Integrating Watershed and Coastal Area Management in the Small Island Developing States of the Caribbean (IWCAM)

The overall objective of the proposed project will be to assist participating countries in improving their watershed and coastal zone management practices in support of sustainable development. The project will include the following components addressing areas of priority concern: coastal area management and biodiversity; tourism development; protection of water supplies; land based sources of pollution; climate change. Activities undertaken during the full project will include, amongst others, demonstrations in the fields of marine pollution reduction and waste management, land use, soil degradation and watershed management. Addressing water resources management and conservation under conditions of stress may include pilot projects demonstrating innovative approaches to: water storage, distribution, treatment and re-use, and to conservation of scarce resources in high demand sectors such as tourism. The project may also include pilot activities addressing information, management, policy and economic failures where these are identified as critical elements in the cusal relationships between environmental issues and problems and the societal causes of such problems. The objective of the PDF-B work is to develop a fully costed project brief and to establish an agreed institutional framework for execution of the full project activities. March 2004 - Work Program Inclusion The full project is the result of a commitment by the 13 participatory SIDS of the Caribbean Region to resolve the concerns regarding the inadequate and inappropriate approaches to sustainable development and natural resource management. Specifically the countries would wish to seek support in the development of a more integrated approach to coastal and watershed issues, processes and policy development. The direct causal linkages between the threats to the coastal and watershed environment and socio-economic/political issues are recognised. The need to address these linkages and the root causes in a sustainable manner at the socio-economic and policy level is paramount. By implementing the project activities the country of the region will significantly contribute to the protection of globally-significant biodiversity within the Caribbean region through the long-term sustainable management of biological resources and ecosystems, while mitigating or eliminating regional transboundary threats to those resources and ecosystems.

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image Demo Communications Wkshop 2 Santo Domingo Cleaning fish- Cienfuegos Bay- Cuba Soil conservation workshop participants- Cuba Project manager and artificial wastewater wetland filtration unit under construction- Au Leon- Jan 09 Land use training- Union Island SVG Artificial wastewater wetland newly constructed- St.Lucia Demo Jan 10 Chateaubelair- SVG Community Consultations Lab at CEAC- Cuba St. Lucia Water Week Exhibit FoProBiM at work- Haiti Rainwater Harvesting Demo site- Fond Dor watershed -7 The Haina Association of Industries and Businesses and community representatives meet St. Kitts - Nevis Prime Minister- Denzil Douglas- at the ceremony to declare the Basseterre Valley National Park Drivers River Watershed sign- Jamaica IWRM Partnership Forum Meeting Bdos Dec08 The Haina Association of Industries and Businesses and community representatives meet Cleaning fish- Cienfuegos Bay- Cuba.JPG sign at St.Kitts Demo site newly constructed sewage treatment plant Monitoring water quality.JPG workshop [IWCAM] December 2011: Finding a Balance between Meeting Needs and Addressing Policy Issues in Integrated Watershed and Coastal Areas Management [IWCAM] Third Project Steering Committee Meeting Report [IWCAM] Second Project Steering Committee Meeting Report [IWCAM] First Project Steering Committee Report [IWCAM] Fourth Project Steering Committee Meeting Report [IWCAM] Regional Technical Advisory Group Meeting Report [IWCAM] Regional Technical Advisory Group Meeting Report [IWCAM] Grenada LBS Awareness & Implementation Workshop Draft Report Cuba IWRM Workshop Report [IWCAM] Demonstration Project Communications Planning Workshop Report [IWCAM] GEF-IWCAM Workshop on Communications, Public Education and Outreach for Integrated Watershed and Coastal Areas Management Workshop Report [IWCAM] Indicators Mechanism and Capacity Assessment [IWCAM] GEF-IWCAM AND IABIN Indicators Mechanism Workshop Report [IWCAM] GEF-IWCAM Capture and Demonstration of Good Practice and Lessons Learned Workshop Report [IWCAM] Review of Policy, Legislation & Institutional Structures [IWCAM] GEF-IWCAM Regional Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Workshop Report [IWCAM] Regional Inception Workshop Report [IWCAM] Second Regional Inception Workshop Report [IWCAM] Third Regional Workshop Report