Action
Plan for the Protection and Management of the Marine and Coastal
Environment of the South Asian Seas Region • SACEP
The
Action Plan for
the Protection and Management of the Marine and Coastal Environment
of the South Asian Seas Region was adopted in 1995 by Bangladesh,
India, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It focuses on integrated
coastal zone management, development and implementation of national
and regional oil-spill contingency planning, human resource
development through strengthening regional centres of excellence,
and land-based sources of pollution. There is also a programme
on the integrated management of environmentally sensitive coastal
and marine ecosystems. At the top of the list of priorities
is capacity-building to meet the threat of oil spills. After
wide consultation a programme of seminars and training courses
has been developed with the objective to help member countries
become better able to implement the Regional Oil Contingency
Plan and to develop their own national plans. assistance will
also be provided for the development of port reception facilities
under the MARPOL Convention and to set up a Regional Activity
Centre to oversee this work.
The
South Asia Cooperative Environment
Programme (SACEP), located in Sri Lanka, acts as the Secretariat
for the South Asian Regional Seas Programme. The mission of
SACEP is "to promote and support the conservation and
management of the environment, both natural and human, in
the member states of the South Asian Region in a co-operative
manner, to achieve sustainable development".
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