Experience Note: Coastal Management: Using Community Based Projects to Test Locally Appropriate Technologies
The regional project for the Implementation of the Strategic Action Program
(SAP) for the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden aims to improve the coastal and marine environments of the
Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The SAP project was executed by the Regional Organization for the
Conservation of the Environment of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden (PERSGA) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia,
and involved the countries of Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.
The project was jointly implemented by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United
Nations Environment Program (UNEP), and the World Bank. This note highlights how testing of locally
appropriate technologies has proved to be cost effective and self- sustainable through the implementation
of Community Participation Projects (CPPs) in various communities within the region. Targeted
populations included fishermen, women and youth in close coordination with Government and Nongovernmental
support.
Lina Ibarra & Tracy Hart
World Bank
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