Project Management Part 1
Despite its small core staff, C-CAM has demonstrated its ability to expand its capacity to manage a wide
range of projects, both small and large. Examples of some of the projects C-CAM has implemented are
listed below.
• 2001-3: GEF/IDB - US$300,000.00
C-CAM negotiated a grant of US$4m from the Global Environment Facility GEF. This grant was to bea part of a project which was intended to advance a sustainable development agenda for a large part of Jamaica’s south coast. The project was known as the South Coast Sustainable Development Project. The Jamaican government was to provide part funding through a budgetary allocation coupled with loan from the Inter-American Development Bank IDB. Those funds would have been counted as local counterpart funding to allow C-CAM to receive the GEF funds and we would be responsible to implement the South Coast project in the PBPA.
It was agreed that the IDB would provide a loan to the Government
of U$14m and our US$4m along with the Government’s contribution of US$2m would provide a total
project budget of US$ 20m for the entire south coast sustainable project.
C-CAM received an initial amount of US$330,000 as a project development grant to do the preparatory
work and hire the necessary consultants to assist with putting together the proposal for how the funds
would be used to manage the PBPA for the first five year period. We hired a project manager and
a number of consultants to carry out this phase of the project which resulted in our upgrading our
website, establishing our GIS capability including software and staff training, launching of the C-CAM
Trust and engaging potential contributors locally and abroad. We were also able to develop specific
management plans for enforcement, tourism, scientific research and monitoring, fisheries management,
public environmental education among other things. Unfortunately the Jamaican government was unable
to allocate their US$2m to begin the project and was unable to secure the IDB loan. The loss of the
counterpart funding meant that C-CAM could no longer access the US$ 4m to establish the management
of the PBPA. This represented a tremendous financial loss to C-CAM and we have continued to struggle
to maintain funding for even the most basic operation and management of the area.
