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A Strategic Action Programme is an agreement among participating countries on actions needed to resolve priority threats to international waters, including actions for the national benefit of each country, actions addressing transboundary issues and institutional mechanisms at regional and national level for implementation of those actions.
FileStrategic Action Plan(SAP) for Gulf of Honduras
The Strategic Action Plan (SAP) for the area of the Gulf of Honduras, is the result of a process of identification and analysis of problems that constitute the current state of the situation from which they the long-term desirable status of the situation was built, with a proposed scenario in which the current problems have been modified - or reversed - to achieve an acceptable environmental quality status. The SAP represents for the different stakeholders who interact at the different levels of the life dynamics of in the area of the Gulf of Honduras, the framework for regional harmonization and coordination of a series of actions of interest to be executed by countries in the study area (Belize, Guatemala and Honduras), both at national and regional levels, thus contributing to a comprehensive management - harmonious and sustainable – of the natural resources of the Gulf of Honduras.
FileStrategic Action Plan for the Lake Victoria Basin
This Strategic Action Plan (SAP) for the Lake Victoria Basin builds on the results of the National and Regional Transboundary Diagnostic Analyses (TDAs) carried out in the Basin in 2006. The TDAs identified key national and transboundary issues along with their underlying and root causes, within the context of the Vision and Strategy of the Basin. The SAP was designed to assist stakeholders across the Lake Victoria Basin (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda) to analyse and prioritize the key transboundary issues, interventions, goals, targets and strategies. The focus has been on developing broad consensus on realistic, achievable strategies and interventions for sustainable management of the Lake Basin in a define time frame of either short, medium or long term in order to develop mechanisms that will enable stakeholders to monitor the progress of the implementation process towards achieving the targets and goals set in the SAP. There are six chapters and seven annexes in this report. The results of participatory processes in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda are presented in the SAP report, starting with the TDAs, feeding into the SAP. The TDAs, along with other relevant initiatives, form the baseline of the SAP. The SAP itself is a document intended for action and decision-making. The SAP for Lake Victoria Basin is a result of a participatory approach by stakeholders in the Basin. The stakeholders fully participated in the process leading to this SAP at both national and regional level. Many of these stakeholders, earnestly, gave their time to contribute at both the national and regional level. The lake Victoria Basin Commission would like to express sincere gratitude to all contributors to this process including regional technical reviewers, focal point officers, National project coordinators, a manifold of stakeholders and consultants. The production of this SAP would not have been possible without the rigorous review processes by the Task Force Team of Regional Technical Reviewers and the Regional Task Force Team that was tasked with the overall conceptualization, formatting, writing, design, production monitoring and editing of this report. Global Environmental Facility (GEF), through the World Bank (WB), provided very important financial contribution for the SAP process. The Lake Victoria Basin Commission, sincerely, acknowledges all the support and encouragement received throughout this process.
FileWIOLAB SAP-2009
The Strategic Action Programme for the protection of the coastal and marine environment of the Western Indian Ocean from Land-based sources and activities (SAP) has been completed at a time when it is most needed. The SAP will in particular help the governments in the WIO region to jointly or individually deal with the challenges associated with the increasing demand for coastal and marine resources and the consequent destruction and degradation of critical Forewordhabitats, changes in freshwater flow and sediments loads, as well as challenges resulting from global climate change. Decision-makers, administrators, planners, resource managers and scientists, will in particularly find this document valuable in the conception, formulation and implementation of specific projects aimed at enhancing the protection of the coastal and marine environment.
FileRussian Federation - SAP
The Strategic Action Program for Protection of the Russian Arctic Environment (SAP-Arctic) is directed to preserve and protect Arctic environment and to eliminate negative environmental impacts from economic and other activities.
