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(a) Organizational arrangements to coordinate among sectors and sectoral institutions;
(b) Legal and enforcement mechanisms (e.g., need for new legislation);
(c) Financial mechanisms (including innovative approaches to provide continuing and
predictable programme funding);
(d) Means of identifying and pursuing research and monitoring requirements in support of the
programme;
(e) Contingency planning;
(f) Human resources development and education;
(g) Public participation and awareness (e.g., based on integrated coastal area management
principles).
III Regional Cooperation
Basis for action
29. Regional and subregional cooperation and arrangements are crucial for successful actions to
protect the marine environment from land-based activities. This is particularly so where a number
of countries have coasts in the same marine and coastal area, most notably in enclosed or semienclosed
seas. Such cooperation allows for more accurate identification and assessment of the
problems in particular geographic areas and more appropriate establishment of priorities for action
in these areas. Such cooperation also strengthens regional and national capacity-building and offers
an important avenue for harmonizing and adjusting measures to fit the particular environmental and
socio-economic circumstances. It, moreover, supports a more efficient and cost-effective
implementation of the programmes of action.
Objectives
30. To strengthen and, where necessary, create new regional cooperative arrangements and joint
actions to support effective action, strategies and programmes for:
a) Identification and assessment of problems;
b) Establishment of targets and priorities for action;
c) Development and implementation of pragmatic and comprehensive management
approaches and processes;
d) Development and implementation of strategies to mitigate and remediate land-based
sources of harm to the coastal and marine environment.
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