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Promoting Awareness and Enabling a Policy
Framework for Environment and Development
Integration in the Mediterranean with Focus on
ICZM
smap iii iczm for the mediterranean
Daria Povh Škugor
PAP/RAC
Mediterranean Workshop on ICZM Policy,
Policy; Alghero, 19-21
May 19-21,
May 2008
2008
CONTENTS:
WHY COAST DAY CAMPAIGN?
HOW TO STOP WORRYING TRENDS?
WHO CAN HELP US?
WHAT COULD WE DO?
HAVE WE SUCCEEDED?
A SPECIAL MESSAGE FOR THE END...
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WHY COAST DAY CAMPAIGN?
SMAP III MAP METAP PROJECT:
The overall objective of this project is to improve
the enabling environment in beneficiary countries by
strengthening partnership between EU/SMAP,
UNEP/MAP and the World Bank/METAP in order
to ensure the proper allocation of resources and
sustainable implementation
of the SMAP III.
Mediterranean Workshop on ICZM Policy, Alghero, 19-21 May 2008
WHY COAST DAY CAMPAIGN?
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
a) improve environmental awareness
in policy-making at national level;
b) build momentum for a long-term
sustainability policy reform;
c) strengthen the institutional and
legal framework, as well as
stakeholders participation;
d) ensure that strategies and policies developed by SMAP
III ICZM projects will be considered by policy-makers;
and
e) encourage and support efforts at regional level for a
common policy framework for ICZM.
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WHY COAST DAY CAMPAIGN?
ABOUT THE PROJECT
• Project is implemented in the following countries:
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, the
West Bank and Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and
the EU.
• Project duration is by December 2008.
• Despite very worrying trends on the
Mediterranean and world's coasts, the
urgency for change is not sufficiently
recognised neither among the policymakers, nor among the general public.
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WORRYING TRENDS...
BLUE PLAN: SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN
Roads and
airports along
the coasts
Population in the coastal
cities 1950-2025
20 million more urban
inhabitants in the
coastal cities by 2025
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HOW TO STOP WORRYING
TRENDS?
• awareness raising
• enabling a policy framework
• promoting a vision of the healthy
oast
• finding new ideas and channels to
reach policy-makers
• strengthen identified weak points
of the ICZM
• better use of media
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WHO COULD HELP US?
COAST DAY PARTNERS
The selected NGOs partners:
• Association Les amis du Mont Chenoua (Algeria);
• Friends of the Environment Association (Egypt);
• Land and Human to Advocate Progress – LHAP (Jordan);
• U.N.A.D.E.P. (Lebanon);
• FUED (Morocco);
• GUNGEO Gaza (Palestinian National Authority – Gaza Strip);
• Syrian Coastal Society for Environment Protection (Syria);
• Panda Service, WWF Tunisia (Tunisia); and
• SAD (Turkey).
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WHO COULD HELP US?
Five Goodwill Ambassadors for the Coast
• Princess Lalla Hasna of Morocco
• Prof. Predrag Matvejevic
• Mr. Chérif Rahmani
• Mr. Renato Soru
• Mr. Mostafa K. Tolba
“Being Mediterranean entails more than
history or geography,
tradition or memory, birthright or belief.
...The Mediterranean is destiny”
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WHAT COULD WE DO?
OPINION POLL ON COASTAL ISSUES
• 2,800 questionnaires in total
Importance and threats to the coastal environment in project
countries
IMPORTANCE OF THE COAST
THREATS TO THE COAST
COUNTRY
Important and
Very Important
Not important
Threatened and
Very Threatened
Not threatened
Algeria
Egypt
Jordan
Lebanon
Morocco
Palestinian
Authority
Syria
Turkey
90%
95%
96,4%
97,3%
95,4%
10%
3%
3,6%
2,7%
2,3%
96,5%
94%
83,7%
88%
89,9%
3,5%
6%
16,3%
12%
6,2%
66,3%
28,7%
78%
16,6%
100%
95%
0%
4%
100%
95%
0%
4%
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WHAT COULD WE DO?
