SPAW COP13

Work Plan For The Specially Protected Areas And Wildlife (SPAW) Sub-Programme For The 2026 – 2027 Biennium
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Decisions of the Meeting
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Report of the Meeting
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Information Note
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Provisional Agenda
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Provisional Annotated Agenda
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Recommendations of the Meeting
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Report of the SPAW STAC11 Meeting
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Provisional List of Documents
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Advancing Marine Mammal Conservation in the Wider Caribbean Region: Expression of Interest in Support of the Future Marine Mammal Regional Activity Network (MM-RAN)
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Proposal For the Establishment of the Marine Mammal Regional Activity Network (MMRAN)
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List of Participants
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Safeguarding Neotropical Songbirds: A Collaborative ApproachA Briefing Paper
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CAR-WEN Briefing Paper for SPAW including MOU and Technical Note to the MOU
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Panama Coastal Wetlands and NDC Concept Note
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Caribbean Biological Corridor Strategic Plan towards 2030 - Executive Summary
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Handbook for describing Ecologically or Biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs) and modifying EBSA descriptions under the Convention on Biological Diversity

Blue Growth through Green Restoration: Cartagena Regional Seas Convention’s Capacity Building on Seagrass Ecosystems project
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Status of Ratification of the SPAW Protocol
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Status Of Activities Of The Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas And Wildlife (SPAW) Sub-Programme For The 2023–2024(2025) Biennium
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Report of the SPAW Regional Activity Centre (SPAW-RAC) in Guadeloupe with regard to RAC operations and budget for the period 2023-2024(2025)
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SPAW-RAC 2022 and 2023 CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Report
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Call For Proposals Short-Term Small Grants - Year 2023 - Information Note For The SPAW Protocol Scientific And Technical Advisory Committee Addendum 1

Implementation and Compliance Issues within the SPAW Protocol: Briefing Paper March 2025
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Revision of the legal and governance structure for a new Marine Mammals RAN
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Analysis of the Functioning of the Cartagena Convention Working Groups and Recommendations for Improvement
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Report of the STAC Protected Area Working Group
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Report on the SPAW protected area manager network for the period 2023-2024
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Report on the development of a regional support program for protected area managers in the Wider Caribbean Region
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Guidelines and Criteria for the Evaluation of Protected Area to be Listed Under the SPAW Protocol (Revised)
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Report of The SPAW STAC Species Working Group On The Listing of Species Under The Annexes to The SPAW Protocol
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Report On The Conservation Of Nassau Grouper (Epinephelus Striatus)
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Recommendations For The Conservation Of Sawfish (Pristidae) In The Wider Caribbean Region
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SPAW Consortium Expanding Civil Society Participation In The Caribbean Environment Programme 
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Conservation And Management Recommendations For The Whale Shark (Uplisted In Annex Ii), Giant Manta Ray (Uplisted In Annex Ii) And Hammerhead Sharks (Annex Iii) In The Wider Caribbean Region
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Report Of The SPAW STAC Exemption Working Group
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United States Exemptions Report to the Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife Protocol of the Cartagena Convention for 2022-2024

Bonaire Exemptions Report to the Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife Protocol of the Cartagena Convention
for the crocodilian case

Curacao Exemption Report to the Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife Protocol of the Cartagena Convention for
Coastal development at the Santa Martha coastal area

Report of the ACP MEAs III Programme 2023 and 2024

Project Under Development: Sargcoop II
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Report Of The STAC Sargassum Working Group
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Contracting Parties needs related to managing Sargassum influx and how such influx may affect their implementation of obligations under the SPAW Protocol and Cartagena Convention, as well as the LBS Protocol-Survey analysis
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Cartagena Action Plan on Sargassum Inundation (formerly STAC Sargassum Working Group Updated Action Plan Proposal
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Caribbean Node of the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN-Caribbean) activities 2023 – 2024
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WIDECAST: Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network Activity Highlights: 2023-2024
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Caribbean Marine Mammals and Anthropogenic Activities (CAMAC) Project
Final report of the phase 1, objectives and launch of the phase 2
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Report of the Joint Monitoring and Assessment Open Ended Working Group and Sargassum Working Group Meeting/Workshop (Hybrid)
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Letter Of Intent Between The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) And The Inter-American Convention For The Protection And Conservation Of Sea Turtles (IAC) And, To Promote Collaboration For The Conservation And Protection Of Sea Turtles And Their Habitats
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Letter Of Intent Between The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) And The International Whaling Commission, To Promote Collaboration For The Conservation And Protection Of Cetecean Species In The Wider Caribbean Region

SPAW and the International Whaling Commission:A Strategic Partnership for Marine Mammal Conservation
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Saltwatta Roots Initiative:Informative Document for the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of the SPAW Protocol
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Project Document: Protecting and Restoring the Ocean’s natural Capital, building Resilience and supporting region-wide Investments for sustainable Blue socio-Economic development (PROCARIBE+)

PANAMA COASTAL WETLANDS AND NDC CONCEPT NOTE FOR SPAW-STAC11
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FINAL after consultation:Updated guidelines for the Establishment and Operation of the Regional Activity Centres and Regional Activity Networks for the Cartagena Convention
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Proposal of Parke Marine Aruba for Listing under the SPAW Protocol

Workplan and Budget of the Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) Sub-programme for the 2023-2024 Biennium
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Project Document: Implementation of the Strategic Action Program of the Gulf of Mexico Large Marine Ecosystem

