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SUSTAINABLE FINANCING OF MPAs IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: A FINANCIAL ANALYSIS
The surveys provided information on public funding from central governments for
MPAs, highlighting those resources devoted to the management of MPAs and the creation of
new ones. Information was requested on other public funding channeled through other
Ministries and public entities (local and regional). However, not all the countries in the
sample were able to report on local and regional funding due to the lack of centralized data
at the national level. Information was also requested on the financial strategies foreseen for
achievement of Aichi Target 11 and national objectives in terms of creation or extension of
MPAs. Not all countries provided information on the Aichi target. Financial resources
mobilised through international cooperation were also identified using available online
resources and written contributions from official focal points.
All of the above information was supplemented by online desk-based research in order to
characterise national institutional contexts affecting the flow of national expenditures for
Marine Protected Areas.
b) Level of confidence for the financial information
The main limitation in the analysis of resource mobilisation at the national level for MPAs is
the lack of integrity of the reported financial data. For this reason, each country has been
classified into one of three confidence levels (Table 2):
Low level means information mainly obtained from desk-based research;
Medium level means information reported by experts but not validated by national
authorities.
High level means information reported exclusively by national authorities and/or
validated by them as well as information reported by official organisations (mainly
GEF, OECD and EU). In order to facilitate the validation process by national
authorities, a country profile was produced for resource mobilisation summarizing all
the financial data.
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