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International Union for Conservation of Nature INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE CENTRE FOR MEDITERRANEAN COOPERATION ANNUAL REPORT 2020 CENTRE FOR MEDITERRANEAN COOPERATION ANNUAL REPORT 2020 The IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation is supported by: This report summarises the main activities undertaken by the Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN-Med), based in Málaga. CREDITS The designation of geographical entities in this report, and the presentation of the material, do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of IUCN or other participating organisations, concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Published by: IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation Coordination: Lourdes Lázaro Marín Writer: Erin Skoczylas and Santiago Suárez Design and layout: Ecoavantis, Spain Photos: IUCN Photo Library, IUCN-Med and collaborators as they appear next to the photo. Cover (from left to right and top to bottom): NbS in the mediterranean © Avenir des jeunes gafsa | Agroforestry plantation © Le amis de Capte Tunisie | Photography by Stefano Zocca (Sella Nevea, Italia) on Unsplash | Fish in Posidonia meadow © Seadam | Turtle swimming in Posidonia oceanica © Sandra Hochscheid Raptors | Raptor © Peter Harris / IUCN Red list of Threatened Species™ | MedBycatch 2 photo © Rene Rauschenberger | Algeria – Hogger National Park © Mohammed Amri. Back cover (from left to right and top to bottom): G0010822 © Sandra Hochscheid | Fish in Posidonia meadow © Seadam | Blue Carbon Project © Sonia Bonet Dreamstime | Raptors – Raptor © Peter Harris: IUCN Red list of Threatened Species™ | Lefkas Greece – Blue Carbon Ecosystems © Manos Koutras on Unsplash | Haching turtle © caretta caretta | Photography by Marian Kroell on Unsplash | Medbycatch 2 © Joop Kleuskens | Monitoring of nests Kyparissia, Bay Peloponnese (Greece) © Merlin Potter Adams ARCHELON. © 2021 IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources An interactive web version of the IUCN-Med Annual Report 2020 is available at: www.iucn.org/mediterranean TABLE OF CONTENTS Message from page Highlights page 01 the IUCN-Med Director 02 09 2020 46 IUCN page Publications and page 02 at a Glance 04 10 Multimedia 2020 48 Work Programme page Strategic page 03 and Main Achievements 06 11 Partnerships 54 Valuing and page Members and page 04 Conserving Nature 08 12 Commissions 56 Promoting and Supporting page Regional page Effective and Equitable Financial Summary 05 Governance of Natural Resources 22 13 66 Deploying page 2021 page 06 Nature-based Solutions 34 14 Programme Forecast 72 Connecting page The IUCN page 07 the Mare Nostrum 41 15 MED-Team 75 Key Figures page page Acronyms 08 2020 45 16 76 1 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 Message from IUCN at a Work Programme Valuing and Promoting and Deploying Connecting Key Figures the IUCN-Med Glance and Main Conserving Supporting Effective Nature-based The Mare 2020 Director Achievements Nature and Equitable Solutions Nostrum Gobernance of Natural Resources MESSAGE FROM THE IUCN-MED DIRECTOR Dear friends, It is a delight to share with you once again, the work and the outcomes achieved by the IUCN Centre of Mediterranean Cooperation this past year. First of all, I would like to start by addressing the challenges we had and still have to face as a society. Few things have altered our daily lives as dramati- cally and quickly as the COVID-19 virus. We have witnessed together with the rest of the world, many ways that the pan- demic has affected our professional and personal lives. On behalf of the IUCN Centre of Mediterranean Cooperation, I want to express our solidarity with all those directly affected by the virus. However, we should remain optimistic. The pandemic revealed crucial insights for our future, notably our inseparable relationship with nature and need for a healthy Antonio Troya, Director of IUCN-Med. | © IUCN-Med. planet. Moreover, we have learned that there is strength in interventions to address the Mediterranean challenges unity. It is apparent that we need a common collaborative that may achieve higher impact in the future. The process approach in order to envision a healthier, prosperous for developing this Strategic Framework and operational future, where fresh air, clean water and a safe environment plan has followed a horizontal and participatory process. are a given right for people everywhere. The Strategic Framework and definition of priorities for IUCN-Med were based under three premises: (1) Deliver IUCN-MED’S NEW STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK IUCN Programme Results in collaboration with IUCN Members and Commissions; (2) Maximise impact, focus In the last years, IUCN-Med has made a strong effort on relevant and measurable