Caribbean Marine Protected Area Management Network (CaMPAM) Training of Trainers on Marine Protected Area Management

The 14th edition of the Caribbean Marine Protected Area Management Network (CaMPAM) Training of Trainers on Marine Protected Area Management regional course will be held from November 11 to 21, 2024 (venue to be confirmed), primarily for the English-speaking Caribbean.  

Since 1999, this regional course supported by activities such as small grants for local training, funding for participation at regional conferences, enabling projects, and networking through the CaMPAM Date base has been facilitated by the UNEP Cartagena Convention Secretariat Caribbean Environment Programme (UNEP-CEP). This forms part of the ongoing MPA Capacity Building Programme of the Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) Protocol of the Cartagena Convention.

Several institutions will be partnering with the Cartagena Convention Secretariat through the SPAW subprogramme, to organize and implement this course for 2024.  These include the IUCN Regional Office for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (ORMACC) through the Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management (BIOPAMA) Programme, the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) through the BE-CLME+ project and the University of West Indies (UWI) Center for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES).  

Funding is available to cover airfare to/from home country to course location, in-country accommodation, daily subsistence allowance (DSA) and ground transportation for the duration of the course. Eligible countries for funding are: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, The Bahamas, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.

Applicants from the Dutch, French, UK and US Caribbean Territories are also invited but are not eligible for funding assistance due to donor funding requirements. However, the Secretariat is actively exploring other sources of financing to facilitate possible funding support. 

You can find the application form here. Please submit the form with the documents requested no later than the deadline of Friday August 23rd, 2024.