Making Mainstreaming Work: An Analytical Framework, Guidelines and Checklist for the Mainstreaming of Marine and Coastal Issues into National Planning and Budgetary Processes

Abstract: “Issues associated with the managementof marine resources and coastal areas areparticularly fundamental to the developmentof many of the poorer nations of the world. Forthese countries, the coasts are often where boththe most intense development pressures andsome of the most acute pockets of poverty arefound. This is an extremely broad set of issues,covering almost all aspects of developmentand environmental conservation.

The establishment of a process for addressingthis range of issues needs to be focused andembedded in national strategic planningsystems. The specific context of the frameworkdiscussed here is the scope and mandate ofthe United Nations Environment ProgrammeGlobal Programme of Action for the Protectionof the Marine Environment from Land BasedActivities (or GPA for short).

This document presents an analytical framework for addressing these issues in the main text and guidelines (both for countries with an existing National Programme of Action and new countries) and a process checklist through which the framework can be operationalised presented in Annexes 1 to 3. The approach set out in the framework and guidelines emphasizes the need to work through national systems based on national ownership and control of the process.

Locality: Global
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