Recommendations of the Meeting Final: (updated 29 March 2023)
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Report of the Tenth Meeting of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) of the Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) in the Wider Caribbean Region. (updated 10 October 2025)
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Potential costs, benefits and operational framework for the establishment of a Marine Mammal Regional Activity Network (RAN)
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Report of the Twelfth Meeting of the Contracting Parties (COP) to the Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) in the Wider Caribbean Region-
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Decisions of the Twelfth Meeting of the Contracting Parties (COP) to the Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) in the Wider Caribbean Region.
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Decisions of the Twentieth Intergovernmental Meeting on the Action Plan for the Caribbean Environment Programme and the Seventeenth Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region (to be prepared during the Meeting)
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Report of The Meeting
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Overview of Procedural Deadlines under the SPAW Protocol (updated 20 January 2023)
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SPAW Regional Activity Centre Strategic Plan 2023-2028
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CEP Strategy and Action Plan

Template for National Reporting on the Cartagena Convention and its Protocols
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Terms of Reference of the SPAW STAC Ad Hoc Working Groups (updated 18 January 2023)
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Implementation highlights of the Action Plan for the Conservation of Marine Mammals (MMAP) in the Wider Caribbean and recommendations 
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Sargassum White Paper 2021

Evaluation of CaMPAM Activities and Recommendations for Improvement - An analysis of the last 15 years
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Amendment to the Financial Rules for the Cartagena Convention Rules of Procedure for the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region (Cartagena Convention)

Structure and Scope of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) of the SPAW Protocol

Towards An Integrated State of Convention Area Report on Marine Pollution and Marine Habitats 
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Capacity-Building for Sustainable Seas: Supporting the Implementation of the London Protocol through Education and Collaborative Research (SMART-C LC/LP)
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Proposal for a Cartagena Convention Established Working Group on Sargassum
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Summary Of Pre-COP Discussions On RAC/RAN Guidelines
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Decision adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on 30 October 2024
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Handbook for describing Ecologically or Biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs) and modifying EBSA descriptions under the Convention on Biological Diversity
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Review of Operations, Functioning, and Financing of Regional Activity Centres and Regional Activity Networks of the Cartagena Convention

The State of Nearshore Marine Habitats in the Wider Caribbean

Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region, Protocol Concerning Cooperation in Combating Oil Spills, Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife and the Protocol Concerning Pollution from Land-Based Sources and Activities

Guidelines for the Establishment and Operation of Regional Activity Centres and  Regional Activity Networks for the Cartagena Convention

Rules of Procedure for the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region (Cartagena Convention)

Action Plan for the Conservation of Marine Mammals (MMAP) in the Wider Caribbean Region. United Nations Environment Programme – Caribbean Environment Programme, Kingston, Jamaica. 2008

inal Act of the Conference of Plenipotentiaries for the Adoption of the Annexes to the Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife in the Wider Caribbean Region

Final Act of the Conference of Plenipotentiaries Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife in the Caribbean Region

Status Report 2023-2024-2025

Revision of the 2008 Guidelines for the Establishment and  Operation of Regional Activity Centers (RACs)  and Regional Activity Networks (RANs) of the Cartagena Convention

Revision of the legal and governance structure for a new Marine Mammals (MM) RAN for the WCR

Analysis of the Functioning of the Cartagena Convention Working Groups and Recommendations for Improvement

Agenda Item 4: Status of Activities of the SPAW Sub-Programme for 2023-2025

Operations & budget for 2023-2024

Report of the SPAW STAC protected area working group

ITEM 6: REPORT OF THE SPECIES WORKING GROUP 

Sawfish of the Caribbean-What We Know and Where We Go from Here

Report of the SPAW STAC Exemption working group

Working Groups - Focus discussion

SPAW and the International Whaling Commission: A Strategic Partnership for Marine Mammal Conservation

Manatees of the Wider Caribbean: Building a Regional Alliance for Conservation

FROM VISION TO ACTION: ADVANCING REGIONAL WILDLIFE ENFORCEMENT THROUGH THE CAR-WEN

Agenda Item 9: Work Plan for the SPAW Sub-Programme for the 2026-2027 Biennium

SPAW PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE

Current and Future Projects for the Next Biennal

REVIEW OF THE DRAFT WORKPLAN AND BUDGET OF THE SPAW SUBPROGRAMME FOR THE 2026-2027 BIENNIUM
Presented by Susana Perera Valderrama, SPAW Programme Officer Cartagena Convention Secretariat

From Crisis To Conservation:Mobilising For Neotropical Songbirds- Presented By
Commissioner Alona Sankar & Dr. Mark Gibson

From Vision to Action: Advancing Regional Wildlife Enforcement through the CAR-WEN- Presented by Presented By
FCPO. DeAnn Davis & Dr. Mark Gibson

Nota Conceptual sobre los Humedales Costeros de Panamá y la Contribución Determinada a Nivel Nacional (NDC) del Sector Marino-costero

Panama Coastal Wetlands And NDC Concept Note - Presented by Digna Barsallo, Dirección de Costas y Mares

Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the SOI Global Dialogue with Regional Seas Organizations and Regional Fishery Bodies Presented by -Joe Appiott, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Sustainable Blue Economies Technical Assistance Platform -Presented by Dr Cristina Vina-Herbon - Cristina.Herbon@jncc.gov.uk ,Dr Joe Kenworthy - Joe.Kenworthy@jncc.gov.uk