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GEF Communication Workshop Vienna: January 19/20, 2006 GEF Communication Workshop Vienna: January 19/20, 2006 • Caspian is a Sea of opportunities & of challenges! • What do we expect from this Workshop ? GEF Communication Workshop Vienna: January 19/20, 2006 - - - Opportunities Regional Dialogue: Regional desire for peace ; ongoing negotiation on the legal regime; Tehran Convention Economic potentials Hydrocarbon resources, third in world ; rich bioresources , some $ 5 billion ; transport corridor; Ecotourism. Time factor Time has not yet run out for Caspian ! GEF Communication Workshop Vienna: January 19/20, 2006 • Environmental Challenges • Alarming decline in fisheries; Sturgeon ban • Erosion of Biodiversity ; ML • Pollution; eutrophication • Unsustainable coastal development; sea level fluctuations GEF Communication Workshop Vienna: January 19/20, 2006 • Social, economic and political challenges Relatively low total GDP, low Per capita GDP and HDR High expectations & Unsatisfied demands Legal regime not settled political and ethnical conflicts Young democracies with long memories of past Low priority to environment, low environment budgets Strong outside interests GEF Communication Workshop Vienna: January 19/20, 2006 • Support to CEP • Good support from UN bodies and the European Union • Fair to low support from governments • Limited support from international industry • Not much from national oil companies GEF Communication Workshop Vienna: January 19/20, 2006 • Achievements • Created , supported regional dialogue; Convention, PCU, NFPS, MPPAS , RAGS • Diagnosed transboundary issues , suggested solutions: TDA, stakeholders analysis, NCAPs, SAP, PPS • Resource mobilization: PIPS, MSGP , approaches to the industry • Pilot projects and capacity building efforts e.g EVE GEF Communication Workshop Vienna: January 19/20, 2006 What do we expect from this workshop? • Let us know what is meant by communication ?! • Share experience on data and information access in a formalist region where nothing goes free! . • Share experience on how to realistically engage the stakeholders in getting things done!