of challenges!
What do we expect from this Workshop ?

3. GEF Communication Workshop Vienna: January 19/20, 2006
Opportunities
Regional Dialogue:
Regional desire for peace ; ongoing negotiation on the legal regime; Tehran Convention
Economic potentials
- Hydrocarbon resources, third in world ; rich bioresources , some $ 5 billion ; transport corridor; Ecotourism.
Time factor
- Time has not yet run out for Caspian !

4. GEF Communication Workshop Vienna: January 19/20, 2006
Environmental Challenges
Alarming decline in fisheries; Sturgeon ban
Erosion of Biodiversity ; ML
Pollution; eutrophication
Unsustainable coastal development; sea level fluctuations

5. GEF Communication Workshop Vienna: January 19/20, 2006
Social, economic and political challenges
Relatively low total GDP, low Per capita GDP and HDR
High expectations & Unsatisfied demands
Legal regime not settled
political and ethnical conflicts
Young democracies with long memories of past
Low priority to environment, low environment budgets
Strong outside interests

6. GEF Communication Workshop Vienna: January 19/20, 2006
Support to CEP
Good support from UN bodies and the European Union
Fair to low support from governments
Limited support from international industry
Not much from national oil companies

7. GEF Communication Workshop Vienna: January 19/20, 2006
Achievements
Created , supported regional dialogue; Convention, PCU, NFPS, MPPAS , RAGS
Diagnosed transboundary issues , suggested solutions: TDA, stakeholders analysis, NCAPs, SAP, PPS
Resource mobilization: PIPS, MSGP , approaches to the industry
Pilot projects and capacity building efforts e.g EVE

8. GEF Communication Workshop Vienna: January 19/20, 2006
What do we expect from this workshop?
Let us know what is meant by communication ?!
Share experience on data and information access in a formalist region where nothing goes free! .
Share experience on how to realistically engage the stakeholders in getting things done!