GEF-IWCAM-SecondSteeringCommitteeMeeting-Report-Final-Oct-07 GEF-IWCAM-RTAG3-MeetingReport-Final-Apr09 newsletter [IWCAM] June 2010: Caribbean WaterWays (Volume 4, Issue 2) [IWCAM] March 2010: Caribbean WaterWays (Volume 4, Issue 1) [IWCAM] December 2009: Caribbean WaterWays (Volume 3, Issue 4) [IWCAM] March 2009: Caribbean WaterWays (Volume 3, Issue 1) [IWCAM] September 2008: Caribbean WaterWays (Volume 2, Issue 3) [IWCAM] June 2008: Caribbean WaterWays (Volume 2, Issue 2) [IWCAM] March 2008: Caribbean WaterWays (Volume 2, Issue 1) [IWCAM] December 2007: Caribbean WaterWays (Volume 1, Issue 4) IWCAM-August 2007 bulletin-spanish IWCAM-July 2007 bulletin-spanish [IWCAM] October 2007: GEF 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2009: Caribbean WaterWays (Volume 3, Issue 2/3) [IWCAM] December 2009: Caribbean WaterWays (Volume 3, Issue 4) [IWCAM] March 2010: Caribbean WaterWays (Volume 4, Issue 1) [IWCAM] June 2010: Caribbean WaterWays (Volume 4, Issue 2) [IWCAM] September 2010: Caribbean WaterWays (Volume 4, Issue 3) [IWCAM] December 2010: Caribbean WaterWays (Volume 4, Issue 4) [IWCAM] March 2011: Caribbean WaterWays (Volume 5, Issue 1) [IWCAM] June/September 2009: Caribbean WaterWays (Volume 3, Issue 2/3) GEF-IWCAM Newsletter Vol4 Issue4 Dec10 GEF-IWCAM_Newsletter_Vol.3_Issue4_Dec_09_-English report [IWCAM] National Report on Integrating the Management of Watersheds and Coastal Areas in Trinidad and Tobago [IWCAM] National Report on Integrating Management of Watershed and Coastal Areas in SIDS of the Caribbean: The Vincentian Perspective [IWCAM] National Report on Integrating the Management of Watersheds and Coastal Areas in St. Lucia [IWCAM] National Report on Integrating the Management of Watersheds and Coastal Areas in St. Kitts and Nevis [IWCAM] National Report on Integrating the Management of Watersheds and Coastal Areas in Jamaica [IWCAM] National Report on Integrating the Management of Watersheds and Coastal Areas in Haiti [IWCAM] National Report on Integrating Management of Watersheds and Coastal Areas in Grenada [IWCAM] National Report on Integrating Management of Watersheds and Coastal Areas in Small Developing States of the Caribbean in Commonwealth of Dominga National Report for Cuba-IWCAM [IWCAM] National Report Integrating Management of Watersheds and Coastal Areas in Small Island Developing States of the Caribbean in Bahamas [IWCAM] National Report on Integrating Management of Watersheds and Coastal Areas in Small Island Developing States of the Caribbean in Antigua and Barbuda [IWCAM] Regional Assessment Report: Capacity Assessment of Geographic Information Systems Capabilities of the Caribbean [IWCAM] Indicators Mechanism and Capacity Assessment [IWCAM] Toolkit for Institutional, Policy and Legislative Improvements [IWCAM] GEF - IWCAM Project Communications Planning Guide The IWCAM Demonstration Projects [IWCAM] Roadmap Toward Effective Mainstreaming of GIS for Watershed Management in the Caribbean bahamas-national-report Haiti-national-report project-document [IWCAM] Project Document - Annexes [IWCAM] Project Brief - Integrating Watershed and Coastal Area Management in the Small Island Developing States of the Caribbean experience-notes [IWCAM] International Waters Experience Notes - Lessons-learned Reporting on Demonstration Site Selection and Design [IWCAM] Project Experience Note No. 6 - Wastewater Wetland Treatment System - Protecting Watershed Services and Developing Management Incentives in the Fond D’or Watershed Area of Saint Lucia [IWCAM] Project Experience Note No. 7 - NGO development - Establishment of a Participatory Watershed Management Model in Saint Lucia [IWCAM] Project Experience Note No. 8 - Monitoring using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – Providing information for decision making - Land Use Planning and Watershed Restoration in the Courland Watershed, Tobago final-summary [IWCAM] Project Summary - Integrating Watershed and Coastal Area Management in Small Island Developing States of the Caribbean results-notes [IWCAM] 2011 International Waters Result Notes - Integrating Watershed and Coastal Areas Management in Caribbean Small Island Developing States Image Call to a meeting, Drivers River Watershed, Jamaica.png File [IWCAM] December 2010: Caribbean WaterWays (Volume 4, Issue 4) [IWCAM] September 2010: Caribbean WaterWays (Volume 4, Issue 3) [IWCAM] June 2011: Caribbean WaterWays (Volume 5, Issue 2) [IWCAM] Finding a Balance Between Meeting Needs and Addressing Policy Issues in Integrated Watershed and Coastal Areas Management presentation Land Based Sources of Pollution [video] Think About Water! [video] Water Governance [video] Videos Land Based Sources of Pollution [video] IWCAM: Tobago Demonstration Project [video] Water Governance [video] Think About Water! [video] Photos Integrating Watershed and Coastal Area Management in the Small Island Developing States of the Caribbean (IWCAM)