Colombia: Already prohibits the Ecuador National Plan for Well-Being deforestation of mangrove resources (Buen vivir). and has granted certain concessionary rights to communities but has not yet developed a specific national mangrove action plan. Ecuador: Currently drafting a first national mangrove action plan. MAE has implemented a successful concession program known as "sociomanglares" which would benefit from a viable long term financing mechanism. Outcome 2.2.: Base-Line 2.2.: Target 2.2.: Output 2.2.1: At least two ETPS countries have Existing regulations and their effective National threat assessment exercises A national mangrove policy and threat passed stronger regulations and implementation vary between ETPS and trans-boundary knowledge assessment for each ETPS country to incentives conducive to mangrove country: exchanges lead to more effective orient economic valuation work, conservation. regulations governing ridge-to-reef informs policy gaps, and identifies Costa Rica: Forest Law 7575 (1996) processes impacting mangrove areas in outreach needs and priorities in each Outcome Indicator 2.2.: outlawed all mangrove extraction and at least two of the ETPS countries. ETPS country, completed by Y1Q4. suspended all licensing for additional # of countries with stronger regulations Changes in policy and national shrimp aquaculture, but does not yet Output Indicator 2.2.1.: or incentives that improve mangrove sustainable development programs act consider land-use practice affecting conservation underway and established # of ETPS countries with an updated to reduce the likelihood of continued upstream watershed processes. Uses at the national level by Y2Q4. (post PPG) mangrove base-line, mangrove degradation, encouraging are restricted to tourism, education national policy and threat assessment instead reforestation. and investigation complicating by Y1Q4. management in historically fished Positive effects of integrated areas. planning propagate to local scales. Output 2.2.2.: This provides more effective nursery Panamá: General Environmental Law Legislation passed to strengthen the habitat, food security, water quality No. 41 (1998) and recent resolutions protection of mangroves in at least and coastal defenses are bolstered. (2008) require special permits with two ETPS countries completed by Communities within and around the fines for any use that could affect Y2Q4. resource shift towards sustainable mangroves. Unfortunately urban Output Indicator 2.2.2.: mangrove based livelihoods with social development approved in 2011
Colombia: Already prohibits the deforestation of mangrove resources and has granted certain concessionary rights to communities but has not yet developed a specific national mangrove action plan. Ecuador: Currently drafting a first national mangrove action plan. MAE has implemented a successful concession program known as "sociomanglares" which would benefit from a viable long term financing mechanism. Ecuador National Plan for Well-Being (Buen vivir). Outcome 2.2.: At least two ETPS countries have passed stronger regulations and incentives conducive to mangrove conservation. Outcome Indicator 2.2.: # of countries with stronger regulations or incentives that improve mangrove conservation underway and established at the national level by Y2Q4. Base-Line 2.2.: Existing regulations and their effective implementation vary between ETPS country: Costa Rica: Forest Law 7575 (1996) outlawed all mangrove extraction and suspended all licensing for additional shrimp aquaculture, but does not yet consider land-use practice affecting upstream watershed processes. Uses are restricted to tourism, education and investigation complicating management in historically fished areas. Panamá: General Environmental Law No. 41 (1998) and recent resolutions (2008) require special permits with fines for any use that could affect mangroves. Unfortunately urban development approved in 2011 Target 2.2.: National threat assessment exercises and trans-boundary knowledge exchanges lead to more effective regulations governing ridge-to-reef processes impacting mangrove areas in at least two of the ETPS countries. Changes in policy and national sustainable development programs act to reduce the likelihood of continued mangrove degradation, encouraging instead reforestation. Positive effects of integrated planning propagate to local scales. This provides more effective nursery habitat, food security, water quality and coastal defenses are bolstered. Communities within and around the resource shift towards sustainable mangrove based livelihoods with social Output 2.2.1: A national mangrove policy and threat assessment for each ETPS country to orient economic valuation work, informs policy gaps, and identifies outreach needs and priorities in each ETPS country, completed by Y1Q4. Output Indicator 2.2.1.: # of ETPS countries with an updated (post PPG) mangrove base-line, national policy and threat assessment by Y1Q4. Output 2.2.2.: Legislation passed to strengthen the protection of mangroves in at least two ETPS countries completed by Y2Q4. Output Indicator 2.2.2.:
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