April's issue of Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Network (ESSD) Newsletter focuses on topics of Coastal and Marine Resource Management. To request photocopies of articles, please send message to slibrary@worldbank.orgPlease see the link below.
Managing the Marine and Coastal Environment of Sub-Saharan Africa - Strategic Directions for Sustainable Development. The trends toward ecosystem degradation and social change are affecting coastal areas around the world, not least in Sub-Saharan Africa. The crisis affecting this region's coastal and marine areas requires an urgent and resolute response from the global community. This report details the challenges facing coastal and marine environments in Sub-Saharan Africa. It describes the World Bank's strategy for supporting sustainable development in the sector, while stressing an integrated approach to coastal management in Sub-Saharan Africa, which will be strategic in design, with both traditional investments in fisheries, or coastal biodiversity, and creative interventions for making large-scale investments in infrastructure, or water "coastal friendly," to avert impacts, while bringing tangible benefits to coastal populations, and ecosystems.
Score Card to Assess Progress in Achieving Management Effectiveness Goals for Marine Protected Areas
The Development of a Score Card (SC) to be used by Marine Protected Area managers to assess their progress and to report on this in a standardized way is consistent with the WSSD target and with the reporting needs of institutions like the World Bank. The Score Card will allow evaluating and reporting on the performance of Bank investments in marine protected areas to its shareholders and other partners, such as the GEF. It also may serve a useful tool to other practitioners and institutions involved in MPA management and is, therefore, meant to be adapted based on site and gegional needs. For example, the Meso-America Barrier Reef System Project in coordination with PROARCA developed a Management Effectiveness protocol based on this Score Card, methodologies o PROARCA and on the WCPA-Marine/WWF Management effectiveness Guidelines. By pulling from these various resources, the organizations developed a protocol tailored to their needs.
Chapter 17 of Agenda 21: Protection of the oceans, all kinds of seas, including enclosed and semi-enclosed seas, and coastal areas and the protection, rational use and development of their living resources. (Agenda 21is a blueprint for sustainable development into the 21st Century. Its basis was agreed during the "Earth Summit" at Rio in 1992, and signed by 179 Heads of State and Government).
Coastal Zone Management and Environmental Assessment:This document focuses on the use of environmental assessment as a coastal zone management tool in World Bank-funded projects and programs. Important subsystems of the coastal zone are described and examples given of relevant approaches in Environmental Assessment work. The information expands on material covered on pages 87-91, Volume I of the Environmental Assessment Sourcebook.
A Global Representative System of Marine Protected Areas:This publication provides a basis for development and implementation of a global system of marine protected areas to protect and manage representitive examples of the world's rich marine biodiversity. It identifies priorities for establishing new marine protected areas and improving management of existing ones in each of the world's 18 major marine regions. |
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