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Brief
Description This project is designed to complement the GEF funded project on the " Conservation of wetlands and Coastal Ecosystems in the Mediterranean Region" . it will assist in the implementation of an environmental and public awareness program that aims at the conservation and protection of Biodiversity in Wadi Gaza. The main activities of the project include the building of Palestinian human and resource capacity in environmental and public awareness, sensitization of Palestinian for the protection and conservation of the Biodiversity in Wadi Gaza .
Introduction The Global Environment facility ( GEF), the intermediate financial instrument of the Rio Convention on Biological Diversity, is developing a project in the Mediterranean region concerning the conservation of wetlands and coastal ecosystems, henceforth referred to as the Wetlands project. The countries and authorities included in this project are Albania, Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and the Palestinian Authority. the target sites that have been chosen harbor a number of plant or animal taxa that are threatened globally. The Wadi Gaza and the coastal shore of the Gaza Strip are the Palestinian Authority sites that the project will address. The GEF approval of the project brief was guaranteed in May 1997 and since then two missions have already visited the West Bank and Gaza Strip to finalize the project document for the Palestinian component of the regional project. The main components of the Wetlands project include building Palestinian capacity in developing policies to protect Biodiversity, identifying threatened Biodiversity species, promoting environment and public awareness on Biodiversity issues and monitoring of root causes of loss of Biodiversity in the Wadi Gaza and the coastal areas of the Gaza Strip. The Swiss Development Cooperation to the Palestinian Authority has been approached to contribute to the environmental and public awareness component of the overall Wetlands project. The public awareness component is designed to be carried out by Palestinian NGO's working both in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The activities under this component are to be carried out in full consultation and under the supervision of the Ministry for Environmental Affairs (MENA), the Implementing agency of the overall Wetlands project, and the Project Manager of the Wetlands Project.
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