UNITED EP NATIONS United Nations Distr. Environment GENERAL Programme UNEP(DEC)/EAF/CP.4/xx 6-8 July 2004 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH FOURTH MEETING OF THE CONTRACTING PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION, MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE MARINE AND COASTAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE EASTERN AFRICAN REGION Antananarivo, Madagascar, 6-8 July 2004 REPORT OF THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE CONTRACTING PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION, MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE MARINE AND COASTAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE EASTERN AFRICAN REGION UNEP(DEC)/EAF/CP.4/2 CONTENTS Chapter Page Background ............................................................................................................................................4 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................5 I. PARNERSHIP WORKSHOP OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS, ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES ...........................................................................................................6 A. Introduction...................................................................................................................................6 B. Opening of the workshop..............................................................................................................6 C. Organization of the workshop.......................................................................................................6 D. Presentations by regional non-governmental organisations and partners .....................................7 E. Sector-specific meetings .............................................................................................................12 F. Workshop recommendation ........................................................................................................12 G. Closing of the workshop .............................................................................................................12 II. MEETING OF THE BUREAU OF THE NAIROBI CONVENTION .................................................13 III. MEETING OF THE HEADS OF DELEGATIONS .............................................................................14 A. Opening of the meeting...............................................................................................................14 B. Attendance..................................................................................................................................14 C. Election of officers......................................................................................................................15 D. Adoption of the agenda...............................................................................................................15 E. Report of the Executive Director of UNEP.................................................................................15 F. Statements by representatives of the Contracting Parties and observers ....................................16 G. Work programme........................................................................................................................17 H. Financial report...........................................................................................................................17 I. Adoption of decisions.................................................................................................................17 J. Venue of the fourth meeting .......................................................................................................18 K. Other matters...............................................................................................................................18 L. Closure of meeting......................................................................................................................18 VI. LAUNCHING OF PRODUCTS AND THE WIO-LAB PROJECT .....................................................19 2 Annexes I. List of participants of the Partnership Workshop .................................................................................20 II. Welcome Speech of Dixon Waruinge, UNEP at the Partnership Workshop ........................................30 III. Provisional agenda ................................................................................................................................31 IV. Country Report of Madagascar .............................................................................................................33 V. IUCN Presentation on Eastern African Marine Programme ................................................................34 VI. Presentation of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF)................................................................36 VII. Presentation of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Marine Program in the Western Indian Ocean ...........................................................................................................................43 VIII. Presentation of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) (UNESCO) ......................48 IX. Meeting Report of Heads and Representatives of Research and Academic Institutions ......................50 X. Meeting Report of the Coral Reef Task Force ......................................................................................51 XI. Meeting Report of the Task Force on Invasive Species .......................................................................53 XII. Workshop Recommendations ...............................................................................................................54 XIII. Welcome address by Mr. Evaristo Baquete at the Meeting of the Heads of Delegations .....................55 XIV. List of Participants of the Meeting of the Heads of Delegations...........................................................58 XV. Report of the Executive Director of UNEP ...........................................................................................68 XVI. Statements of the Representatives of Contracting Parties and Observers .............................................86 XVII. Work Programme for Implementation of the Nairobi Convention 2004-2007 ...................................108 XVIII. Financial report ..................................................................................................................................161 XIX. Decisions of the 4th Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Nairobi Convention ..........................167 XX. Speeches at the Launching of the WIO-LaB Project and Toolkits on Marine Protected Areas ..........172 UNEP(DEC)/EAF/CP.4/2 Background 1. The Convention for the Protection, Management and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Eastern African Region (Nairobi Convention) and its two protocols (Protected Areas and Wild Fauna and Flora in the Eastern African Region and Co-operation in Combating Marine Pollution in Cases of Emergency in the Eastern African Region), entered into force in May 1996. Following their coming into force, UNEP convened the first meeting of the Contracting Parties in March 1997 in Seychelles. That meeting adopted a number of major decisions including: (a) Rules of procedures for meetings and conferences; (b) Terms of reference for management of trust funds; (c) Establishment of the Ad Hoc Technical and Legal Working Group to review the Convention and its Protocols; (d) Establishment of a regional co-ordinating unit in Seychelles. 2. The second meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Nairobi Convention was held in Mauritius in November 1999 and approved the biennial work programme (2000-2001) designed to bring the Convention in line with the decisions of the Pan-African Conference on Sustainable Integrated Coastal Management (PACSICOM) and the Cape Town Declaration on an African Process for the Development and Protection of the Coastal and Marine Environment, Particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. The meeting adopted the following decisions: (a) Biennial work programme (2000-2001); (b) A joint implementation mechanism; (c) A sustainable financial strategy; (d) Amendments to the rules of procedures. 3. During the second meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical and Legal Working Group of the Nairobi Convention, held in Nairobi in October 2001, the participants had acknowledged that the Nairobi Convention had implemented a significant number of the activities in the 2000-2001 biennial work programme. In doing so, major milestones had been achieved in revitalising the Convention. More specifically, that meeting: (a) Received and discussed the status report on implementation of the biennial work programme (2000-2001); (b) Discussed the implementation structure of the Eastern African component of the International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN); (c) Listened to presentations by regional and international partners that contribute to and complement the activities of the Nairobi Convention’s work programme; (d) Discussed the agenda of the third meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Nairobi Convention as presented by the Bureau of the Convention; (e) Produced recommendations for submission to the third meeting of the Contracting Parties; (f) Prepared a draft biennial work programme (2002-2003) for submission to the third meeting of the Contracting Parties for consideration and approval. 4. The third meeting of the Contracting Parties was held in Maputo, Mozambique in December 2001 at which the work programme for the biennium 2002-2003