VU), Dorcas leptoceros Gazelle (Gazella dorcas EN) COMPONENT 1. Changing the trajectory of tourism development and operations to safeguard biodiversity Outcome 1: Direct adverse impacts of tourism infrastructure development on biodiversity and land/sea-scapes (primarily loss and severe degradation of critical habitats in both terrestrial and marine ecosystems) are avoided, reduced or compensated in at least the c. 10,000 km² of ecologically sensitive areas (including c. 2324 km² inside protected areas) exposed to development pressures Output 1.1 Coherent Capacity at the There is no SEA and Capacity strengthened by ...To be and effective legal, MSEA/EEAA/NCS, biodiversity is poorly determined during the inception phase policy, regulatory and MoT/TDA for integrating addressed in the EIA institutional biodiversity into SEAs, frameworks in place at EIAs and related the national and regulations in tourism levels for planning and permitting, multi-sectoral land-use and for compliance planning at the monitoring and landscape level, to enforcement avoid, reduce, mitigate Capacity of governorate No specific policies and Governorate and municipal planning Governorate and offset adverse and municipal authorities capacities on the reviews current plans against the needs development plans, impacts of tourism in the target areas for biodiversity/interface. of the SEA and imposes restrictions and actual tourism pressures on integrating biodiversity Governorate and mitigation measures where necessary developments, specific biodiversity into tourism planning and municipal planning is assessments permitting largely concerned with urban planning and solid waste management Capacity of governorate Very limited or no Institutional and technical capacity Specific capacity and municipal authorities institutional capacities increased assessments in the target areas for on effective regulation related compliance processes and oversight monitoring and of tourism development enforcement and on promotion of NB/BFT Environmental infractions To be defined during At least a 50% reduction in Reports of site visits by during the construction Inception environmental infractions achieved EIA authority and or and operational phases through monitoring and enforcement project Available future scenarios NSTSP provides a An agreed vision for the future of Egyptian Tourism Risk: The default scenario or less desirable single vision for the tourism in Egypt based upon the Scenarios, NBSAP, scenarios are ignored as being too negative future largely based ecosystems ability to support the vision NSTSP and frightening upon increasing the without loss of biodiversity number of tourists to Egypt each year
leptoceros VU), Dorcas Gazelle (Gazella dorcas EN) COMPONENT 1. Changing the trajectory of tourism development and operations to safeguard biodiversity Outcome 1: Direct adverse impacts of tourism infrastructure development on biodiversity and land/sea-scapes (primarily loss and severe degradation of critical habitats in both terrestrial and marine ecosystems) are avoided, reduced or compensated in at least the c. 10,000 km² of ecologically sensitive areas (including c. 2324 km² inside protected areas) exposed to development pressures Output 1.1 Coherent and effective legal, policy, regulatory and institutional frameworks in place at the national and levels for multi-sectoral land-use planning at the landscape level, to avoid, reduce, mitigate and offset adverse impacts of tourism pressures on biodiversity Capacity at the MSEA/EEAA/NCS, MoT/TDA for integrating biodiversity into SEAs, EIAs and related regulations in tourism planning and permitting, and for compliance monitoring and enforcement There is no SEA and biodiversity is poorly addressed in the EIA Capacity strengthened by ...To be determined during the inception phase Capacity of governorate and municipal authorities in the target areas for integrating biodiversity into tourism planning and permitting No specific policies and capacities on the biodiversity/interface. Governorate and municipal planning is largely concerned with urban planning and solid waste management Governorate and municipal planning reviews current plans against the needs of the SEA and imposes restrictions and mitigation measures where necessary Governorate development plans, actual tourism developments, specific assessments Capacity of governorate and municipal authorities in the target areas for related compliance monitoring and enforcement Very limited or no institutional capacities on effective regulation processes and oversight of tourism development and on promotion of NB/BFT Institutional and technical capacity increased Specific capacity assessments Environmental infractions during the construction and operational phases To be defined during Inception At least a 50% reduction in environmental infractions achieved through monitoring and enforcement Reports of site visits by EIA authority and or project Available future scenarios NSTSP provides a single vision for the future largely based upon increasing the number of tourists to Egypt each year An agreed vision for the future of tourism in Egypt based upon the ecosystems ability to support the vision without loss of biodiversity Egyptian Tourism Scenarios, NBSAP, NSTSP Risk: The default scenario or less desirable scenarios are ignored as being too negative and frightening