A regional training workshop to enhance national capacities to mainstream coastal and marine environmental management issues into the national planning and budgetary processes convened in Guayaquil, Ecuador, from 1-3 September 2009.

The workshop was organized by UNEP’s Coordination Office for the GPA, in cooperation with the UNEP Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Secretariat of the Permanent Commission for the South Pacific (CPPS. The workshop was attended by 19 senior government officials of the Ministries of Environment, Maritime Authority, Aquatic Resources and Finance from five member states of the CPPS (Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Peru), as well nongovernmental representatives. At the workshop each country developed a national mainstreaming strategy including identification of the key institution to take the lead in mainstreaming coastal and marine issues, outlining the roles and responsibilities of other participating institutions and sectors including the accountability framework.
Link to further information
GPA website news item, September 2009