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.
1) Technical Supervisory Committee
2) Initiative Coordination Unit
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a) Legal Analysis Reef Restoration MAR Region
b) Recommendations to Improve legislation MAR Region
c) Legal Analysis Reef Restoration MAR-Presentation
d) Additional Questions and Answers
a) Systematization Legal Analysis MAR
a) CSI Analysis. MAR Procedures
b) CSI Analysis MAR Recommendations
a) Action for implementing Regional Protocols
a) Regional Opportunities to enable Restoration
a) Public Policy Analysis for the MAR-Technical Document
b) Public Policy Analysis for MAR Summary-Presentation
c) Climate Risk Assessment-Concept Note-Document
d) Climate Risk Assessment-Summary-Presentation
a) Belize
b) Guatemala
c) Honduras
d) Mexico
e) Regional
f) Policy Brief Regional
g) Belize - Policy Brief English
a) GIS Analysis for the MAR Region
a) Reef Restoration Guide
b) Reef Restoration Guide Video
i) Mesoamerican Reef System
ii) Introduction to Coral Reef Restoration
iii) Asexual Coral Breeding Technique
iv) Assisted Coral Reproduction Technique
v) Advice from experts
c) Short videos: interviews with experts in restoration of the MAR
i) Adriel-Castañeda
Fisheries Department Belize
Belize
ii) Ana Giro
Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative
Guatemala
iii) Anastazia Banasak
Laboratorio de Investigación Integral para la
Conservación de Arrecifes CORALIUM
México
iv) Christian Alva
Proyecto Resiliencia
GEF-PNUD-CONANP
México
v) Claudia Padilla
Instituto Nacional de Pesca - INAPESCA
México
vi) Gabriela Nava
Oceanus A.C.
México
vii) Héctor Lizárraga y Baruch Figueroa
Centro Ecológico Akumal
México
viii) Ian Drysdale
Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative
Honduras
ix) Lisa Carne
Fragments of Hope
Belize
x) Marcio Aronne
Fundación Cayos Cochinos
Honduras
xi) Miguel García
Oceanus A.C.
México
xii) Tripp Funderburk
Bay Islands Reef Restoration
Honduras
a) Economic Valuation MAR Region English
b) Valoración Económica Región SAM
1) Emergency Fund Guidelines- English
2) Lineamientos Fondo de Emergencia- Español
3) Emergency Fund proposal template – English
4) Fondo de Emergencia- formato para propuesta- Español
5) Emergency Fund- Summary
6) Fondo de Emergencia -Resumen
1) Mesoamerican Reef Insurance Programme
2) Brief MAR Insurance Programme Q&A
3) Brief MAR Insurance Programme Q&A – Español
4) ORRAA Solutions Lab: MAR Insurance Programme
5) Financing Mesoamerican Reef Resilience to Extreme Climatic Events
6) Financing Mesoamerican Reef Resilience to Extreme Climatic Events
7) Study 1 Correlation Damages and Parameters
a) Study 1. Correlation Damages and Parameters – Technical Document
b) Study 1. Damages and Parameters – Presentation
c) Study 1. Correlation Damages and Parameters – Executive Summary
8) Study 2 Cost Analysis Response Estimation
a) Study 2. Cost Estimation – Technical Document
b) Study 2. Cost Estimation – Summary and Presentation
9) Feasability of the insurance
a) Beneficiary Analysis for the MAR
i) Beneficiaries of Rapid Response Reef Risk Financing in the MAR Region
ii) Cost-Benefit Summary and Sensitivity Analysis
iii) Supplementary Report-InsuResilience Target Group
b) Financial Risk Anlysis for the MAR
i) Sustainability of Rapid Response Reef Risk Financing in the MAR Region
10) Brief MAR Insurance Programme Q&A-2024
MAR Insurance Brief 2024
MAR Insurance Brief 2024 – Español
1) Early Warning Emergency Response Protocol
2) Protocolo de Alerta Temprana y Respuesta inmediata
3) Emergency response protocol for ship groundings
1) Field Guide for Monitoring Coral Disease Outbreaks in the Mesoamerican Region
2) Guía de campo para Monitorear los Brotes de Enfermedades de Coral en la Región Mesoamericana
3) SCTLD Recommendations Final 2020
1) Reef Restoration Network
a) Learn more about the Network in Coralmar.org
b) Meeting Minutes
c) Strategic Plan
d) Regulatory Statutes
2) 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
a) Iniciativa de Rescate de Arrecifes
Claudia Ruiz
MAR Fund
b) 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
c) 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
d) 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
e) 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
f) 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
g) 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
h) Observatorio Ambiental Regional (OAR)
Mario Escobedo
CCAD – SICA
i) Análisis de Diagnóstico Transfronterizo y Plan de Acciones Estratégicas
Julieta Castillo
j) Estrategia Regional para el Crecimiento Azul en los países del SICA
Organización del Sector Pesquero y Acuícola del Istmo Centroamericano
OSPESCA
k) Estrategia Regional Ambiental (ERAM) 2021-2025
CCDA – SICA
l) 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
m) Política Fiscal y ODS
Alfredo Ibrahim Flores Sarria
Secretario Ejecutivo del COSEFIN
Virtual Regional Workshop for the Exchange of Experiences in Post-Storm Response Capacity to Mitigate the Impact of Hurricanes on Coral Reefs
1) Minutes
a) Meeting Minutes English
b) Memoria Reunión Español
1) Insurance Model for Reefs
2) Emergency Response
3) Parametric Insurance in the Mesoamerican Reef
4) Post-Storm Reef Response Capacities in the MAR (English)
5) Capacidades de Respuesta Post Tormenta para arrecifes en la SAM (Español)
1) Innovative risk financing approaches to enhance ecosystem resilience along the Caribbean’s coastline – Long version
2) Innovative risk financing approaches to enhance ecosystem resilience along the Caribbean’s coastline – Short versionv
3) Reef resilience in the Greater Caribbean – Long Version
4) Reef resilience in the Greater Caribbean – Short Version
5) Fortalecimiento capacidades de respuesta post tormenta en el SAM
6) Curso Brigadas para Reparar Daños Causados por Huracanes en Arrecifes
7) Reef Response-Local Participation
8) Seguro Paramétrico y Protocolo de Respuesta Inmediata
9) Beneficios del Sistema Arrecifal Mesoamericano (SAM) y sus amenazas
10) Brigadistas de respuesta a emergencias
11) Hol Chan Marine Reserve
12) Iniciativa Wave of Change
13) Importancia de los Arrecifes Saludables
14) Inter Institutional Coordination for Protection of MAR
15) Restauración de arrecifes coralinos
16) Servicios Ambientales de los Arrecifes de Coral
17) Turneffe Atoll Marine Reserve
18) Coral Reef Insurance in Colombia
19) Seguros paramétricos para arrecifes en Costa Rica
1) Geoserver MAR Fund data base
a) Public access (password required)
b) Private access (password required)
c) Reef restoration projects
d) RRI Small Grants Projects