Blue Economy National Assessment
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Year
2024 - Present
National
- Scoping Initiation of a comprehensive and holistic analysis of pivotal sectors compromising the Blue Economy in Lebanon, to provide an integrated evaluation of complex interdependencies and interactions. Accordingly, the 3 main sectors spotted are:
- Marine Living Resources
- Ports Management
- Coastal Tourism
- Stakeholder Mapping Identification of multi-level key informants across the major sectors such as fisheries, tourism, and ports enabling the plotting of the engagement strategies as FGDs, KIIs, Validation Meetings, Experts’ Consultation Sessions, Site Visits:
- Public Sector: 20
- Private Sector: 12
- Civil Society: 9Academia: 4
- Methodology Setting Later, a methodology to analyze the BE sectors, incorporating principles from Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) and the Circular Economy (CE) to enhance resource efficiency across the disciplines. A multilevel governance framework of 5 major key components was developed
- Policy Brief Based on the assessment, the development of sector-specific policy recommendations aimed at improving the governance of Lebanon’s marine resources. Through which tailored interventions were recommended across the below
- Governance & regulations over the fishing and port management
- Environmental conservation of resources
- Ports Optimization and Control
- Adherence to International Standards
- Safety Standards
- Enhancing the outlook of BE related MSMEs nationally