Within the activities aiming at the promotion of integrated coastal area management (ICAM) in Algeria, METAP decided to finance training on the methods and techniques of ICAM for 10 officers operating in the environmental domain. With regard to language constraints, it was decided that the training would be organised in France, and the French Conservatoire du Littoral resulted the most logical choice, as an institution that has been collaborating with the Algerian Ministry of Physical Planning and the Environment since 2002 within the French-Algerian co-operation programme on the subject “Preservation of the Algerian Coast”. It was, thus, the Conservatoire du Littoral, in collaboration with the association “Rivages de France”, and with general co-ordination by PAP/RAC, that organised this five-day training on the subject “Integrated Coastal Area Management: Protected Natural Spaces “. The training took place on September 19-25, 2004, in Aix-en-Provence and several sites in the surroundings.
