Beyond the Shoreline - Towards a Blue and Resilient Future for Tunisia
The Tunisian economy’s challenging past decade has highlighted the pressing need for a sustainable and resilient development model. The nation’s strategic response, encapsulated in Vision Tunisia 2035 and the 2023–2025 National Development Plan, emphasizes a green and blue economy that focuses on sectors such as tourism, fisheries, aquaculture, and maritime transport as key drivers for recovery and long-term sustainability. Environmental threats such as resource overexploitation, coastal erosion, marine submersion, and pollution - in particular plastic pollution pose significant risks to these critical economic sectors, especially when exacerbated by climate change. To address these challenges, proactive investments in sustainable practices within key sectors can enhance Tunisia’s global market competitiveness, reduce fiscal pressures, and foster innovative growth and job opportunities. The World Bank has been critical in supporting Tunisia’s effort to chart the path towards harnessing the potential of the blue economy. Starting with a comprehensive diagnostic in 2021–2022, the collaboration has led to the development of a strategic roadmap focusing on policy and institutional analysis, public expenditure review, exploration of innovative financing, and critical sectoral analyses to unlock the potential of the key sectors while protecting the environment. Extensive stakeholder consultations have shaped the roadmap, which emphasizes sustainable growth, environmental conservation, and resilient coastal communities. The roadmap addresses key sectors through the three pillars of the blue economy development framework: (i) data, analysis, and dissemination; (ii) policy, institutional, and fiscal reforms; and (iii) fostering investment.
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| Format: | Report biblioteca |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2024-05-24
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| Subjects: | COASTAL AND MARINE ECOSYSTEMS, MARINE PROTECTED AREAS, COASTAL FLOOD, COASTAL EROSION, BLUE GROWTH, LIFE BELOW WATER, SDG 14, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099052424113013871/P1807561a0af8d0831b0a619a493906f6b0 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41614 |
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| Summary: | The Tunisian economy’s challenging
past decade has highlighted the pressing need for a
sustainable and resilient development model. The nation’s
strategic response, encapsulated in Vision Tunisia 2035 and
the 2023–2025 National Development Plan, emphasizes a green
and blue economy that focuses on sectors such as tourism,
fisheries, aquaculture, and maritime transport as key
drivers for recovery and long-term sustainability.
Environmental threats such as resource overexploitation,
coastal erosion, marine submersion, and pollution - in
particular plastic pollution pose significant risks to these
critical economic sectors, especially when exacerbated by
climate change. To address these challenges, proactive
investments in sustainable practices within key sectors can
enhance Tunisia’s global market competitiveness, reduce
fiscal pressures, and foster innovative growth and job
opportunities. The World Bank has been critical in
supporting Tunisia’s effort to chart the path towards
harnessing the potential of the blue economy. Starting with
a comprehensive diagnostic in 2021–2022, the collaboration
has led to the development of a strategic roadmap focusing
on policy and institutional analysis, public expenditure
review, exploration of innovative financing, and critical
sectoral analyses to unlock the potential of the key sectors
while protecting the environment. Extensive stakeholder
consultations have shaped the roadmap, which emphasizes
sustainable growth, environmental conservation, and
resilient coastal communities. The roadmap addresses key
sectors through the three pillars of the blue economy
development framework: (i) data, analysis, and
dissemination; (ii) policy, institutional, and fiscal
reforms; and (iii) fostering investment. |
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