Making Mainstreaming Work: An Analytical Framework, Guidelines and Checklist for the Mainstreaming of Marine and Coastal Issues into National Planning and Budgetary Processes

The focus of the GPA is on the protection of the marine environment from land-based activities through “facilitating the realization of the duty of States to preserve and protect the marine environment”. This document presents an analytical framework for addressing these issues in the main text and guidelines (both for countries with an existing National Programme of Action and new countries) and a process checklist through which the framework can be operationalised presented in Annexes 1 to 3.