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/11971
Countries
South Africa,
Türkiye,
Tunisia,
Thailand,
Sierra Leone,
Madagascar,
Montenegro,
Libya,
Comoros,
Kenya,
Djibouti,
Bahamas,
Brazil,
Burkina Faso
Implementing organisations
UNEP
Project ID
11971
GEF project type
Enabling activity
GEF project phase
GEF - 8
GEF project grant
$2.450.000
Executing Agencies
Comoros: Ministère de l’Agriculture, de la Pèche, de l’environnement, du Tourisme et de l’Artisanat – Direction générale de l’Environnement et des ForêtsSouth Africa: Ministry of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment; Burkina Faso: Permanent Secretary of National Council for Sustainable Development; Turkiye: Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry - General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks; Djibouti: Ministère de l’Environnement et du Développement Durable; Kenya : Ministry of Environment, Climate Change & Forestry State Department for Environment & Climate Change Office of the Principal Secretary; Brasil: Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MMA); Thailand: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Thailand in collaboration with COBSEA; Libya: Ministry of Environment; Madagascar: Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development; Sierra Leone: Environment Protection Agency Sierra Leone; Montenegro: Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Northern Region Development; Tunisia: Ministry of Environment; Bahamas: Department of Environmental Planning and Protection