IW WOW Award 2011 Nominees

Canary Current LME Project

The Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem (CCLME) project is unique in its strategic combination of fisheries and ecosystem governance frameworks and will,  through governance reforms, investments and management programs, enable the participating countries to address priority transboundary concerns on declining fisheries, associated biodiversity and water quality. The website is available in three languages: English, French, and Portuguese (via Google translation).

Website: http://www.canarycurrent.org

South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Project

SWIOFP is an ambitious multinational research project with an overall goal that will see the West Indian Ocean’s marine resources ecologically managed for sustainable use and benefit by the region’s riparian countries. The project forms part of the Large Marine Ecosystem Programme approach (LME) and is supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) as a contribution to its international waters programme and implemented by the World Bank. Over the next five years, nine countries of the Western Indian Ocean will work together to understand and management better their fisheries through an LME and Ecosystem Based Approach. This website serves as the online window to the project.

Website: http://swiofp.iwlearn.org

Bay Of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem

Maldives, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, have declared their willingness to work together through the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem (BOBLME) Project and lay the foundations for a coordinated programme of action designed to better the lives of the coastal populations through improved regional management of the Bay of Bengal environment and its fisheries.

The objective of the BOBLME website is to create awareness of the project to the Bay of Bengal region and to the world. It is also a repository of the work that is being done by the Regional Coordination Unit. Thematic reports produced from ongoing research are made easily accessible to the stakeholders. Featured with news articles and local country activities and events, it is both informative and simple and it has an inviting and easy to access feel to it.

Website: http://www.boblme.org

Reducing Pesticides Runoff to the Caribbean Sea (REPCar)

The main goals of the website is to communicate with project partners and other stakeholders on the best practices recommended to reduce pesticides runoff. Besides general project information, the website is packed with training resources such as manuals on Good Agricultural Practices for some of the major crops in the region (http://cep.unep.org/repcar/demo-projects). Information on the status of the environment (report on pesticides residues) will be posted in the coming weeks, as it takes time to reach consensus among the partners on technical details. The website has 2 interactive tools accessible via the homepage: 1) an interactive map giving an overview of "what activities were done where", which also links to the most important publications; 2) an online database with geographic interface enables authorized users to consult on pesticides residues in the coastal environment.

Website: http://www.cep.unep.org/repcar

UNDP/GEF Project on Partnership Interventions for the Implementation of the Strategic Action Programme for Lake Tanganyika

To support the Lake Tanganyika Authority (LTA) in reaching a wide regional and international audience, the UNDP/GEF Project established the LTA website. The target audience includes the national project managers of both the UNDP/GEF Project and its African Development Bank funded sister project units, governmental partners in the riparian countries, donors, and others who are interested in the sustainable management of Lake Tanganyika. Recommended links are the video page: http://www.lta.iwlearn.org/vids, photo page:http://www.lta.iwlearn.org/photos and the LTA Facebook page.

Website: http://www.lta.iwlearn.org