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  • HOME
  • ABOUT US
    • WHAT IS MAR FUND?
    • MESOAMERICAN REEF
    • MISSION & VISION
    • FOUNDING MEMBERS
    • ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
    • BOARD OF DIRECTORS
    • THE TEAM
    • INTRANET
      • BOARD OF DIRECTORS
      • STAFF
    • CONTACT US
    • JOB OPPORTUNITIES
    • EVENTS
    • MAR NEWS
  • VICTORIES
    • GENERAL
    • MEXICO
    • BELIZE
    • GUATEMALA
    • HONDURAS
  • PROGRAMS
    • SAVING OUR PROTECTED AREAS
      • SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM
      • CONSERVATION OF MARINE RESOURCES IN C. A. PROJECT
      • RE-GRANTING WITH OAK FOUNDATION
    • FISHING FOR THE FUTURE
      • MAR FISH
      • FISH REPLENISHMENT ZONES (FRZ)
    • CLIMATE CHANGE
      • REEF RESCUE INITIATIVE
      • MANGROVES
      • GAGGA
    • BELIZE MARINE FUND
    • CLEAN WATER FOR THE REEF
    • CROSS-CUTTING: MAR+INVEST
  • NETWORKS
    • MAR CONNECTIVITY NETWORK
    • REGIONAL MANATEE WORKING GROUP
    • REEF RESTORATION NETWORK
  • DONORS
  • ALLIES
  • LIBRARY
    • ANNUAL REPORTS
    • UPDATES ON ACTIVITIES
    • MAR FUND DOCUMENTS
    • FINANCIAL FACT SHEET
    • TECHNICAL FACT SHEETS
    • MBRS
    • GENDER AND FISHING
    • RESPONSIBLE COASTAL SOCIETIES
    • MAREA
    • LA OLA
    • VIDEOS
  • DONATE
    • CASE FOR SUPPORT
    • GIVING
      OPPORTUNITIES
    • DONATE NOW
    • GLOBAL GIVING
  • EVENTS
  • ESMS SYSTEM

Mesoamerican Reef Rescue Initiative (RRI)

1. Introduction

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:

  1. Capacity building,
  2. Regulations,
  3. Economic incentives and
  4. Financial sustainability required for effective and timely restoration.

All required for the effective and timely restoration

The main Initiative´s main approaches are:

  1. Continuing restoration: Based on diverse coral restoration techniques in reef areas that have been degraded or damage.
  2. 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.

2. Project Documents

General Operating Plan 2016-2020

3. Project Structure

a. Technical Supervisory Committee

b. Initiative Coordination Unit

4. Technical Documents

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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


5. Emergency Fund- Operative Guidelines

Fondo de Emergencia – Lineamientos Español

Emergency Fund -Guidelines – English

6. MAR Reef Insurance Programme

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

7. Emergency Response Capacities

Emergency Response Capacities Fact sheet

Early Warning Emergency Response Protocol

8. Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease –SCTLD-

Field Guide for Monitoring Coral Disease Outbreaks in the Mesoamerican Region

SCTLD Recommendations Final 2020

9. Regional Working Platforms

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

10. Meetings & Events

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

11. Fact Sheets

a.  Insurance Model for Reefs

b.  Emergency Response

12. Videos

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

13. Maps

a. Regional


b. Mexico


c. Belize


d. Guatemala


e. Honduras


f. Other


g. Key Reef Sites For The Insurance

14. GIS Sources

Geoserver MAR Fund data base

i. Public access (password required)

ii. Private access (password required)

iii. Reef restoration projects

iv. RRI Small Grants Projects

15. Documents Database

Private Access
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16 years protecting Mesoamerican Reef (2005-2022).