This project was developed under the Project Development Facility (PDF) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF).  UNEP is the lead GEF Implementing Agency in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme and UNEP-CAR/RCU is co-executing this project with the Caribbean Environmental Health Institute (CEHI), on behalf of the 13 small island developing states of the Wider Caribbean Region.

The original project proposal (Project Brief) was submitted on 11 March 2002 to the GEF Secretariat for consideration at the GEF Council meeting in May 2002.  All 13 countries endorsed the project.

During the development of this project, the Regional Executing Agencies (i.e., UNEP-CAR/RCU and CEHI) convened three regional workshops. The 13 island countries, as National Executing Agencies, have each developed a national report on integrating watershed and coastal area management in their respective countries, including recommendations for improvements and project ideas. These 13 national reports have been synthesized into a regional synthesis from which the regional GEF Project Brief is being developed.

A project summary is also available that summarises the work to be carried out in the full GEF Project as presented in the Project Brief.

After a detailed review of the Project Brief, the GEF Secretariat requested more detail within this document regarding the proposed Demonstration Activities, which make up much of the 'on-the-ground' project delivery.  Therefore, instead of individual project proposals being submitted to the project Steering Committee during implementation of the Full IWCAM project, the GEF Secretariat requested that the project development phase be extended to provide details of the intended Demonstration Activities.  These details would include objectives, activities, actual delivery, funding sources, and direct relevance to the overall aims of the IWCAM project.