The UNOPS
Water and Energy Cluster
UNOPS Water and Energy Cluster (WEC) supports...
The UNOPS
Water and Energy Cluster
UNOPS Water and Energy Cluster (WEC) supports the design and
management of multi-stakeholder initiatives by providing services in financial
and grant management, procurement, human resources, and project management.The
cluster has supported projects in the areas of water resource management,
climate change adaptation, mitigation and transparency, energy access and
distribution and environmental conservation under the Paris Agreement.
The WEC has also supported operations and
financial management services, in Vienna, the rest of the ECR region and
beyond.The main partners include UN agencies, bilateral agreements (with the
Nordics, Germany, and Italy ), the Green Climate Fund and several NGOs (such as
CIFF and CWF).
The UNDP/GEF “CLME+ Project”
The Caribbean and North Brazil Shelf Large Marine
Ecosystems (jointly referred to as CLME+) are two of the world’s 66 Large
Marine Ecosystems. Together, they cover a total marine area of ± 4.4 million
km2. This vast marine space is a major contributor to regional socio-economic
development and is key to many globally important ecological processes. The
CLME+ region is bordered by over 35 States and Territories, and is therefore
considered one of the most geopolitically diverse and complex marine regions in
the world.
A US$ 12,5 million grant was released by the
Global Environment Facility (GEF) -through the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP)- to support the execution of a new 5-year Project (the “CLME+
Project”; 2015-2020). This project is seeking to catalyze the implementation of
the larger 10-year, region-wide “CLME+ 10-year Strategic Action Programme (SAP)
which provides Governments and Inter-Governmental Organisations (IGOs) with a
roadmap to reverse degradation of the marine environment and to secure its
important resource base. The SAP had been endorsed at the political level by 35
Ministers representing 25 countries and 6 overseas territories from the region.
The CLME+ Project consists of five complementary
and inter-linked components. The 5 components reflect the Project Rationale and
Strategy, and are designed to collectively deliver the Project’s objective:
Facilitating EBM/EAF (Ecosystem-based Management/ Ecosystem Approach to
Fisheries) in the CLME+ for the
sustainable and climate resilient provision of goods and services from shared
living marine resources.