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Contact:
Rose Marie Harris
Monday, September 15, 2003 -The Barbados based Caribbean Regional Environmental
Programme CREP is now set to launch two very important phases of a million
dollar project that involves thirteen Caricom states.
CREP’s work plan for the launching of a Demonstration Project at specific sites
in the participating countries and for raising Regional Environmental Awareness
(REA) has been approved and a total of 2.7 million Euro has been committed
towards these programme components.
Programme Technical Officer with CREP, Simone Mangal explains that the launching
of the Project is just one component of the programme. “That’s the component
that that essentially based on building regional capacity. What we are doing is
that we are building the capacity of regional organisations to deliver on their
mandate. Canari which is delivering today’s course on participatory planning and
collaborative management is actually going to be reaching this course to
organisations around the Caribbean that are part of the CREP programme.”
The Project has identified a number of Amenity Areas in the region of
significant ecological and economic value and through a process of training and
capacity building it is hoped that those sites will be better managed by
strengthening collaboration between government and non governmental
organisations.
“That component of the programme is very very key. We also have a component that
is called a Caribbean Regional and International Awareness programme and what
that is doing is focussing on building the awareness around the region on
environmental issues. We have something which is called the REIN, which is
Regional Environmental and Information Networking and that is focussed on
linking together all the organisations in the region with organisations outside
so that they can share lessons learnt in terms of resource management,” Mangal
ended.
CREP is a sustainable development initiative authorised by the Caribbean Forum
of African, Caribbean and Pacific States CARIFORUM which is represented by the
Division of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs in
Barbados. The Saint Lucia leg of the CREP programme began on Monday September
15, 2003.
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