1. PRE CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS 24 th October, 2009 GCLME Marine Management and Governance Christian Susan Project Manager, UNIDO Water Management Unit

2. GCLME Project Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem

3. GCLME Project 16 riparian countries: Angola Benin Cameroon Congo DRC Cote d’Ivoire Gabon Ghana Equatorial Guinea Guinea Guinea Bissau Liberia Nigeria Sao Tome and Principe Sierra Leone Togo

4. GCLME Project GCLME natural resource endowment and threats class I highly productive ecosystem (> 300 gC/m -2 y -1 ) diverse coastal habitats, lagoons, bays, estuaries and mangrove swamps => high biodiversity, threatened by anthropogenic activities and natural processes rich in living marine resources, threatened by over-fishing >60% industries and ~ 47% population (300 mio) lives within 200 km of the coast, overexploitation of natural, pressure/destruction on/of habitats rich in natural resource endowment (oil, gas, timber, minerals), exploitation has detrimental environmental impacts

5. GCLME Project the Riparian Countries 4 languages (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish) different legal and regulatory frameworks large regional socio-economic disparities different development paths

6. GCLME Project obstacles for sustainable management and joint governance of natural resources fragmented data sets, not shared lack of national budget inadequate regional institutional capacity and human resources no regional cooperation ill defined property right regimes => uncertainty in ecosystem status

7. GCLME Project long term development goals recover and sustain depleted fisheries restore degraded habitats reduce land and ship-based sources of pollution by establishing a regional management framework for sustainable use of living and non living resources

8. GCLME Project instruments for sustainable management and joint governance Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis joint scientific and technical assessment joint identification and quantification of environmental issues and problems joint analysis of root causes, environmental and economic impacts, uncertainties joint analysis of socio-economic, political and institutional context

9. GCLME Project instruments for sustainable management and joint governance Strategic Action Program negotiated policy document, ratified by all 16 GCLME countries (2007) describes policy, legal and institutional reforms and investments needed to address problems identified in TDA measurable and quantifiable performance indicators

10. GCLME Project instruments for sustainable management and joint governance National Action Programs to translate the SAP’s political goals into concrete action at national level identify concrete actions and commitments national baseline and incremental processes and costs identify regional and national arrangements for monitoring the environmental status and trends, pressure relief each NAP is to be adopted and endorsed by the relevant by-laws to be enacted by each member country

11. GCLME Project institutions for sustainable management and joint governance Regional Coordination Unit Interministerial Committees in each country Ministerial Committee Regional Activity Centers Interim Guinea Current Commission (Abuja Declaration 2006) Guinea Current Commission

12. GCLME Project tools for sustainable management and joint governance standardized monitoring programme regional biodiversity strategy ecosystem wide stock assessment methodology fisheries management plans for transboundary stocks economic instruments national demonstration projects, regionally disseminated ecosystem trend reports

13. GCLME Project addressing climate variability Lagos (Nigeria) and Monrovia (Liberia) are among the top five cities most vulnerable to sea level rise Regional Activity Centre for Risk Assessment in Libreville, Gabon main tasks in phase II assess vulnerability of GCLME to impacts due to climatic change population at risk economic activities compromised impacts on habitats, fauna and flora information dissemination and awareness creation mitigation

14. GCLME Project Poverty Reduction through Productive Activities Trade Capacity Building Energy and Environment merci! gracias! obrigado! thank you!