Tunisia: Ecotourism and Conservation of Desert Biodiversity

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The objective of the Ecotourism and Conservation of Desert Biodiversity Project for Tunisia is to contribute to the conservation of desert biodiversity in three recipient targeted national parks. The project has 2 components. Component 1: Promoting enabling conditions for protected areas management, sustainable land management scale-up and ecotourism development. This component will reinforce the institutional legal and strategic framework for the management of the recipient's national parks; build and mainstream national and local capacities in sustainable land management and biodiversity conservation using an integrated natural resource management approach; and establish and run the monitoring and evaluation system for the project through the provision of goods, consultants' services and training. Component 2: Supporting the implementation of integrated natural resource management in the national parks and their adjacent areas. This component will be responsible for: implementing priority investments identified in the Management Plans of the National Parks, through the provision of goods and civil works; implementing: (a) a program of Community-based Sub-projects aiming at improving the management of the National Parks and adjacent areas; and (b) a program of microenterprises-based sub-projects aiming at improving the ecotourism, all through the provision of civil works, goods and consultants' services; and implementing the rehabilitation of the existing eco-museum and the establishment of an eco-shop in existing structures in each of the natural parks, through the provision of goods, consultants' services and civil works.