Geographic Area: Cairo, Country-wide

Area of Development: Control and sustainable management of environmental, artistic and cultural heritage

Sector: Environmental sustainability

Executive body:DGCS

Institutional counterpart: Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency

Other funding parts: -

Beneficiaries: Personnel of the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency

Period of implementation: 2003 - 2006

Amount and nature of the funds: 1,120,000 € grant through the debt swap and a bilateral channel

Type of intervention: Technical assistance, capacity building, training

Objective:

Management of Natural Parks in Egypt

Description of the project:

The project aims at developing the capacities of the Department of the Protection of Natural Resources in the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency to elaborate a methodology of management of the protected areas of the country. Is a component of the Second Phase of the Environmental Program.