The Integrated Forest, Water, Prosperity Project Tunisia. Convergence project is a feasibility study funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Environment and Consumer Protection (StMUV) to characterize the scientific, geographic, climatic, technical as well as socio-economic starting points in Tunisia and use these as a basis to carry out stakeholder participatory-based reforestation that will have a lasting positive impact on the water balance and ecosystem regeneration in a sustainable manner. As part of the preliminary results from project activities: Previous reforestation projects in Tunisia were assessed and the targeted interventions of these projects were identified to highlight the lack of intersectoral interventions implemented which may have reduced potential socio-economic impacts. A technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) ranking was used to identify types of materials, vehicles and irrigation methods with the lowest carbon footprint for the implementation of sustainable reclaimed water irrigation infrastructure to support reforestation activities. 

In the next phase of project activities, groundwater availability will be modelled, and a socio-economic survey will be designed and implemented. As well, an analysis of the potential for generation of carbon credits from forestry projects in Tunisia will be conducted.