- The Alexandria Coastal Zone Management Project (ACZMP) was a sub-program of the Egyptian Pollution Abatement Project (EPAP II), implemented in cooperation with the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA), and financed by a grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) that was managed by the World Bank.
- The project aimed at improving institutional mechanisms for the sustainable management of coastal zones in Alexandria, in particular reducing the land-based pollution to the Mediterranean Sea.
- Environics assessed the project’s proposed alternative interventions for pollution reduction through a pre-feasibility analysis, which comprised:
- Conceptual designs for the proposed alternatives, including cost estimates and implementation timeframes;
- Identification of the environmental impact of each alternative;
- Discussion of the overall arrangements necessary for the implementation and the subsequent operation and maintenance of the proposed intervention, which included the financial and institutional sustainability measures;
- Development of a comparison matrix indicating the relative advantages and disadvantages of each alternative, and
- Preparation of economic analyses, at the level of detail of a pre-feasibility study, for each proposed alternative.
- The pre-feasibility study accounted for the potential implementation of more than one alternative, in terms of possible synergies and/or complications.
