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Detail of GEF Project #885
| GEF Project ID | 885 |
| Funding Source | GEF Trust Fund |
| Project Name | Reversing Environmental Degradation Trends in the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand |
| Country | Regional |
| Region | Regional |
| Focal Area | International Waters |
| Operational Program | 8 |
| Pipeline Entry Date | 1996-12-19 |
| PDF-B Approval Date | 1996-12-19 |
| Approval Date | 2000-11-01 |
| CEO Endorsement Date | 2001-12-12 |
| GEF Agency Approval Date | 2002-01-22 |
| Project Completion Date | 2009-01-31 |
| Project Status | Project Completion |
| GEF Agency | UNEP |
| Executing Agency | Secretariat for the action plan for Seas of East Asia (EAS/RCU); South China Sea Informal Working Group FAO; IOC-WESTPAC; Wetlands International Asia Pacific SACRS; SWOL; Ministries of Environment in each Country |
| Description | The overall goal of the Project is to foster and encourage, at a regional level, collaboration and partnership in addressing transboundary environmental problems of the South China Sea between all stakeholders and at all levels. The Project also seeks to enhance the capacity of the participating governments to integrate environmental considerations into national development planning. In the medium term, the objective of the project is to facilitate an agreement on specific targeted and costed actions for the longer term to address the priority transboundary issues and meet the targets which emerged from the diagnostic study, and the framework program of actions completed during the PDF-B phase. The priorities that will be addressed are wide ranging in both context and proposed areas of action: (i) habitat conversion and loss; (ii) over-exploitation of fisheries; (iii) land based pollution; (iv) regional co-operation. Stess is placed on co-ordination of actions by diverse organisations, agencies, NGOs, private sector, government entities both a the national and regional levels. |
| Implementation Status | Among other achievements during FY07 the revised SAP (draft 3) has been finalised by the PCU with additional inputs from the regional working groups and task forces between March to July 2007. The Regional Task Force on Economic Valuation finalised economic valuation of coastal habitats for inclusion in the revised SAP. A proposed framework for regional cooperation in marine environment in the South China Sea has developed by the Regional Task Force on Legal Matters. Two joint meetings of management teams of transboundary demonstration sites support bilateral cooperation between Cambodia-Vietnam and Cambodia-Thailand in environment management in the transboundary waters. |
| PDF B Amount |
335,000 USD |
| GEF Project Grant |
16,414,000 USD |
| GEF Grant |
16,749,000 USD |
| Cofinancing Total |
16,399,000 USD |
| Project Cost |
33,148,000 USD |
| GEF Agency Fees |
587,000 USD |
| GEF Project (CEO Endo.) |
16,414,000 USD |
| Cofinancing Total (CEO Endo.) |
17,640,830 USD |
| Project Cost (CEO Endo.) |
34,389,830 USD |
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