Strengthening Coastal and Marine Resources Management in the Coral Triangle of the Pacific (Phase 1)
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Mackay, Samuel
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- The RETA aims to implement Phase Two activities for ADB 42073 Reg TAR1. The RETA is consistent with the framework of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Pacific Region Environmental Strategy and the Pacific Regional Operational Business Plan and responds to key concerns regarding effective management of coastal and marine resources as raised by five Pacific countries2, which lie within or border the coral triangle3. This RETA will assist Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste in fulfilling Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI)-related objectives and in engaging with the Fiji Islands and Vanuatu in these efforts. The RETA will focus on overcoming key issues facing inshore fisheries, marine managed areas, and land-based pollution affecting coastal waters.
- A Regional CTI plan of action was drafted in March 2009 in Port Moresby and ratified by the senior officials’ meeting. Timor Leste, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea have during 2009 prepared draft National Plans of Action (NPOA). Phase One of this RETA both supported and responded to that process in designing country programs to address priority needs linked to the objectives of both the NPOA and the GEF. Plans for integrated coastal management and ridge to reef integrated resource management already exist in Fiji and Vanuatu, with the RETA to accelerate and strengthen their implementation.
- ADB has been designated as the lead GEF agency in formulating the CTI, including for Pacific countries, and the GEF council has endorsed a broad proposal for action.
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Mackay, S, Strengthening Coastal and Marine Resources Management in the Coral Triangle of the Pacific (Phase 1), 2010