Project description:

The Project objective is to turn Sharm El Sheikh into a model integrated and ecologically sustainable tourism city of national and international importance through the adoption of further low-carbon technologies, good waste management practices and a further-enhanced protection of its natural capital basis.

This will be achieved by developing an integrated Sharm El-Sheikh Sustainable Development Strategy (SESSDS) and Action Plan, with a focus on technical assistance, capacity building and demonstration of good practice for climate change mitigation, chemicals and waste prevention and management, through a series of pilot investments, organization and development of an integrated sustainable development strategy and its implementation plans, and promotion of behavioural change, in conjunction with national priorities and needs articulated by the Government.

Successful implementation of the SESSDS will require multi-stakeholder processes (MSP), where political, technical, financial, and organizational capacities as well as citizen engagement and stakeholder processes are leveraged to achieve the city’s sustainability goals. The measures introduced by the Project will showcase the City as a model for replication elsewhere in Egypt, defining a new paradigm of how tourist destinations can successfully address the challenges of development growth.

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