The ICZM Process - a Roadmap towards Coastal Sustainability - Establishment

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Introduction  


Establishment  


Analysis and Futures  


Setting the Vision  


Designing the Future  


Realising the Vision  


 


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The overall aims of the Establishment Stage are to establish an operational foundation for the subsequent preparation of the ICZM strategy, plan or programme, and its implementation; to begin the process of understanding the challenges facing the area and the differing perceptions of those challenges; and to begin building a constituency of support for the strategy, plan or programme.

Key tasks

1. Getting Organised – establishing practical mechanisms for the governance of the process, coordination, technical support, cross-sectoral involvement and communication.

2. Defining the Territorial Scope - identifying the boundaries of the specific coastal zone and its ecosystems.

3. Getting Started - scoping the problems, issues; the institutional, legal and policy context; the key pressures and drivers, and risks.

4. Proposing a potential vision for the strategy, plan or programme area.

It is not the intention or purpose of this stage to achieve a fully detailed scientific analysis of the state of the area or the complex interrelationships between issues. Rather, the purpose is to achieve a picture of the likely range of human and natural forces, the existing sectoral policies, and their potential interrelationships to be used as a focus for discussion, analysis and the identification of priorities in subsequent stages. At this early stage effort should be directed to maximising its value as a tool for engaging stakeholders through good design, non-technical language and appropriate and visualisation media.

Potential Outputs

A Inception Report & Work Plan Including the:

  • Background and purpose of the project.
  • International and/or national context.
  • The governing partnership and the proposed Governance Structure – the ICZM Steering Group or Committee,
  • The Workplan clearly detailing the tasks and milestones of the process.

A Scoping Report to contain:

  • A preliminary assessment of the problems, issues and risks along with their relative importance, policy context and interrelationships.


NB A Strategic Environmental Analysis (SEA) may be required for the strategy, plan or programme. The environmental authorities of the relevant state should therefore be consulted on the requirement for an SEA and its terms of reference.

Expert View

Marina Marcovic of PAP/RAC introduces the ICZM Process at the First Harmonisation Meeting for the transboundary integrated management plan for the Buna-Bojana river basin and coastal area on the border of Albania and Montenegro. July 2011.

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Marina Markovic PAP/RAC