Strategic Program 1:

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Strategic Program 1

• Restoring and sustaining coastal and marine fish
  stocks and associated biological diversity

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Strategic Program 2

• Reducing nutrient over-enrichment and oxygen
  depletion from land-based pollution of coastal
  waters in LMEs consistent with the GPA

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Strategic Program 3

• Balancing overuse and conflicting uses of
  water resources in transboundary surface and
  groundwater basins

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Strategic Program 4

• Reducing Persistent Toxic Substances and
  Adaptive Management of Waters with Melting Ice

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Geographical distribution of IFs
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Strategic Partnership for Nutrient Reduction in
the Danube River and Black Sea - World Bank-GEF
Nutrient Reduction Investment Fund
The Pollution Reduction Fund for the East Asian
LMEs (World Bank with UNDP - IMO)
The Sustainable Fisheries Fund for Sub-Saharan
Africa LMEs (World Bank - FAO WWF With UNDP
and UNEP)
The Strategic Partnership for the Mediterranean
Sea LME (World Bank - UNEP)
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GEF IW Historic approach
Strategic Partnership
Investment Fund Investment projects,
demonstrations
Regional Project Reforms, capacity
building Replication mechanisms
Projects
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The CReW
Investing In Our Planet

• Initiated at 4th COP/ 12thIGM in Jamaica 2006
• A need for funds to target wastewater management
  in the region.
• An opportunity to test innovative funding
  mechanisms

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CReW -A Revolving Fund
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Investing In Our Planet
CReW Approach
Investments mixing CREW 0 loans with IDB and
private sector
GEF
IADB
Nations
National Revolving For Small 0 loans
Private Sector
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Investing In Our Planet
What will the CReW fund
Innovative Wastewater Management Technologies
municipal, Industrial, agriculture
Policy reforms Capacity building
Regional Dialogue/ Transboundary Legislative
agreements
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Technical solutions which could be tested
Investing In Our Planet
Rehabilitation of Wetlands
Activated sludge Filters
Constructed Wetlands
Natural Lagooning
Aerated Lagooning
Sand Filters
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Paying back to the CReW

• Selling cleaned wastewater to resorts and
  municipalities for irrigation purposes
• Savings achieved through using low-tech
  solutions compared to more energy and
• Private sector (hotels, airlines, cruise ships
  breweries) donations Commercial value

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Perspective of the CReW
Investing In Our Planet

• Testing and piloting Funding mechanisms
• Low-tech wastewater management solutions.
• Legislation and regional agreements (Cartagena
  Convention, LBS Protocol)
• If successful, and needed in the region, GEF-5
  may be able to fund a much larger Revolving Fund
  (CReW II).

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