United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The issue of shoreline changes has increasingly become a major social, economic and environmental concern to a large number of countries in the western Indian Ocean (WIO) region, where it poses a serious problem to the environment and human settlements.
Clean water and the many products and services of aquatic ecosystems are necessities for human welfare. Water connects human societies and ecological systems by providing food and energy. The hydrological cycle maintains the health and stimulates the productivity and diversity of all ecosystems.
The main objective of this book is to provide teachers of primary and secondary schools in the western Indian Ocean (WIO) region with a basic textbook that will allow them to introduce environmental components in the classroom as well as in outdoor activities.
In 1984, the Government of the Democratic Republic of Somalia approached the Executive Director of UNEP with a request for assistance in assessing the coastal and marine environmental problems of the country in drawing up a national action plan for the protection, management and development of its marine and coastal environment.
This operational note has been prepared to help strengthen the implementation and impact of the European Union funded ACP MEAs 3 project with support from the Secretariat of the Organization of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (OACPS) in Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific countries to mainstream and operationalize the gender dimensions of compliance and enforcement to multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and strengthen environmental governance.
