The objective of the Desert Ecosystems and Livelihoods Knowledge Sharing and Coordination Project for Middle East and North Africa is to strengthen cooperation among selected organizations of beneficiary countries in areas of sustainable management of desert ecosystems. The project has three components. (1) Knowledge management and sharing component will aim to establish and strengthen existing networks between national institutions to encourage management and sharing of knowledge on key issues related to sustainable desert ecosystem management and their associated livelihoods. (2) Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) will focus on: (i) Establishing a programmatic level monitoring system for the MENA-DELP program based on aggregating national project level indicators and results, (ii) establish a specific M&E system for the regional project. (3) Project coordination component will mainly finance project management fees of the Sahara and Sahel Observatory, as well as all costs related to the organization of meetings of the Steering Committee of the project and audit costs.