ACCOBAMS: Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic area.
AECID: Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development.
AFAMP: French Agency for Marine Protected Areas (Agence des aires marines protégées de France)
AfDB: African Development Bank.
AMU / UMA: Arab Maghreb Union (Union du Maghreb arabe)
AOYE: Arab Office for Youth and Environment.
CBD: Convention on Biological Diversity.
CEAM: Centre for Environmental Studies in the Mediterranean (Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterráneo)
CEM: IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management.
CEPF: Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund.
CIHEAM: International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies.
CMEAOT: Andalusia’s regional ministry of environment and land planning (Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Ordenación del Territorio de la Junta de Andalucía)
CSO: Civil Society Organization.
GFCM: General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean.
ECAP: Ecosystem Approach.
EFARO: European Fisheries and Aquaculture Research Organization.
EFIMED: Mediterranean Regional Office of the European Forest Institute.
ENPI CBCMED: European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument.
EU: European Union.
EDRF: European Development Regional Fund.
FB: Biodiversity Foundation (Fundación Biodiversidad).
FFEM: French Global Environment Facility (Fonds Français pour l’Environnement Mondial).
FM6E: Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection.
GIS: Geographical Information System.
GLPA: IUCN Green List of Protected Areas.
HCEFLCD: High Commission for Water, Forests and the Fight against Desertification in Morocco.
IAMZ: Mediterranean Agronomic Institute.
ICZM: Integrated Coastal Zone Management.
IPA: Important Plant Area.
IUCN: International Union for Conservation of Nature.
IUCN-MED: Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
KBA: Key Biodiversity Areas.
MAGRAMA: Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment.
MAP: Mediterranean Action Plan.
MCSD: Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development.
MEDINA: Marine dynamics and ecosystem indicators for North Africa Project.
MedMIS: Smartphone and online information system for monitoring ivasive nonnative species in Mediterranean marine protected areas.
MEDPAN: Network of Marine Protected Area Managers in the Mediterranean.
MEDRAS: Project to identify Priority Representative Areas and Species in the Mediterranean Sea to Conserve.
MEET: Mediterranean Experience on Eco-tourism project.
MENBO: Mediterranean Network of Basin Organizations.
MIO-ECSDE: Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development.
MDG: Millennium Development Goals.
MPA: Marine Protected Area.
OAPN: National Parks Autonomous Agency in Spain.
OTREMED: Project for the establishment of a Territorial Observatory of Mediterranean Regions.
OZHM: Mediterranean Wetlands Observatory.
PEGASO: People for Ecosystem-based Governance in Assessing Sustainable development of Ocean and Coast project.
POCTEFEX: Programme for Spanish Cooperation across Borders.
PPI-OSCAN: Small Initiatives Programme for Civil Society Organizations in North Africa.
RAC/SPC: Regional Activity Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Production.
RAC/SPA: Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas.
RAED: Arab Network for Environment and Development.
RAED: Arab Network for Environment and Development.
RBIM: Mediterranean Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve.
RLE: Red List of Ecosystems.
ROWA: IUCN Regional Office for West Asia.
SAP BIO: Strategic Action Plan for the Conservation of Biological Diversity in the Mediterranean.
SBEI: Site of Biological and Ecological Interest.
SEARCH: Project on Social, Ecological and Agricultural Resilience in the face of climate change in the Mediterranean Region.
SPAMI: Specially Protected Area of Mediterranean Importance.
SSC: UICN Species Survival Commission.
TRANSHABITAT:Project on Sustainable development of transboundary areas belonging to Natura2000 and Habitats of Common Interest between Andalucía and Morocco.
UAL: University of Alicante.
UNDP: United Nations Development Programme.
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme.
WCPA: IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas.
