Progress report for
Implementation of an integrated approach to coastal and marine ecosystems for sustainable blue growth in the Southeast Pacific (SPINCAM Project Phase 3)
Achievement at a glance
The implementation of SPINCAM project (www.spincam3.net) co-financed by the Government of Flanders (Kingdom of Belgium) and coordinated by IOC with the support of the Permanent Commission of the Southeast Pacific (CPPS) at regional scale is on track. \r\n\r\nIn terms of regional capacity development activities, SPINCAM organized trainings / workshops on coastal and marine ecosystems (typology, classification, uses, human impacts, ecosystem services) in Guayaquil (Ecuador) and Panama City (Panama), on Marine Policy in Cali (Colombia) and Marine Spatial Planning in Panama City (Panama). \r\n\r\nSPINCAM reinforced the regional atlas providing the necessary maintenance and improvements in terms of functionality linking the national atlases. National and regional indicators have been updated and a new set of indicators for sustainable blue economy is under development.\r\n\r\nIn line with the development of data and information to support planning processes and to determine levels of coherence in current marine and coastal environmental protection policies and instruments, SPINCAM developed the compendium of coastal and marine policies for the Southeast Pacific. SPINCAM also launched a Regional compendium of national and regional capacity-building needs and offers for the Southeast Pacific. \r\n\r\nThe project has also developed the coastal and marine ecosystem information system for the Southeast Pacific, identifying coastal and marine ecosystems, pressures and ecosystem services across borders. This joint task helped the project partners to develop ocean health and cumulative impact indices for the region and to consider the ecosystem approach in the management of coastal and marine ecosystem services. The outputs of this task are currently in use, as decision support tools, by national coordinating authorities in charge of marine spatial planning to develop national recommendations for marine spatial planning and sustainable blue economy and to establish a monitoring and evaluation protocols for the state of coastal and marine ecosystem services, including in Biosphere Reserves.\r\nBeneficiaries
National and Regional Institutions of the Southeast Pacific, including local stakeholders in case study areas.