Abstract:
The United Nations Environment Programme Caribbean Environment Programme has partnered with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) to develop a Prototype Caribbean Regional Fund for Wastewater Management (known as CReW) which will provide sustainable financing for environmentally sound and cost-effective wastewater management projects in the Wider Caribbean Region.
The objectives of this project is to improve the capacity of States in the region to fulfil the obligations of the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment in the Wider Caribbean Region (also known as the Cartagena Convention) and the Protocol on the Control of Pollution from Land-Based Sources and Activities (LBS Protocol), regional agreements governing the management and control of polluting substances in the waters of the Wider Caribbean.