National Plans of Action-Pacific

<ul><li><font size='2'><span style='background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;'>A
NPA is a dynamic, crosscutting, participatory process with realistic
short, medium and long-term priorities for coastal and marine
protection, involving strategic planning, concrete targeted and
affordable projects, feedback and periodic evaluation to improve
performance and revise activities. A NPA is never really finished, it is
not a finite task that can be performed and then forgotten. Government
authorities are responsible for creating and maintaining an enabling
environment in which participatory, demand-driven sustainable
development can take place. </span></font></li></ul><ul><li><span style='background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;'><font size='2'>A
key purpose of the NPAs is to mobilize stakeholders and resources, and
to ensure that activities fit into existing institutional, policy,
societal and budgetary frameworks. As needs and priorities vary greatly
between countries, action has to be tailor-made. In some countries a
specific NPA may not be necessary because other relevant programmes are
already in place. In other countries a limited programme may be enough
to pull all relevant actors together, and in a third group of countries a
full-scale programme will be required.</font></span></li></ul>