GEF MedProgramme (2020-2024)

Child Project 1.1: Reducing Pollution from Harmful Chemicals and Wastes in Mediterranean Hotspots and Measuring Progress to Impacts

Plan Bleu contributes to the development of the Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA), integrating its work on foresight, indicators, and socio-economic analysis. The Med2050 project feeds into the TDA through regional foresight analyses and the organization of workshops.

Child Project 2.1: Mediterranean Coastal Zones: Water Security, Climate Resilience and Habitat Protection

Plan Bleu, in collaboration with PAP/RAC, has supported the preparation of national Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) strategies, coastal plans, and methodological guidelines, particularly through the participatory Climagine foresight approach for climate change adaptation.

• Four Climagine workshops were organized at each pilot site (Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region in Morocco and Kotor Bay in Montenegro) to define 2050 visions, sustainability indicators, and strategic recommendations for coastal plans.
• All workshop reports and a final report have been published by Plan Bleu.
• In 2025, Plan Bleu recruited a team of experts in Lebanon to support the development of the new national ICZM strategy and the integrated management plan for Damour, with three participatory workshops planned through 2026.
• A Climagine methodological guide for ICZM practitioners will be published at the end of 2025, following a drafting phase and a technical workshop in Marseille in early 2026.

The Climagine methodology, developed and implemented by Plan Bleu, is based on a participatory approach to identify sustainability dimensions, define indicators, develop strategic diagrams, and formulate recommendations for coastal plans and national ICZM strategies. This approach fosters stakeholder engagement and the production of monitoring indicators for coastal sustainability.

Watch the video of the Coastal Plan/Climagine process in the Kotor Bay

SCCF Project: Enhancing regional climate change adaptation in the Mediterranean Marine and Coastal Areas

Plan Bleu conducted two gender-sensitive climate risk assessments at two pilot sites: Kotor Bay (Montenegro) and the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region (Morocco), with the Montenegro assessment revised and translated into French in 2025. Gender indices (Gender-Development-Index and Gender-Inequality-Index) were used to produce maps published on Plan Bleu’s Observatory in 2025.

• Regional trainings on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) were held in Kotor (October 2024) and Tangier (November 2024), with a participatory module based on the IUCN Global Standard’s 8 criteria for NbS.
• Results are synthesized in a report available in English and French.
• Two studies assessed Morocco’s and Montenegro’s capacity to mobilize finance for coastal adaptation. A webinar and a hybrid regional roundtable on financing and private sector engagement were organized in 2024. Results are summarized in the report “Mobilizing Finance for Coastal Adaptation in the Mediterranean”.
• Factsheet on the Project SCCF