actions, approaches and stra- to be present and operate within and across regional tegies that would upscale conservation outcomes; and (3) political frameworks, mobilising nature conservation and Ensure the financial sustainability of the office. sustainable development efforts throughout the political and cultural diversity of the greater Mediterranean. Howe- Based on previous experiences developing the IUCN ver, the Mediterranean has been changing very rapidly quadrennial Mediterranean and North Africa Programme, in the last 20 years, and these changes are affecting IUCN-Med’s new Strategic Framework has been deve- not only the natural environment but also the institutio- loped to support and serve the IUCN global Programme nal, economic and societal framework where IUCN-Med Areas (2021–2024) into the Mediterranean region. The is operating. In response to these regional dynamics, strategy aims to address two key challenges of the region, IUCN-Med started in 2018 the process to develop its new biodiversity loss and climate change impacts, through Strategy, focusing more its scope of work, highlighting innovative and targeted initiatives represented through priority areas, and defining topics, drivers and types of six new pertinent working areas. 2 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Highlights Publications Strategic Members and Regional 2021 The IUCN Acronyms 2020 and Multimedia Partnerships Commisions Financial Programme MED-Team 2020 Summary Forescast Strategic lines of the IUCN Mediterranean Programme Nature-based Solutions and Climate Change Ecosystem Resilience and Spatial Planning STRATEGY AND Marine Biodiversity and PROGRAMME Blue Economy COORDINATION Nature Conservation and Food Production Biodiversity Standars and Indicators © IUCN-Med. Capacity building and policy influencing have also been Ecological Transition to support the IUCN Mediterranean identified as crosscutting issues in the IUCN-Med Strategy 2021–2024 Programme as well as the Centre in Málaga, and will be embedded in the core work of the Centre. Spain. We look forward to celebrating our 20-year anni- versary next year with the signature of this agreement with NEW PROGRAMMATIC AGREEMENT the Spanish government. This year, we have renewed our programmatic agree- This year IUCN-Med welcomed 14 new Members, ma- ment with the MAVA Foundation. The first Programmatic king a total of 245 IUCN Mediterranean Members. As Agreement 1.0 was implemented between 2015 and 2019. in previous years, the success of our activities is also Overall, the resources provided contributed in strengthe- due to the large role played by IUCN-Med’s Members, ning IUCN-Med work in the Mediterranean with its Mem- partners and Secretariat. As always, we would like to bers and partners, allowed for significant outreach and express our appreciation to them for their collaboration impact of IUCN’s actions and have been instrumental for and commitment to the issues facing our region. Through the professionalisation and strategic development of the our collaboration with Members and experts from the IUCN office. This support has been key to ensure the leverage of Commissions as well as partners, we have come to better additional conservation funding for the office, to work in a understand the problems at hand, develop sustainable so- broader and transversal partnership rather than standalo- lutions and scale up actions that can reconcile people and ne initiatives, and increase the capacities of the conserva- nature in our region. With the dedication, knowledge and tion community through our capacity building programme. skills of our 2034 volunteer Commision experts and over 245 Members, IUCN is ready to take on those challenges. The objective of the new Programmatic Agreement 2.0 is to support the implementation of the IUCN-Med Strategy I am pleased to share with you, the workings and milesto- 2021–2024, and to consolidate the financial sustainability nes that the IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation of the Centre beyond 2022. has achieved for 2020 in this annual report. For yet another year, IUCN-Med is also deeply grateful for the Sincerely, vital support provided by the Spanish Ministry for the Ecolo- gical Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITERD, in its Spanish acronym) and the MAVA Foundation. Antonio Troya As we head into the new year, IUCN-Med has begun Director, to renovate collaborations with the Spanish Ministry of IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation. 3 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 Message from IUCN at a Work Programme Valuing and Promoting and Deploying Connecting Key Figures the IUCN-Med Glance and Main Conserving Supporting Effective Nature-based The Mare 2020 Director Achievements Nature and Equitable Solutions
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