The MedPartnership
2009-2015
The Strategic Partnership for the Mediterranean Sea Large Marine Ecosystem (MedPartnership) was a collective effort of leading environmental institutions and organizations together with countries sharing the Mediterranean Sea to address the main environmental challenges that Mediterranean marine and coastal ecosystems face.
The MedPartnership was led by the United Nations Environment Programme / Mediterranean Action Plan (UNEP/MAP) and financially supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and other donors, including the European Commission and all participating countries.
The MedPartnership catalyzed action to create an enabling environment for the necessary policy, legal and institutional reforms in the partner countries, as well as investments, to:
- improve environmental conditions of pollution and biodiversity hotspots and other priority areas under stress;
- promote the sustainable use of marine and coastal resources through integrated approaches;
- reduce pollution from land-based sources;
- enhance the protection of ‘critical’ habitats and species;
- integrate climate considerations into national marine and coastal planning.
The Project was carried out in the following GEF eligible countries: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Montenegro, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey.
ClimVar and ICZM 2012-2015
The “Integration of climatic variability and change into national strategies to implement the ICZM Protocol in the Mediterranean” project (“ClimVar and ICZM”) was developed as a sister project to the MedPartnership.
The project promoted the use of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) as an effective tool to deal with the impacts of climate variability and change in coastal zones, by mainstreaming them into the ICZM process.
The project was approved in January 2012 and was completed late in 2015. The project developed the Regional Climate Change Adaptation Framework for the Mediterranean Marine and Coastal Areas, adopted by COP 19 in 2016.
The countries participating in the project were Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Montenegro, Palestine, Syria and Tunisia.
