First Technical Meeting - A Rmel Watershed Study Site Stakeholder Workshop, LANSUPPORT Project

Abstract

The living lab approach underlying LANDSUPPORT activities is aimed at involving policy and decision makers and potential users from the very beginning and throughout all project phases, ensuring that the delivered DSS tools can actually be used. The second stakeholder workshop of the project (component in Tunisia) was held in Zaghouan on the 10th of December. The objectives of this workshop were to present the project progress, to disseminate information to the various departments of the CRDA, and to discuss at the work plan for the future activities that will be held in 2020. The workshop activities included presentations from other projects that are ongoing in the governorate of Zaghouan with the involvement of ICARDA and various Tunisian research institutions, in order to promote synergies among them. There were 35 participants, including decision makers on water and soil conservation, the different regional departments of the CRDA, researchers from INRGREF and INRAT, and the ICARDA country coordinator for Tunisia.