Mediterranean Ecosystems Management Programme
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DESTIMED - Mediterranean Ecotourism Destination: joint planning, monitoring, management and promotion for a governance system in Mediterranean protected areas.
The Mediterranean Experience of Ecotourism (MEET) project aims to improve the sustainability and the rationalization in distribution of the tourism sector in the Mediterranean region. This strategic project involves 10 countries of the Mediterranean: Italy, France, Spain, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Malta, Cyprus, Greece and Tunisia.
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IPA-MED - This project represents an ambitious initiative to develop plant conservation actions in the South and East of the Mediterranean region (including north Africa, middle east and Balkans) combining the experience and expertise of Plantlife International and IUCN.
Support sustainable livelihoods through the development of governance systems and sustainable management.
Integrated forest management and monitoring plan for sustainable fire prevention.
Technical support to the integration of Red List data on Mediterranean species on the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) ecosystem profile.
Improving governance to support better livelihood security and ecosystem management in the drylands of Africa.
This is a subproject that is under the umbrella of the project "Sustainable livelihoods in North Africa and East Mediterranean" financially supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs- Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID).
Summary of the book « Mauritania - Nature and Landscape », edited in 2011 by OAPN with the collaboration of IUCN-Med.
Strengthening the resilience of Mediterranean landscapes to climate and socio-economic change, promoting innovative conservation and rural development by building on the identity of local communities and advocating for a new framework of local, national, and international rural development policies beyond the logics of subsidies.
Strengthening of the social, ecological and agricultural resilience in the mediterranean ecosystems and watersheds face to global change and others factors of changes.
Support to the conservation and management of natural resources in arid and semi-arid lands.
Sustainable development of transboundary areas belonging to Natura2000 and Habitats of Common Interest between Andalucia and Morocco.
Improving the governance in the Maghreb region by the reinforcement of the stakeholders and managers of biosphere reserve capacities.
Mediterranean Species Programme
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Evaluación del impacto ambiental de especies introducidas en España: análisis de viabilidad del sistema de clasificación EICAT de la UICN.
Integration of freshwater biodiversity in the development process throughout Africa: mobilising information and site demonstrations.
Towards a diverse and sustainable Mediterranean.
Responding to gaps in knowledge in the Mediterranean region.
Mediterranean Marine Programme
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MPA-ADAPT's goals are to develop collaborative and site-specific adaptation plans for MPAs that enhance their resilience to climate change impacts. This will be achieved through capacity building workshops for an effective management, development of risk assessments and an investigation of the potential actions and priorities needed to ensure the adaptability and the resilience of biodiversity and local communities, including fishermen and other stakeholders.
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FISHMPABLUE 2 - Small scale fisheries and environmental conservation have a long history in the Mediterranean basin, with many common features but also numerous conflicts on the use and management of the marine resources. This project is the follow up of FishMPABlue 1 project which developed a regional-based toolkit for small scale fisheries governance in and around Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). In this second phase, FishMPABlue will test the toolkit with a bottom-up approach in order to explore its actual application in different MPAs settings and involvement process with stakeholders.
LIFE POSIDONIA - Increase the knowledge and the conservation of the marine biodiversity of Andalusia, including the implementation of protection measures to Posidonia meadows.
FISHMPABLUE - The main aims of the project “Fisheries governance in the Marine Protected Areas: Potential for Blue Economy” (FishMPABlue) are to analyze existing conflicts between fishery and ecosystem components, and proposing adequate measures to solve them.
Countries of the South and North sides of the Mediterranean.
MEDINA is designed to enhance Northern African countries capacity to implement environmental policies, conventions and protocols aimed at maintaining/improving the quality of their marine and coastal ecosystems.
NEREUS aim is the identification and then the designation and networking of representative sites at the national, sub-regional and regional levels as a support to the protection of the Mediterranean.
PEGASO: People for Ecosystem-based Governance in Assessing Sustainable development of Ocean and coast.
The Program for the Spain-External Cross-Border Co-operation Programme (POCTEFEX in French) is a European initiative, willing to promote the partnerships between Spain and Morocco.
Supporting the Management of Important Marine Habitats and Species in Lebanon.
The project “Promoting the value of key biodiversity areas through the involvement of civil society organizations in their conservation and management in North Africa” is a subregional project aimed at improving the management and governance of protected areas and key biodiversity areas in the hotspot of the Mediterranean region. The project is funded by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) in the framework of its strategic direction "Improving the conservation and the protection status of 44 Key Biodiversity Areas”. This project involves four countries, namely: Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. IUCN-Med and the Tunisian Direction Générale des Forêts established a collaboration agreement to improve the Protected Areas governance and more specifically to evaluate and test the instalment of co-management initiatives in the National Parks of Zaghouan and El Feija in Tunisia. The project is financed by the IUCN-Med with the support of the MAVA foundation, will set up the basis for the future implementation of specific actions in the country, with the objective of improving territorial governance as an instrument for the management of natural resources in Tunisia.
IMPROVING CAPACITY FOR SPECIES CONSERVATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION - Training to prepare and implement Species Conservation Strategies in three Maghreb-North African countries.
