The Gulf of Gabes Marine and Coastal Resources Protection Project for Tunisia aims at Establishing a functional integrated monitoring and participatory management system for the project area to manage biodiversity degradation in the Gulf of Gabes region. The project has the following four components: Component 1) will oversee institutional strengthening, strategic planning and dissemination. Component 2) will strengthen human resources for project management, technical, scientific and public participation skills to improve management for biodiversity. Component 3) will acquire and update of technical/scientific data needed for biodiversity management plans, and then monitor key scientific project performance indicators. Component 4) will prepare sustainable biodiversity management plans for the six pilot sites and implement them in the three priority sites. All plans will be prepared through a participatory approach