IWCAM Final Project Conference

Integrating Watershed and Coastal Areas Management in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (IWCAM) Final Project Conference
16 – 18 November 2011,
Jamaica Conference Centre, Kingston, Jamaica

Day 1 (16 November 2011):

• Opening Ceremony:
• Chaired by Vincent Sweeney, Regional Project Coordinator, GEF-IWCAM Project
• Isabelle Vanderbeck, Task Manager, GEF Projects in Latin America
• Andrew Hudson, Principal Technical Advisor, UNDP Water Governance Programme
• Christian Severin, Programme Manager, International Waters, GEF
• Patricia Aquing, Executive Director, CEHI
• Nelson Andrade, Coordinator, UNEP-CAR/RCU
• GEF-IWCAM Project Overview – Vincent Sweeney
• Enabling Legislation – Judy Daniel, Consultant, Environmental Advisors Inc.
• Experience, Results and Lessons – Capacity Building – Vincent Sweeney
• Experience, Results and Lessons – Stakeholder Involvement, Public Educations and Awareness, and Data and Information Management Part 1 – Donna Spencer, Communications, Networking and Information Specialist, GEF-IWCAM
• Experience, Results and Lessons – Stakeholder Involvement, Public Educations and Awareness, and Data and Information Management Part 2 – Christopher Corbin, AMEP Programme Officer, UNEP-CAR/RCU
• IWCAM Resources – Donna Spencer
• Related Project Presentations:
  • Pacific IWRM (SOPAC) Christopher Paterson, Advisor, GEF Pacific IWRM Project
  • REPCAR Project Alexandre Cooman, Project Manager
  • CReW – Denise Forrest, Project Coordinator
• Screening of GEF-IWCAM Project Documentary Video – “WaterWays”

Day 2 (17 November 2011):

• Summary of Day 1 – Christopher Corbin
• Capacity Building and Needs Part 1 (Laboratory Assessment) – Alexandra Du Boulay, Laboratory Supervisor, CEHI
• Capacity Building and Needs Part 2 (Jamaica Experience)  Sheries Simpson, Manager, Projects Planning and Monitoring Branch, National Environment and Planning Agency
• IWRM  Experience, Results and Lessons – Christopher Cox, Programme Director, CEHI
• Country Experiences in IWRM:
  • St. Vincent & the Grenadines – Cecil Ryan, Director, Project Promotions Limited
  • Barbados and Grenada Adrian Cashman, Lecturer, Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES), UWI, Cave Hill Campus
  • Dominica – Ronald Charles, Assistant Forest Officer, Forestry and Wildlife Division
• Regional Experiences in IWRM – The Global Water Partnership – Caribbean (GWP-C) – Professor Jacob Opadeyi
• Regional Experiences in IWRM  The Consortium of CARICOM Institutions on Water – Anya Thomas, Senior Project Officer, CARICOM Secretariat
• Discussion
• Regional Experiences in IWRM:
  • Haiti – Jean Wiener, Director, Fondation pour la Protection de la Biodiversite Marine (FoProBim)
  • Grenada – Raymond Baptiste, Chief Land Use Officer, Ministry of Agriculture
  • Panel Discussion: IWRM in the Caribbean – The Way Forward

Day 3 (18 November 2011):

• The Way Forward for the IWCAM Approach – Vincent Sweeney
• GIZ / CARICOM Project – Christopher Cox
• Panel Discussion : “IWCAM Replication or Relegation to History?”
• Panel Discussion cont’d: “IWCAM Replication or Relegation to History?"
• Executing Agency comments:  CEHI - Patricia Aquing, Executive Director; UNEP – CAR/RCU – Christopher Corbin, AMEP Programme Officer