GEF Antigua and Barbuda

Objectives of the OECS Sustainable Financing and Management of Eastern Caribbean Marine Ecosystems Project
To address the region’s marine and coastal resource degradation threats and management challenges, especially the lack of sustainable conservation funding, the proposed 5-year OECS Sustainable Financing and Management of Eastern Caribbean Marine Ecosystems Project would:
(i) establish a system of long-term financing mechanisms to sustainably fund PAs in the participating countries;
(ii) promote collaboration among governments, communities, NGOs and the private sector of the five participating countries in order to facilitate
marine and coastal conservation; and,
(iii) support efforts to harmonize policy, legal and institutional frameworks among the participating Eastern Caribbean states.

To assist the participating countries of the OECS; Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis and St. Lucia, to develop and organize project components and produce a detailed project manual, the GEF has provided a Project Preparation Grant (PPG). The main PPG activities are to:
(i) Establish sustainable financing mechanisms for conservation and sustainable management of protected areas in the participating countries;
(ii) Design performance indicators, baseline and annual targets, and monitoring mechanisms for the Project impacts;
(iii) Analyze existing monitoring systems for deploying a regional monitoring and information system network;
(iv) Carry out institutional analyses to design the institutional arrangement for the project implementation; and
(v) Prepare the detailed project design and document for submission to the GEF Council.

Please see the attached terms of reference for further information.