Project Co-ordination, NGO Involvement, Replication and Communication Strategies

Component 4: Project Coordination, NGO involvement, replication and communication strategies, Management and Monitoring and Evaluation
(Executing partners UNEP/MAP, PMU, MIO-ECSDE, and UNEP/MAP-MEDPOL)

This component addresses the overall management, coordination, replication and communication of the MedPartnership with specific focus on the Regional Project. It seeks to facilitate NGO and community-based organization’s involvement in all project activities through capacity building and dissemination of information.

Sub-Component 4.1: Project Co-ordination, NGO Involvement, Management and M&E

This sub-component includes activities related to the Regional Project coordination and management, Monitoring and Evaluation activities and the involvement of stakeholders in project activities and demonstrations. It ensures the effective project implementation and coordination at both regional and national levels.

It includes mechanisms and activities designed to:

facilitate and foster synergies between the two projects and ensure that the MedPartnership as a whole is implemented in parallel;

ensure country ownership of the MedPartnership processes;

ensure policy reforms in participating countries, through the use of existing and well established Barcelona Convention and MAP structures and mechanisms;

ensure that a resource mobilization strategy/financing mechanism is developed;

ensure effective monitoring and evaluation throughout the lifespan of the project;

strengthen public awareness (with particular emphasis on NGO networks) and support NGO participation in the implementation of the project;

make use of Information/Communication and Replication Strategies as well as Knowledge Management products to influence policy changes in participating countries.

Sub-Component 4.2: Information and Communication strategies

The main aim of this sub-component is to make the MedPartnership and its products widely recognized . Particular attention is given to the use and adaptation of modern information and communication approaches in line with the recent recommendations of the World Summit on Information Society.

Activities include:

establishing  an Information and Communication mechanism within the MedPartnership itself to ensure comprehensive and continuously-updated information exchange among partners regarding project activities; and

setting up an Information and Communication mechanism to the outside world to publicize the partnership and disseminate information on project progress and results.

Sub-Component 4.3: Replication Strategy

This sub-component aims to maximize the chances of ‘regional transfer’ of good practices.

The concept of specific activities dedicated to promoting good practices and replication was an innovative and integrated part of the design of the MedPartnership project when originally designed in 2007.

The aim of the replication activities, are to promote and replicate good practices of the MedPartnership that will contribute to SAP and NAP targets and the ICZM Protocol implementation, that can especially showcase the more innovative aspects of the project, and promote the “integrated” or ecosystem approach to addressing marine and coastal issues.

Eight proposals were received following the call for proposals sent to executing partners

These proposals met the majority of the initial criteria in the Call for Proposals. They also included committed support and co-financing from co-executing partners and/or national partners, and are designed to fully complement national planning and priorities. Finally each has the potential to be showcased and further replicated within the region.

The following three proposals were selected for replication funding.

Croatia: Preparation of a National ICZM Strategy as part of a future Coastal and Marine Strategy facilitated by PAP/RAC. The aim is to  bring together the MSFD planning with the integrated methodology within the MedPartnership (Water-ICZM-aquifer management) (Read more)

Preparation of a National ICZM Strategy as part of a future Coastal and Marine Strategy in Croatia - PAP RAC

This proposal has been approved by the MedPartnership Steering Committee in its 4th meeting held in Tunis, 17-20 February 2014.

The aim is to prepare the National ICZM Strategy of Croatia called for by the ICZM Protocol, as part of future Marine and Coastal Strategy. The Croatian Government is currently working on the Marine Strategy for Croatia. The ICZM Strategy would be prepared in parallel, and jointly with the last steps of preparation of the Marine Strategy, so that the final product would be one strategy – “Marine and Coastal Strategy for Croatia”.

This pilot activity represents a unique and innovative more integrated view at coastal area planning and management. With this project, convergence of ICZM, IWRM and aquifers management is going to be extended on the marine management. Work done within Climate Variability and Change project in Croatia will also represent an input for the Marine and Coastal Strategy for Croatia. 

Lebanon: Establishment of a shared vision among stakeholders for the management of the Darmour River basin and coastal areas and create the conditions for development of an integrated IWRM/ICZM Plan, facilitated by GWP Med. The aim is to expand the integrated methodology (Water-ICZM-aquifer management) to the Damour River basin (Read more)

Establishment of a shared vision among stakeholders for the management of the Darmour River basin and coastal areas and create the conditions for development of an integrated IWRM/ICZM Plan

This proposal has been approved by the MedPartnership Steering Committee in its 4th meeting held in Tunis, 17-20 February 2014.

It targets the Damour Basin in Lebanon, and aims at establishing an enabling environment for, and stakeholder acceptance of an integrated IWRM-ICZM approach to basin and coastal planning, replicating and expanding the experience gained with the Buna-Bojana Pilot under the MedPartnership project.

Tunisia: Ecological and socio-economic studies in view of the creation of a marine and coastal protected area in the North-Eastern part of Kerkennah Islands, in Tunisia, facilitated by SPA/RAC.

The focus on Kerkennah island, is in support of new MPA planned and Climate Variability demonstration (Read more).

Ecological and socio-economic studies in view of the creation of a marine and coastal protected area in the North-Eastern part of Kerkennah Islands, in Tunisia

This proposal has been approved by the MedPartnership Steering Committee in its 4th meeting held in Tunis, 17-20 February 2014.

This replication activity will allow the inception of a new marine and coastal protected area Northern Kerkennah in view of extending the national/regional network of marine and coastal protected areas. The activity includes (i) an ecological study along with GIS-based maps for the concerned area, and (ii) a fisheries study on fleet locally operating in the potential MPA and surrounding areas. It will also provide on-the-job training to national/local personnel on the many aspects of ecological quantification of MPAs ecosystems and related fisheries. Climate variability dimension will be also integrated in the ecological investigations in the area, which is a hotspot for climate change impacts in the Tunisian coast.