OPINION POLL ON COASTAL ISSUES
Main coastal threats in project countries
COUNTRY
Algeria
Egypt
Jordan
Lebanon
Morocco
Palestinian Authority
Syria
Turkey
MAIN THREAT
Illegal dumping of solid
waste
Marine pollution from the
industry
Air pollution
Intensive urbanisation
and illegal dumping of
solid waste
Over exploitation of their
natural resources (fish in
particular)
Mass tourism
Air pollution
Intensive urbanisation
PERCENTAGE
27,5%
17%
16,8%
19,9%
15,6%
46%
85%
23%
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WHAT COULD WE DO?
OPINION POLL ON COASTAL ISSUES
Recommendations to relevant national authorities on
what to do in order to improve coastal management
COUNTRY
Algeria
Egypt
Jordan
Lebanon
Morocco
Palestinian Authority
Syria
Turkey
RECOMMENDATION
Improve law enforcement
Improve law enforcement
Raising public awareness
Improve law enforcement
Improve law enforcement
Improve coastal
legislation
Improve law enforcement
Raising public awareness
PERCENTAGE
33%
28%
27,9%
40,2%
23,8%
36,6%
31,7%
25%
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WHAT COULD WE DO?
COMMUNICATING THE MESSAGE...
Goodwill Ambassadors for the Coast
Coast Day Campaign
MAP presented Coast Day to UNEP as the
Mediterranean contribution to the UN DAY
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HAVE WE SUCCEEDED?
COMMUNICATING THE MESSAGE...
• TV spot in English, French, Arabic,
Greek and Italian;
• broadcasted on 17 TV stations;
• shown at the MedFilm Festival in
Rome, on green.tv, on You Tube and
a screening event in Plaka, Athens;
• first ever TV emission on coastal management
produced by Rai tre!
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HAVE WE SUCCEEDED?
RESULTS -
16 Mediterranean countries
• Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, The
Palestinian Authority, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Greece,
Cyprus, Croatia, Italy,
France and Spain.
• Almost 60 partners
• 20 TV broadcasts,
newspapers,
local and national
radio coverage
• 30+ links to the
www.coastday.org
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HAVE WE SUCCEEDED?
RESULTS
• conferences
(Syria, Algeria), and
• panel (Turkey)
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HAVE WE SUCCEEDED?
RESULTS
• 12 workshops (Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, The
Palestinian Authority, Syria, Italy and Cyprus)
• 6 workshops for
schools (Morocco,
Algeria, Syria and
Cyprus)
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HAVE WE SUCCEEDED?
RESULTS
• open doors at 5 marine protected areas
(Sardinia, Italy)
• concerts (Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Italy)
• sailing regatta (Sardinia, Italy)
• kayak excursions (Turkey and in lake
Nador, Morocco)
• 6 clean up campaigns (Morocco, Algeria,
Egypt, Syria and Greece)
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HAVE WE SUCCEEDED?
RESULTS
• official cemremony of the
appointment of HRH Princess
Lalla Hasnaa the Ambassador
for the Coast
• environment expo in Lattakia
• screening event in Athens
• virtual treasure hunt at the SMAP Clearing House
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HAVE WE SUCCEEDED?
RESULTS
• photo, poster and other exibitions
• drawing contexts (Morocco, Algeria)
• painting competitions
(Montenegro)
• marathon (Egypt)
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HAVE WE SUCCEEDED?
FUTURE PLANS
Coast Day 2008
www.coastday.org
central celebration – tentatively in
Morocco, under the auspices of Her
Royal Highness Princess Lalla
Hasnaa
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HAVE WE SUCCEEDED?
CONCLUSION
Coast Day well achieved its purpose!
...a perfect instrument for the media
… reach the top level policy-makers
… demonstrated how to create a team of leaders, policy
makers, celebrities, scientists and NGOs
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A SPECIAL MESSAGE FOR THE END...
THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
A BIG THANKS TO ALL
COAST DAY PARTNERS!
Victor Hugo: "To love is to act".
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