Enabling Activities to Support the ratification and early implementation of the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (EA-BBNJ)

The objective of this 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/11656
Countries
Vanuatu,
Suriname,
Solomon Islands,
Pakistan,
Marshall Islands,
Morocco,
Sri Lanka,
Kiribati,
Indonesia,
Micronesia (Federated States of),
Colombia,
Bangladesh
Implementing organisations
FAO
Project ID
11656
GEF project type
Enabling activity
GEF project phase
GEF - 8
GEF project grant
$2.275.000
Executing Agencies
RMI Environmental Protection Authority (Marshall Islands)FAO Colombia (Colombia); Ministry of Spatial Planning and Environment (Suriname); National execution agency (TBD) (Colombia); Department of Environmental Protection and Conservation (DEPC) (Vanuatu); Executing Agency tbd (Pakistan); Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade (Solomon Islands); Ministry of Fishery and Marine Resources Development (MFMRD) (Kiribati); Ministry for the Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology (Solomon Islands); Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism (Sri Lanka); Department of Fisheries under the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock (Bangladesh); Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries the Republic (Indonesia); National Government/local executing agency (tbc)(Micronesia); National execution agency (TBD) (Morocco); National Executing Agency (TBD) (Palau)