PAS Coastal and Marine Resources Management in the Coral Triangle of the Pacific - under the Pacific Alliance for Sustainability Program

View the full country profile for Papua New Guinea

  • Project details

  • Implementing Agency:
    Asian Development Bank
    Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
    n/a
    Summary:

     The Coral Triangle (CT) is the center of the world's coral reef diversity, holding more than 75% of the known coral species and about 3000 species of reef fish among other reef flora and fauna. These resources directly provide livelihoods for more than 20 million people and are the spawning grounds for the world's most valuable tuna fishery while supporting a robust and growing marine tourism industry.

    Project Components:

    * Marine Conservation * Enabling Environment * Building marine resource and community resilience * Management for resilience * Improved MMAs network planning and effectiveness * Sustainable financing * Coordination and Harmonization * Watershed and Coastal resources (Ridge to Reef) Management * Legal and policy framework

    Expected Outputs:

    In targeting the development of broad-scale resilience strategies (social, economic and biological), this project is innately designed to reduce vulnerability to various forms of risk including the impacts of climate change.

    Contacts:

    D. McCauley
    GEF Agency Coordinator
    Telephone: 632-632-4161
    Email: dmccauley@adb.org

    Project Status:
    Approved
    Primary Beneficiaries:
    n/a
    Project Details
    Funding Source:
    ADB
    GEF-Trust Fund
    Financing Amount:
    24,936,000
    Cofinancing Total:
    16,350,000
    Total Amounts:
    24,986,000