CAMPs are country-driven programmes designed to respond to local, national and regional priorities in the Mediterranean. They constitute an example of the field implementation of the Protocol on Integrated Coastal Zone Management to the Barcelona Convention. CAMP projects underpin sustainability and resilience in the region while taking into account national circumstances, including the legal, administrative and cultural background of Mediterranean countries.

CAMPs are coordinated by PAP/RAC, the Regional Activity Centre of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Mediterranean Action Plan (UNEP/MAP), together with national governments, and are the part of an international and multiagency collaborative effort to reconcile the challenges of coastal development with environmental protection.

The project is testing the CAMP methodology at a transboundary scale which includes marine areas within and beyond national jurisdiction, which affect both Albania and Italy regardless of different natural, juridical and socio-economic conditions.