The experience of the World Bank in the legal, institutional and financial aspects of regional environment program : potential applications of lessons learned for the ROPME and PERSGA programs
Lintner, Stephen F. | Arif, Sherif | Hatziolos, Marea
The experience from the Mediterranean, Baltic, and Black Sea regional environmental programs provides a number of lessons learned that could be effectively transferred and adapted for use by the Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment (ROPME) established under the Kuwait Action Plan of 1978 and the Program for the Environment of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden (PERSGA) established under the Jeddah Convention of 1982. This paper provides an overview of the environmental setting in which these programs operate, an analysis of the major environmental issues in the regions affecting coastal and marine areas, and a series of proposed actions for consideration by the contracting parties to the conventions, their secretariats and other interested parties. The paper begins with a review of the major environmental issues in the Red Sea and Gulf Regions. It then goes on to suggest a series of priority actions for consideration by ROPME and PERSGA, which includes steps to facilitate the legal, institutional, and financial support that these programs can provide to address the key environmental issues. The suggested framework of actions focuses on short- and medium-term solutions to overcome constraints to implementation of the regional conventions adopted under each program and identifies practical and cost effective actions, many of them preventive, to address high priority issues in each region.
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