FileThe Strategic Action Programme for the Sustainable Management of Lake Tanganyika July 2000
This programme was duly adopted by the four riparian states at the final meeting of the LTBP Regional Steering Committee held in Nairobi, July 13, 2000
FileSAP for the Pacific Small Island Developing States
FileStrategic Action Programme for the Conservation of Biological Diversity (SAP BIO) in the Mediterranean Region
The principal objective of SAP BIO is establishing a logical base for implementing the 1995 SPA Protocol, that is providing Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Conventions, international and national organisations, NGOs, donors and all other actors involved in the protection and management of the Mediterranean natural environment, with principles, measures and concrete and coordinated actions at national, transboundary and regional level for the conservation of the Mediterranean marine and coastal biodiversity, within the framework of sustainable use and through the implementation of the 1995 SPA Protocol.
FileSAP document for the Amazon river basin
Concluded the process of transition from the Pro-Tempore Secretariats of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (ACT) to the establishment of the Permanent Secretariat of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty, which I am very pleased to have taken on, as the first woman, the position of Secretary-General to the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), since early May 2004. This role has produced one of the most noticeable inflections in the institutional history of this document, fostering regional cooperation and integration of the Amazon countries, in compliance with the mandates by the Governments of the Country Members.
FileStrategic Action Plan(SAP) for caspian environment programme-Russian
FileStrategic Action Program(SAP) for Guarani Aquifer
The Strategic Action Program is the outcome of six years of intense collective effort for the production of knowledge, and of a fruitful process of interaction among sectors responsible for water-resources management in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The goal of assisting these countries to develop a framework for protection and sustainable development of the Guarani Aquifer System (GAS) has been fully achieved, as this document describes. Today, groundwater management, an non-transferable duty of each of the countries that overlie the GAS, is equipped with technical bases for development. Moreover, the international sectors involved have fulfilled their mission of promoting cooperation among the different beneficiary countries, by means of the Project for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development of the Guarani Aquifer System (PGAS).
FileStrategic Action Programme (SAP) for caspian environment programme
The Caspian Environment Programme (CEP) represents a partnership between the five littoral states namely Azerbaijan, Islamic Republic of Iran, Kazakhstan, Russian Federation and Turkmenistan and the International Partners namely the EU, UNDP, UNEP, and the World Bank. The overall goal of the CEP is environmentally sustainable development and management of the Caspian environment, including living resources and water quality, so as to obtain the utmost long term benefits for the human population of the region, while protecting human health, ecological integrity and the region's economic and environmental sustainability for future generations.
FileCaspian Sea - Strategic Action Programme (SAP) for the Caspian Sea. 2003. (370 KB)
The SAP lays down the principles of environmental management and cooperation; notes the challenges to the sustainable integrated management of the Caspian Sea environment; sets the regionally agreed Environmental Quality Objectives (EQOs) for the four areas of environmental concern in a transboundary context and proceeds to define a set of targets and interventions to meet these objectives. The SAP also highlights the financial resource and the institutional structure required for the implementation of the priority actions for the next 5+5 years. (p. 4).
FileTumen River Basin - TumenNET Strategic Action Programme. 2002. (1.5 MB)
The overarching goal of the TumenNET Strategic Action Programme (SAP) is to elucidate a suite of regional policy priorities and national action commitments to address the international dimensions of biodiversity loss and water issues in a manner that is sustainable, transparent, and democratic. This SAP should be considered a living document that builds upon the significant cooperative work already completed by the participating countries to protect their shared natural heritage as responsible stewards allegiant to present and future generations. (p. iv)
FilePEMSEA Sustainable Development Strategy for the Seas of East Asia. 2003. (2.6 MB)
The Sustainable Development Strategy is a package of applicable principles, relevant existing regional and international action programmes, agreements, and instruments, as well as implementation approaches, for achieving sustainable development of the Seas of East Asia. It offers a regional framework for the interested countries and other stakeholders to implement, in an integrated or holistic manner, the commitments they have already made, without assuming new legal obligations. It addresses linkages among social, cultural, economic and environmental issues. It embodies the shared vision of the countries and other stakeholders for the Seas of East Asia, and the ways by which they will achieve that shared vision. The Strategy does not reflect any individual country, international organization, or sectoral interest but presents a regional perspective, principles, and guidelines, and a platform for each to play and strengthen its respective role and to cooperate with one another in addressing common issues and concerns. The Sustainable Development Strategy is based on a programmatic approach and the consensus reached among the countries and other stakeholders particularly with regard to needs, nature and purpose, basic role and functions, scope of application and essential elements.
