CEHI

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CEHI

• Caribbean Environmental Health Institute

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Background

• Incorporated in 1988 by Caribbean governments in
  response to the need to address environmental
  problems in the context of sustainable development

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Member States

• 16 member states
• Anguilla Antigua Barbuda
• Bahamas Barbados
• Belize British Virgin Islands
• Dominica Grenada
• Guyana Jamaica
• Montserrat St Kitts Nevis
• St Lucia (hq) St Vincent the Grenadines
• Trinidad Tobago Turks Caicos

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Current Programmes

• Currently CEHI is focused on
• Integrated Management of Watersheds Coastal
  Areas
• Waste Management
• Pesticide Management
• Cleaner Production
• Recreational Potable Water Quality

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IWCAMIntegrated Watershed and Coastal Area
Management

• CEHI is currently acting as the executing agency
  for the GEF funded project development phase of
  the IWCAM project
• Projects are being developed for 13 SIDS

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IWCAM Objective

• To strengthen the capacity of the 13 SIDS to
  implement an integrated approach to the
  management of watershed and coastal areas
• Long term goal is to enhance the capacity of the
  countries to plan and manage their aquatic
  resources and ecosystems on a sustainable basis

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Demonstration Projects

• We have found that wastewater management and the
  resulting problems have been the major problems
  identified in the demonstration projects so far

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Demonstration Projects

• Management of Land Based Sources of Pollution at
  Calliagua Bay St Vincent
• Watershed Mapping and Zoning for Improved
  Resource Management and Disaster Avoidance
  Jamaica
• Marina Waste Management at Elizabeth Harbour
  Exumas, Bahamas

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Demonstration Projects

• Water Resource and Waste Water Management in the
  Grenadines
• Mitigation of pollution from sewage discharges
  from St John - Antigua

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More Information

• www.cep.unep.org/programmes/amep/gef-iwcam/gef-iwc
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• www.cehi.org.lc

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Thank You!