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Operating Plan July to December 1998
Executive Summary

Project Implementation The next six months, July - December 1998, will be a very active period for project implementation. Activities for component 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 will continue. We expect that the remaining four components will come on-line during this period.

Component 1: Design and Establishment of Sea Level/Climate Monitoring Network (Regional). One of the main outcomes of this component, enhancement of the regional and worldwide sea level gauges and related climate variables network, will be achieved during this period via the installation of the remaining monitoring systems. Benchmarks at sites will be geodetically fixed during installation. Since St. Vincent and the Grenadines recently joined the project, a reconnaissance trip for site selection and preparation will take place. Installation of the monitoring system is planned for 1999. The Caribbean Meteorological Institute (CMI) will receive the necessary equipment to download information from the monitoring systems through the GOES satellite. Data from the systems will be available through the CPACC web site.

Component 2: Establish Database & Information Systems (Regional). The Information Systems Coordinator (ISC) will complete visits to the remaining NICUs and RACs to review computer equipment, local information systems and GIS capacity. The GIS system for the RPIU will be purchased. A workshop on information and database management will be sponsored by CPACC for representatives of coastal inventory repository institutions to support the strengthening of technical and human capacity for data management at the regional and national level. In addition, CMI and IMA will be trained on the analysis and dissemination of data from the monitoring systems. The CPACC web site will be expanded to improve communications between the RPIU, NICUs and RACs.

Component 3: Inventory of Coastal Resources and Uses (Regional). Existing information in each country will be identified, evaluated for quality and entered into a catalogue (metadata). This will increase the availability and access of regional and national information on coastal zone resources. A strategy will be developed to standardize and computerize the existing information. Information required by pilot components will be identified in each country. A GIS training program to strengthen national and regional capacity and to assist in the implementation of pilot activities will be established.

Component 4: Formulation of a Policy Framework for Integrated Coastal and Marine Management (Regional). This component will become active during this period by supporting the development of a generic policy framework for the preparation of coastal zone management legislation throughout the region. Terms of reference will be developed to evaluate approaches and policies for adaptation to climate change within the context of coastal zone management. Consultants will be identified to work on this component.

Component 5: Coral Reef Monitoring for Climate Change (Bahamas, Belize, and Jamaica). Several of the expected outcomes from this component will be dealt with during this period. Action plans for each of the participating countries will be developed, including equipment needs, site selection and time-table to enhance long-term coral reef monitoring and institutional capacity in the three participating countries. Actual monitoring will commence if arrangements are completed.

Component 6: Coastal Vulnerability and Risk Assessment (Barbados, Grenada and Guyana). An international consultant has been hired to develop, based on existing methodologies, an appropriate methodology to assess coastal vulnerability and risk. He will visit the three participating countries to discuss and refine the methodology, to review existing information and institutional capacity for implementing the component, and to identify local consultants. Actual assessment will not commence until next year.

Component 7: Economic Valuation of Coastal and Marine Resources (Dominica, St. Lucia and Trinidad & Tobago). This component will become fully active during this period. The first task, improvement of methodologies for resource valuation, will be accomplished by reviewing information and methodologies on this topic. A report evaluating resource valuation methodologies and a plan of action for component implementation should be completed by the end of this period.

Component 8: Formulation of Economic/Regulatory Proposals (Antigua & Barbuda and St. Kitts & Nevis). This component will become fully active during this period. Consultant(s) will be identified and contracted to review information on existing legal and institutional mechanisms in the region, produce a report evaluating these approaches and prepare a plan of action for project implementation.

Component 9: Greenhouse Gases (GHG) Inventory and Agriculture and Water Resource Vulnerability Assessment (St. Vincent and the Grenadines). This new component will become active during this period. Published IPCC-GHG methodologies for GHG inventories will be reviewed and adapted to the Caribbean region and in particular to St. Vincent and the Grenadines. A training workshop will be offered to national counterparts on this methodology. Implementation of the GHG inventory and vulnerability assessment will be initiated.

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