Thanks to the generous support of the German Government through the KfW, recovering damaged and degraded reefs in the MAR region, is a tangible possibility through the Mesoamerican Reef Rescue Initiative.
Objective: The overall objective of the Reef Rescue Initiative is to contribute to the conservation of the Mesoamerican Reef by increasing the resilience and recovery ability of the MAR and thereby the environmental and cultural services it provides, through:
- Capacity building,
- Regulations,
- Economic incentives and
- Financial sustainability required for effective and timely restoration.
All required for the effective and timely restoration
The main Initiative´s main approaches are:
- Continuing restoration: Based on diverse coral restoration techniques in reef areas that have been degraded or damage.
- Emergency Response: Inmediate response actions to recover the reefs for damages caused by hurricanes or possible ship groundings.
This innovative project is implemented by the MAR Fund, and the Central American Commission on Environment and Development (CCAD), with the participation of the four countries that share the reef system: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.
General Operating Plan 2016-2020
a. Technical Supervisory Committee
b. Initiative Coordination Unit
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Legal Analysis Reef Restoration MAR
Recommendations to Improve Legislation MAR
Legal Analysis Reef Restoration MAR-Presentation
Additional Questions and Answers
Systematization Legal Analysis MAR
CSI Analysis. MAR Procedures
CSI Analysis MAR Recommendations
SCTLD Recommendations Final 2020
Action for implementing Regional Protocols
Regional Opportunities to enable Restoration
Public Policy Analysis for the MAR-Technical Document
Public Policy Analysis for MAR Summary-Presentation
Climate Risk Assessment-Concept Note-Document
Climate Risk Assessment-Summary-Presentation
GIS Analysis for the MAR Region
Emergency Response Capacities Fact sheet
Early Warning Emergency Response Protocol
Mesoamerican Reef Insurance Programme
Study 1 Correlation Damages and Parameters
Study 1. Correlation Damages and Parameters - Technical Document
Study 1. Damages and Parameters - Presentation
Study 1. Correlation Damages and Parameters - Executive Summary
Study 2 Cost Estimation
Study 2. Cost Estimation - Technical Document
Study 2. Cost Estimation - Summary and Presentation
Study 3 Insurance Concept
Study 3. Insurance Concept. Preliminary Analysis for the MAR
Study 3. Summary Preliminary Concept of Parametric Insurance for SAM - Summary and Presentation
1. Beneficiary Analysis for the MAR
Beneficiaries of Rapid Response Reef Risk Financing in the MAR Region
Cost-Benefit Summary and Sensitivity Analysis
Supplementary Report-InsuResilience Target Group
2. Financial Risk Anlysis for the MAR
Sustainability of Rapid Response Reef Risk Financing in the MAR Region
12.1 Reef Restoration Guide
12.2 Reef Restoration Guide Video
1. Mesoamerican Reef System
2. Introduction to Coral Reef Restoration
3. Asexual Coral Breeding Technique
4. Assisted Coral Reproduction Technique
5. Advice from experts
12.3 Short videos: interviews with experts in restoration of the MAR
Adriel-Castañeda
Fisheries Department Belize
Belize
Ana Giro
Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative
Guatemala
Anastazia Banasak
Laboratorio de Investigación Integral para la
Conservación de Arrecifes CORALIUM
México
Christian Alva
Proyecto Resiliencia
GEF-PNUD-CONANP
México
Claudia Padilla
Instituto Nacional de Pesca - INAPESCA
México
Gabriela Nava
Oceanus A.C.
México
Héctor Lizárraga y Baruch Figueroa
Centro Ecológico Akumal
México
Ian Drysdale
Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative
Honduras
Lisa Carne
Fragments of Hope
Belize
Marcio Aronne
Fundación Cayos Cochinos
Honduras
Miguel García
Oceanus A.C.
