Plan Bleu/RAC (UNEP/MAP) and the GEF MedProgramme in 2024
2024 marks the finalisation of Plan Bleu’s activities linked to the development of Coastal Plans in the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima Region, Morocco and the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro, led by PAP/RAC. Over the course of four participatory workshops that took place from 2021 to 2023, Plan Bleu deployed the participatory foresight Climagine methodology to support the development of these plans, mobilising national experts and stakeholders from a broad array of sectors to develop a data-based, future-oriented sustainable vision of both pilot sites of the coming decades.
Building on the Moroccan and Montenegrin experiences, Plan Bleu is ready to launch two sets of activities in Lebanon in the context of the GEF MedProgramme Child Project 2.1 The first one consists in the implementation of Climagine workshops to support the revision of the draft National Integrated Coastal Zone Management Strategy of Lebanon, led by PAP/RAC and hosted by the Ministry of Environment of Lebanon. Secondly, Climagine will also support the development of an Integrated Management Plan for the Damour area in Lebanon, in collaboration with PAP/RAC, UNESCO-IHP and GWP-Med. This activity is hosted both by the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Water of Lebanon.
Plan Bleu is also further building on the Conceptual Framework for Coastal Observation that it developed over the course of the MedProgramme, which proposes guidelines on how to frame the harvesting and identification of data providers, in order to follow and measure the status and the evolution of coastal zones at the regional level. The definition of the framework must consider the existence of the existing systems managed by the UNEP/MAP Regional Activity Centres in order to gather socio-economic and environmental information for the coastal zone indicators, but also to use their respective indicators in a synergistic manner.
In the context of the MedProgramme Special Climate Change Fund Project, Plan Bleu will delve into two key topics in the project’s pilot sites: the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima Region, Morocco and the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro. It will organise regional training workshops on Nature-based Solutions as well as Coastal Adaptation Finance for the countries of the SCCF Project, in collaboration with the project and national partners. The outcomes of these workshops will be published as dedicated training materials over the course of the year.