Child Project 4.1 (GEF ID 9686)

The current situation of the Southern and Eastern shores of the Mediterranean shows all the signs of progressive deterioration of environmental security. Among them, the loss and degradation of coastal and shallow marine ecosystems and the scarcity of coastal freshwater resources, compounded by the increasing negative impacts of climate variability and change, play an important role in determining social instability and political volatility.

Child Project 4.1 is the only project contributing to the MedProgramme Component on Knowledge Management and Programme Coordination. It plays a key role within the MedProgramme as it implements mechanisms for Programme-wide learning and dissemination of knowledge, monitoring the MedProgramme’s progress to impacts, and fostering synergistic interactions among CPs. The implementing agencies and executing partners actively interact with Child Project 4.1 by contribution to the Programme’s Knowledge Management Strategy through their participation in stocktaking events, dialoguing and systematically contributing with information on progress, milestone achievements and events, environmental data and scientific advances, and issues affecting project implementation. Moreover, by ensuring integrated coordination of the nine (9) Child Projects of the MedProgramme and further allow for the monitoring and execution of the Programme’s Gender Mainstreaming Strategy.

Knowledge Sharing and Dissemination: The development of an effective and innovative information sharing and communication platform, channels, and tools. Coupled with improving coordination among the executing partners and institutions involved in the Programme and develop a reporting system for all the Child Projects.

Coordination and Synergies: Ensure programme overall consistency and to help capture synergies among projects and partners. Further strengthen the operational coherence of the MedProgramme and harness synergies among Child Projects