Tools considered and under development as future components of the governance platform include the review and selection of appropriate indicators to measure sustainable development of coast and sea; systems for coastal land and marine ecosystem accounting; scenarios; participatory methods; economic assessment and social valuation; and the integration of all these into an interactive toolbox.

A Capacity Building Plan has been produced and online training materials and attending courses are under way to improve the capacity of project partners and users. These empowerment of partners will take the approach of "learning by doing" and produce recommendations for best practises concerning issues to be addressed or the scale of the assessment.  In this direction, a moodle e-learning platform has been created to organize the training materiasl, to be scheduled in five stages. A face-to-face meeting on SDI will take place in Oostende, Belgium from 22 to 25 October 2012, and further training workshops are being organised on the CASEs and Scenarios.

The European Environment Agency has also been consulted on "Ecosystem Accounting and fisheries" in February, and several encounters in Venice, Algiers and Paris have been organised to move forward participatory methods as well as the selection of indicators and risk factors associated to coastal management.

Other developments include the celebration of the "Coast Day" in Algeria last September with a presentation of the PEGASO project and the organisation of a seminar on indicators for the Maghreb region under the initiative of Algeria with the participation of Morocco and Tunisia.

Several papers and posters have also been presented during the MEDCOAST event last October, and the internal meeting held in Nottingham, United Kingdom on Ecosystem accounting and scenarios in December 2011.

Pegaso pursues the exploitation and refinement of existing scientific expertise and methods relating to indicators, environmental accounting, scenario construction, participatory approaches and valuation, to create a suite of tools and techniques available to make a multi-scale assessment in the coastal zone in the Mediterranean and Black Sea Basins.

These tools will feed into a common analytical framework to become the technical and methodological basis of the assessment platform for ICZM.