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10 Mar 2020
- experience-notes
- project: 5404
- English
![]() Community-based coastal monitoring in the Pacific was seen to be a highly suited approach that could meet the needs for coastal monitoring and management. Workshop participants gained the conceptual and technical know-how to install monitoring sta... |
23 Aug 2019
- experience-notes
- project: 4581
- English
![]() The world's tuna fleet, comprising thousands of vessels from over 85 countries landing catches valued at >10 billion USD annually, is a critical global food source. But these fisheries are a major cause of mortality for some populations of seabird... |
18 Jul 2019
- experience-notes
- project: 4966
- English
![]() SADC-GMI signed Memoranda of Understanding with River Basin Organizations in the SADC region to foster collaboration in ensuring that groundwater issues were included on the Work Plans of the RBO Commissions. SADC-GMI implemented research projec... |
03 May 2019
- experience-notes
- project: 5729
- English
![]() Within the GEF IW: LEARN project, UNESCO and Conservation International (CI) agreed to join efforts to support the project’s goal to strengthen global and regional management capacities and knowledge of transboundary water management through the ... |
03 May 2019
- experience-notes
- project: 4533
- English
![]() This experience note highlights how the development of the Water Safety Plan application has promoted the catchment to consumer approach to hazard and risk management and encouraged the initiation of climate-resilient Water Safety Planning. |
03 May 2019
- experience-notes
- project: 4533
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03 May 2019
- experience-notes
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25 Apr 2019
- experience-notes
- project: 2600
- English
![]() PCBs are pollutants more specifically known as polychlorinated biphenyls. They are highly toxic, very long lasting (over 100 years) and bioaccumulative, and one of the most harmful persistent organic chemicals to be manufactured by man. PCBs have ... |
25 Apr 2019
- experience-notes
- project: 2600
- French
![]() La gestion intégrée des zones côtières (GIZC) est une démarche qui vise à mettre en pratique le développement durable sur les littoraux. Les pays méditerranéens qui souhaitent s’engager dans cette voie disposent pour ce faire d’un instrument effic... |
25 Apr 2019
- experience-notes
- project: 2600
- French
![]() Conformément au protocole GIZC (ou protocole de Madrid 2008), l'Algérie a initié un processus d'élaboration de sa stratégie nationale de Gestion Intégrée des Zones côtières. Cette initiative s'inscrit dans une dynamique visant à faciliter le dével... |
25 Apr 2019
- experience-notes
- project: 2600
- French
![]() La gestion intégrée des zones côtières (GIZC) est une démarche qui vise à mettre en pratique le développement durable sur les littoraux. Les pays méditerranéens qui souhaitent s’engager dans cette voie disposent pour ce faire d’un instrument effic... |
24 Apr 2019
- experience-notes
- project: 2600
- English
![]() In most Mediterranean countries, governance bottlenecks and financing gaps undermine the quality and sustainability of water supply and sanitation with direct negative impacts on the environment. Targeted action towards better water governance and... |
24 Apr 2019
- experience-notes
- project: 2600
- English
![]() Preparation of the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) Strategy for Montenegro was undertaken in parallel with the preparation of the Coastal Area Spatial Plan, the most important planning document for coastal areas in Montenegro. Having i... |
24 Apr 2019
- experience-notes
- project: 2600
- English
![]() In recent decades various management approaches have been developed for the terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments in the Mediterranean basin. These include Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM), Integrated Water Resources Management ... |
24 Apr 2019
- experience-notes
- project: 2600
- English
![]() Within the MedPartnership project, WWF's intervention responded to the need to protect marine and coastal biodiversity of the Mediterranean by enhancing the management effectiveness of existing MPAs in the project countries. Through a combinatio... |
24 Apr 2019
- experience-notes
- project: 2600
- English
![]() The Mediterranean Integrated Climate Information platform (MedICIP), is a joint Mediterranean country effort to share geographical data and existing reports dealing with ICZM and Climate Change in participating countries. The development of MedI... |
24 Apr 2019
- experience-notes
- project: 2600
- English
![]() This activity aims mainly at assisting Mediterranean riparian countries in the setting up of an ecologically coherent network of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the region. It has been addressed through the identification and characterisation of ... |
24 Apr 2019
- experience-notes
- project: 2600
- English
![]() Groundwater pollution from anthropogenic sources is a serious concern affecting several coastal aquifers in the Mediterranean Basin. In this region adequate science-based management strategies to protect groundwater from contamination and overexpl... |
24 Apr 2019
- experience-notes
- project: 2600
- English
![]() To provide an integrated policy for the sea and the coast that takes into account climate variability and change and that is harmonized with the National Water Strategy, the Croatian government decided to prepare an integrated Marine and Coastal S... |
23 Apr 2019
- experience-notes
- project: 2600
- English
![]() The aim of this activity was to provide the tools to influence the current practice of unsustainable coastal development around the Mediterranean. Croatia is one of the Mediterranean countries with highest ratio of coastal length per inhabitant. D... |