Procurement Notices

The Mediterranean Forum for Applied Ecosystem-Based Management (MED4EBM) initiative is a partnership project funded by the ENI CBC MED Programme 2014-2020, under the Thematic Objective B.4 (Environmental protection, climate change adaptation and mitigation) and Thematic Priority B.4.4 (Incorporate the Ecosystem-Based management approach to ICZM into local development planning). MED4EBM Project’s duration is three years, and the project partnership spans four countries: Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia.

The Project aims at enhancing capacities of stakeholders involved in management of coastal and marine areas and communities that depend on the coastal area as their main source of livelihood, such as fishermen and artisanal tourism craftsmen and practitioners. The Project also establishes a cooperation and coordination platform for effective implementation of Ecosystem Based Integrated Coastal Zone Management (EB ICZM). Governments, NGOs, Communities and other ICZM stakeholders can use this platform for informed decisions on planning and managing coastal resources and achieve effective coordination.

MED4EBM Project introduces innovative software tool to tackle ICZM complex issues and allow handling EB ICZM multi-stakeholders analytical processes through a straight-forward path, providing analytical methods based on special analysis of ecological and socio-economic attributes. These methods help the planning entities and relevant stakeholders to identify and quantitatively assesses the relationships between ecosystem components, functions, and services, along with the associated human activities, toward the establishing a multi-stakeholders ICZM scheme. The software package enables the analysis of spatial and tabular datasets, and the compilation of data-aware advanced reports, via a multi-windows interface which facilitates the browsing of large datasets through an ecosystem-based logical mapping framework. Technical and methodological references and operational framework for the execution of the technical components of the Project is available on the MED4EBM Project website, Library/Documents at the following link: www.enicbcmed.eu/projects/med4ebm

The Project is implemented at 4 target areas in four different countries: Jordan, Italy, Lebanon, and Tunisia. Data analysis and use of MED4EBM Decision Support System identified fisheries in Jordan as a priority that needs immediate management intervention. The Project does not aims at identifying management tools only, but rather have these management tools mainstreamed in actual Management Practice. Marine fishing in Jordan is traditional artisanal conducted at localized fisheries on the limited Jordanian Coast of the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. Fishermen use live bait to find fish aggregates and attract fish to their fishing lines. Using live bait adds stress on the coastal environment, which made the Project suggest a technological solution as an alternative to live bait. The solution builds on the use of fish finders to find fish aggregates instead of live bait. This note of specifications aims at purchasing 25 fish finders to be managed by Aqaba Fishing Society to build human and technical capacity for its members and their fishing boats supporting over 200 fishermen families.