Activities

Pleased inform you that the Special Meeting of the Project Steering Committee for the UNDP/GEF Yellow Sea Project will be held in Jeju, Korea, from 8th to 9th  May 2013.

The objectives of the meetings will be to consider and approve the project document of YSLME 2nd phase including:
(i) Considerations of the Project Document;
(ii) Other Required Documents;
(iii) Agreement in Submitting the Project Document for GEF GEO’s Endorsement ;

The full working documents for the meeting will be distributed during Registration on 8 May 2013 and also available in the below link.

Meeting documents.

Washington DC, USA – The 2nd Phase of YSLME Project has been approved by the recently concluded GEF Council Meeting. The 43rd GEF Council Meeting held during 13-15 November 2012 approved 28 project concepts (PIFs) and one programmatic approach (PFD) of which 2nd Phase of YSLME Project is one of three projects. The Project Framework Document (PFD) submitted by UNDP entitled Reducing Pollution and Rebuilding Degraded Marine Resources in the East Asian Seas through Implementation of Intergovernmental Agreements and Catalyzed Investments will receive a GEF project grant of 20 Million dollars among which YSLME Project will share US$8.2M. The official minutes of the GEF Council Meeting can be viewed at the following link: http://www.thegef.org/gef/sites/thegef.org/files/documents/43rd%20Council%20meeting_Joint%20Summary%20of%20the%20Chairs.pdf

With the GEF Council decision on the YSLME 2nd phase funding, the Project Management Office can now initiate the preparation of the project 2nd phase. The government of China already endorsed the YSLME project PIF. The PMO is now working on the formulation of the Project Document which will be finalized in the first half of 2013.