México
Tripp Funderburk
Bay Islands Reef Restoration
Honduras
Fondo de Emergencia – Lineamientos Español
Emergency Fund -Guidelines – English
Brief MAR Insurance Programme Q&A
ORRAA Solutions Lab: MAR Insurance Programme
Financing Mesoamerican Reef Resilience to Extreme Climatic Events
Financing Mesoamerican Reef Resilience to Extreme Climatic Events
Study 1 Correlation Damages and Parameters
Study 1. Correlation Damages and Parameters – Technical Document
Study 1. Damages and Parameters – Presentation
Study 1. Correlation Damages and Parameters – Executive Summary
Study 2 Cost Estimation
Study 2. Cost Estimation – Technical Document
Study 2. Cost Estimation – Summary and Presentation
Emergency Response Capacities Fact sheet
Early Warning Emergency Response Protocol
SCTLD Recommendations Final 2020
Reef Restoration Network
a. Learn more about the Network in Coralmar.org
b. Meeting Minutes
c. Strategic Plan
d. Regulatory Statutes
SCTLD Regional Dialogue Group
Regional Strategic Workshop: Building Resilience and Addressing Risk in the Mesoamerican Reef
1. Agenda
Agenda – Regional Strategic Workshop 2021
2. Event Charter
Event Charter – Building Resilience and Addressing Risk in the Mesoamerican Reef
3. Press Release
Press Release – Regional Strategic Workshop
4. Minutes
Regional Workshop Minutes MAR2R Español
5. Audio/video
Día 1 – Taller Estratégico Regional “La Generación de resiliencia y atención al riesgo en el SAM”
Día 2 – Taller Estratégico Regional “La Generación de resiliencia y atención al riesgo en el SAM”
6. Speakers Presentations
1. Iniciativa de Rescate de Arrecifes
Claudia Ruiz
MAR Fund
2. Valoración económica de los arrecifes de coral en el SAM y
los bienes y servicios que proporcionan
Itziar Ruiz Gauna
Metroeconómica – WRI México – The Ocean Foundation
3. Financial Sustainability for the recovery and resilience of the Mesoamerican Reef
Innovative financial mechanisms to manage risk and build resilience in reef systems
and their dependent populations
Simon Young
CCAD-MAR Regional Strategic Workshop
4. Sinergias y coordinación con otros proyectos, estrategias, planes e iniciativas regionales
bajo el marco de la ERAM/ERCA
Carlos Rodríguez Olivet
Especialista Marino Costero y Salvaguardas Proyecto MAR2R-CCAD/GEF-WWF
5. Estrategias e instrumentos de políticas públicas orientadas a la atención al riesgo y
a la generación de resiliencia del SAM
José Luis Funes Izaguirre
Instructor de Brigadas de Respuesta
6. Gobernanza y participación local en la resiliencia y riesgo en arrecifes.
Atención a la respuesta para arrecifes
Biol. Juan Carlos Huitrón Baca
Instructor de Brigadas de Respuesta
7. Mi experiencia como brigadista, la importancia de atender el arrecife después de un impacto
María del Carmen García Rivas
Directora Parque Nacional Arrecife de Puerto Morelos
México
8. Observatorio Ambiental Regional (OAR)
Mario Escobedo
CCAD – SICA
9. Análisis de Diagnóstico Transfronterizo y Plan de Acciones Estratégicas
Julieta Castillo
10. Estrategia Regional para el Crecimiento Azul en los países del SICA
Organización del Sector Pesquero y Acuícola del Istmo Centroamericano
OSPESCA
11. Estrategia Regional Ambiental (ERAM) 2021-2025
CCDA – SICA
12. Mejorar nuestra comprensión del riesgo y la resiliencia de los arrecifes de coral mediante el
intercambio de información y avances de la colaboración entre HRI y AGRRA.
Ana Giró – Healthy Reefs Initiative
Patricia Kramer – AGRRA
13. Política Fiscal y ODS
Alfredo Ibrahim Flores Sarria
Secretario Ejecutivo del COSEFIN
7. Graphics and event materials
Link to access
a. Insurance Model for Reefs
b. Emergency Response
Reef resilience in the Greater Caribbean – Long Version
Reef resilience in the Greater Caribbean – Short Version
Fortalecimiento capacidades de respuesta post tormenta en el SAM
Curso Brigadas para Reparar Daños Causados por Huracanes en Arrecifes
Reef Response-Local Participation
Seguro Paramétrico y Protocolo de Respuesta Inmediata
Beneficios del Sistema Arrecifal Mesoamericano (SAM) y sus amenazas
Brigadistas de respuesta a emergencias
Hol Chan Marine Reserve
Iniciativa Wave of Change
Importancia de los Arrecifes Saludables
Inter Institutional Coordination for Protection of MAR
Restauración de arrecifes coralinos
Servicios Ambientales de los Arrecifes de Coral
Turneffe Atoll Marine Reserve
Geoserver MAR Fund data base
i. Public access (password required)
ii. Private access (password required)
iii. Reef restoration projects
iv. RRI Small Grants Projects