Enabling Activities and Ratification Support Project for the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ).

The objective of the Enabling Activity (EA) grant is to support countries in: (a) assessing the extent to which their current legal, policy and institutional framework allows for promptly becoming parties to the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement) and enables their implementation of the Agreement; (b) carrying out preparatory work in the context of their ratification, approval, acceptance or accession process towards becoming parties to the BBNJ Agreement; and (c) supporting their readiness to implement the BBNJ Agreement.

Financial mechanism
GEF
Date of approval
Status
Project approved
URL
https://www.thegef.org/projects-operations/projects/11821
Countries
Somalia,
Senegal,
Seychelles,
Panama,
Nigeria,
Mozambique,
Maldives,
Liberia,
Cambodia,
Ecuador,
Costa Rica,
Cameroon,
Cook Island,
Albania
Implementing organisations
UNEP
Project ID
11821
GEF project type
Enabling activity
GEF project phase
GEF - 8
GEF project grant
$2.450.000
Executing Agencies
Ministry of Environment (Cambodia)National Environment Service (NES) Cook Island's; TBD (Costa Rica); Ministry of Environment (Panama); Convention of Biological Diversity Desk, Department of Forestry, Federal Ministry of Environment (Nigeria); Ministry of Land and Environment thru' the National Directorate for Environmnet (Mozambique); Ministry of Environment, Protection of Nature and Sustainable Development (MINEPDED) (Cameroon)); Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) (Ecuador); Direction des Parcs nationaux et des Aires marines communautaires Protegees (Senegal); Ministry of Climate Change, Environment and Energy (Maldives); DEPARTMENT OF BLUE ECONOMY (Seychelles); Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (Somalia); Ministry of Tourism and Environment (Albania); Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia