2. GEF/Baltic Sea Regional Project
Baltic Sea Environment Program
The Baltic Sea Environment Program is
a regional environmental program
that has progressed from “planning”
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to “implementation.”
11. GEF/Baltic Sea Regional Project
What was needed to succeed?
SShhaarreedd vviissiioonn
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BBaallaanncceedd ccoo--ffiinnaanncciinngg
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12. GEF/Baltic Sea Regional Project
What did we learn?
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aacchhiieevviinngg tthhee ggooaallss ooff tthhee PPrrooggrraamm
Well ddeeffiinneedd oobbjjeeccttiivveess aanndd pprriioorriittiieess
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WWeellll ttaarrggeetteedd iinnvveessttmmeennttss
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13. GEF/Baltic Sea Regional Project
Second Generation of Projects to
address the major threats to the Baltic
Sea:
Rural Environmental Protection
Project, Poland
Baltic Sea RReeggiioonnaall PPrroojjeecctt,,
aallll 99 ccoouunnttrriieess
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16. GEF/Baltic Sea Regional Project
Preparations for a GEF project:
HELCOM - IBSFC - ICES
National consultations
LME Workshop
Draft PIP
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17. GEF/Baltic Sea Regional Project
PPrroojjeecctt ccoommppoonneennttss
1 Large Marine Ecosystem Activities
2 Land and Coastal Management
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Activities
3 Institutional Strengthening and
Regional Capacity Building
4 Project Management
18. GEF/Baltic Sea Regional Project
* Inform and engage stakeholders and decision-makers
on the project approach and objectives
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GGooaallss
* Facilitate strengthening of regional institutions
through capacity building efforts
* Develop and apply an ecosystem-based management
strategy to the BSLME
* Assess and evaluate the socio-economic effects of the
ecosystem-based management for farming,
fishing and coastal communities
19. GEF/Baltic Sea Regional Project
Land
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TThhee BBaallttiicc LLMMEE ccoonncceepptt
Strengthening technical capacity
Marine Coastal
Training farmers
Grant/Credit on-farm invest-ments.
Modeling water quality
and nutrient transport
Fish stock ass
Ships of Opportunity
Contaminants
Joint integrated fish stock ass. surveys
Improved fish landing statistics
Strengthening technical capacity, WS.s
Upgrade laboratories and ships
Improve scientific/and political
coordination
CZM
Salmon river rest.
MMED
Improvement
Ecosystem
Socio-Manageecmoennotmy
20. GEF/Baltic Sea Regional Project
Organizational CChhaarrtt
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Advisory Com
Environment
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Baltic Sea
Steering Group
HELCOM
ICES IBSFC
Coordinators
C1 C2
Baltic Sea
Com.s/WG.s
Advisory Com
Ecosystem
Advisory Com
Fisheries
Estonia Latvia Lithuania Poland Russia
CC, LL, LIU CC, LL, LIU CC, LL, LIU CC, LL CC, LL, LIU
National Laboratories/authorities International Consultants