FilePERSGA - SAP for the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. 1998. (411 KB)
In view of the environmental uniqueness of the coasts and waters of the Region, the threats they are facing, and the necessity for actions, the preparation of the Strategic Action Programme (SAP) for the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden was initiated in October 1995. The SAP process, coordinated by the Regional Organization for the Conservation of the Environment of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden (PERSGA), has been undertaken with support from the countries of the Region, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), selected international development institutions and donor organizations. (p. xi)
FileDnipro Basin Strategic Action Programme and Implementation Mechanisms(SAP). 2004. (3.0 MB)
The overall objective of the SAP implementation is to ensure the Dnipro's environmental rehabilitation and achieve improvements in the state of environment and natural ecosystems, both in the region and beyond (i.e. in the Black Sea Basin). To achieve this objective, a number of tasks have to be resolved. These are: · to ensure sustainable socio-economic development in the region and integrated management/protection of the environment; · to remedy the serious environmental effects of pollution and habitat deterioration in the Dnipro Basin; · to ensure sustainable use of its natural resources; and · to protect biodiversity in the Basin. (p. 5)
FileThe Strategic Action Programme for the International Waters of the Pacific Small Island Developing States
The Pacific Small Island Developing State International Waters Programme (the IWP) was designed as a 5-year programme for 14 participating Island countries . It is implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and executed by the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP).
FileVolta River Basin - Preliminary(SAP) Strategic Action Programme, Final Report. 2002. (638 KB)
The present Draft Preliminary Strategic Action Programme is based on the findings of the draft preliminary TDA that represents a regional synthesis of major issues identified from the national reports and regional meetings. The draft preliminary TDA identifies the priorities among land and water-related problems and concerns, their socio-economic root causes, the sectoral implications of actions needed to mitigate them, and the extent to which the problems are transboundary in either origin or effect. (p. iii)
FileMediterranean Action Plan - SAP
This Strategic Action Programme is based on the preliminary findings of the regionally prepared transboundary diagnostic analysis that represents a regional synthesis of actions regarding the protection of the marine environment from land-based activities. The following Table presents the perceived major problems of the Mediterranean region and their associated transboundary elements. Seven major problems have been identified from a review of the results of the work of the Mediterranean Action Plan over the last twenty years, the work of related programmes and the reviews undertaken in the context of the present activity. Five main root causes are identified as resulting in the identified problems, although the relative importance of each cause differs in relation to the individual problems. In addition two major types of action are proposed to address each of the identified problems and again the relative importance of each area of action differs according to the nature of the problem. (p. 2)
FileBermejo - Programa estratégico de acción para la cuenca binacional del río Bermejo. 2000. (1.7 MB, Spanish)
El objetivo principal del proyecto fue la preparación del Programa Estratégico de Acción (PEA), como instrumento para promover, por intermedio de las instituciones responsables, el desarrollo sostenible de la cuenca binacional e interjurisdiccional del río Bermejo mediante la incorporación de las preocupaciones ambientales en las políticas, planes y programas de desarrollo en la cuenca, la instauración de una visión de cuenca y de manejo integrado de los recursos naturales. Este documento describe el conjunto de acciones prioritarias que ambos países han coincidido en identificar como necesarias para atender los principales problemas ambientales y sus manifestaciones transfronterizas, reflejando los resultados del proceso de participación y consulta desarrollado. También establece el marco institucional y de compromisos diseñado para llevarlas adelante y determina las necesidades de financiamiento para los proyectos y elementos que fueron seleccionados y desarrollados. De esta forma se posibilita el ingreso a la próxima Fase de Implementación del Programa.
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