WE GO COOP – improving WEtland GOvernance through a COmmunity Of Practice

 

Location: Albania, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Lebanon, Morocco

Duration:

27 months (January 2024 – March 2026)

Objectives:

  • Improve the integrated and sustainable management of Mediterranean wetlands
  • Empower local communities for having an active role in managing Mediterranean wetlands with a wise and just approach

Actions:

  • Developed a web platform to map Wetland Contracts in the Mediterranean and facilitate networking and exchange of experiences.
  • Set up a Mediterranean Community or Practice on wetland governance, focused on the capitalization of the approach and experience of the Wetland Contract. Visit the website for more information.
  • Advocate to policy-makers about the role of Wetland Contracts for the implementation of EU common challenges regarding climate change, desertification, biodiversity and local development. See the policy brief here.
  • Seed the concept of Wetland Contract in Mediterranean neighbouring non-EU Countries (Lebanon and Morocco) for uptake and development in the next future.

Results:

  • Reinforce the Wetland Contract for the integrated and sustainable management of Mediterranean wetlands.
  • Capitalize the approach, methodology and experience of Wetland Contracts in the Mediterranean.
  • Facilitate the acknowledgment of Wetland Contracts as a place-based tool for moving from policies to action in implementing Mediterranean policies and common challenges at wetland scale.
  • Promote the replicability and transferability of Wetland Contracts in the Mediterranean outside the EuroMed region.

Role of MedWet:

Technical coordination of the project, leading the following specific activities:

  • mapping of Wetland Contracts in the Mediterranean;
  • set-up of the Community of Practice;
  • advocacy to policy makers for the acknowledgment of Wetland Contracts role in the Mediterranean through a Policy Brief;
  • transferring the Wetland Contract approach in two pilot African and Asian Countries bordering the Mediterranean (Lebanon and Morocco);
  • organizing the 1st Mediterranean Forum on Wetland Governance in Marseille in November 2025.

 

Giancarlo Gusmaroli, from MedWet, at a WE GO COOP meeting.

 

Funding:

Interreg EuroMed Programme: https://interreg-euro-med.eu/en/

  • Project total budget: € 999,784.00
  • Project Interreg EuroMed funding: € 799,827.20

Partners:

  • Anatoliki (Greece) – Lead Partner
  • MedWet (France)
  • Roma Tre University – Department of Architecture (Italy)
  • Andalusian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (Spain)
  • Vransko Lake National Park (Croatia)
  • PPNEA (Albania)
  • RCDI (Portugal)

https://wegocoop.interreg-euro-med.eu/partners/

Websites:
https://wegocoop.interreg-euro-med.eu/

We Go Coop

MedWet contact:
Chris Rostron, roston@medwet.org