{"id":1092,"date":"2026-03-16T13:27:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/mediterranean\/?page_id=1092"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:02:06","slug":"institutional-strengthening","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/mediterranean\/work-areas\/thematic-areas-and-key-projects\/water-energy-food-ecosystems-nexus\/the-mediterranean-sea-programme-enhancing-environmental-security\/mediterranean-coastal-zones-managing-the-water-energy-food-ecosystems-nexus\/institutional-strengthening\/","title":{"rendered":"Institutional strengthening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Regional (Mediterranean) Component has initiated a Regional Nexus Dialogue Process in the Mediterranean. It is part of a multi-stakeholders process that aims to enhance awareness and develop capacities of policy-makers, institutions and practitioners related to the opportunities of the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus approach, and to foster a coordinated approach in the Mediterranean for an integrated natural resources management implemented in the source-to-sea continuum. Capacity development and the provision of digital space for interaction are additional means used. Overall, the multi-stakeholders dialogue process will lead to the development of a community of practice and commitments by the Mediterranean countries aiming to address a number of issues related to the water, food and energy security as well as to the preservation of ecosystems across the basins, coastal areas and the large marine ecosystem of the Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Component 1: Strengthening Institutional Capacities accross the Mediterranean for the promotion of the Nexus approach<\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Regional Nexus Dialogue Process<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Three Nexus Regional Roundtables will be organised that will facilitate a multi-stakeholder dialogue among Mediterranean countries to advance Nexus understanding, facilitate cross-fertilization among institutions, organizations and practitioners, and lay the path towards coordinated actions to tackle Nexus challenges in the region, that also affect the coastal and marine environment in a Source-to-Sea approach. These Roundtables will take note of the outputs of recent and ongoing Nexus-related initiatives and processes in the Mediterranean region and lay the ground for upscaling applied Nexus policy and technical innovations and solutions in the Mediterranean at the national, transboundary and regional levels.

2 documents will provide conceptual and technical background to feed in the Dialogue:<\/p>\n\n\n\n