The objective of the Second Natural Resources Management Project for Tunisia is to improve living conditions for rural communities in the project area inter alia by fostering increased access to basic infrastructure and services, sustainable increase of income, improved natural resource management practices and promotion of an integrated approach to community-based development among various stakeholders. The changes entail the reformulation of the project development objective, or PDO and global environmental objective, or GEO to ensure that it is more realistic and better in line with the modifications proposed in the project description, activities, and expected results. This will also provide an opportunity to correct the slight discrepancy noted between the original PDO as stated in the Project Appraisal Document (PAD) and in the legal agreements. The changes, which require also a modification and adaptation of the project indicators and target values listed in the result framework, will have to be reflected as well in amendments to the corresponding Loan and grant agreements.