ALM UNDP

Participated in Project Inception Workshop and meetings with the Agence pour la Protection et l Amenagement du Littoral (APAL), and Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) delegation * The project can benefit by clearer and more cohesive restructuring of project results, activities, indicators, and budgets. Critical path issues need to be addressed to ensure timely delivery of outputs. * The project is making efforts to accelerate project delivery through more distributed and flexible project execution. This entails building strategic and operation partnerships with a number of catalytic organizations. APAL plans to develop a thorough Project Stakeholder Involvement Plan and Partnership Strategy, which will outline in more detail the overall division of roles and responsibilities within the consortium. * APAL will analyse the issue concering linkages between AAP Tunisia project and the UNDP Territorial Approach to Climate Change (TACC) * Priority needs include (to be carried out by UNDP and ALAP): development of territorial climate adaptation and shoreline management plans in context of ICZM and possibly the TACC economic assessments and cost of climate change impacts on coastal zones soft techniques for coastal ecosystems restoration and sand dunes stabilization design of innovative financing mechanisms such as index-based weather insurance and adaptation-oriented Payment for Ecosystem Services