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SUSTAINABLE FINANCING OF MPAs IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: A FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

No information available on national budgets.

Information available for international cooperation.
Turkey
No information available on the national budget.

Countries non-assessed Morocco, Bosnia and
Lack of information on international resources and
Herzegovina, Syria,
national budgets
Libya

Table 2: Confidence level denoting the level of integrity of the financial data

The level of confidence classification was used to divide the initial sample into smaller
samples of countries with the same level of confidence in the financial data, with the purpose
of providing more insightful results regarding the financing gaps for MPAs.

c) Sources of information
Available online information for the period 2010-2014 was reviewed in order to identify
international financial flows from international cooperation, based on the following sources:
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 DAC-OECD Rio markets database . Based on the DAC countries report to the
Creditor Reporting System (CRS), the CRS of the overall bilateral Official
Development Assistance (ODA) related to Coastal and Marine Protected Areas was
reviewed. This information was then updated based on reported ODA from France
(AFD – Agence Française de Développement).
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 GEF’s database focusing on projects related to Coastal and Marine Protected
Areas. Projects under the GEF-5 cycle of programs were reviewed along with the
GEF-6 replenishment cycle projections.
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 EU LIFE programs database . For the EU member States in the region, projects
financed by the EU LIFE programs related to Coastal and Marine Protected Areas
were assessed. Resources from LIFE programs are mostly devoted to the
strengthening of Natura 2000 sites and network. It was difficult to assess the
contribution from other EU financing instruments as they mainly focus on wider
environmental and development issues.
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 The 4 and 5 National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans reported to the
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) were reviewed, along with other national
surveys undertaken on similar issues.

d) Processing of financial data
The financial data from central governments and from international cooperation was
processed as follows:

5 - http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=RIOMARKERS (on January, 2015)
6 - Donors countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan,
Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States,
European Community.
7 - http://www.thegef.org/gef/gef_projects_funding (on October 10th 2014)
8 - http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/project/Projects/ (online consultation March 6th 2015)

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