UNDP/GEF is providing assistance
through UNOPS to countries bordering Yellow Sea...
UNDP/GEF is providing assistance
through UNOPS to countries bordering Yellow Sea in support of their efforts to
address among others the increasing trends of depleting fishery stocks, loss of
coastal wetland, land and sea-based pollution and implementation of the Yellow
Sea Large Marine Ecosystem Strategic Action Programme (YSLME SAP) adopted by
China and RO Korea with support of DPR Korea. One of the assistance programs to
implement the SAP is the UNDP/GEF/UNOPS project entitled Implementing the Strategic Action Programme for the Yellow
Sea Large Marine Ecosystem: Restoring Ecosystem Goods and Services and
Consolidation of a Long-term Regional Environmental Governance Framework, or the
UNDP/GEF YSLME Phase II Project. The project was launched in July 2017.
The objective of this
regional project is to achieve adaptive ecosystem-based management of the
Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem bordered by China, RO Korea and DPR Korea by
fostering long-term sustainable institutional, policy and financial
arrangements for effective ecosystem-based management of the Yellow Sea in
accordance with the YSLME SAP.
There are four components of the project:
- Sustainable national
and regional cooperation for ecosystem based management.
- Improved Ecosystem
Carrying Capacity with respect to provisioning services.
- Improved Ecosystem
Carrying Capacity with respect to regulating and cultural services.
- Improved Ecosystem
Carrying Capacity with respect to supporting services.
The key outcomes sought are:
- Establishment of a
self-sustaining cooperative mechanism for ecosystem-based management.
- Recovery of depleted
fish stocks and improved mariculture production and quality.
- Improved ecosystem
health;
- improved
inter-sectoral coordination and mainstreaming of ecosystem based
management principles at the national level, maintenance of habitat areas,
strengthened stakeholder participation in management and improved policy
making.
- Skills and capacity
significantly developed for region-wide ecosystem-based management.
Component
4 addresses improving ecosystem carrying capacity
with respect to supporting services. In Outcome 4.1 of Component 4 entitled
“Maintenance of current habitats and the monitoring and mitigation of the
impacts of reclamation”, the project will support a series of activities
leading to the development and adoption of the YSLME Biodiversity Conservation
Plan including the targets to ensure areas of critical habitats at baseline
level. Output 4.1.1 of Outcome 4.1 specifically seeks to arrive at an agreement
at all levels to implement the relevant management actions to regulate new
coastal zone reclamation project. As one
of proposed activities, sharing experience and good practice of restoration
projects including valuation methodologies, standards and guidelines were
planned by conducting regional and national workshops in the late of 2017. Sharing experience and good practice of
restoration projects conducted in national/regional scale would contribute to
achieve targets on development of YSLME biodiversity conservation plan.