Prevention of Marine Litter in the Caribbean Sea (PROMAR)

The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) supports the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Colombia, the British Virgin Islands, St. Kitts & Nevis, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana and Suriname in their goal to reduce flows of plastic waste (mainly packaging) from terrestrial sources into the Caribbean Sea. To this end, the PROMAR project will quantify and map plastic waste streams and anchor monitoring systems at governing local authorities in selected demonstration sites. Based on established baselines, the project team will implement pilot circular economy solutions to achieve a measurable reduction in plastic waste entering aquatic environments at all sites. The project will strengthen political partners’ capacities to implement Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) systems and support their contributions to international dialogue processes. Due to the transboundary effects of marine pollution, the project will replicate successful pilot cases in other areas beyond the demonstration sites and increase the public’s awareness in order to avoid, collect and intercept marine litter in coastal areas. All of these activities are carried out in all three countries simultaneously; in addition, replication, policy dialogue and dissemination activities will also take place in other Latin American countries and the Wider Caribbean Region.

Together with its project partners CEGESTI, Socya, Parley for the Oceans, abrelpe and UNEP-CCS, PROMAR implements a wide range of activities. adelphi is leading the conduction of material flow analyses to assess the current regional situations as well as the development and dissemination of waste management tools and best practices materials. This includes supporting transnational policy dialogue with political partners and the dissemination of tools, results, and lessons through global and regional networks. As the project lead, adelphi further contributes to the project by carrying out the overall project management and coordination, monitoring and reporting vis-à-vis ZUG’s designated programme manager for the grant programme on marine litter prevention, and supporting all other project activities.