Plan St-Laurent - Pour un développement durable

• The St. Lawrence
  River in good hands
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  • St. Lawrence Plan
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    • Already 20 years!
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Achievements

Innovative Management

Since the start of the agreement, the SLP has always shown dynamic and innovative management to complete its projects in order to restore a healthy river that citizens can enjoy.

• Perfect cooperation between the governments of Quebec and Canada, with the objective of complementarity and respect for jurisdictions. – Notably, use of compatible data and sharing of resources.

• Consultation with a growing number of governmental and non-governmental partners. – Just the number of governmental partners (Departments and organisations) grew from five during the first phase to 13 during the third phase. There are 10 in 2008, while there are 21 governmental and non-governmental partners on the advisory committees.

• Dynamic management structure: Agreement management committee, led by two co-chairs (Canada and Quebec), a coordination office and six advisory committees including governmental and external (industry, NGOs) representatives to ensure the achievement of the desired results in each of the areas of intervention.

• Transparent management based on the achievement of concrete and measurable results, on costed commitments and on regular reporting to the public.
  
  
• Use of ingenious tools, such as management monitoring systems, dashboards, St. Lawrence Action Plan (SLAP).

• Design of an integrated management concept to implement a new governance for the St. Lawrence (phases 3 and 4) – Integrated St. Lawrence management: “permanent process based on consultation with all decision makers, users and the civil society, for planning and for the best harmonisation of protection measures and use of ecosystem resources, with a sustainable development approach”.